the world is full
of noises
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We all know the UK press could be pretty awful to Shoegazers back in the day. I’m going to collect the worst. To kick things off we have this from Lime Lizard, a short lived monthly. This gem is about… more ›
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Melody Maker was one of three weekly UK music magazines. They tried desperately hard to be cool and edgy, and loved to build bands up before knocking them down. The writing was often awful – trying way too hard to… more ›
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Sunshine Smile is a stone cold Shoegaze classic. It was Adorable’s debut single and one of a number of brilliant songs they released. Maybe they were slightly out of time, and they split after two albums. more ›
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It’s often said the press at the time treated Slowdive badly, but that’s not the whole story. Select was a glossy monthly magazine in the UK, and Andrew Collins gave the album a glowing reviewing. Slowdive, so damagingly lumped in… more ›
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16 November 1992 Of course All About Eve are best remembered as a goth-folk band but they took a highly unexpected left turn for that somewhat brilliant fourth and final album Ultraviolet – mixing Shoegaze and goth in a similar… more ›
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I’m going to try and track down the earliest uses of the term shoegazing. Most sources seem to say it’s comes from a review of a Moose gig in 1990 in Sounds, although I’m not convinced the term actually appeared… more ›
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A Selection of Key Shoegaze Releases: 1989 more ›
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A selection of key releases: more ›
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