"Sometimes it feels like I'm still having to justify my existence": DiS meets Robin Guthrie
With over thirty years as a recording artist under his belt, Robin Guthrie's iconic status is well and truly justified...»
With over thirty years as a recording artist under his belt, Robin Guthrie's iconic status is well and truly justified...»
Ok, so what with this being Shoegaze Week here on DiS, we thought what better way than to round the whole thing off than by compiling the ultimate Mixtape for the genre.»
Four-and-a-half years ago, Nathaniel Cramp started a clubnight amidst a London scene still hanging off the remnants of The Libertines grotrock coat tails that was to raise more than a few eyebrows. Sonic Cathedral: The Night That Celebrates Itself was responsible for giving UK audiences their first opportunity to see the likes of The Radio Dept. and School Of Seven Bells, whilst simultaneously providing a platform for shoegaze luminaries such as Mark Gardener and Neil Halstead to relaunch their solo careers in more familiar surroundings.»
Mark Gardener should need no introductions. As a founder member, songwriter and frontman of Oxford four-piece Ride, his band were undoubtedly one of the pioneers of the whole "shoegaze" movement, and for a time, its most commercially successful and well-known export at that. »