Graeme Thomson

Twisted, fuzzy, psychedelic pop: Slowdive, at the Liquid Room, reviewed

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The shoegazers' Stevie Nicks: Rachel Goswell of Slowdive performing in Madrid earlier this month. Photo: Mariano Regidor/Redferns 
issue 02 March 2024

Rachel Goswell, one of Slowdive’s two singers, has cool hair. It is dyed half black and half white, and by the end of this show I had a feeling it might have been trying to tell us something. Slowdive broke up in 1995 having made three albums. They reunited in 2014 and have since made two more.

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