City

Rugby

Warwickshire, UK

Rugby appears in 1 Songsheets issue: Shoegaze and Dreampop. One artist in the archive came from here: Spacemen 3.

Spacemen 3 formed in Rugby, their drone-heavy minimalism and maximalism directly influencing the shoegaze and dream pop movements.

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Artists from Rugby

  • Spacemen 3

    Spacemen 3 came out of Rugby playing a minimalist, droning strain of psychedelia that revived 1960s space rock in stripped-down, hypnotic form—records like Sound of Confusion (1986) laid groundwork the Thames Valley scene would later build on.