September 7, 2017 More interviews etc. Beautiful return and new album talk Rachael Inteview Return of Slowdive w/Neil Simon and Neil Interview Shoegaze, the Sound of Protest Shrouded in Guitar Fuzz, Returns Sugar for the Pill Live in Studio Rare Sugar for the Pill remix EP Just as the band released their new album, they released a super limited remix 12". Limited to 20 copies. Sold only at the Independent Label Market : Greenwich. Comes with a signed print, exclusive stickers, and is hand-numbered and hand-packed. Both tracks can be purchased digitally online. Sugar For The Pill (Avalon Emerson's Gilded Escalation) Sugar For The Pill (Simon Scott Eurorack Remix) June 13, 2017 North American tour dates added Below are all the forthcoming Slowdive shows this year with new NA tourdates which go on sale this Friday 6/16/-18 – Mannheim, Herman @ Maifeld Derby 7/01 – Roskilde, Denmark @ Roskilde Festival 7/06 – Tren?ín, Slovakia @ Pohoda Festival 7/07 – Madrid, Spain @ MAd Cool Festival 7/09 – Six-Four-Les-Pages, France @ Pointu Festival 7/21 – Los Angeles, CA @ FYF Festival 7/28 – Ichion, South Korea @ Valley Rock Festival 7/30 – Niigata Prefecture, Japan @ Fuji Rock Festival 8/19 – Trondheim, Norway @ Pstereo Festival 8/27 – Paris, France @ Rock En Seine 8/31 – 9/01 – Wiltshire, UK @ End Of The Road Festival 9/07 – Tel Aviv, Israel @ Barby 9/15-16 – Angers, France @ Levitation France 9/17 – Birmingham, UK @ Beyond The Tracks Festival 9/29 – 10/01 – Dortmund, Germany @ Way Back When Festival 9/30 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Koncerthuset 10/02 – Warsaw, Poland @ Warsaw Palladium 10/03 – Berlin, Germany @ Berlin Huxleys Neue Welt 10/04 – Hamburg, Germany @ Uebel & Gefaehrlich 10/06 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ PAradiso 10/07 – Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique 10/09 – Glasgow, UK @ O2 ABC 10/10 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall 10/11 – Leeds, UK @ Town Hall 10/13 – London, UK @ Roundhouse 10/23 – Vancouver, BC @ The Commodore 10/25 – Seattle, WA @ The Neptune 10/26 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom 10/28 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater 11/01 – Denver, CO @ The Ogden 11/04 – Madison, WI @ Barrymore Theatre 11/05 – Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre 11/07 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall 11/08 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre 11/09 – Buffalo, NY @ Town Hall 11/10 – Toronto, ON @ CANADA @ Massey Hall 11/11 – New Haven, CT @ College St Music Hall 11/12 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5 11/14 – Boston, MA @ Paradise 11/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer 11/16 – Baltimore, MD @ Ram’s Head 11/17 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel May 9, 2017 Private session streaming May 9th in Brooklyn Pitchfork Live Stream 18:15 UK / 13:15 EDT / 10:15 PDT May 8, 2017 New Interviews and reviews Neils Favorite Albums Interview with Neil Interview with Neil Redemption Songs First record in 22 years Spccious return Interview with Nick New Horizons The Return of Slowdive Looking Back to look forward After 22 Years Toronoto Live review Fortress Festival Tremble Zine The Skinny Pop Packed Comeback The Gaurdian TEXT The Times UK Chaart Attack Slug Mag Tiny Tapes Under the Radar Consequence of Sound Paste mag Sound Renaissance Music Omh The Arts desk Clash Msuic March 28, 2017 New album announced, 'Slowdive' Slowdive will release their first album in 22 years on May 5th on Dead Oceans records, self-titled 'Slowdive'. They also dropped a new song from the album called, 'Sugar for the Pill'. Check out the video below It comes in all formats and various bundles PRE-ORDER 'SLOWDIVE' NOW Tracklisting Slomo Star Roving Don’t Know Why Sugar For The Pill Everyone Knows No Longer Making Time Go Get It Falling Ashes They debuted 3 new songs in Glasgow on March 27th, Star Roving, Sugar for the Pill and No Longer Making Time May 6, 2017 Suagr for the Pill remix The band released a new remix for 'Sugar for the Pill', which gets my approval for best song name ever! It can be purchased on the band's BANDCAMP . They also released a super limited remix 12". Ltd to only 20 copies and was for sale at an Indie Label market last weekend. The remix 12" includes this mic plus a remix by the groups Simion Scott. I will post more details shortly. No word is this is getting a larger general release or even a digital release February 8, 2017 New Single released and tour dates!! Slowdive have released a new single called 'Star Roving'. Check it out below. It can be purchased at all digital vendors inclding bandcamp. 05/02 – St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theater 05/03 – Chicago, IL @ Vic Theater 05/05 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall 05/07 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club 05/08 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel 05/09 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel 05/10 – Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC 06/03 – London, UK @ Field Day Festival 07/07 - Mad Cool Festival, Madrid, Spain May 10, 2016 New Album news Apparently Rachel told someone at a Minor Victories show that the band have recorded 7-8 tracks already and there will be a total of 15 tracks on the new album. Recording will finish up in July. I suspect we'll see a fall release (hopefully). Check out this great article with Rachel, she talks more about her hearing issues and of course her new project, Minor Victories. April 10, 2016 Rachel's new 'other' band Rachel has teamed up Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, Editors’ Justin Lockey and his brother James for a new project called, 'Minor Viictories', Their debut LP will be released on Fat Possuem (US) and Play it again (EU) records on June 3rd. It includes guest appearances by Mark Kozelek of Red House Painters/Sun Kill Moon alongside James Graham of the Twilight Sad. See YouTUbe for videos of several of the tracks MINOR VICTORIES Tracklising Give Up The Ghost A Hundred Ropes Breaking My Light Scattered Ashes (Song for Richard) ft. James Graham Folk Arp Cogs For You Always ft. Mark Kozelek Out To Sea The Thief Higher Hopes They will also tour the US for a few select dates. They've already played a few select UK gigs 06-19 Washington, D.C. – Rock & Roll Hotel 06-20 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair 06-21 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg 06-22 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer 06-24 Toronto, Ontario – The Opera House 06-25 Columbus, OH – The A&R Bar 06-26 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall 06-28 San Francisco, CA – The Independent 06-29 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom November 6, 2015 Live Album in the works Slowdive have confirmed they will release a Live album next year, culled from various shows. In the meanwhile, the band are giving away a live version of Avalyn. This also coinsides with the recent 25th anniversary of the release of their debut EP, 'Slowdive EP' November 3, 2015 Slowdive to play in Mexico< Slowdive have a nounced they will play Nrmal Festival in March 2016 June 16, 2015 Souvlaki mini-documentary Pitchfork has made a mini-documentary for 'Souvlaki' for it's 'Pitchfork Classic' albums series. July 15, 2014 US Tour Announced (MOST DATES SOLD OUT) 10-22 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club 10-23 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer 10-25 New York, NY - Terminal 5 10-26 Boston, MA - Royale 10-27 Montreal, Quebec - Le National 10-28 Toronto, Ontario - Opera House 10-29 Detroit, MI - The Majestic Theater 10-30 Chicago, IL - The Vic 10-31 Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line 11-03 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore 11-04 Seattle, WA - Neptune 11-05 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom 11-07 San Francisco, CA - Warfield 11-08 Los Angeles, CA - The Theatre at Ace Hotel 11-09 Los Angeles, CA - The Theatre at Ace Hotel Here are the remaining worldwide tour dates Slowdive - 2014 Tour Dates 07-16 Padova, Italy - Radar Festival 07-18 Suffolk, England - Latitude Festival 07-20 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival 07-23 Taipei, Taiwan - The Wall 07-25 Niigata Prefecture, Japan - Fuji Rock Festival 07-26 Shanghai, China - Qianshuiwan Culture and Arts Center 07-28 Hong Kong - Rotunda 3 07-31 Singapore - The Ground Theatre 08-03 Katowice, Poland - Off Festival 08-07-09 Göteborg, Sweden - Way Out West 08-08-10 Helsinki, Finland - Flow Festival 08-09 Oslo, Norway - Oya 08-14 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop Festival 08-15 St. Malo, France - La Route du Rock Festival 08-23 Los Angeles, CA - FYF Fest 08-29-31 Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic 09-09 Geneva, Switzerland - La Batie 19th Dec 2014 – The Forum - London (Tickets still available) 20th Dec 2014 – The Forum - London (Tickets still available) April 17, 2014 Black Hearted Brother Album The debut album, 'Stars are Home' by Black Hearted Brother - the new group formed by Neil Halstead (Slowdive, Mojave 3), Nick Holton (Coley Park, Holton's Opulent Oog) and Mark Van Hoen (Locust, Seefeel), was released last year. They also released a download only EP in February of this year. April 12, 2014 Slowdive Tour Dates 5/19 – London, UK - Village Underground (Sold Out) 5/29 – 5/31: Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Festival 7/17 – 7/20: Southwold, Sufolk - Latitude Festival 7/18 – 7/20: Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Festival 8/7 – 8/9 – Goteborg, SE - Way Out West Festival 8/5 – 8/9: Oslo, NO – Oya Festival 8/8 – 8/10: Suvilahti, Helsinki - Flow Festival Check the Official Slowdive site for more details. I've heard a rumor, that this reunion will come to an end in December with a concert in London. let's hope this isn't true and more shows are annouced besides festival performances, so real fans will get to see them again! 29 January.14 Slowdive Reform! As suspected, Slowdive have indeed reformed. The initial imputus was record new material but they had a great offer from the Primavera Sound, Barcelona on May 30. They are also playing Village Underground, London on May 19th. Here are 2 articles about the reunion. Slowdive Discuss Primavera There Seems To Be A Lot Of Love Out There Also check out the Official Slowdive site Here is another exclusive interview. It mentions that the US was their strongest market, so hoepfull they will tour here! 20 January.14 Slowdive open a twitter account Is this a sign that the band are indeed planning a reunion? The first several followers were members of the band and now Rachel seems to be having a coundown to something on her personal Twiter accounts, which ends on January 29th. Check out their Twitter account HERE UPDATE: Apparently the reunion is going to happen but they are only going to be playing festivals. This is what Alan McGee must have meant them playing big venues. 24 November.13 Slowdive reunion in the cards? It is looking more and more likely according to new rumour. Alan McGee mentioned at a recent book signing of his new autobiography, Creation Stories Riots, Raves and Running a Label, that they are reforming and "playing quite big venues". Another source from a guy in the industry, also told a friend recently that he heard the same thing. You heard it here first! (er 2nd) 21 November.13 Neil and Rachel perform live! They played 2 songs at Cecil Sharp House, London on October 24th, 2013! If you recall, Neil said he was up for a reunion a couple of years ago. 18 September.10 Interview with Simon Scott on Slowdive Check it out at Viceland. Check out the latest on Simon's activity on Facebook. He has several ambient releases under his belt now. Cherry Red reissues Slowdive Cherry Red records has reissued all of the Slowdive albums. Disc 2 of Pygmalion comes with Pygmalion demos but from what I've heard they just took these off the web and are the same quality as what you can download. Be weary of Cherry Red releases, they use poor quality mp3's and inferior vinyl rips on many of their releases. 21 November.05 Slowdive CD giveaway winners Here are the winners of the Slowdive CD giveaway. Sorry for the delay in announcing them. Jada White Bart De Koster Ronald Patrico Hiroshi Hata Steve Savage John Evans 11 November.05 Win one of the new Slowdive reissues! To celebrate the reissue of all the Slodive albums. this site in conjunction with Santuary records will be giving away 2 copies of each album, a total of 6 cds. All you have to to answer is this question to be entered into the random drawing: Please put "Contest" in the subject header. The winners win be announced on November 15th. UPDATE: the contest is closed now. winners will be drawn Nov. 18th or 19th All Slowdive albums to be reissued All Slowdive albums are being reissued on November 14th. 4 Oct.05 Slowdive albums to be reissued 'Just for a Day' is first up and contains 14 tracks on the bonus cd. it's released on November 14th. It's released via the good people at Santuary records who brought us the recent Best Of, 'Catch the Breeze" 1.Slowdive 2.Avalyn 1 3.Avalyn 2 4.Morning Rise 5.Morning Rise 6.She Calls 7.Losing Today 8.Holding Our Breath 9.Golden Hair 10.Shine 11.Albatross 12.Catch The Breeze (Peel Session) 13.Song 1 (Peel Session) 14.Golden Hair (Peel Session). 28 March.05 'Coastline/Plucked' released as single It's available as a download only release at 4ad records however, it is also available as a limited clear vinyl 12" The single features remixes by Ulrich Schnauss and Names On Records (aka The Earlies) 11 Jan.05 2 Rachel Interviews and Rachel recently appeared on Poptones Questions of Doom and the Somewhere's Cold webzine 11 Jan.05 Simon Scott's new band Simon now plays guitar in a band called Televise. They have a single coming out which sounds like it will be very good if it's anything like the mp3's on the site. Check it out, they are esxcellent! 16 Nov.04 'Catch the Breeze' released finally On November 15th. And the best news of all is that contains a previously unreleased song after all. It contains a Peel session of 'Golden Hair', a cover of the Syd Barrett song that appears on their 3rd ep. The album art is different now. 29 October.04 I am an Elephant, you are a mouse soundtrack to be released? I can't believe I forgot to post this. I got an email from Forest Wise in September, the director of "I am the Elephant, you are the Mouse" and he is in talks with Neil about finally gving this soundtrack an official release on Neil's label (Ed: I didn't know Neil had a label). The rumors of Forest selling the master tapes on eBay are false. The movie is getting a DVD release next year, It will be re-telecine and re-cut. 13 Sept.04 'Catch the breeze' compilation The tracklisting has been announced. It will be released on October 25th on Sanctuary records. Sadly it contains no unreleased material. DISC 1: Slowdive Avalyn 1 Morningrise She Calls Catch The Breeze Shine Golden Hair (Peel Session) Spanish Air Waves Alison So Tired Sing Souvlaki Space Station DISC 2: Machine Gun Here She Comes When The Sun Hits In Mind Good Day Sunshine Missing You Rutti Crazy For You Trellisaze Blue Skied And Clear 19 May.04 'Catch the breeze' compilation According to a post by Rachel Goswell on Mojave 3's messageboard. Slowdive are unaware of this compilation but she also says that they're getting the rights back to their stuff this year, so I suspect we will see reissues. Let's hope that they release unreleased material and maybe a live CD and DVD. I also read on the same forum that Castle Records still hopes to release the compilation, but it is on hold at the moment subject to discussions with Sony. 13 May.04 Rachel Goswell's Debut Solo material Rachel Goswell will release her debut solo single 'The Sleep Shelter', May 17th, on 4AD records Three of the tracks on the EP are exclusive to this release. The Sleep Shelter EP 01. Plucked 02. Sleepless & Tooting 03. Flying With Gene 04. Stickin' With Grace 05. Come Rescue Me You can sample the song 'Plucked' from 4AD's website. It's beautiful acoustic affair. The single is also available digitally at 4AD's website right now for £3.00. Her album called 'Waves Are Universal' LP be released on June 14th in the UK/Euope and June 21st in the US and in North America from the 21st June. You can read more about everything Here. Waves Are Universal 01. Warm Summer Sun 02. Gather Me Up 03. No Substitute 04. Deelay 05. Plucked 06. Hope 07. Coastline 08. Shoulder The Blame 09. Save Yourself 10. Thru The Dawn 11. Beautiful Feeling 12. Sleepless and Tooting Rachel's debut London show will follow her album release on the 16th June 2004 @ The Jazz Cafe, Camden, London. Tickets are available from www.ticketmaster.co.uk at £12 each. Source: Doing It For The Kids 19 Feb.04 New compilation? UPDATE: According to the current issue of Record Collector (UK), a new 2CD compilation will be released in March. It will be called 'Catch the Breeze.' UPDATE: It will be released on May 24th on Castle Music(?) 19 Jan.04 Slowdive albums to be reissued? According to recent interview with Neil Halstead. Slowdive material may be reissued this year with lots of unreleased material: "Next year we are going to look at maybe seeing if we can get some of the albums reissued and maybe getting some unreleased stuff together. It seems like all the unreleased stuff is available on the web anyway. You think that you are the only person who has a copy of it and there it is available on the web." Read the full interview with Neil Halstead here (ED: A slowdive boxset, live cd and dvd would nice too! A copy of 'Slowdive' recently sold on ebay for £55 or $99, and Pygmalion goes for big money too, so let's hope this stuff gets reissued) 19 Jan.04 Slowdive tribute album In 2002 Morr Music records in Germany released a Slowdive tribute album called 'Blue Skied an' Clear'. It was released on 2xCD and 3xLP. Check here for tracklisting and scroll to the bottom of the page.