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Home movies from first wave shoegaze bands and arthouse cinema streaming services don’t exactly go together like chocolate and peanut butter, but The Criterion Channel, in the USA and Canada, at least, are have added Lush: A Far From Home Movie to their catalog. It’s a 35-minute short film assembled by former Lush bassist Phil […]
After stepping away from music for a long time post-Lush, Miki Berenyi has been making up for lost time. There was the short-lived Lush reunion in 2015, followed by new music with Piroshka in the form of two albums – Brickbat in 2019 and Love Drips and Gathers in 2021. But since embarking on book […]
Bandcamp’s editorial department might have been gutted recently, but it’s some comfort to know that what remains is still putting out good content, at least for the moment. For example, last week they published this piece that used the recent Lush reissues as a starting point to guide readers through some very good and thoughtful […]
2016’s Lush reunion certainly started out with the best of intentions. Whereas most of their reunited peers were content to exult in the adoration (and dollars) of touring old material, Miki Berenyi, Emma Anderson, and Phil King hit the studio first and were ready with the Blind Spot EP – four new tracks and a […]
Inadvertent Lush season continues hereabouts with some exciting news – the first solo record from Emma Anderson. After Lush split in 1996, it was Anderson who got back into things first, forming Sing-Sing with Lisa O’Neill in 1997 and carrying on for a decade, releasing a couple full-lengths and a variety of extended plays. After disbanding, […]
I’ve been on a bit of a Lush kick lately for no reason that I can think of, but it turns out I was just being prescient. 4AD announced yesterday that the Lush studio album back catalog – 1991’s Spooky, 1994’s Split, and 1996’s Lovelife – were being remastered from the original 1/2″ tapes and […]
The Marvel Team-Up I didn’t know I needed… in the Spring of 1996, Lush toured the US with Mojave 3 on what they called the Sharing The Pavement tour in Spring of 1996. The pairing made sense from the perspective of them being 4AD labelmates as well as leading lights of shoegaze in past lives, […]
For a non-single, Lush’s “Sunbathing” has had a few more versions than one might expect. Well, two. Which is two more than the zero I would have thought. An Emma Anderson composition, the song featured Miki Berenyi on lead vocals and originally appeared on Sweetness & Light, their second EP of 1990, and was compiled […]
Let’s land the wayback machine in 1990, and look at the first video – or videos – from Lush. They released their debut mini-album Scar in July of 1989 and despite it being well-receieved, they didn’t record any promotional videos for it. They saved that honour for “De-Luxe”, the opening track of their follow-up EP […]
Former Lush frontwoman (and current Piroshka frontwoman) Miki Berenyi has been in the news the last little while not for anything she’s done musically – the last Piroshka record Love Drips and Gathers came out in Summer of 2021 – but for her written recollections of what she’s done musically. Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved […]
