Spacemen 3 - Dreamweapon (Vinyl) Suicide The Stars Behind Us

The Stars Behind Us

March 1995 by Tex Houston and the Able Tasmans

Whether that be the raw spookiness and two guitar harmony of Breath and Crawl or the oddly compelling Skin Of My Teeth and Bodies all brushed with a scent of the macabre

There’s a winding white staircase that goes ever upward into the great unknown — each step

There's catharsis palpable throughout

Spacemen 3 - Dreamweapon (Vinyl) Suicide The Stars Behind UsAugust 1988, Spacemen 3 embark on one of the strangest events in the band's already strange history. Billed as "An Evening Of Contemporary Sitar Music" (although consciously omitting the sitar), the group would play in the foyer of Watermans Arts Centre in Brentford, Middlesex to a largely unsuspecting and unsympathetic audience waiting to take their seats for Wim Wenders' film Wings of Desire. Spacemen 3's proceeding set, forty five minutes of