Osaka’s Honeydip are another of the class of influential turn of the century Japanese shoegaze bands who missed out on the digitizing their catalogs for the streaming era, thus restricting their work to those who had or were willing to hunt down one of their CDs.

They’re remedying that somewhat now, with the release of their two albums – 2000’s Another Sunny Day and 2002’s Groovy Indian Summer – as both remastered CDs and on streaming platforms, with bonus tracks on both. The video for “Summer’s Gone”, from Another Sunny Day, hasn’t gotten a refresh, but for a 12-year old upload of a 25-year old video, it’s not bad. Both records are good, though Summer goes a little disco in the way that many of the bands of the time seemed wont to do.

They also returned to live action last year as a precursor to the reissue series, and currently have more shows booked through the year. They offered a clip of their very first run-through of “Summer’s Gone” in 15 years from last September:

And this full performance of the song at a rehearsal in Osaka last November:

And straying outside the official stuff, here’s a clip of them playing the song in February 2000 (!). Looks like it was shot in a lightless warehouse, but again, at least it sounds good.

And finally, the requisite guitar lesson/cover with chords and notes in the comments. It’s not a hard song at all.