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If it wasn’t clear, the timing of Monday’s post wasn’t random as yesterday marked the official first release of Good Day Father, a new project from Catherine Wheel guitarist Brian Futter featuring vocals from Belly frontwoman Tanya Donelly. So not quite “Judy Staring At The Sun” part two, but certainly very adjacent. “Sonic Amadea” is […]
Catherine Wheel had established their shoegaze bonafides (not that they knew that’s what they were doing) with their first two albums Ferment and Chrome, but made a conscious pivot towards the mainstream with album number three, 1995’s Happy Days. Now keep in mind that in the mid-90s the mainstream was a wide, chaotic landscape but […]
So we’re having a bit of a moment of civic pride here in Toronto right now. Our Toronto Blue Jays are back in the World Series for the first time in 32 years – game one tonight! – and one of our most famous musical contributions, Rush, just announced their return after retiring a decade […]
Technically, Catherine Wheel marked the 30th anniversary of their second album Chrome in a timely manner with a mandatory vinyl reissue of the album in August 2023 (to go with the one six years earlier), but the band – or their representatives – aren’t quite done celebrating. They’ve prepared some new shirts – their first […]
Catherine Wheel continue to not give the people what they want, but at least they’re giving the people something. The band’s first three albums -1992’s Ferment, 1993’s Chrome, and 1995’s Happy Days – were all reissued on heavyweight vinyl last week by Proper Records. Sure, they’d all been been given Music On Vinyl pressings in […]
Because I’ve never passed up some low-hanging fruit, here’s the second part of the big Catherine Wheel news for 2023, which delighted and disappointed their fans in equal part earlier this year by being remasters and digital reissues of some of the band’s earliest material. Coming 22 years to the day from its original 12″ […]
On one hand, Catherine Wheel fans have only themselves to blame for thinking the band were finally reuniting – frontman Rob Dickinson has given no signs he’s interested in giving up the world of custom luxury automobiles for the life of a touring rock band – but whoever they’ve got managing their social media accounts […]
There’s not a wealth of live Catherine Wheel material out there – barely any, really – so stumbling across this complete, almost two hours-long show from New York in the Summer of 2000 feels like a pretty sweet, unexpected gift. Okay, first the downside – it’s from the Wishville tour, the band’s swan song and […]
Given the fact that Catherine Wheel fans are a particular type of fanatical, and the fact that the outfit remains one of the few ’90s acts to not yet reunite, it’s not surprising that it doesn’t take much to get the rumour mill humming. Like, for example, a sudden flurry of activity on the band’s […]
The URL for GuitarGeek.com may no longer exist was a meaningful internet entity – it now goes to the YouTube page for some guy who will teach you Led Zeppelin riffs – but in the early days of the web, it was a magical place for guit nerds like myself who were a) unhealthily obsessed […]
