As the founder member and main songwriter behind one of Creation Records finest discoveries, Swervedriver, Adam Franklin has a long and distinguished career both as a live performer and recording artist. Spurred on by a lukewarm review of his own band on these very pages last year, Adam pulls no punches on what the whole shoegaze phenomenon means to him.»
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.»
Here's a special DiScover column of new bands who fit beneath the arc of "shoegaze".»
Andy Oliver is the editor of Psychedelica magazine and has recently formed his own label, The Third Wave Collective. Here he adds a darker perspective to the whole "what is/isn't shoegaze" debate and draws parallels with conflicts in society as landmarks for the ascent of the psychedelia-cum-shoegaze movements past and present.»
DiS has compiled a Spotify playlist of fifty hazy, ethereal, swooping, swirling, static-drenched albums from the pioneers of Shoegaze and the makers of Shoegaze 2.0»
For better or for worse, you can’t have an account of Shoegaze without Slowdive. They were purveyors of hypnotic soundscapes in an apolitical age; ecstasy without the clubbing. »
Completing our trilogy of record labels exclusively operating in the shoegaze field and its many related sub-genres is the excellent Northern Star. »
Simon Scott has spent over twenty years making music with numerous outfits. It would be fair to say, however, that he is perhaps best known for being one-fifth of iconic shoegaze outfit Slowdive...»
Robin Allport and Duncan Jones are the guys behind Club AC30, yet another successful club night that morphed into one of the most vital, and groundbreaking independent record labels of the past decade. »
Robin Allport is one of the co-founders of Club AC30, the London-based club night and label that has been specialising in all things shoegaze related for five years today as it happens. As well as opening the birthday cards and unwrapping the many gifts bestowed on him and his label, he has also taken the time out to give us his five "Lost Classics" of the shoegaze genre that every self-respecting fan should hunt down and hang onto.»
Neil Halstead really doesn't need any introduction. As one of the main songwriters in Slowdive he can can already claim credit for fronting one of the most inspirational UK combos of the past twenty years. »
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. »
Scott Causer, owner of the shoegaze/psychedelia label Northern Star pens this month's Some Velvet Mourning column and offers DiS readers an exclusive free download in the process. Can't be bad...»
So I mostly went along to see one of MBV's reunion dates at The Roundhouse last year because it seemed like the type of thing I ought to do... as much as I'm a fan of Loveless and quite fond of Isn't Anything, I figured it'd ultimately be kind of lovely in a boring way.In fact what happened was the precise opposite... »
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. »
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 week, Drowned In Sound celebrates the scene that allegedly "celebrated itself". Shoegaze. We'll be bringing you commentaries and interview pieces with those who played a part in the movement's initial discourse at the turn of the 1990s and those who are taking the genre into further undiscovered territories almost two decades later.»
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