City

East Kilbride

Scotland, UK

East Kilbride appears in 2 Songsheets issues: Shoegaze and Dreampop and C86 and Indie Pop. One artist in the archive came from here: The Jesus and Mary Chain.

The Jesus and Mary Chain emerged from this Glasgow new town, their feedback-drenched pop laying the blueprint that shoegaze would build on.

Scenes

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Shoegaze and Dreampop
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C86 and Indie Pop

Artists from East Kilbride

  • The Jesus and Mary Chain

    The Jesus and Mary Chain's 1985 debut Psychocandy gave shoegaze its immediate blueprint, marrying conventional pop melody to sheets of feedback and distortion—Phil Spector's Wall of Sound rebuilt out of Marshall stacks.

Records made by artists from East Kilbride