Slowdive Tribute "Catch the Breeze Just For a Day" (July 28, 2011) at Freedom Bar, Anonas. Featuring:
Monochrome
Monochrome
Skies of Ember
Elemento
Candyaudioline
Show Starts at 9:30 pm.
Show Starts at 9:30 pm.
Often derided as My Bloody Valentine clones, I would beg to differ by offering the following proof that the two groups aren’t nearly as similar as some would have you believe. Although Slowdive does the swooning boy/girl layered vocals, the manner in which they are presented isn’t as obscured as those found on Loveless. Kevin Shields was known for his use of volume and tape saturation as a means to achieve the guitar sound found on that classic record. Neil Halstead and co. did actually use a considerable amount of effects pedals (hence the term shoegazer) to achieve their airy sound, ending up with far more in common with groups like The Cocteau Twins and The Cure’s Disintegration than My Bloody Valentine ever did. Finally, in a move which got them dropped from Creation Records in favor of signing real clones Oasis, Slowdive produced one of the forgotten gems of 90s post-rock on Pygmalion.
Now the present, four brave bands will be playing renditions of Slowdive
MONOCHROME - When the Sun Hits
Sweet thing, I watch you
Burn so fast it scares me
You burn so fast it scares me
mind games don’t leave/lose me
I’ve come so far don’t lose me
ELEMENTO - Crazy for You
Crazy for lovin’ you…
Candyaudioline - Celia’s Dream
She told me that she loved me
Love, just for a day
And all the time I feel her
I feel her fade away
Skies of Ember - 40 days
- Alison
- Catch The Breeze
listen close and dont be stoned
i’ll be here in the morning
cause i’m just floating
while your cigarette still burns
your messed up world will thrill me
alison i’m lost
So the story goes that after My Bloody Valentine had nearly bankrupted Creation Records and then couldn’t produce a follow-up to Loveless, label founder Alan McGee started signing Brit-pop groups like Oasis that were actually making money. The majority of American audiences never really caught onto the shoegaze movement during its brief existence anyhow, which was eventually snuffed out by grunge (although Kurt Cobain was noted to be a huge fan of My Bloody Valentine). Slowdive sort of got lost in the transition. Rumor has it that Oasis apparently demanded that in order to be signed to Creation, McGee had to drop Slowdive from the label roster, even though in reality Oasis had released its first single a year prior to Slowdive’s dismissal. During this period, Neil Halstead had become extremely interested in techno and ambient music. With the fact that Creation and Slowdive’s US label, SBK, had offered little to no promotion for Souvlaki and the fact that many of its band members had departed in no small part due to Halstead’s increased drug use and infatuation with the techno scene, it seemed like the group was on the verge of calling it quits. Knowing that they were about to be dropped from Creation, Halstead began work on the final Slowdive record, Pygmalion.
Now the present, four brave bands will be playing renditions of Slowdive
MONOCHROME - When the Sun Hits
Sweet thing, I watch you
Burn so fast it scares me
You burn so fast it scares me
mind games don’t leave/lose me
I’ve come so far don’t lose me
ELEMENTO - Crazy for You
Crazy for lovin’ you…
Candyaudioline - Celia’s Dream
She told me that she loved me
Love, just for a day
And all the time I feel her
I feel her fade away
Skies of Ember - 40 days
- Alison
- Catch The Breeze
listen close and dont be stoned
i’ll be here in the morning
cause i’m just floating
while your cigarette still burns
your messed up world will thrill me
alison i’m lost
So the story goes that after My Bloody Valentine had nearly bankrupted Creation Records and then couldn’t produce a follow-up to Loveless, label founder Alan McGee started signing Brit-pop groups like Oasis that were actually making money. The majority of American audiences never really caught onto the shoegaze movement during its brief existence anyhow, which was eventually snuffed out by grunge (although Kurt Cobain was noted to be a huge fan of My Bloody Valentine). Slowdive sort of got lost in the transition. Rumor has it that Oasis apparently demanded that in order to be signed to Creation, McGee had to drop Slowdive from the label roster, even though in reality Oasis had released its first single a year prior to Slowdive’s dismissal. During this period, Neil Halstead had become extremely interested in techno and ambient music. With the fact that Creation and Slowdive’s US label, SBK, had offered little to no promotion for Souvlaki and the fact that many of its band members had departed in no small part due to Halstead’s increased drug use and infatuation with the techno scene, it seemed like the group was on the verge of calling it quits. Knowing that they were about to be dropped from Creation, Halstead began work on the final Slowdive record, Pygmalion.
