Pop band Slowdive reuniting

The members of British pop band Slowdive are reuniting to perform their first live shows in 20 years. The Holding Our Breath hitmakers, who rose to fame in the early 1990s, have announced they will play a warm-up gig at the Village Underground in London on 19 May (14) and then make their official comeback at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona, Spain on 30 May (14).
Frontman Neil Halstead hopes the reunion will reignite their creative spark to work on a new studio album, a follow-up to 1995’s Pygmalion.
He tells TheQuietus.com, “We’re not getting paid enough for there to be any real financial incentive for doing it (reunion gigs). But there are loads of artistic reasons, especially if we can get a new record together.”
Slowdive split in 1995 after guitarist Christian Savill and bassist Nick Chaplin quit the band, a year after drummer Simon Scott’s exit. The remaining members, singers Rachel Goswell and Neil Halstead, went on to form another group, Mojave 3.