shoegaze
Noise Annoys: Buí, Galants, Mono, Lankum and Brand New Friend
WELCOME back to Noise Annoys, your bi-weekly dose of musings on new alternative sounds from this neck of the woods and beyond.
Noise Annoys: Swervedriver's Future Ruins, Green River deluxe reissues and Stendhal submissions
WELCOME to the first Noise Annoys of 2019 – and what better way to kick off the new year than with words on the imminent new release from an old favourite, Swervedriver, whose timely titled Future Ruins LP is due out at the end of this month.
Noise Annoys: RIDE return to Ireland and ready new LP
IT'S been far too long since RIDE played a 'proper' headline Irish show.
Just announced: RIDE Irish tour dates
RIDE, Tuesday March 21, The Limelight, Belfast / Wednesday March 22, The Olympia, Dublin REUNITED shoegaze superstars Ride have announced their first Irish club dates for over 20 years with visits to Belfast and Dublin this March.
Noise Annoys: New music from Gallants, Gnarkats and Trucker Diablo
AS YOU have doubtless failed to notice, Noise Annoys has occasionally gone missing from this page over the past few weeks due to it being called away from the trenches of rock to do other Very Important Work.
Essential reissues: The Verve's A Storm in Heaven and A Northern Soul
LONG before they became every Oasis fan's second favourite act with their best-selling third LP Urban Hymns, The Verve started life as a superb psychedelic rock band.
Listen to: September Girls – Age of Indignation
September Girls – Age of Indignation NOW this is more like it: having announced themselves with 2014's debut LP Cursing The Sea, a decent enough but far from memorable record given its reliance on a rather generic lo-fi trashpop template, Dublin's September Girls are back with the bolder more sophisticated and downright heftier Age of Indignation.
Special event: Ulrich Schnauss live at The Hudson in Belfast tonight
Ulrich Schnauss, tonight, The Hudson, Belfast, free admission IT'S Friday, and what better way to ease into your weekend than with some live electronic shoegaze sounds courtesy of tonight's free gig by Ulrich Schnauss in the courtyard (AKA, 'the smoking area') at The Hudson in Belfast city centre.
'Gazed and confused: Still In A Dream compiles the best, rest and forgotten of the shoegaze era
PRAISE be, the sonic cathedral is open for worship once more in the form of an infeasibly lavish new five-disc compilation dedicated to that most unfairly derided of indie rock genres, shoegaze.