What happened to LUSH?

I would personally fund their reunion

if I had any money.

please please please let this be true!

announcement tomorrow supposedly.

Yeah Philip King has been dropping thoroughly obvious photo hints on Facebook while pretending not to know what's being talked about.

Less than an hour to go, I am very excitable today

one gig and some reissues? ...

It's more Lush than we had yesterday.

i think LUSH were an 'on-ramp' for me and Indie rock. Pixies were too harsh and shouty for little early-teen me and as for MBV forget it. but Lush were just pop enough but just noisy enough for me to begin to 'get' the rest of it. Ride came next and then it was a solid Indie diet for god knows how many years. aw man. makes me feel all weird this, dunno why. gladdens my heart though.

May next year? That's not much more Lush than we had yesterday.

Still,..

Phil dropped more than enough hints about American shows recently. I'm mildly surprised this will be after Coachella and not before.

It's not gonna happen but I wish they played some Sing-Sing as well.

You could rush the front and shout "Sing sing-sing", see what happens.

Awful band. It's at least fitting that the shoegaze reunions are restoring the natural order of things - ie. this is the dregs coming now. First Lush, probably Revolver next.

I've never heard anyone say Lush were among the dregs of shoegaze, so at least you're original.

i keep expecting this thread to be about the massively successful cosmetics store

Any details on the reissues?

Awful band. It's at least fitting that the shoegaze reunions are restoring the natural order of things - ie. this is the dregs coming now. First Lush, probably Revolver next.

Aliens are real!

It's at least fitting that the shoegaze reunions are restoring the natural order of things - ie. this is the dregs coming now. First Lush, probably Revolver next.

Well this came out recently, so if the sales are good who knows?

http://www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk/catalogue/releases/access-all-areas-revolver/

i quite liked a couple of Revolver tunes.

hope the reunified LUSH stick to the pre-Spooky stuff most. that's the stuff that's lasted IMO. great to see Justin Welch back too.

pre-spooky only? so just play the EPs?

Revolver had some great singles

can't say the same for Lush, pretty shitty all around.

You have an odd way about you.

xxp mm yeah pretty much. the 'Gala' EP compilation in a random order would suit me fine! i'd save Desire Lines, Cat's Chorus and Nothing Natural from a fire too but not much else from Spooky onwards.

gotta love these drive-by cameos from posters gifting us their self-congratulatory opinions. odd way indeed.

woah there's a 30 minute well-filmed Revolver concert right on that website

ahh the internet age..

lead guy looks like an emo Brian Jones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UGr9ZobVFw#t=225

Oh man, I have really really REALLY mixed feelings about this reunion in particular (and reunions in general) but this thread and the assorted chip-pissing in here (even from supposed fans who are all "but they were so much better on their early stuff, before they mastered their instruments and their sound and turned up the vocals so we had to listen to their actual ~thoughts~ not vague angelic lady-cooing") just reminds me of all the misogynist battles I fought 20 years ago and don't want to retread yet again.

I'm pleased for them; the omission was glaring. But I have mixed emotions about reunions. And I can't be dealing with separating my mixed emotions just the general tiredness of having to explain to idiots why this artist was great and worthy of attention to their *entire* career and so on and blah blah ad infinitum.

It was the one band where they had cracked it, and the world was theirs whichever way they wanted to go in.

That was the sad thing about what happened.

My take on reunions, generally, is "hey, have a great time you guys, you might never have had the chance to see them back then, and even if you did, it's better than not going and enjoying yourself, right?"

See, thanks to dodgy reformation of bands being a thing that's almost OK, I got to see the Velvet Underground in my 'local' medium sized indie-rock venue. What were the chances? None at all. So, hey - I can't knock it.

Anyone know just how limited this box set Chorus will be?

Lush >>>>> all other shoegaze bands, fuiud.

Praying this won't be as expensive as the This Mortal Coil box set.

or as limited as the colourbox one .

Lush >>>>> all other shoegaze bands, fuiud.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, September 29, 2015 8:49 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This. Pretty much. I really don't understand the Lush haters. In terms of songwriting alone, they were way ahead of most of the Shoegazing lot.

For a long time I thought I was really into shoegaze, but for the most part it was just that I was a fan of Lush.

I was pretty circumspect on reunions for awhile until one crazed MBV show with a crowd mostly made up of crowd surfing kids who were totally excited that they had a chance to see MBV. Happy to see more kids at these shows than greyhairs.

Curve next please.

Just in case the box set is too limited/expensive: are the compilations fairly comprehensive in collecting all the non-album tracks? I don't really care if I'm missing alternate versions of songs.

Announced earlier today that North American dates of some sort forthcoming.

I listened to Split the most out of their albums, but Gala made more of an impression because high school. Also we were impressed that they made it to Texas multiple times to play shows! The first Sing-Sing album is pretty solid too... the Feels Like Summer EP on Bella Union is fantastic.

xxp Topolino and Gala are weird; one collects EP tracks pre-Spooky and one compiles the later, final album B's but the Spooky-era B sides and Split era B sides from their 'mid period' don't have an attendant comp. if you get me. so even a box set with obscurities won't give you the full hit. which is a bit shit. what all bands need to do is do what The Beatles box sets did; have a specific comp (Past Masters) that mops up all the stuff not collected elsewhere.

just about *everything* (comps, EPs, B sides, etc) they ever did is on Spotify if that's any help.

Thank you. The tracklisting for the box isn't out yet so it might still have everything. 4ad seems to put singles and eps on mp3 stores so I might just get the loose ends on amazon someday.

xpost: I was wondering about the 'Spooky'/'Split' era b-sides, hopefully the box mops them up too.

So I guess I'm going to the Saturday show? Anyone else score tickets?

I did not, but then again I'm in a completely different country

Curve next please.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, September 29, 2015 6:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agreed - Curve and Single Gun Theory top my list. Curve's dissolve seemed more due to monetary/new challenges reasoning, so holding out hope for a reunion. What I've heard of Dean Garcia's follow-on work (Headcase, albums w/ his daughter Rose) hasn't piqued interest like Curve and Toni's presence. "Die Like a Dog" came up on an iPod shuffle the other day, and still sounded fresh to my ears. The "Pink Girl with the Blues" EP was a great return after time off - would be great if they did it again.

Elvis Telecom is OTM

Saturday for me too

(even from supposed fans who are all "but they were so much better on their early stuff, before they mastered their instruments and their sound and turned up the vocals so we had to listen to their actual ~thoughts~ not vague angelic lady-cooing") just reminds me of all the misogynist battles I fought 20 years ago and don't want to retread yet again.

lmao this type of lazy self-serving psychoanalysis never gets old

Heads up, career spanning box set out next month:

http://lush.sandbaghq.com/home/chorus.html

Has it got everything? At least it's decently priced.

Everything and then some.