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posted by davidt
on Thursday January 08 2009, @10:00AM
Torr sends the link/excerpt:
January 6 2009 • Text by Patrick Sisson
Vapour Trails: Revisiting Shoegaze
Neil Halstead (Slowdive singer/guitarist)
“We were huge My Bloody Valentine fans. Christian [Savill, Slowdive guitarist] used to run an MBV fanzine, and we used to go up and see them when they were signed to Cherry Red, when they were a really jangly indie band. The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Smiths also had this huge impact. Lots of 16-year-olds heard those records for the first time, and it was like, ‘This is real, not shiny.’ I think it’s kind of the way we thought about music and the music we wanted to make.”
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Mojave 3 & his solo records are underated.
He surely works on the same body of song again and again, but always makes it sound like he just created it... It takes guts to be gentle & kind... He surely has a lot of guts and a lot of Nick Drake in him.
I would love to hear Halstead penned songs sung by Morrissey