¶ 1991-03-02 Manchester, Manchester Academy (England)
¶ Line up
Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell, Simon Scott, Christian Savill, Nick Chaplin
¶ Setlist
Unknown
¶ Ticket
¶ Advert
¶ Reviews
Forever Now: Ride/Slowdive: Manchester Academy - Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker (9 March 1991)
And support Slowdive, a temptingly slow-moving target if ever there was one, also deftly skirt the slings and arrows of outrageous expectations by turning in a performance as cool as it’s nervous (some great paradox, that) and manifestly prove that their blurred, hazy sound is so impeccably serene that the actual writing of songs to accompany them would seem an exercise in deluded superfluity. (There’s a minor thesis to be knocked up somewhere here about how Creation must be the most incestuous label this side of Flying Nun. Just as Ride are My Bloody Valentine without the fatal world-weariness, so Slowdive are Ride disconnected from their fairly traditional rock’n’roll heritage. Which doesn’t leave Slowdive with much other than guitars, precocity and the sound. Which is early Mary Chain anyway. Which was The Byrds to begin with. My head hurts.)
¶ Notes
- Supporting Ride
¶ Related links
- Ticket source: http://ticketcollector.wordpress.com/
- Advert scan from @martin_j_wilson