In Photos: DiS Manchester M83/Ulrich Schnauss
DiS favourite M83 and Ulrich Schnauss treated us to an evening of pre-ATP fun at The Deaf Institute in Manchester on Thursday. Here be pictures.»
DiS favourite M83 and Ulrich Schnauss treated us to an evening of pre-ATP fun at The Deaf Institute in Manchester on Thursday. Here be pictures.»
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.»
Ulrich Schnauss is a name that is just as familiar to techno boffins as it would be to those who perhaps favour the more noise-saturated elements of shoegaze-inspired guitars. »
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.»
Nathaniel Cramp has been running the increasingly successful Sonic Cathedral club night since 2004, before launching the record label two years later. Here, he discusses the merits of so-called "nu-gaze", and what the whole shoegaze revival means to him.»
This month Metropolis host Jason Bentley guides us through his pick of the current dance crop...»
Four years on from the first Reverence festival, Club AC30's three-day event just got slightly bigger and ridiculously better. As well as attracting a line-up that throws together some of the shoegaze genre's most feted artists both past and present, they've also taken the venture into the more upmarket confines (not to mention selling pints of Leffe on tap) of the ICA just around the corner from Leicester Square's expensive tourist traps.»