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A cool breeze settles over Bangkok in late November, and with it arrives a haze of sound the city has waited a long time to hear properly. On November 30, Moonstar Studio hosts Slowdive, the Reading band widely credited as the architects of dreamlike soundscapes and the pioneers of that beautifully blurred world we call shoegaze.
Their guitars shimmer with reverb and delay, layered thick enough that individual notes stop mattering, while Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell sing in voices that fold over one another and hush in your ear. You stop trying to work out who is singing what. That's rather the point. The band treat loneliness and sadness not as feelings to hide from but as quiet, liveable rooms, and they invite you to sit down in them for ninety minutes.
Anyone who wore out a copy of 'Souvlaki' in a teenage bedroom knows exactly what 'Alison' does to a crowd. 'When the Sun Hits' still lands the way it did in 1993. Newer songs such as 'Kisses' prove the group aren't coasting on nostalgia either, still writing music that aches in precisely the right places three decades on.
Bangkok's own Death of Heather open the night, which is a lovely piece of programming. The Thai outfit make the same kind of melancholic noise and will have the venue thoroughly softened before the headliners walk on.
Moonstar sits out in Bang Kapi, so give yourself time. Early Bird tickets start at B2,300, capped at 300. Presale runs to B2,600 and general admission on the door is B3,000. Get your tix here.