Ebay auction of collectable shoegaze treats

Wednesday 9th December

As many of you who know me will testify, I have an unhealthy, obsessive passion with a niche musical genre known as 'shoegaze'.

What is shoegaze? Take a look at this concise description(s) from Urban Dictionary

One of my Facebook connections, Richard Lewis,  who I've had plenty of dealings with over recent months approached me a while back with a suggestion that he gets a few bits of hisprized memorabilia signed by shoegaze legends Slowdive . Yes THAT Slowdive....

Over the course of the last few weeks, and capitalising on a few days when the band were all together recording somewhere in the deepest, darkest recesses of the West Country, not only was able to secure the much sorted signatures of all the band members, he was also very kindly able to secure some goodies from Slowdive which the band have very kindly autographed too. While it's not going to raise as much money as a toenail from one of One Direction (at least I don't think it will, who knows for sure?), the package that Richard has been able to source will be of considerable interest to all shoegaze fans out there and contains so much of interest to collectors:

•  Slowdive/Ride promo blue-vinyl split 7", from 1992, which the band have also signed, featuring Slowdive's 'She Calls' and Ride's 'Leave Them All Behind'. 
• Two Slowdive t-shirts, both Medium Men's size.
• One hand screen printed limited poster (we think only 200 in existence) from a festival in Italy, Fiera della Musica, which the band played at in the summer on 30th July.
• One copy of the ‘Holding Our Breath’ fanzine, issue number 2, which has been signed by the band.
• The  'Morningrise' 12" EP is a promotional white label with the catalogue number CRE 098 TP and comes in a white die-cut sleeve with Creation Records logo, which was pressed in France. It also comes with a proof-sleeve wrap-around cover which was printed to gain approval before the proper covers were printed. I have never seen one of these available to buy elsewhere with the wrap-around sleeve - it certainly is a truly collectable piece of Slowdive memorabilia. The cover has no barcode on it. Both the die cut sleeve and proof sleeve have been signed by the band. 

The vinyl is unplayed, It's graded as  Excellent condition and it will be supplied with a wrap-around proof sleeve, too. The white card cover has a couple of bends, so will grade it at VG.The Ride/Slowdive split 7" is on blue vinyl and is in excellent condition, the thin paper cover is quite creased so graded it as VG.”  Both the 7" and 12" vinyl are reservedly graded.

This auction runs through to 19th December 2015 at 6.01pm UK time. Take a look at the auction via the Ebay page here >>> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-/291635325996

Richard has agreed to donate all proceeds of this Ebay auction to the Douglas MacMillan Hospice, who are already providing much needed support to Amanda and myself and will continue to do so however long our journey goes on for. Seeing as I've never met Richard before, this is an incredibly generous thing for him to do and we pass on our eternal gratitude. Richard - you're a fine, fine person.

If you know anyone who would be interested in bidding for this highly collectable package, please share this blog post with them.

Many thanks for reading

Dean (Amanda's husband)