Slowdive @ Brooklyn Paramount, Brooklyn, NY 11/19/24



 Bill: Slowdive/quannic

Venue: Brooklyn Paramount, Brooklyn, NY

Date: 11/19/24

Door: unsure had a +1 comp ticket

9:15pm Slowdive



Active: 1989 (Reading, UK)

Latest Release: Everything Is Alive (Dead Oceans, 2023)

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Missed: quannic

Slowdive are one of those bands with a resurging popularity among a young audience for no discernable reason.  Sure it happens all the time.  Revisionist history of music with later generations spiking draw we have seen from Kiss to Slint to Sleep to friggin Avril Lavigne.  Sometimes it is because of television advertising or reunion, however in Slowdive's case it is the use of social media for soundtracks with an effect like advertising on Tiktok.

Slowdive I always thought were a bit third tier shoegaze.  I bought Call It A Day in it's day and pretty much ignored the band until I won tickets to see their reformation in 2017.  My friend Danny had won a pair and had an extra for me this time around.   That first reunion tour show was at Brooklyn Steel and the only thing I really remember about it was they did "Golden Hair" by Syd Barrett.  There was no "cool" Syd Barrett cover this time around and the audience didn't really care.  I will say in 2024 I was pretty much bored with this band and their set start to finish.   Unlike, say Swervedriver or Ride, my visceral connection to Slowdive is damn near zero, whether 1991 or 2024.

It is pretty rich of me to bitch about cell phones at shows when this blog requires I whip a phone out obnoxiously on occasion to get some reasonable snaps and pics.  I noted in the past that it was extremely annoying at older legacy act shows with an older crowd unafraid of overlong clips, leaving the flash on, etc. en masse in a small club or theatre show.  Tonight, I saw a different annoying young cell phone audience.  Clips taken in 90 second shots seemingly without any focus.   The epitome of this was a guy directly in front of me, one arm lovingly wrapped around his girlfriend, the other with his phone in the air, out of focus for over a minute stretch and then again for the next song.  The band was so boring I found myself more entertained by watching the timer to see how long his clip would go on for.  Also there were a bunch of "skinny" phone shots all over the place for long stretches.  We are talking a 2,700 beautiful capacity theatre damn near sold out for two nights.  Sold to the point a 2025 tour was announced while this one was still happening.   I'm starting to think Yondr should be mandatory for all these shows even though my blog would suffer for it.  Dylan and Danzig had the right idea.

















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