{"id":45157,"date":"2026-04-04T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=45157"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:21:35","slug":"chapterhouse-announce-opening-acts-for-whirlpool-35th-anniversary-north-american-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=45157","title":{"rendered":"Chapterhouse announce opening acts for \u2018Whirlpool\u2019 35th anniversary North American tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reading, UK legends bring &#8216;Whirlpool&#8217; back to North America with regional support acts and Slide Away festival appearances<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapterhouse \u2014 the shoegaze icons out of Reading, UK \u2014 have revealed who&#8217;s sharing the bill for their upcoming North American tour celebrating the 35th anniversary of their debut album &#8216;Whirlpool&#8217;. First announced back in February, the run now has its support slots locked in, and it&#8217;s a pretty ideal lineup depending on which coast you&#8217;re on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Asteroid No. 4<\/strong> will handle opening duties on the West Coast dates, while <strong>She&#8217;s Green<\/strong> takes the East Coast stretch. Any dates falling under the <strong>Slide Away<\/strong> multi-city shoegaze festival umbrella \u2014 NYC, Chicago, and LA \u2014 will feature <strong>Hum<\/strong> and <strong>Nothing<\/strong> headlining alongside Chapterhouse, with a rotating undercard. She&#8217;s Green also gets a couple of Slide Away spots, pulling double duty in both NYC and Chicago. For the full Slide Away rundown, head to <a href=\"https:\/\/slideaway.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slideaway.co<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TFLFJM5-ll0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Breather&#8221; \u2014 Live in London, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Chapterhouse<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapterhouse always managed to be in the right place at the wrong time. Acid-rockers when acid house hit. Shoegazers when grunge germinated. Experimental dance-rockers as Britpop broke. It&#8217;s only with hindsight that the picture snaps into focus \u2014 they were just perpetually ahead of their time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Formed in the summer of 1987 by a crew of school friends from Reading, they started out jamming Stooges covers and digging through the <em>Pebbles<\/em> compilations, which eventually got them taken under the wing of Spacemen 3. After a few EPs, they dropped <em>Pearl<\/em> \u2014 a genuinely audacious blend of guitar noise and beats lifted from John Bonham and Schoolly D that still sounds bold today. It&#8217;s rightly mentioned in the same breath as My Bloody Valentine&#8217;s <em>Soon<\/em> as one of those records that shoved indie music somewhere it hadn&#8217;t been before. Rachel Goswell of Slowdive contributes backing vocals, and Slowdive guitarist Christian Savill has called those early Chapterhouse shows &#8220;some of the best I&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their 1991 debut &#8216;Whirlpool&#8217; \u2014 made in collaboration with Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins \u2014 is a genuine shoegaze touchstone: weird and accessible at the same time, which is a harder needle to thread than it sounds. The follow-up &#8216;Blood Music&#8217; had a rougher road thanks to record company politics, but it&#8217;s aged remarkably well. Its fusion of dance and rock has been cited as an influence by electronic artists including Ulrich Schnauss, and the Global Communication rework <em>Pentamorous Metamorphosis<\/em> gave it a whole second life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Britpop took over and everyone started looking backward, Chapterhouse couldn&#8217;t find a path forward and called it a day in 1995. But a one-off festival appearance in 2008 snowballed into a full reunion the following year \u2014 UK, US, Japan, the whole thing \u2014 and they beat basically every one of their shoegaze contemporaries to the reunion punch. Now they&#8217;re back again, 35 years on from &#8216;Whirlpool&#8217;, which sits at #17 on Pitchfork&#8217;s list of the best shoegaze albums ever. Right place, right time \u2014 finally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_0413.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_0413.jpeg?resize=900%2C900&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_0413.jpeg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_0413.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_0413.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_0413.jpeg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tour Dates<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>May 15<\/strong> \u2014 Brooklyn, NY \u2014 Brooklyn Paramount <em>(Slide Away Festival)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 16<\/strong> \u2014 Brooklyn, NY \u2014 Brooklyn Paramount <em>(Slide Away Festival)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 17<\/strong> \u2014 Washington, DC \u2014 Black Cat <em>w\/ She&#8217;s Green<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 19<\/strong> \u2014 Boston, MA \u2014 The Sinclair <em>w\/ She&#8217;s Green<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 20<\/strong> \u2014 Montreal, QC \u2014 Theatre Fairmount <em>w\/ She&#8217;s Green<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 21<\/strong> \u2014 Toronto, ON \u2014 The Concert Hall <em>w\/ She&#8217;s Green<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 22<\/strong> \u2014 Chicago, IL \u2014 Aragon Ballroom <em>(Slide Away Festival)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 23<\/strong> \u2014 Chicago, IL \u2014 Aragon Ballroom <em>(Slide Away Festival)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 25<\/strong> \u2014 Seattle, WA \u2014 The Crocodile <em>w\/ The Asteroid No. 4<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 26<\/strong> \u2014 Portland, OR \u2014 Aladdin Theatre <em>w\/ The Asteroid No. 4<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 28<\/strong> \u2014 San Francisco, CA \u2014 August Hall <em>w\/ The Asteroid No. 4<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 29<\/strong> \u2014 Los Angeles, CA \u2014 Hollywood Palladium <em>(Slide Away Festival)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 30<\/strong> \u2014 Los Angeles, CA \u2014 Hollywood Palladium <em>(Slide Away Festival)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chapterhouseofficial.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>Get Tickets<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Reading, UK legends bring &#8216;Whirlpool&#8217; 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