Slowdive announced the next North American leg of their everything is alive tour this week, which I’d been waiting for since since they were announced as being part of Boston’s Something In The Way festival back in September. The fact that this will be their fourth set of dates in Canada and the US in the past year and a half is pretty astonishing, but not really a surprise. They’d always done multiple legs for their initial reunion and Slowdive tours, and while that wasn’t a guarantee, coming back across the pond for a one-off show didn’t make a lot of sense, though they did just that this Summer to appear at Outside Lands in San Francisco in August.

I expect this will be their last set of dates for alive, and probably for some time, so I’m glad that it kicks off in Toronto. We hosted the first everything is alive date back in September 2023, but I’m glad they’ll be at the much nicer (and more convenient) environs of Massey Hall, where they last played in November 2017.

But rather than focus on Slowdive today – I’ve done that plenty – let’s go back to almost the very beginning, with “Morningrise”, the title track of their second-ever release in February 1991. It was included in their 1992 Blue Day compilation of those early EPs which itself was part of a limited run of Souvlaki in 1993. It was reissued again in 2005 as part of a deluxe edition of Just For A Day.