NAMES: Greg Moore, Joe Light, Andrew Sherriff, Ashley Bates, Stephen Patman.

AGE: Old enough for the band’s Wikipedia page to have three separate “years active" sections.

FROM: Reading. The town, not the festival. Well, maybe not not the festival.

OCCUPATION: Former (in order of jobs held): indie rockers, shoegaze objectors, reluctant shoegazers, baggy shoegaze heretics, resigned shoegaze innovators. Current: respected (still ambivalent) elder shoegaze statesmen.

HOBBIES: Scrapbooking obituaries of NME writers who slagged them after Whirlpool.

LAST BOOK YOU READ: The Official Slide Away Fest Safety Manual. Which consists, in its entirety, of a prescription pad, given to bands and staff and signed on each page by a doctor local to appropriate tour dates.

LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Found the prettiest chord. Can’t play it for you, though. Only birds and/or djinn can hear it without going mad as a hatter.

QUOTE: “Yeah, we’re 'dream pop/shoegaze.' We’re dream poppin’ wheelies all over your shoes/face.”