Facebook / spotlightkidsound.co.uk/ Spotlight Kid celebrate a new tour announcement with the release of a free download cover of the Simple Minds classic "Don't You Forget About Me", if you ever wondered what The Breakfast Club's signature tune would sound like if it was a shoegaze song, wonder no more, the Nottingham sextet have done a wonderful job too, the pace slowed down emphasising a heavenly melody which puts the focus onto the soft, ethereal harmonies of Katty Heath and Rob McCleary which cloaked around glistening guitars build to a sumptuous [...]
80 mins : 31 secs | 46.0 mb The Big Pink "Stay Gold" ( 4ad ) Future This [ amazon ] website | myspace | facebook Tokyo Shoegazer "Just Alright" ( 299 japan records ) Crystallize [ amazon ] website | myspace | facebook Spotlight Kid "All Is Real" ( tri tone ) Disaster Tourist [ amazon ] website | myspace [...]
When Spotlight Kid released their debut, 'Departure', Tony Blair was grinning his way through a third term at the helm of pre-recession Britain, and Steve McLaren had recently succeeded Sven to begin a disastrous tenure at the helm of the soon to become shambolic England football team. Despite punctuating their lengthy hibernation with a couple of singles, it's fair to say that they've been a little sluggish in producing a follow up album, and in that time many things have changed; Spotlight Kid's sound, though, has remained pretty much as it was. The only noticeable differences are that [...]
Cat's Eyes - "The Best Person I Know" Directed by Ollie Murray. Spotlight Kid - "Forget Yourself In Me" Directed by Martin Shearman-Brettle. Mint Julep - "Aviary" Directed by A Nice Idea Every Day. Eisley - "The Valley" Directed by Cory Sheldon. Wye Oak - "Holy Holy" Directed by Jeremy Johnstone. Ty Segall - "Where Your Head Goes" Directed by Brian Lee Hughes. Bookmark [...]
Domingo 18.12.2011 Radio Duna 89.7 23:00 hrs. En esta nueva edición presentaremos un especial dedicado a la psicodelia y del dream pop, donde destacamos a 93 Million Miles From The Sun ( Northern Sky ), Widowspeak ( Widowspeak ), Pink Playground ( Destination ecstacy ), Mint Julep ( Save your season ), Spotlight Kid ( Disaster Tourist ) y Giraffe ( Comfort ). Recuerden que pueden suscribirse al podcast de Super 45 desde Radio Duna o copiando esta URL http://feeds.feedburner.com/Su per45Podcast en tu [...]
Just Music That I Like's Twenty Five Favourite Abums of 2011 aka The Best 25 Albums of the Year Part Three Direct Links to Albums: 25 - 21 // 20 - 16 // 15 - 11 // 10 - 6 // 5 - 1 15. Spotlight Kid - Disaster Tourist Facebook / [...]
Considering it's rich history and iconic heritage, it fills me with great pride to see my homeland's music scene thriving. Spanning the UK's many aural genres, there's a myriad of music to suit all tastes and dispositions. It's been a challenge to cull this list down to just ten artists, but those who are listed here have earned my vote as the top bands in Britain today. Coming straight from Tyneside, this eclectic act blends elements of electronica and krautrock, resulting in locomotive-like grooves, [...]
London / Brighton Live (Oct. 17 - Oct. 23) This week, the king of choral RnB, Active Child, plays a one-off show at St. Pancras Old Church, Philadelphia's Sun Airway showcase at Hoxton Square and Male Bonding headline a night at The Garage with Gross Magic and The History of Apple Pie. Also in the city for the coming week are Spectrals, Babeshadow, Julian Cope, Real Estate, Spotlight Kid, Bear Driver, Bon Iver and Architecture In Helsinki. Full list below. Active Child - Playing House (ft. How To [...]
Facebook / spotlightkidsound.co.uk/ I've flirted with Spotlight Kid for a while before I finally caught up with them with two gigs in July / August, I was left suitably impressed by the dynamic sound of the Nottingham six-piece. Shimmering guitars, beautiful boy/girl harmonies, a perfect combination of shoegaze noise and melody. I've labelled this as an "Introducing" post but Spotlight Kid aren't a band that will need introducing to everyone, they released an album 'Departure' in 2006 and after a hiatus followed it with releases in 2009 and 2010. Forward [...]
Im Februar stellte ich hier im Blog schon einmal die Band Spotlight Kid vor, deren Sound mich bereits „damals" ausgesprochen begeisterte. Nun gibt es mit «Plan comes apart» eine neue Single, die wiederum mit fetzigem Indie-Sound die aufkeimende Herbst-Lethargie zum Zerplatzen bringt. Das dazugehörige Video ist schlicht, aber ergreifend. Link zur Band-Website Link zur Bandseite bei Bandcamp
Nottingham's shoegaze outfit the SPOTLIGHT KID unleash their THERE'S A REASON WHY video, a collection of jpegs added to the mp3 via iMovie. wotyougot
It's less than a week until Glastonbury 2011 , like everyone else who writes a blog and is going to Somerset next week, here's a list of ten bands I think you should see... I'm not going to give a survival tips post, basically ignore everything it says in this Telegraph article and you'll do alright. Fingers crossed that this weather forecast is accurate too, after the horrendous weather of the past week I'll certainly take it. Saying that, here are a few of my places to go tips. Firstly, the Crows Nest [...]
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[ DOWNLOAD MP3 OF SHOW / LISTEN TO RESONANCE ] Brighton indie rock band Twin Brother , second place in this year's Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition, at the BBC Introducing Stage at 12 noon on Friday. 1. Twin Brother - Lungs ( MP3 ) Norwich-based noise merchants (depicted above) Spotlight Kid , on the BBC Introducing Stage later that day (Friday @ 6.00pm) 2. Spotlight Kid - Haunting Me ( MP3 ) One of last year's most blogged-about [...]
Click the image for more Dot To Dot 2011 Coverage This is already a massive post, so we'll keep this intro short - here's the first half of what happened when Quiff Pro 'Fro went to Dot To Dot all day festival in Nottingham. We saw loads of awesome bands, many that you should really check out - check out our live tweets from the day here . The first band of the day was Spotlight Kid , a local band with [...]
Haunting Me April Spotlight Kid come out of Nottingham with their blast of shoegaze pop that hits you with the wall of sound and melody that takes you back to the days of Ride, Slowdive, and My Bloody Valentine. Their debut album, Departure , came out in 2006 from Club AC30 Records and started the KEEP READING »
Spotlight Kid's music requires no real introduction - their pulsating shoegaze pop demands your attention from the outset, forcing upon you something with immense and raw sonic force, shades of ideological extremism amongst a deep conceptual 90s ideology which seems impossible to quite grasp in its full form. Technically, one could infer influence extracted from the surging electro-rock power of TV On The Radio, the ethereal harmonies of M83 and The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, whispered in desperation, or even the guiding conceptual light of shoegaze's two decade old pioneers, that of My Bloody Valentine, Ride and Slowdive as [...]
This weeks rounds up of the tracks that I haven't go round to posting include some crackers to decorate your ears with. It's like your own personal John Peel show. Therapies Son From: Van Nuys, California, United States Nice retro feel to Touching Down by Therapies Son sounds like the point at which The Beatles meet [...]
We're doing the whole music festival thing on the cheap this year. Well, on a smaller scale at least, travelling only to Leicester and the Summer Sundae Weekender in the grounds of De Montfort Hall. A festival that is now in its tenth year and if, like us, you're used to huge festivals like Leeds this one is much cosier. You can walk around the entire site and all five stages in around ten minutes. They even sell proper beer. We're so hip we're even here for the whole weekend and we have the wristbands to prove it. [...]
It honestly came as a complete surprise when we found our blog listed on several other websites as being shoegaze-related. Don't get me wrong, it is very much appreciated. It just got us thinking that it might be a good idea to go back and sort through our posts and figure out how we earned this particular distinction. After spending some time listening and falling in love all
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