Sloooooowdiiiiive

Souvlaki is gorgeous though and I have now been reminded to try and make my own. If I had time to go to the supermarket today, that is.

What about the Telescopes? Another one who did great stuff after the media had packed up and gone home from the shoegazy picnic.

Amen! Took the words out of my mouth, so to speak -- I've written something similar on my site before. I've found a few albums/songs that evoked a similar overall feeling in me, but none that really had the same sound-world and feel. You'd think everyone would've jumped on it...

The closest 've heard to it is some Labradford tracks, but I would argue that they approach the sound from, and take it in different directions.

It is fantastic though, I was hoping that maybe the Neil Halstead solo record would have similar ideas, but from what I've heard, it doesn't - more like a Nick Drake homage. Incidently does anyone else think that the second track on Pink Moon is very shoegazey harmonically speaking?

The first two Slowdive albums are OK, but really only for die-hard shoegazer types IMHO, and Mojave 3 bore the arse off me.

moose deserves a thread every day as well, four classic albums and still completely unheralded.

(From now on, I'm going to answer every question with BARK PSYCHOSIS.)

Specific BARK PSYCHOSIS tracks that could possibly appeal to fans of Pygmalion: I Know, Nothing Feels, Blood Rush, pretty much the entirety of Hex.

I'd take Slowdive over MBV pretty much any day of the week.

I would take BARK PSYCHOSIS over pretty much any band that ever existed any day of the week.

That tells you both how and where I would take BARK PSYCHOSIS.

I've been quite ill this year so far. It's been difficult. Have held off from mentioning it officially through Mojave sources but as record releases come nearer and tours are being booked, I feel it's time to spill...

Back in January I suddenly lost a moderate amount of hearing in my left ear. Accompanying this I have had really bad problems with my balance and awful tinnutis. It's been very debilitating for me and I haven't been able to do very much at all. The general day to day stuff on it's own has been quite difficult. It took 5 weeks to see a specialist. I've had a few tests now and have more to go through over the next month to determine why what happened happened. Ears are complicated things. What has happened to me I've been told is rare. I've had labyrinthitis (an inner ear infection) which has led to permanent hearing loss, permanent tinnutis and nerve damage in a couple of places in my inner ear. Some nerves have died apparantly and I keep getting additional middle ear infections. My immune system is currently through the floor. I've been on various medication since it all happened to me. The main one was to help me balance, I've come of these drugs now and am adjusting to my new way of life going through daily physiotherapy to retrain my brain to compensate for the loss of the left side. I'm also waiting for a hearing aid.

Anyway, I know alot of people in life go through a lot of shit. We all have to adjust in times of ill health, slow down, sometimes change our lifestyles and I know and appreciate there are people out there that are going through far worse things than me. Some days I feel devastated and have to give myself a big kick to get going.

I'm at a point now when I don't really know when I'll be well enough to do music. I've been told it will take a few months for the physio to work ...Mojave 3 did a video for the new single this week. I wasn't able to take part in that. Touring is not looking like an option I can do right now either. Things are left open for me with all this. If I'm able to, I will take part. A friend has been brought in to cover me for the time being for gigs. The record needs to be released and promoted right? I'm just in no fit state to do any of it at the moment and it all feels pretty harsh.

A month ago I didn't want people knowing; but it's inevitable that it's going to have to come out and I would rather it came directly from me....if anyone out there has been through a similar thing, I sure would like to hear from you..

I hope she gets better.

Unlikely. He's been doing sound design for television documentaries for awhile - won an Emmy as I recall for "Walking With Dinosaurs"

Get the Spicey Lamb with Garlic and Chili - best Souvalaki in the known universe.

My girlfirend had that. She kept going back to the doctors and he kept making her go away with some painkiller until she forced him to get her to see a specialist. If they had caught the infection earlier her hearing may have been fine.