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I think some of you have been waiting a while for this.

  • 180 gram audiophile vinyl
  • Including 4-page booklet
  • Expanded edition
  • Featuring four bonus tracks “Maelstrom”,  “The Directors Cut Of Your Life”,  “Just Sometimes” and “Neon Lights Glow”
  • Three sides of music and an etched D-side
  • First pressing of 2.500 individually numbered copies on silver & black mixed vinyl

http://www.bullmoose.com/p/27655872/swervedriver-ejector-seat-reservation-silver-black-mixed-vinyl-2lp-silver-black-mixed-vinyl

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Iron Horse/Born to Lose / Thursday’s Child 
Limited edition signed 7″ vinyl single £10 
Digital download £2

The Gambier Bay
Previously unreleased three song digital download single £3

Shine A Light 
Limited edition signed 7″ single £10 
Digital download £2

I Want You Right Now 
Limited edition signed 7″ single split with Heaven £10 
Digital download of I Want You Right Now and I Want You Tomorrow (previously unreleased and not on vinyl) £2

Everyday, Rock’n’Roll Is Saving My Life Vol2 
Limited edition signed 13 song tour CD from 2005 £10 
Digital download £7

Bolts of Melody album 
Limited edition signed 12″ vinyl of 2007 album £20 
Signed gatefold CD digipak of 2007 album £7

Black Horses 
Limited edition signed 12″ vinyl of 2013 album £20

Spent Bullets 
Signed gatefold CD digipak CD of 2009 album £7

Go to www.adamfranklin.bandcamp.com

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North American Tour

03/04 San Diego, CA – Casbah
03/05 Los Angeles, CA – Roxy Theatre
03/06 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
03/08 Seattle, WA – Neumo’s Crystal Ball
03/09 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
03/12 St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
03/13 Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon
03/14 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
03/15 Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme
03/16 Cincinnati, OH – The Woodward Theater
03/17 St. Louis, MO – The Duck Room @ Blueberry
03/19 Dallas, TX – Club Dada
03/20 Austin TX – Red 7
03/21 Austin TX – Emo’s East
03/21 Austin TX – The Mohawk
03/23 Atlanta, GA – Terminal West (updated)
03/24 Durham, NC – Motorco
03/25 Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel
03/26 Hamden, CT – The Ballroom at the Outer Space
03/27 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
03/28 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
03/29 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
03/30 New York, NY – Mercury Lounge

05/06 Toronto Canada – The Horseshoe Tavern

* I was just made aware of a new CT date, Toronto date and the added detail on the SXSW shows

Lineup for the SXSW Showcase:

UK Tour

Tue May 12 – PORTSMOUTH Wedgewood Rooms
Wed May 13 – BRIGHTON Haunt, Brighton
Thu May 14 – CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach
Fri May 15 – BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy2 Birmingham
Sat May 16 – MANCHESTER Ruby Lounge
Mon May 18 – SHEFFIELD Corporation
Tue May 19 – GLASGOW King Tuts
Wed May 20 – LIVERPOOL O2 Academy2 Liverpool
Thu May 21 – YORK Fibbers
Fri May 22 – OXFORD O2 Academy2 Oxford
Sun May 24 – BRISTOL Thekla
Mon May 25 – NOTTINGHAM Bodega Social Club
Tues May 26 – NORWICH Arts Center
Wed May 27 – LONDON Scala London

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1/7/2015 

Thanks to pitchfork for getting the news out completely and correctly. They say it best with embedded Deep Wound and Setting Sun in their story so go take a look.

I Wasn’t Born to Lose You:
01 Autodidact
02 Last Rites
03 For a Day Like Tomorrow
04 Setting Sun
05 Everso
06 English Subtitles
07 Red Queen Arms Race
08 Deep Wound
09 Lone Star
10 I Wonder?

Tour kicks off the day after album release:
03/04 San Diego, CA – Casbah
03/05 Los Angeles, CA – Roxy Theatre
03/06 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
03/08 Seattle, WA – Neumo’s Crystal Ball
03/09 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
03/12 St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
03/13 Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon
03/14 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
03/15 Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme
03/16 Cincinnati, OH – The Woodward Theater
03/17 St. Louis, MO – The Duck Room @ Blueberry
03/19 Dallas, TX – Club Dada
03/20-21 – Austin, TX – SXSW
03/23 Atlanta, GA – Terminal West (updated)
03/24 Durham, NC – Motorco
03/25 Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel
03/27 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
03/28 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
03/29 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
03/30 New York, NY – Mercury Lounge

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Adam Franklin is a name known to many as the singer, guitarist and main songwriter in Swervedriver, who from 1990 onwards bought you timeless and classic tunes like Son of Mustang Ford, Last Train to Satansville, Duel, Rave Down, Never Lose that Feeling, The Birds.. the list goes on and on. In many ways they would, along with label-mates on the forward-thinking and adventurous Creation label, come to embody a new British psych/shoegaze/rock/pop genre.

Exhausted and disillusioned with everything at the end of an Australian tour in late 1998 however, they dissolved, went home to the UK and moved out of their studio space for an extended hiatus. Adam quickly assembled another musical project in the form of Toshack Highway, relocated to the US and started releasing albums and EPs in 2000. Constantly shifting genres and rearranging styles, his new projects were at first more electronic after he abandoned the standard electric guitar/effects pedals/amps he’d been famous for. 

Recording for a second full length album started as early as 2004 but there was no rush to release it and consequently the album, still unnamed, took three years to finish. Returning somewhat to the electric guitar and effects pedals band format, this was clearly not a Toshack Highway album and since Adam had been playing shows as “Adam Franklin”, by the time the album was released in 2007 the name of the artist on the front was Adam Franklin and the record was called Bolts of Melody – later to also become his band’s name as well as the name of a song on the second AF album. 

Bolts of Melody came out at the height of digital releases when vinyl was considered archaic and out of date and so the record was never mastered for or pressed onto that beautiful black (or coloured) substance that so richly reproduces sound with all its nuances and depth. And so, for the first time, here it is in its full analogue glory.

Out January 2015. Presale on limited edition 180 gram splatter version from Dec 2nd.

http://tym-records.com/
http://www.adamfranklin.com/
http://adamfranklin.bandcamp.com/

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Our 3 week odyssey is complete.  Go get the last installment of this amazing project.  36 songs directly for the fans.  Everything is up on Bandcamp and iTunes so take your pick.
iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/le2z9es
Bandcamp: http://tinyurl.com/od2few6

Now for some more news.  Take a look a this quote from Adam and see if you can catch the two news bombs:

“Thanks everyone for being involved in this – I have to say I’m quite glad to have it all finished and out there finally. This was all in part promotion of the Black Horses album of course and there is a White Horses album in the making which is some way off yet but that could be a time to embark upon a similar project, perhaps.”

That’s right, a new release is twinkling in Adam’s eye and it is possible the project will repeat.  Yum.

To those of us with a foot still in the physical media past it seems quite likely that all three of these All Happening Now issues will make it to physical release so I’ll keep you posted on that as I get info. There will shortly be some news about a vinyl reissue for later in the year I am told.

 

Finally Adam returns to work on the new Swervedriver album.  Vocals were being recorded last week and it has now entered the mixing stage.

Feel lucky because you are lucky.