Slowdive Play the Hits @ ACL Live (5.12)
This past Sunday night, 5 members of the band Slowdive quietly strolled onto the stage at Austins ACL Live Moody Theater to perform for the capacity crowd, a set that one could only imagine might be about as close to a perfect Slowdive set and performance as one could ever expect from the band. The band, well into its 40 years of existence including a brief 22-year pause between albums 3 and 4, has found itself a new audience of youth amongst the longtime, slightly more aged fans they acquired during their earlier years as one of the prominent purveyors of the sub-genre shoegaze. A genre that has found new life in a generation yet to be birthed when the band began.
Photos and words by Michael Maly.