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New Slowdive database website launched
A new(ish) website has been launched for anyone to contribute regarding Slowdive. The site is run the same style as good old Wikipedia and already features a whole load of gigs and setlists not just from Slowdive but all the band members other projects including Mojave 3, Televise, Eternal and solo projects. if you’ve got…
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New Ride interview now online
Ride recently reunited in Oxford for a chat with the local Nightshift magazine. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of their debut EP the band took some time to reflect on their early days in Oxford, signing to Creation and deny any responsibility for the bands that followed them from the city. Here’s a section of the…
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The Guardian – Film to immortalise lords of Creation records
Yesterday’s Guardian (8th Jan 2010) featured an article about the forthcoming movie ‘Upside Down’ featuring Time Abbott and and film director Danny O’Connor. Below is the text of the article: When an unsigned Noel Gallagher took the train from Manchester to meet the bosses of Creation records in 1993, he had little idea what to…
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New Monster Movie album due in April
After a lengthy absence, Monster Movie featuring Christian Savill from Slowdive release their fifth album in April called ‘Everyone is a Ghost.’ The Graveface label have uploaded a teaser track called ‘Bored Beyond Oblivion’ which you can download by clicking here. Everyone Is A Ghost will be released on April 6th packaged in a Stoughton…
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New Interview with Pete from Adorable
The Retrophobic website has posted a new interview with Pete Fijalkowski from Adorable in which he reveals he is currently recording with the House of Love’s Terry Bickers and also talks further about his time in Adorable and Creation Records. To read the full interview click here.
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YouTube Classics #11 – Ride EP
I was looking through my vinyl this morning when I noticed a record I forgot I even owned, it is a test pressing of the debut EP from Ride. Scribbled on the label of the 12″ is the date 12th Dec 1989, exactly twenty years ago today! Although the record wasn’t released until january 1990…
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The Painted Word
“The Painted Word takes POP! classics and twists them into something new and groovy. I love it”- Phil Wilson (The June Brides) “Arash Torabi – a positive force of nature unto himself. He’s creating a brand new scene all over again”– Ed Ball (Creation Records, The Times, Television Personalities) The Painted Word is album by…
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10th Anniversary of Creation’s closure
Doesn’t time fly fast? It is 10 years ago today since Alan McGee announced the closure of the label.
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Television Personalities added to MBV ATP
A posting on the ATP website today states: The final additions to this year’s Nightmare Before Christmas line-up as chosen by my bloody valentine are: TELEVISION PERSONALITIES GEMMA HAYES THE TYDE We will be announcing the full stage times very soon.
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Creation bands feature in NME’s Top 50 Albums Of The Past Decade
Primal Scream and Super Furry Animals feature in the NME’s Top 50 Albums Of The Past Decade list. Exterminator by Primal Scream, the final album ever released on Creation, came third with Super Furry Animals 2001 album ‘Ring Around The World’ featuring at 29 in the list.