Slowdive

Slowdive were a shoegazing band formed in 1989, lasting until 1995. The band was formed in Reading, Berkshire, England and signed to Creation Records in the UK. Initially championed by the British music press, the band scored a UK top forty entry with their debut album Just For A Day. However, the band suffered a swift press backlash. Image File history File links Slowdive_band. ... Image File history File links Slowdive_band. ... Shoegazing is a style of alternative rock that emerged in southern England in the late 1980s. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Reading is a town and unitary authority (the Borough of Reading) in the English county of Berkshire. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population –mid-2004... At least two different record labels called Creation Records have existed. ...

The band consisted of Rachel Goswell (vocals/guitar), Neil Halstead (vocals/guitar), Nick Chaplin (bass), Christian Savill (guitar), Adrian Sell (drums, 1989), Simon Scott (drums, until early 1994) and Ian McCutcheon (drums, 1994 onwards). Goswell and Halstead had known each other since early childhood in Reading, Berkshire. Rachel Goswell (born May 16, 1971, near Reading, England) is a singer-songwriter who was a vocalist with shoegazing pioneers Slowdive. ... Simon Scott is an English drummer. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... Reading is a town and unitary authority (the Borough of Reading) in the English county of Berkshire. ...

Initial demos were released as the Slowdive EP in late 1990 - the band's sound was influenced by the Cocteau Twins and Creation labelmates My Bloody Valentine, featuring heavy use of guitar effects and muted vocals. Reviews in Melody Maker and the NME were enthusiastic, and two further well-regarded EPs followed in 1991. The debut album Just for a Day was written and recorded in six weeks, and was generally felt to be a disappointment. Also, the UK music press had started to pick up on the American grunge scene, and the more introspective sounds of Slowdive, labelmates Ride, Chapterhouse and other "shoegazing" bands had fallen from critical favour. American label SBK Records pushed back the release of the album after a disastrous viral marketing campaign (involving vandalism of a public statue). In early 1992 the band toured the USA with Ride, and returned to the UK to record a second album. This article is about the year. ... Cocteau Twins were an influential and prolific Scottish rock band. ... My Bloody Valentine were an Irish-British rock band known for their creative use of guitar distortion and vibrato. ... Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was (until its closure) the worlds oldest weekly music newspaper. ... The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a music magazine in the UK which has been published weekly since March 1952. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Grunge music (sometimes also referred to as the Seattle Sound) is an independent-rooted music genre that became a commercially successful offshoot of hardcore punk, thrash metal, and alternative rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Ride is a 1980s and 90s British shoegazing band. ... Chapterhouse is a British shoegazing band of the early 1990s, originally from Reading. ... SBK Records is a record label started in the late eighties. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Word of mouth marketing. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

The following album, Souvlaki, is probably the band's most popular and well-received record. Two songs featured contributions from Brian Eno, "Souvlaki Space Station" was influenced by dub reggae, tracks such as "Dagger" and "Here She Comes" were indications of the country-rock direction Halstead and Goswell would take a few years later, and several songs such as "When the Sun Hits" and "Alison" continued the style of the first album, with better songwriting. Initial copies of the UK version came with Blue Day, a compilation of most of the early EP tracks which was originally released as a separate album in Japan and some European countries. Later in the year the band released 5EP, four songs which showed the influence of ambient techno - the lead track "In Mind" was remixed by Bandulu and Reload (both then signed to Creation's dance label). Brian Eno in 2006 Brian Peter George St. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Dub music. ... Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. ... Global Communication is an electronic music act, comprised of Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard, that produces ambient and house music. ...

As with the first album, SBK delayed release, and the band found themselves touring the USA in the summer of 1993, supporting Catherine Wheel, with no product to promote. The US version of Souvlaki was eventually released in early 1994, and included "Some Velvet Morning" (originally recorded for the Volume 7 compilation) and three of the tracks from 5EP. When Slowdive were finally able to tour America to support the second album, SBK withdrew funding halfway through - two further tours in 1994 were entirely funded by the band. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Catherine Wheel is a band hailing from Great Yarmouth, England. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... Some Velvet Morning is a psychedelic pop song written by Lee Hazlewood and orginally performed by Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra in 1968. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ...

Simon Scott left amidst creative differences in 1994, feeling that the introduction of electronic drums on 5EP had diminished his role in the group. He was, however, replaced on drums by Ian McCutcheon. The band had almost become a Halstead solo project by the recording of their final album, Pygmalion. A misunderstood and widely misinterpreted "ambient" record, it took the dreamy guitar sound and warm yet solemn tone of earlier Slowdive to a newer, more minimalist extreme, similar to earlier "dreampop" bands such as A R Kane, and bands such as Labradford. A R Kane were a 1980s and 1990s British indie band. ... Labradford is a rock band from Richmond, Virginia. ...

Slowdive was dropped by Creation a week after the release of Pygmalion - Halstead had been warned before the recording of the album that the relationship with the label would end unless he delivered a "pop album". A legend arose that the band was dropped due to the Gallagher brothers refusing to sign Oasis to Creation if Slowdive and their counterparts remained on the label's roster, although Oasis had in fact released their debut single almost a year before Pygmalion. Oasis are a rock band originally formed in Manchester, England. ...

After being dropped from Creation, Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell and Ian McCutcheon recorded an album of country-influenced songs, and were signed to label 4AD, changing the band name to Mojave 3. Halstead and Goswell have also both released solo albums for 4AD. This article is about the record label, not the year 4 British indie rock record label, 4AD, was started in 1979 by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, funded by Beggars Banquet Records. ... Mojave 3 consists of members Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell, Simon Rowe, Alan Forrester, and Ian McCutcheon. ...

Christian Savill went on to form Monster Movie, a dream pop group that continued where Slowdive left off. They have released four albums thus far, Last Night Something Happened (2002), To The Moon (2004), Transistor (2005) and most recently All Lost (2006). A band formed by Christian Savill, the former guitarist of legendary shoegazer band Slowdive. ... Dream pop is a type of alternative rock that originated in the early 1980s when bands like the Cocteau Twins began twisting New Wave melodies into sonic, echoing textures and mumbled vocals. ...

In 2004, Simon Scott formed Televise, a group which stripped back the lengthy noise swells and experimental song structures that helped define shoegazer to focus on a more radio-ready brand of indie rock. Televise is a shoegazer band formed by ex-Slowdive member Simon Scott (vocals/guitar), together with Nick King (drums), Alex Dowding (bass), and Jamie Armstrong (guitar). ... Shoegazing is a style of music that emerged in Britain in the late 1980s. ...

All Slowdive's albums were reissued in late 2005. Just For a Day included a bonus disc with all tracks from the first three EPs, and the three songs recorded for a John Peel session on 26 March 1991. Souvlaki included a bonus disc with all the remaining EP tracks, and "Some Velvet Morning" (originally recorded for a compilation). Pygmalion (which had become a collector's item in the years since its release, never having been issued in the USA) contained no extra material. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Autobiography John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was a British disc jockey, radio presenter, and journalist. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Despite their popularity and prominence in the British music scene of their time, and their importance to the shoegazing scene in particular, they are possibly best remembered for the infamous claim by Richey Edwards of Manic Street Preachers, who declared in an interview with NME that "We [Manic Street Preachers] will always hate Slowdive more than we hate Adolf Hitler". This statement is still quoted often in the British music press today. Richey James Edwards Richey James Edwards is the missing member of the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers. ... Manic Street Preachers (often known colloquially as The Manics) are a Welsh rock band often associated with the Britpop scene, and were one of the biggest bands in Britain for a period in the late 1990s. ... The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a music magazine in the UK which has been published weekly since March 1952. ... Hitler redirects here. ...

Discography

Albums

• 1991 Just For a Day
• 1992 Blue Day (compilation of most of the tracks from the first three EPs)
• 1993 Souvlaki
• 1995 Pygmalion
• 2004 Catch the Breeze (a Greatest Hits compilation)

Souvlaki was a 1994 (see 1994 in music) album by the band Slowdive. ...

Singles and EPs

• 1990 Slowdive EP
• 1991 Morningrise EP
• 1991 Holding Our Breath EP
• 1993 Outside Your Room EP
• 1993 5 EP
• 1993 5 EP (In Mind Remixes)

External links

• http://www.slowdive.co.uk
• http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/slowdive.html
• http://www.musicstack.com/slowdive/
• Slowdive at the All Music Guide

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