#psyche scene

"STRAIGHT MUSIC PRESENTS -- A NIGHT OF HORROR ROCK..."

PICS INFO: Mega spotlight on a gig and/or show for bands THE CRAMPS, THE METEORS, & SCREAMING LORD SUTCH AND THE SAVAGES, performing live at the Hammersmith Palais, London, UK, on Monday June 22, 1981. 📸: Mr. Farquhar.

Reading Festival, 1990 

INDIE SCENE - INDIE STYLE - INDIE GIRLS FOR '88.

PICS INFO: Mega spotlight on assorted shots of Irish-English alternative/indie rock band, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, performing live for a Panic Station event at Dingwalls [venue] in Camden (London UK), c. February 1988. 📸: @asakoguma.

SAN FRANCISCO GETS BACK ITS OWN DOSE OF PSYCHEDELIA FROM FAR ACROSS THE POND.

PICS INFO: Mega spotlight on assorted, previously unseen shots of Irish-English alternative rock/indie/shoegaze band, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, performing live during the band's North American "Loveless" tour, at Slim's in San Francisco, CA, USA, c. February 1992. 📸: @relaxbabybecool.

"...DINOSAUR JR ARE LOUD, BUT NOWHERE NEAR LOUD ENOUGH AND HENCE AT LEAST HALF OF THEIR..."

"...carefully layered noise harmonics are lost as they try to envelop us in a structurally complex psychedelic sound. Post-post-post hardcore punks who've grown their hair long, admitted to a fondness for Led Zep and create an uncensored sound which is one big beautiful reverberating mess."

PICS INFO: Spotlight on print magazine coverage of J Mascis, founder/singer-songwriter/guitarist of American alternative/indie rock band DINOSAUR JR., performing live at Hammersmith Clarendon, UK, c. 1987. Shared by @sceneinbetween.

MOVING IN ON THOSE UNWARY SOUTHERNERS -- NEW SOUNDS COMING IN HOT FROM SCOTLAND.

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on a treasure trove of raw live shots of Scottish alternative/indie rock band, THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, performing live at the Ambulance Station, in the London Borough of Southwark, UK, in November 1984. 📸: Steve Cope, for Rom Robs fanzine "Everything Counts."

ALL THE BELLS, WHISTLES, KNOBS, & OTHER FINE TUNINGS -- AND THEN WATCH THE MAGIC HAPPEN.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on William Reid (born 28 October 1958), lead guitarist, main songwriter, & co-founder of the Scottish alternative/indie rock band, THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, taken during the band's tour of the USA, c. late 1985.

BLOWING UK MINDS WIDE OPEN WITH THEIR HEAVY, ETHEREAL, SOUL-SHATTERING SOUNDS.

PICS INFO: Spotlight on UK alternative rock/ indie/shoegaze band, MY BLOODY VALENTINE (specifically guitarist/vocalists Kevin Shields & Bilinda Butcher, in this shot), reportedly playing somewhere up north in the UK, during the groups's "Isn't Anything" era and/or tour, c. 1989.