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5/1/2008 Swervedriver Store Opens:
I just got a link to the official store. There are two shirts available now and I have fingers crossed for more. Please take a look as your purchase swerves directly to the 4-headed mothership.

4/28/ Swervedriver play Coachella. See the pictures and read the press.
Pictures here, and here. Read about the show from a blog and from the forum.

4/23/2008 Updated Dates with New Orleans June 4th added:
I'm in contact now with the tour's booking agent. Tim and I have had two pleasant emails; one of which produced this official itinerary:

Thu- May 22 The Waiting Room Omaha NE 300 AA 03 - confirmed - with The Life and Times and Mr Gnome
Fri- May 23 Marquis Theater Denver CO 500 AA 03 - confirmed- with The Life and Times
Sat- May 24 Paladium Salt Lake City UT 1000 21+ 03 - confirmed
Mon- May 26 Neumo’s Crystal Ball Reading Room Seattle WA 700 21+ 03 - confirmed - with Film School and Head Like A Kite
Tue- May 27 Wonder Ballroom Portland OR 780 AA 03 - confirmed - with Film School and On This Two Band Bill
Thu- May 29 The Fillmore San Francisco CA 1199 AA 03 - confirmed - with Film School and Mezzanine Owls
Fri- May 30 Casbah San Diego CA 225 21+ 03 - confirmed - with Film School and On This Two Band Bill
Sat- May 31 Henry Fonda Theatre Los Angeles CA 1300 AA 03 - confirmed - with Film School and Xu Xu Fang
Tue- Jun 3 Emo’s Alternative Lounging Austin TX 1000 AA 03 - confirmed - with Terra Diablo
Wed- Jun 4 One Eyed Jacks New Orleans LA 500 AA 03 - confirmed - with Terra Diablo
Thu- Jun 5 The Masquerade Atlanta GA 500 AA 03 - confirmed - with Terra Diablo
Fri- Jun 6 Cat’s Cradle Carrboro NC 615 AA 03 - confirmed - with Terra Diablo
Sat- Jun 7 Theatre of Living Arts Philadelphia PA 950 AA 03 - confirmed - with Terra Diablo and Longwave
Sun- Jun 8 930 Club Washington DC 1200 AA 03 - confirmed - with Terra Diablo and Longwave
Tue- Jun 10 Paradise Boston MA 603 18+ 03 - confirmed - with Terra Diablo and Longwave
Wed- Jun 11 Bowery Ballroom New York NY 575 21+ 03 - confirmed - with Terra Diablo and Dirty on Purpose- SOLD OUT
Thu- Jun 12 Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn NY 600 18+ 03 - confirmed - with Longwave and The Still Out
Fri- Jun 13 Lees Palace Toronto ON 500 19+ 03 - confirmed - with Besnard Lakes
Sat- Jun 14 Metro Chicago IL 1100 18+ 03 - confirmed - with Headlights and The Life and Times

4/07/2008 North Carolina show added:
New dates have shown up on TicketMaster.com for the Swervedriver tour:
Swervedriver
06/06/08
Cats Cradle in Chapel Hill,NC

3/28/2008 First sold out show and some New dates
The bowery ballroom show in New York has officially sold out as of today. I've also been sent some new dates for Washington DC and San Diego. Read the forum post here.

3/26/2008 Northwest dates added:
New dates have shown up on TicketMaster.com for the Swervedriver tour:
Swervedriver
Tue, 05/27/08
09:00 PM Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR

I'm also told of a Seattle show:
Monday May 26
Neumo's
Tickets onsale this Friday, 28 March
$15
no support act named

3/20/2008 Austin and Boston dates added:
New dates have shown up on TicketMaster.com for the Swervedriver tour:
Swervedriver
Tue, 06/03/08
09:00 PM Emos AustinAustin, TX
on sale: Fri, 03/28/08 12:00 PM

Swervedriver
Tue, 06/10/08 08:00 PM
Paradise Rock ClubBoston, MA
on sale: Sat, 03/29/08 12:00 PM

3/16/2008 Swervedriver in Filter Magazine and on BBC
The February issue of filter (#29) magazine has a respectful look at swervedriver with interviews quotes and articles by Alan Moulder, Mark Gardner, Jez, Adam and more. After it is off of news stands I'll post some of it up here,

3/6/2008 2008 Swervedriver Tour Dates are starting to show up.
I'll update as more dates are announced. For now take a look at this forum post for LA and NYC dates. here.

2/13/2008 Adam Franklin press from Australia
Nice little article discussing topics including dates in Australia in the future. Read it here.
Update - 3 more publications now. Read here.

1/4/2008 Adam and Bolts of Melody play London Feb 1st
Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody
(Jeff Townsin, Will Foster and Matt Round) at the Luminaire, Kilburn, London Fri Feb 1st.

12/28/2007 ** UPDATED Feb 15th Daye ** Adam Franklin Australian dates 2008
ADAM FRANKLIN returns to Australia in February 2008 to play a string of solo live shows to promote his debut solo album BOLTS OF MELODY, out now on Chatterbox Records.

Friday, February 15th 2008
Brisbane, The Zoo
with Tim Steward & Do The Robot
Brisbane: Rockinghorse, Skinnys, Butterbeats, MoshPit,
Music Mania, Sunflower & Kill The Music, online at www.custommade.com.au or by phone 1300 762 545

Saturday, February 16th 2008
SYDNEY, Oxford Art Factory
Sydney: all Moshtix outlets, www.moshtix.com.au, GET TIX, online at www.custommade.com.au or by phone 1300 762 545

Sunday, February 17th 2008
MELBOURNE, East Brunswick Club
Melbourne: The East box office (ph: 03 9388 9794)
online www.eastbrunswickclub.com,
online at www.custommade.com.au or by phone 1300 762 545

12/06/2007 Interview and Live Set Wednesday, December 12, at 3PM eastern standard time.

"We just confirmed Adam for a live web broadcast next week on JamNow.com, he's doing it with Gerald his slide player. They'll play a set and then we're doing a live interview. This is free for all to listen and can be heard anywhere in the world - it's next Wednesday, December 12, at 3PM eastern standard time.

The session can be heard at:

http://www.jamnow.com/adamfranklin

We're sure to discuss the upcoming Swervies reunion tour and much else.

Perhaps you could post a note in the forum (and so I did) , asking for any questions the fans might have, and I'll ask Adam to answer them. Also, if you download our software, you can join the interview when we open it up
and chat with us live or text

Perhaps you coould post a note in the forum, asking for any questions
the fans might have, and I'll ask Adam to answer them. Also, if you
download our software, you can join the interview when we open it up
and chat with us live or text

Jim McDermott"

11/06/2007 Swervedriver 2008 Tour
"The Road Is Long

So it looks like Swervedriver will hit the road once more. It all happened quite quickly and we met up in a pub in London last month and figured out what we'd like to do, which at this point is just heading out and playing some shows again.

As far as new recordings are concerned, I already have two albums to record next year (a new 'solo' and The Setting Suns debut) and they take priority. Maybe the Swervies can rustle up a new tune or two but really, there's more than enough going on with that back catalogue already.

I gotta say that something that really sparked my interest in this was hearing the live version of Sandblasted that has been posted for some time at swervedriver.com and subsequently at the MySpace page. I'd just never heard it played like that before. I mean, I guess I was there and everything, but it's got this great kinda country style to it that sounds like it might have only happened one night, and it's stuff like that that keeps the whole thing alive to me... not only in the music but the fact that other folks cared enough to record and post these recordings.

In the meantime this 'Bolts of Melody' tour has been going really good and finally it's reached the point where nobody bitches after the shows about the lack of Swervedriver songs! I guess because they've been leaving completely satiated by the set that culminates with the twelve minute C chord that is Ramonesland. Things are nicely in place to build on with another album next year and there's already a great album taking shape I think..

So I guess I'd better sleep now.. cheers - A"

10/15/2007 Tour correction and nice podcast

Tu Oct 23 Pittsburgh PA Club Café has been cancelled due to a falling out between teh club owner and promoter. "Apologies to anyone who was planning to attend that show and we will try and re-schedule when we can."

Check out this podcast devoted to SWD related music:
http://thedarkstuff.podomatic.com/

Thanks for checking in again for the Dark Stuff Podcast #19. This is a special one! This episode is dedicated exclusively to the music of Swervedriver and Adam Franklin.

8/23/2007 even more tour dates:

Tu Oct 2 Norfolk VA The Boot
We Oct 3 Chapel Hill NC Local 506
Th Oct 4 Mt. Pleasant SC Village Tavern
Fr Oct 5 Atlanta GA The Earl
Sa Oct 6 Birmingham AL The Bottletree
Mo Oct 8 Houston TX Proletariat
Tu Oct 9 Austin TX The Mohawk
We Oct 10 Dallas TX The Cavern
Th Oct 11 Memphis TN Hi-Tone
Fr Oct 12 Nashville TN The Basement
Sa Oct 13 St. Louis MO Bluebird
Mo Oct 15 Kansas City MO The Record Bar
Tu Oct 16 Omaha NE The Waiting Room
We Oct 17 Minneapolis MN 400 Bar
Th Oct 18 Chicago IL Empty Bottle
Fr Oct 19 Milwaukee WI Cactus Club
Sa Oct 20 Ypsilanti MI Elbow Room
Su Oct 21 Columbus OH Andyman's Treehouse
Mo Oct 22 Cleveland OH Beachland Ballroom
** CANCELED ** Tu Oct 23 Pittsburgh PA Club Café ** CANCELED **
We Oct 24 Buffalo NY Mohawk Place
Th Oct 25 Toronto ON Drake Hotel
Fr Oct 26 Ottawa ON Zaphods
Sa Oct 27 Montreal QC Le National

7/9/2007 updated tour dates plus a streaming version of the album

stream bolts of melody here

Adam Franklin - 2007 Tour Dates
Jul 2 - Mercury Lounge New York City
Jul 13 - KEXP Radio Seattle
Jul 14 - Sonic Boom Records Seattle
Jul 14 - Crocodile Cafe Seattle
Jul 15 - Jackpot Records Portland
Jul 15 - Doug Fir Lounge Portland
Jul 16 - Cafe Du Nord San Francisco
Jul 17 - The Echo Los Angeles
Jul 18 - M-Theory Music San Diego
Jul 18 - The Casbah San Diego
Aug 21 - Great Scott Boston MA
Aug 22 - Maxwell's Hoboken NJ
Aug 23 - Cake Shop New York NY
Aug 24 - Johnny Brenda's Philadelphia PA
Aug 25 - IOTA Arlington VA

6/25/2007 - First Bolts of Melody review. ** updated with more reviews **

"It’s truly thrilling to hear Franklin amped up again and belting out urgent guitar anthems like opener Seize the Day and Shining Somewhere. The vocals certainly sound more weathered, and the effects rack has most likely been trimmed down a little from his Swervedriver days, but these two immediate standouts are unmistakably the sound of man enjoying his music."
READ FULL REVIEW HERE

"Bolts of Melody, Franklin's first proper solo album, more or less begins where we left off, albeit with the volume turned down a little. “Seize the Day” thrashes around like The Posies and Teenage Fanclub never went out of fashion; “Song of Solomon” is a charming tribute to Elliott Smith, and “Sundown” sounds more like the Lemonheads than the Lemonheads do these days.
READ FULL REVIEW HERE

"I feel the album picks up nicely where Swervedriver left off. It incorporates the many-layered chorus of guitars swirling around the melodies sustained by Adam’s distinct laid-back vocal styles. There is a more 60’s guitar pop feel with Adam wearing influences from garage bands and psychedelia groups."
READ FULL REVIEW HERE

6/5/2007 - Bolts of Melody release information + 1 Adam Franklin show in Toronto. *** corrected **

Adam is playing Reverb in Toronto on Thursday June 7th at 1am.

He will have Bolts of Melody for sale. I'm going to make every effort to stay up and show up.

The North America release date is June 26th on Hi-Speed Soul, June 29th in Australia on Chatterbox. The album will be available on import only in all other territories and will be available on iTunes worldwide.

Getting to kick out some jams with your idols is any young musician's dream come true, and for a young musician named Sam Fogarino from a young band called Interpol, that dream recently exploded into reality.

Fogarino met former Swervedriver lead Adam Franklin over dinner a winter ago, and the two must have hit it off, 'cause they done gone and formed a band. "i've been a swervedriver fan from the start, still am," wrote Fogarino on the Setting Suns' newly inaugurated MySpace page. "i would have killed just to bang a can for adam franklin. now, he makes sense of my melodies, and turns our ideas into a beautiful din. i feel lucky and alive.... and a bit sick from my own sap."

Full article here:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/42042-interpols-sam-swervedrivers-adam-setting-suns

Myspace with 2 tracks here:
http://www.myspace.com/thesettingsuns

As I'm just about about to drive off to Holland for the latest leg of Sophia shows I thought it was time for a general update, just in case you all thought I'd fallen asleep or something.

My new album Bolts of Melody will see the light of day as an Adam Franklin album for the first time. The Toshack Highway moniker seems too unwieldy for a number of reasons - people never remember the name for starters (or pronounce it incorrectly!) and it's just easier for people to remember my own name anyway. Also the album is much more song/guitar driven, and to me Toshack is more this instrumental/keyboardy thing, so actually the Toshack name might re-appear at some point with music more in that original vein, but for the time being AF it is..

The album will feature the recent Syd's Eyes single and Birdsong (Moonshiner Version), which were previously only available as Black Mountain seven inch and Shifty Disco download-only release respectively, as those tracks should be made more widely available.

The cover of Wolf Parade's Shine A Light that was posted at www.myspace.com/toshackhighway will also be on the album due to a certain amount of public demand - the lyric about "waiting for something that'll never arrive" seemed particularly appropriate due to this album taking so long to get released!

The album should get released in the US/North America May/June time and there will be full band dates with the Bolts of Melody band in the US around that time. We're still finalising European release schedules.

In the meantime people can check out my new Setting Suns collaboration with Sam Fogarino from Interpol at www.myspace.com/thesettingsuns. Me and Sam have been knocking out a few ideas in recent months and will continue to do so in between doing our other stuff - Interpol have reached the mixing stage for their new album I believe and Sam will then embark on an endless touring schedule but we'll take that project out on the road at some stage in the future.

People should also check out The Still Out at www.myspace.com/thestillout which is a new band featuring Josh Stoddard who will be playing bass for Bolts of Melody, and Arjun Agerwala who recorded the drums for Syd's Eyes. I've also contributed some guitars and vocals for this project.

And hey, why not also check out Rol Jui at www.myspace.com/roljui featuring Locksley Taylor from Sianspheric and Dean Williams who of course played on/recorded Bolts of Melody. Ley will also be touring Bolts of Melody.

And lastly, Sophia plays Holland and Belgium next week and will be touring Scandinavia and Italy in April/May and is sounding pretty rocking - Will, Jeff and Robin made up the rest of Toshack Highway when we toured the Orange Album in Europe in 2000 and the band has aged like a fine wine! ...well, it's certainly aged... So come and check out the band if we're close by at all and have some More Wine...( www.sophiamusic.net)

1/25/2007 - Bolts of Melody spring release - listen to tracks at the label's myspace
We are extremely proud to announce the first signing to the label! This talented artist is...drum roll please.....Adam Franklin, singer/guitarist/songwriter for UK shoegazer legends Swervedriver!! Adam's new record called "Bolts of Melody" will be released in the spring of '07. A brilliant mix of 60's influenced psychedelic rock, folk, and of course Swervedriver, some have been known to refer to Adam's music as "space-folk". Whatever the term you want to use is fine by us. We just call it amazing. Visit www.adamfranklin.com for more info.

We are having another contest for a couple of autographed copies of the book and *maybe* more.

Post a memory of swervedriver in this thread in the forum and you are entered. I'll draw random winners in Early February and sort out prizes with Jez.

9/19/2006 - Ontario dates and new release info
TOSHACK HIGHWAY LIVE / SYD'S EYES 7"

Four Toshack Highway shows scheduled for Toronto and the surrounding area are looming. Three full-band and one Adam Franklin solo performance:

Sep 27 2006 8:00P E-Bar Guelph
Sep 28 2006 8:00P The Casbah Hamilton
Sep 29 2006 8:00P El Mocambo Toronto
Sep 30 2006 11:00P The Drake Hotel Toronto (Adam solo electric)

We shall have copies of the new 7" (175 mm) /45 rpm vinyl single "Syd's Eyes/Silver Freight Train" on-hand at said shows. This recording is played back by rotating the disc at a constant rotational speed with a stylus (needle) placed in the groove, converting the vibrations of the stylus into an electric signal, and sending this signal through an amplifier to loudspeakers. This 7" single will be available after the above dates through the Toshack site.

6/20/2006 - new songs up on toshack highway myspace
"A Wolf Parade cover, that Jimi Hendrix cover of a
cover, new Seize The Day from forthcoming album plus
LSD 'baroque version' from Birdsong downloads EP on
Shifty Disco."
http://myspace.com/toshackhighway

BESPOKE GALLERY
547 West 27th Street
Sixth Floor
New York, New York 10001
www.bespokegallery.net

Soundtrack to Nothing by Christy Bush

April 27th – May 27th, 2006

Reception for the artist: Thursday, April 27th, 2006 from 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Bespoke Gallery is pleased to present Soundtrack to Nothing, a series of black and white and color photographs by Christy Bush. A reception will be held on Thursday, April 27th from 6 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. This is Christy Bush’s first solo exhibit at Bespoke Gallery.

In Soundtrack to Nothing, Christy Bush’s photographs document contemporary teenage music fans attending rock concerts (Interpol, The Others, Elefant and The Secret Machines) in various cities across the United States, Europe and Australia.

The subjects of Bush’s photographs, shot extemporaneously in diverse concert-venue locations -- lobbies, lavatories, backstage, in the audience –- are decidedly unabashed and devoid of self-consciousness.

While the photographs were taken during the last two years, they possess the stark austerity and grace reminiscent of the French New Wave movies of the early 1960s. The photographs, both alone and in series could be stills from the making of a coming-of-age movie. Titillated by this evocation, the photographer generated an imaginary story-line linking the protagonists of her project and assigning them
fictitious stage names. Some of the teen fans whom Bush encountered appear only once in her photographs. Others photographed at a number of different shows assume starring roles.

Bush captures the spirit of these teenage music fans and her photographs evidence the gamut of raw teen fan emotion - giddiness, vulnerability, boredom, innocence, fragile sophistication, longing. The viewer is invited to share their fleeting candor.

The audio track playing in conjunction with Soundtrack to Nothing comprises a number of songs written for the exhibit by The Last Night (Sam Fog of Interpol and Dagon James, in collaboration with guest musicians Adam Franklin of Toshack Highway and Swervedriver, Grasshopper of Mercury Rev, and Michael Stipe).

Bespoke Gallery Publications is releasing a book to accompany the Soundtrack to Nothing exhibit which will include the CD produced exclusively for the show.

Bush lives in New York City and holds a BFA from the University of Georgia in Athens. She has participated in several exhibits in Georgia and works as aprofessional photographer in New York City.

For more information please contact Rhiannon Kubicka at Bespoke Gallery: 212-695-8201 or rtkubicka@bespokellc.com.

4/2/2006 - may additions to the site
I just uploaded many additions to the links page and the downloads page. They include some australian audio, a missing issue of the fanzine and many press scans. Thanks to all who submitted.

Update from Adam:
Anglophilemusic.com presents The Shoegaze
Hacienda(Britpop,shoegaze,indie),from the UK and US
Sat March 18th @ The Drink on 6th free Drinks & food @
the VIP area.

the line up is looking something like:
11:30 Belial (AZ)
12:00 Caspar (LA)
12:30 Business machines (LA)
1:10 The Drugs (LA)
1:45 Helen stellar (Chicago)
2:30 My Were They (Chicago)
3:15 Protokoll (Boston)
4:00 The Pacific (LA)
4:30 Local Division(UK)
5:00 Piney Gir (UK)
5:30 Adam Franklin(Swerve Driver/Toshack Highway) w/Sianspheric (UK)
6:30 Mark Gardener(Ride) w/Goldrush (UK) till end at 7:45

"Full details of which haven't yet emerged but we're all playing Saturday March 18th at The Drink at 325 E 6th St. It's an early show though and not officially part of SXSW (??) and as far as I know Sianspheric go on around 6pm - then I play around 6.30pm, a few solo tunes then they're gonna back me up on some more. Mark Gardener will also be playing, possibly with Goldrush."

This Friday sees Toshack HIghway teaming up with Oxford based label Shifty Disco to release the second part of a two part downloadable MP3 EP called Birdsong EP with two more tracks plus downloadable artwork for another 99p

The Shifty Disco Download Singles Club pumps out weekly releases each and every Friday throughout the year, a 12-month subscription comes in at only £12.

The EP features four different versions of two songs to be featured on the latest Toshack HIghway album Bolts of Melody to be released later in the year. Last Friday's download was Birdsong (album version) and Theme From LSD (live version), the latter recorded with full band in Toronto on Nov 12th last year. This following Friday will be Birdsong (moonshiner version) a stripped down folk-sounding rendition and Theme From LSD (baroque version) a film score-like home studio interpretation plus sleeve artwork.

2/9/2006 - New Toshack Release Feb 10th and album details

toshack highway - birdsong ep out friday

This Friday sees Toshack HIghway teaming up with Oxford based label Shifty Disco to release a downloadable MP3 EP called Birdsong EP with two tracks being available for 99p this coming Friday 10th Feb and two more plus downloadable artwork for another 99p next Friday Feb 17th.

The Shifty Disco Download Singles Club pumps out weekly releases each and every Friday throughout the year, a 12-month subscription comes in at only £12.

The EP features four different versions of two songs to be featured on the latest Toshack HIghway album Bolts of Melody to be released later in the year.

This Friday's download is Birdsong (album version) and Theme From LSD (live version), the latter recorded with full band in Toronto on Nov 12th last year.

The following Friday will be Birdsong (moonshiner version) a stripped down folk-sounding rendition and Theme From LSD (baroque version) a film score-like home studio interpretation.

Says Adam Franklin, ex of Swervedriver and the main man behind Toshack: "It's quite a cool thing doing a downloads only release because the whole thing has such a quick turnaraound. "Dave Newton Ride's manager (who also runs Shifty Disco) heard the new Toshack Highway album and suggested putting a track up at Shifty Disco. "I said Why not, and when Dave said the track he wanted to use was Birdsong it reminded me that I had intended to record a slowed down solo version of that song.
"Then the idea of expanding this to an EP release sprang up as we had these versions of Theme From LSD lying around as well.
"But what makes it realy like a 45 release from the 60s is that we're still finishing off the 'baroque version' of LSD - Ley Taylor and his brother Mike up in Toronto are putting a few finishing touches to it, piano and stuff. So we'll finish off the track and it'll be released within the week."

9/28/2005 - New Toshack Dates and album details
OCT 05 05 The Barbican, London, UK
Part of the Don't Look Back concert series - Dirty Three & Sophia double bill
(£16.50, doors at 8p)

NOV 10
Old York Bar & Gill, Toronto, Canada
Adam Franklin (solo)
Scott Loomer
($5)

NOV 11 05 Club Absinthe, Hamilton, Canada
Toshack Highway
SIANspheric
electroluminescent

NOV 12 05 The Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada
Toshack Highway
SIANspheric

"...a fist full of live shows have been posted. Sophia, Adam solo and Toshack Highway (full band). Proof that variety is indeed the spice of life.

Oh and yes, we're inching closer to the release of both the new Toshack Highway studio album and Everyday, Rock'n'Roll Vol.2. An on-line store is under construction and should be up and running soon."

8/29/2005 - Adam / Toshack dates and a new release coming up.

September 1st will see Adam playing a guest DJ set at Loveless in NYC. Loveless is a free monthly evening of Spacerock/ Psychedelia / Krautrock /Shoegaze first Thursday of every month at Belly 155 Rivington St between Clinton and Suffolk. Adam will play around midnight. Go to www.myspace.com/lovelessnyc

September 8th Adam will be opening for the superb Mazarin and Apollo Sunshine at the Mercury Lounge 217
E. Houston St. (corner Ave A & Houston). Cover charge is $10 and remember to bring ID kids. Adam will go on stage at 8.30pm

It's September 12th and Adam will be playing a live session for Seattle's KEXP 90.3FM station at high noon. This session will also be Podcasted. Go to http://www.KEXP.org for details

7/25/2005 - Adam / Toshack dates and a new release coming up.

most of this is from http://www.toshackhighway.com so check there for the latest latest

JUL 30 05
Ancona Indie Weekend, Ancona, Italy
Jul 29: Tarwater, Yuppie Flu and Patrick Wolf.
Jul 30: Arab Strap, Giardini Di Miro and Adam Franklin.
(12 euros)

Saturday, August 13th
2nd Annual M-Theory Sonic Summer Bash
All-Headliner Line-Up w/
Mark Gardener (Ride) 9PM
Rob Dickinson (Catherine Wheel) 8PM
Adam Franklin (Swervedriver) 7PM
Free In-Store Show at M-Theory Music in San Diego
3004 Juniper Street San Diego, CA 92104
Ph) 619-269-2963
Web) www.mtheorymusic.com
Email) info@mtheorymusic.com

AUG 21 05
Iota Club and Cafe, Washington, DC
Adam Franklin solo performace with King Mixer (ex-Swervedriver drummer Danny Ingram) more details to follow...

Adam Franklin is alive... and live. Three special dates to program in yr cellular phones. Caution: cab fair might run steep.

Does rock'n'roll continue to save your life daily? You bet! September should see the online release of Everyday Rock'n'Roll Is Saving My Life Vol.2, a collection of thirteen life saving recordings:

Long Way Home
The Trial
Mary Jane
Theme From LSD (4-track demo)
Parasite (studio demo)
Last Train To Satansville (live acoustic)
Harlem (live)
Time It Takes
Silverstone Dogs (4-track demo)
Canvey Island Punk Version (studio/4-track demo)
Mars (4-track demo)
Sci Flyer9 (home demo)
VUland (alt. studio mix)

This disc will be available from toshackhighway.com and will also be sold at live shows. More info and audio samples of this limited pressing to follow.

5/18/2005 - Swervedriver BBC session from 1991 being played Tuesday May 24th

BBC6 will be playing an old Swervedriver BBC session originally broadcast on the Mark Goodier show in 1991. It will be on the Jane Gazzo show which is 2200 to 0100 hrs BST next Tuesday 24th May. Go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows

Also next Tuesday Adam's brother Graham Franklin's weekly radio show which is variously known as "Freewheelin' Franklin's Acid Punk Medicine Show" and "Spongedelic Emmissions from the Spongelab" featuring the good Dr Freewheelin Franklin and a whole host of purely medicinal musical mindblowers' moves to an earlier time of 1800 to 2000 hrs BST every Tuesday and can be found at: http://www.wirelessfm.net

4/17/2005 - JUGGERNAUT RIDES reviews and interview - click for larger view - send other reviews here.

2/21/2005 - JUGGERNAUT RIDES - 2-CD 37 track swervedriver retrospective coming out March 14th. Two new songs!

Tracklist updated March 6
CD 1
Son Of Mustang Ford
Planes Over The Skyline
The Birds
Duel
Why Say Yeah
Scrawl & Scream
Rave Down
How Does It Feel To Look Like Candy?
Blowin' Cool
The Other Jesus
Juggernaut Rides
For Seeking Heat
These Times
The Hitcher
My Zephyr
Last Train To Satansville
Kill The Superheroes
Behind The Scenes Of The Sounds & The Times
Never Lose That Feeling

CD2
99th Dream
Sandblasted
Maelstrom
93 Million Miles From The Sun
Ejector Seat Reservation
Over
Duress
Mars
Neon Lights Glow
Sci Flyer
Cars Converge On Paris
Deep Seat
Just Sometimes
Son Of Mustang Ford (1989 Demo)

1/10/2005 - b-sides and oddities comp available for download. Go right now to the downloads page and get these great performances. Maybe some of these songs will be new to you. You may want to be seated for this.

The b-sides live bootleg compilation has been approved and will be posted soon. Join the forum to be the first to know.

Posted - The (Not So) Big Book of Adam Franklin & Swervedriver Acoustic Guitar Songs ... 13 songs tabed out completely by a dedicated fan in beautiful word document or html

9/29/2004 - Possibly the biggest swervedriver related news day this millennium...

Adam to appear on a Wire Tribute cd:
"These guys at Words On Music, a label operating out
of Minneapolis contacted me and said they'd love for
me to be on the Wire tribute album they were doing and
that the whole album was gonna be versions of the one
song, Outdoor Miner!

A great song for sure, but a whole album of one song?
So I figured that I should try and do something that
sounds totally different to the original.

So it's an acoustic finger-picking folky-sounding
thing although there is also some pump organ and
electric guitar feedback in there.

We originally tried to recording it on the road on the
Sophia tour when we were in Bergen and Dublin but it
didn't sound right so I recorded it back in Brooklyn
at Jason Marcucci's studio Excello in the end."

Adam is going on an European tour with Sophia October/November
"Sophia heads out on the road again around Europe for
a month. This tour's a bigger operation as there's
gonna be a string quartet out with us also.

I've only played with the strings twice, a festival in
Belgium and a radio session in Paris but for some
strange reason the string players are always the ones
who go straight to the back of the bus and start
skinning up and then later on they're all wasted and
shit - they're far more rock'n'roll than they oughtta
be in other words!

The Album Leaf are opening up on most of the dates -
that's this guy Jimmy LaValle from San Diego who used
to be in Black Heart Procession and who's just
released a nice sounding, really chilled out album
recorded in Iceland with Sigur Ros"

New Toshack Highway band recordings:
"We've done these new recordings that sound a lot more
electric and rocky. I'm still not sure if these
recordings should be as Toshack Highway or not,
especially as Jeff Townsin doesn't play drums on them
- there was originally a plan to record with Jeff and
Will Foster who are both also in Sophia as well as
having done those Toshack shows back in 2000.

In the end though we couldn't find a time when
everyone was available and so I went up to Toronto in
August and recorded ten songs with Ley Taylor and Matt
Durrant from Sianspheric and Dean Williams who does
this electronica thing called Quasimojo with Ley.

We spent a couple of days at a studio called Broadcast
Lane in Toronto that is run by this really cool guy
called Lurch and then drove an hour north of the city
to a cottage by a lake for some round-the-clock
recording. It's sounding pretty cool so far, kinda
like psychedelic-midnight-country with occasional
Hendrix and VU flourishes... (well you know, KINDA
Hendrixy - my take on him anyway!) Matt's drumming
really brought out the Velvetsy side.

We may end up adding some recordings we did in
Brooklyn with Ron Lowder playing drums for release.
I'm especially pleased I got to finally lay down this
instrumental tune called "Theme from LSD" which was
something that Steve George, Jeff Townsin and me
came up with during a Sophia soundcheck in Milan
a few years back."

Swervedriver retrospective on Sanctuary:
"Yes, it appears that there will be a Swervedriver
retrospective CD issued sometime in the new year.
Not a lot to report right now other than the fact that
Jimmy has been meeting up with Alan Moulder in
London and going through some of the master reels.

At the moment it looks like Sanctuary are quite into
the idea of it containing unreleased/ rarities as well
as being a kind of Best Of and are looking at issuing
a double CD set so it could be pretty cool."

Great new addition to the mp3 downloads:
All for albums compiled using the best available live bootleg and radio session recordings. Check it out here.

8/24/2004 - I just finished work on a swervedriver inspired web service called ideacradle.com. I have started a swervedriver project there so take a look via this button:

5/23/2004 -- Adam is back in N.Y. after his spring tour with Sophia. He may be doing a bit of recording before going back to europe for some later summer festival dates.

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Adam Franklin will return as Sophia's guitarist on their upcoming eight week tour of Europe. Keep your eyes on http://www.sophiamusic.tk/ for tour updates and thanks to Carsten for this info. Happy new year swervies!

the dates are:

February 12 '04: Spitz, London (UK) www.spitz.co.uk
February 13 '04: Botanique, Brussel (B) www.botanique.be
February 14 '04: Muziekodroom, Hasselt (B) www.muziekodroom.be
February 15 '04: Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL) www.paradiso.nl
February 17 '04: Gleis 22 Münster (D) www.gleis22.de
February 18 '04: Forum, Bielefeld (D) www.forum-bielefeld.com
February 19 '04: Fabrik, Hamburg (D) www.fabrik.de
February 20 '04: Cafe Glocksee, Hannover (D) www.cafe-glocksee.de
February 21 '04: Star Club, Dresden (D) starclub.vakuum.net
February 22 '04: ColumbiaFritz, Berlin (D) www.columbiafritz.de
February 24 '04: Objekt 5, Halle (D) www.objekt5.de
February 25 '04: Karlstorbahnhof, Heidelberg (D) www.karlstorbahnhof.de
February 26 '04: Muffathalle, München (D) www.muffathalle.de (Free gig!)
February 27 '04: Rätschenmühle, Geislingen (D) www.raetsche.de
February 28 '04: Alter Schl8hof, Wels (D) www.schl8hof.wels.at
February 29 '04: Szene, Vienna (AUT) www.szenewien.com
March 2 '04: Festung, Traunstein (D) www.cafe-festung.de
March 2 '04: El Lokal, Zürich (CH) www.ellokal.ch
March 4 '04: L'Usine, Genève (CH) www.usine.ch
March 5 '04: Boa, Luzern (CH) www.boaluzern.ch
March 6 '04: Fri-son, Fribourg (CH) www.fri-son.ch
March 8 '04: La Maroquinerie, Paris (F) www.lamaroquinerie.fr (TBC)
March 9 '04: Gebäude 9, Köln (D) www.gebaeude9.de
March 10 '04: Handelsbeurs, Gent (B) www.handelsbeurs.be
March 12 '04: Studenterhuset, Aalborg (DK) www.studenterhuset.dk
March 13 '04: Studenterhuset, Arhus (DK)
March 14 '04: Pusterviks Baren, Göteborg (S) www.pusterviksbaren.com
March 16 '04: Garage, Bergen (N) www.garage.no
March 17 '04: Folken, Stavanger (N) www.folken.no
March 18 '04: John Dee Live Club, Oslo (N) www.rockefeller.no
March 19 '04: Debaser, Stockholm (S) debaser.nu
March 20 '04: Vega, Copenhagen (DK)
March 21 '04: Rythmeposten, Odense (DK)
March 23 '04: Mousonturm, Frankfurt (D) www.mousonturm.de
March 24 '04: E-Werk, Erlangen (D) www.e-werk.de
March 25 '04: Kulturfabrik, Krefeld (D) www.kulturfabrik-krefeld.de
March 26 '04: Patronaat, Haarlem, (NL) www.patronaat.nl
March 27 '04: Tivoli, Utrecht (NL) www.tivoli.nl
March 28 '04: Den Atelier, Luxembourg (L) www.atelier.lu
March 30 '04: Islington Academy, London (UK) www.islington-academy.co.uk
March 31 '04: (UK)
April 1 '04: Glasgow (UK)
April 2 '04: Whelans, Dublin (IRL) www.whelanslive.com
April 3 '04: (UK)
April 4 '04: All Tomorrow's Parties, Camber Sands (UK) www.atpfestival.com

10/29/2003 -- Tour dates slightly updated. Charlotte venue changed to The Room

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Tour dates again:
Nov 7th Atlanta, GA: The Echo Lounge (info)
Nov 8th Athens, GA: Tasty World (info)
Nov 9th Charlotte, N.C. The Room (info)
Nov 10th Raleigh NC: King’s Barcade (info)
Nov 11th Philadelphia: Khyber Pass (info)
Nov 12th Washington D.C.: The Velvet Lounge (info)
Nov 13th Baltimore: The Ottobar (info)
Nov 14th NYC: The Knitting Factory (info)
Nov 15th Boston Mass: The Plan @ Great Scott’s (info)
Nov 16th New Haven, CT: BAR (info)

09/14/2003 -- Musical Bounty re-re-Discovered! Rare Swervedriver Items Available.
The swervedriver stock list has been updated. Click here to see what is available.

08/15/2003 -- new Adam Franklin tour dates:
"U.K. Rock Legend Adam Franklin, Singer, Songwriter and Guitarist for Swervedriver is touring the east coast this November with his new FULL band. And the folks here at kingblind.com are proudly presenting the tour. As promised the updated tour dates are here. Nov 7th Atlanta, Nov 8th Athens, Nov 11th Philadelphia, Nov 12th Washington D.C. , Nov 14th NYC are all confirmed dates for the tour.. More dates will be posted as they become available. Opening for Adam will be the atlanta based supergroup The Roy Owens Jr. (Featuring members of Magnapop, The X-Impossibles and Crooked Fingers)."

"The adam franklin of Swervedriver tour will be an ELECTRIC tour. Full band.. guitar bass , drums and keys.. You WILL be hearing Swervedriver songs in the set.. Don't worry."

07/16/2003 -- swervedriver.com has a new webmaster and will be undergoing a redesign.
If you have any suggestions, contributions, or just want to say hi please email me . . . Brad Sears.

06/18/2003 -- Village Underground Adam Franklin Solo Show
Adam Franklin plays the Village Underground New York City
Wednesday June 18th. On stage around 10pm, $10.

12/19/2002 -- Southpaw (125 5th Ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn) Adam Franklin Solo Show
Adam Franklin is playing on December 19th with Jim Bianco openning. Adam's set time is 10:30pm.

11/13/2002 -- Mercury Lounge (217 E. Houston St. @ Avenue A) Adam Franklin Solo Show
Adam Franklin is playing on 11/13/02 at the Mercury Lounge in NYC - opening for the Divine Comedy. Adam's set time is 8:30pm.

04/23/2002 -- Musical Bounty Discovered! Rare Swervedriver Items Available.
(edited)
Click here for swervedriver stock still available.

12/07/2001 -- The Saint (Asbury Park, NJ) Show added for December 27th
Jersey Shore Advisory: Adam will be be playing one additional show on December 27th at The Saint Asbury Park, NJ. Come dressed like Santa, but leave the heavy red wool coat at home.

11/30/2001 -- Knitting Factory (NYC) Show added for December 12th
Adam will be be playing his last U.S. date of the year at the Knitting Factory in New York City on Wednesday, December 12th. He's opening for Steve Wynn and his set time is 8:30pm. If you missed his Fez or Maxwell shows, here's your chance to redeem yourself.

11/06/2001 -- Gig Report: Adam Franklin Live at Fez, NYC
Adam played another incredible show last night at NYC's Fez, which, with each show Adam plays there, proves to be a great venue to see and hear live acoustic music. However, characterizing Adam's solo shows as merely "acoustic music" does them a severe injustice. His songs are much more than typical singer/songwriter performances or unplugged versions of rock songs. They are skillfully crafted compositions that, at the same time, are spontaneous and ever evolving. Mixing up his set with Swervedriver classics, Toshack Highway gems and an eclectic assortment of covers, Adam keeps his audience listening intensely to every beat. If you have any chance at all to make one of these upcoming shows, do whatever you can to get there. You will see and hear something special.

10/22/2001 -- New Adam Franklin U.S. Solo Acoustic Tour Dates.
Swervedriver's Adam Franklin returns to the States with a slew of solo acoustic shows. If you've been kicking yourself since the last time you missed him, here's your chance to stop that nonsense.

09/04/2001 -- Adam Franklin to play at the Bull and Gate in London
Another anonymous tip: Adam Franklin will be playing at London's Bull and Gate Thursday September 6th. No info other than he's opening for Horsepower. Bull and Gate is located in Kentish Town, North London. 07/27/2001 -- YET ANOTHER Last

Minute Adam Solo Show in NYC
Here's another anonymous tip: "One more show for Mr Franklin back at CB's gallery on Tuesday 31st July at 11pm !!" I assume this is not a hoax, so get your ass over there on Tuesday night, okay? 07/09/2001 -- Last Minute Adam Solo Show in

NYC Added
Here's the anonymous tip: "Adam is playing an extra show at Alan Mcghee's Radio 4 club night at Don Hill's, 511 Greenwich S (corner of Spring), New York City on Friday 13th July. Take C or E train to Spring, 1 or 9 to Canal St. No cover before 10 pm, only $10 after 10 pm. 212-219-2850 Adam will take either the 10 pm or midnight slot." 07/03/2001 -- Swervedriver

Update
I got a chance to speak with Adam briefly after the show and picked his brain about the current status of SWD, Toshack Highway and anything else I could think of. At the present time, Swervedriver is free from any contractual obligations and Adam said they're currently looking around for a new deal. Adam will be releasing some four track solo stuff under the moniker Toshack Highway on SpaceBaby records. Information about that release will be available here and the Toshack Highway site as well. Catapult Records was rumored to be re-releasing Ejector Seat Reservation and 99th Dream, but I've yet to confirm this with them. Stay tuned for more details.

07/03/2001 -- Adam's Solo Acoustic Tour a Success.
It was a small, but East Coast-heavy tour that graced many old friends' and new fans' ears with timeless Swervedriver classics, beautiful renditions of covers and a few new tunes. Culminating with last nights performance at Fez in New York, Adam again reminded us why his & Swervedriver's music is so enduring. To see this man perform live -- to be in the same room with such intense energy -- is awe inspiring. If you managed to miss these shows you should hang your head and cry. No distance was too great to travel to hear one of the great sogwriters of our time.

06/01/2001 -- Adam Franklin Solo Acoustic Tour.
Adam Franklin hits the road with an solo acoustic show, at a town near you! Also, 10pm-2am on June 21, Adam will be guest celebrity DJ at Los Angeles' Beauty Bar (1638 Cahuenga Blvd.).