Live Corruption , a live recording of the band’s 30 June 1990 performance at the Salisbury Arts Centre , was released in 1992.
Creation Records wanted Slowdive to produce a commercial-sounding album. Halstead agreed: “We wanted to make a ‘pop’ record but it took a while to record”. At one point, Halstead suddenly left in summer 1992, seeking seclusion in a Welsh cottage. Savill, Chaplin and Scott were left in a recording studio…
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The We Can’t Dance tour visited North America and Europe from May to November 1992 with each concert attended by an average of 56,000 people. The tour spawned two live albums; The Way We Walk, Volume One: The Shorts reached No. 3 in the UK and The Way We Walk,…
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and in the same year they began working closely with Bikini Kill
Napalm Death released the album Utopia Banished in 1992, produced by Colin Richardson . Stylistically, the album was described as a “return to the roots” form of grindcore. After recording The World Keeps Turning EP, the band toured Europe with Dismember and Obituary on the “Campaign for Musical Destruction” tour.…
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While they toured in early 1992 to support Blue Day , a re-release of their early EP material, the band began writing songs for a follow-up album, but the negative coverage Slowdive received in the press affected their songwriting. “[It] did affect us as we were all teenagers at the…
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The Great Deceiver (1992)
In 1992, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana went into the Rough Trade Shop in Talbot Road, London, in search of a new copy of The Raincoats , and Jude Crighton sent him around the corner to see da Silva at her cousin’s antique shop. Cobain wrote passionately about this meeting in…
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Napalm Death toured the US with Carcass , Cathedral and Brutal Truth on the Campaign for Musical Destruction tour in 1992.
Kelly, Richard and Cable began writing and performing music in working men’s clubs together in 1992 as a band known as “Tragic Love Company”, a name inspired by their favourite bands ( the Tragically Hip , Mother Love Bone and Bad Company ). After Tragic Love Company supported Smalltown Heroes…
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