Nineties shoegazers Slowdive have reformed for Primavera Sound and already have their eye on new music.
“I’m super excited,” Neil Halstead tells Quietus. “We had our first rehearsal last week, which was fun. We were surprisingly good. Quite a few of the songs came back quickly.”
Slowdive emerged out of Reading with the debut album ‘Just For a Day‘ in 1991. Two more studio LPs followed, though the 1995 release ‘Pygmalion‘ almost immediately signalled their departure from Creation.
“The initial impetus was the idea of doing some new music,” Halstead continues. “It seemed easier to do that because it’s not so public. But then we thought it would be good if we could raise a bit of money to make the record, and doing a couple of gigs would enable us to do that. And that’s the way it shaped up – while we’re rehearsing we can see if we’ve got another record in us.”
