About this Event

Future Perfect presents

Slowdive(band)

O2 Academy Oxford

Friday 2nd June

14+ / 7pm / £20adv



We pleased to host Slowdive for their biggest headline show to date outside of London since reforming in 2014. This will be a warmup for Field Day Festival the following day.



On sale Friday @ 10am: http://bit.ly/SlowdiveOxford



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After 22 years, Slowdive return with Star Roving, their first new material since 1995’s Pygmalion, which will be released via Dead Oceans, worldwide. The band has been hinting at new music for some time and today the band can finally satisfy the ears of their patient fans. Featuring Neil Halstead (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Christian Savill (guitar), Nick Chaplin (bass), Rachel Goswell (vocals) and Simon Scott (drums, electronics), Star Roving embodies the effortlessness for which Slowdive is known -- as the song progresses, it expands and contracts in ways that feel infinite.



Singer Neil Halstead says: “When the band decided to get back together in 2014 we really wanted to make new music. It's taken us a whole load of shows and a few false starts to get to that point, but it's with pride and a certain trepidation we unleash “Star Roving”. We really hope folks enjoy it, it's part of a bunch of new tracks we've been working on and it feels as fun, and as relevant playing together now as it did when we first started”.



Slowdive’s debut album Just For A Day was released in 1991 by Creation Records and was followed by the band’s now revered 1993 album Souvlaki and 1995’s Pygmalion before disbanding. In the 22 years of their virtual disappearance, compilation albums have been released and the core members of the group have gone on to join other musical endeavours.



In 2014, the band announced that they’d reunited and more new music would follow. Faithful fans will herald Star Roving as a critically worthy return. Catch them play a headline show at Field Day Festival in London on June 3rd.



Dead Oceans’s Phil Waldorf comments, "We are elated to work with Slowdive on their new album. I saw Slowdive for the first time, as a teenager, in 1991 at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC. I remember it being a revelation - the way the band used texture and tone was something I’d never heard before, and it stuck with me for a long time. It was one of those gigs that was a gateway drug of sorts — not only was it amazing to see Slowdive, but it was the first taste of a whole sound that made me go exploring into all kinds of music. More than two decades later, their music sounds just as relevant and vital, and we cannot wait for old fans and new listeners to hear the band’s new recordings."