With a line-up featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Ice Cube plus the likes of Rage Against The Machine, Tool, Stone Temple Pilots and Cypress Hill on side stages, Lollapalooza 1992 was one of the defining festival tours of the decade. But as the 'alternative nation' began to gatecrash mainstream culture in the United States, not everyone was on board with this sonic revolution.
The Jesus and Mary Chain were one of two British bands booked to play the festivals main stage, and, as with 4AD shoegazers Lush, Jim and William Reid found their hazy, shimmering, reverb-heavy, alt.pop entirely out of step with the more aggressive, route one rock and hip-hop served up by their touring partners.
