Name: Slowdive, The Forum
Start: 2014-12-19
End: 2014-12-20
Location: The Forum

With newly reformed shoegaze heavyweights Slowdive, Forum London hosts one of the most anticipated gigs of the year- ambient, noisy and beautiful all at the same time

Cult English shoegaze band Slowdive will play two more London shows at the Forum in Kentish Town this December .

The band played their first gig in 20 years at the Village Underground earlier this year after a surprise reunion was announced on Twitter.

Slowdive were an important part of the shoegaze scene that flourished briefly in the early 1990s.

Drawing on the ethereal guitar noise and whispered vocals of scene progenitors My Bloody Valentine , Slowdive constructed sheer soundscapes of shimmering noise, but brought their own clean, ambient sensibilities into the mix.

After releasing three albums (Just For A Day in 1991, Souvlaki- their masterpiece- in 1993, and finally Pygmalion in 1995) the band split, with members Rachel Goswell, Neil Halstead and Ian McCutcheon going on to form Mojave 3.

The Village Underground show sold out in minutes, so expect a clamour for tickets for the Forum shows. We advise you to bring ear plugs.

What	Slowdive, The Forum
Where	The Forum, 9-17 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1JY \| MAP
Nearest tube	Kentish Town (underground)
When	19 Dec 14 – 20 Dec 14, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Price	£28
Website	Click here to book tickets via Seetickets

What the critics say

THE GUARDIAN

"...what is remarkable is not how dated they sound but how extraordinarily well their sheer, sumptuous guitar arabesques have aged. Their defining feature remains layers of fuzzy, barbed guitar, distorted by copious use of effects pedals into a spectral, amorphous haze. This exquisite aggregation lends a dense, profound quality to their music: gorgeous washes of sound, such as the early track Catch the Breeze, are both hearteningly intense and possessed of the kind of piquant, clear-eyed melodies that the Byrds would have coveted."

Practical

VENUE

This two-tiered ex-art deco cinema sits just north of Kentish Town tube - its grand frontispiece beckons gig goers as soon as they catch sight of its white brickwork and black columns.

WHERE TO EAT

Shebeen is one of the most in-demand nightspots in North London currently - look for the signage for this underground bar peeping up just above the ground and below the plants of next door restaurant The Kentish Canteen.