Slowdive - s/t (2017): let's rejoice, shall we?

i know, i'm really looking forward to this show. i also got like eight of us going too, going to be a fun night. Cherry Glazer is opening and she opened for Spoon earlier this year. she rocked thou i only caught like three songs.

this album sounds beautiful on a sunny, crisp fall morning

this is my Slowdive weekend in 2017

Seeing the show tomorrow, should be fun!

Missed the show. When I was 20 I used to listen to souvlaki at a brick house in the suburbs of Langley. Used
To write there. That album saved me

Going to see them tonight. Guessing Ned will also be there! Saw them a couple years ago at the Warfield in SF and they were amazing, but definitely broke a few guitar strings in the process.

Enjoy octo

awesome show at the fox in oakland tonight. never seen them live ... pretty overwhelming sonic and visual experience. more please.

Yeah while it was a real treat to see them back when (92, 93, 94), they were either openers or in a very tiny venue. Seeing them with a big crowd and that really great light/film setup felt so well deserved. And yes, great show indeed.

agreed, fantastic. that warfield show was only last year btw (with Low opening); low were obv a better opener than cherry glazzer (who I do not like aside from their keyboardist); but this set from slowdive I think was much better than that one, they seem very baked in, much more comfortable being slowdive again.

also the s/t album rules, anyone who derided it above is crazy

Yeah I missed the earlier reunion tour but I wasn't too fussed because I'd already see the band do most of that stuff already -- I wanted to get a sense of where they were at now instead. So the combination of a great new album -- and the generally more uptempo feel of five or six songs they played from it helped leaven the set's generally stately progression -- plus being settled into a 'okay we are back and doing stuff we're now immediately engaged in,' combined with how they played with the arrangements of the classics -- "Crazy For You," "Dagger" and "Golden Hair" were particularly transformed -- paid off.

Arrived right when the opening band was finishing up so sounds like I timed it well.

Muttered this on Facebook as well but:

* a very young crowd! Not entirely but the vast majority of people around me up front clearly were born around when the band was first touring/releasing things.

* Having Eno cuts from Apollo opening and closing the set was a nice touch -- and fully earned given his work with them on Souvlaki

* As soon as "When the Sun Hits" started most of the people around me immediately proceeded to light up/vape. Which even though I've never done either actually did seem like the right move at the time.

(Also, last year? The first reunion tour was 2014, I wasn't living here yet.)

Also: I was amused by the blatant pill/drug animation at one point -- almost seemed more Spiritualized -- due to the markings on the capsule: 'SD 1-989' -- ie, Slowdive 1989, when they formed.

Jealous. Had my tickets but gig coincided with arrival of new baby. Hope I’ll get another chance

i was at the oakland show last night as well! made this 25-year-old's teenage dream come true seeing them! wept all of my tears when they opened the set with "slomo." would've been even more incredible if low were the openers (no shade to cherry glazerr).

Yeah I really appreciated how they started the set with that -- exactly what I would have done, don't bother with an old favorite first. And it was very well done.

Saw them in Israel about 2 months ago and it was one of the best showsi've seen

a very young crowd! Not entirely but the vast majority of people around me up front clearly were born around when the band was first touring/releasing things

I saw them at The Roundhouse (in London) the other week and overheard a couple of people talking - one said he hadn't seen them since 1991 and the other replied that he hadn't even been born then. Also, I don't remember them ever headlining such a big venue first time around, so they've definitely picked up a lot of new fans.

Just bought tix for Chicago - stoked - last time I saw them was Town & Country in London while studying abroad in 1990.

Which gig? I saw them twice at the Town & Country in 1990, both times they were the support group (for Ride and then for the Pale Saints).

With Ride - I literally re-turned in papers from my previous American college semester at my school - Christchurch college in Canterbury - just so I could go to shows and travel!

wow i guess that show was three years ago. it didn't seem that long to me. yikes.

OCT 29, 2017

at Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, CA

intro.) Deep Blue Day (Brian Eno song)
1. Slomo
2. Slowdive
3. Crazy for You
4. Star Roving
5. Souvlaki Space Station
6. Avalyn
7. Catch the Breeze
8. Don't Know Why
9. Blue Skied an' Clear
10. When the Sun Hits
11. Alison
12. Sugar for the Pill
13. Golden Hair (Syd Barrett cover)

Encore:

14. No Longer Making Time
15. Dagger
16. 40 Days

it was such an amazing night, it made my heart burst. was my favorite gig of this year over The Jesus and Mary Chain. they were so much more psychedelic this time around or after twenty something odd years. one thing i will say is that i'm so happy for Slowdive. they have come such a long way. as others have said in this thread, they had a bunch of young kids at the show, meaning they are gaining new fans. well deserved. i can't really explain how incredible this night was, special time to be alive.

one of their highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXD6tMrlXq8

posted the Bay Area one by mistake but you get it.

Thanks for posting that clip from the Oakland show. Golden Hair was so intense and magical.

Yup, quite striking. And looks like they have a standard set list but it's a good one, though with a little variety ("Catch the Breeze" was fourth up here).

It's a shame they don't play Morningrise.

only song I wanted to hear that was missing was machine gun. oh well can't have everything.

i really like this album a lot :)

man that's a great setlist, i would've cried at that show

ok im sold. got tickets for the 12th

have a great time.

Just to continue the theme, they were amazing in Denver on the 1st. I think the crowd trended older here, hard to say, underage balcony was not overflowing. same songs as for everyone else. I'd agree that Golden Hair is a particular highlight, but the new rockin' verson of 'crazy for you' is also pretty exciting maybe it was just the bang surprise that got me. simon scott is amazing and rachel seems a much better singer these days, is it her time in that dreadful rock band of hers that had made the improvement notable?

Her solo stuff?

She sings for a band called minor victories which as a band isn’t really all that interesting to me but she sings well.

Disagree. The Minor Victories album is really great and worth checking out.

I am a big fan of both Twilight Sad and new Slowdive and I thought that Minor Victories album was very predictable and boring

Back on tour in the US in a couple of months and playing SF in late May at the Fillmore. That'll be a great show for sure.

i know, crazy. they're spoiling us!

Quite surprised I couldn't get into this album. I was totally enthralled by "Don't Know Why" but despite enjoying things about them (although I did find some of the riffs a bit plain) the rest of the album just never clicked.

Not getting into the new Slowdive album sounds like a nightmare scenario but I'm dealing with it calmly. I'll give it more spins in a year.

Totally with you on "Don't Know Why" being the obvious standout.

god this album is so good

Not seeing this band when they played the Newport Music Hall in Columbus last year just because it was standing room only was a HUGE mistake.

saw them last month and it was pretty damn good... but word is they'll be doing lots more touring in the near future.

I also saw them last month, and they had lost their guitar pedals in the airport, lol. Slowdive with borrowed guitar pedals they aren't really sure how to use is an intense experience.

Listening to this wonderful album today, wondering if there'll be a follow-up. What've the various members been up to the last couple of years?