The Long Play Sessions : Simon Reynolds - Still in a Dream with Rudy Tambala

Join us at The Long Play Sessions for an immersive and intellectually charged evening with acclaimed music critic and cultural historian Simon Reynolds, as he discusses 'Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-1994'.

In Still in a Dream, Reynolds picks up where Rip It Up and Start Again left off, tracing the underground explosion that followed post‑punk: the rise of shoegaze, noisepop, slacker rock and grunge. Drawing on his first hand experience as a journalist embedded in the scene, Reynolds captures a moment when guitar music turned inward and expansive at the same time - when distortion, volume and texture became vehicles for emotion, alienation and altered states.