Hey all - Adam Franklin will be doing a free audio webcast next week from The JamNow Bomb Shelter in Tinton Falls, NJ. Adam will be performing tracks from his new record "Bolts Of melody", and a sprinkling of other stuff from his career (maybe a Swervedriver song or two). Them I'll be interviewing him live, and amongst other things we'll get to hear all the details on next year's Swervedriver r...
Adam Franklin, the main creative force behind Swervedriver, has just embarked on a US tour with Hopewell, the Mercury Rev offshoot, whose Beautiful Targets I mentioned (positively) a couple of weeks ago.Here's a show preview I wrote for Philadelphia Weekly.Adam Franklin + HopewellFri., Aug. 24, 9:30pm. $10. With Orphan Family. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 Frankford Ave. 215.739.9684. www.johnnybrendas.
Probably a total of about 5 moggers will care about this (if I'm lucky), but since Swervedriver were absolutely awesome and Adam Franklin's post-Swervie project Toshack Highway wasn't half bad, here it is anyway.Franklin is set to drop a solo album Bolts Of Melody on June 26th. Judging on the basis of a couple of tracks that you can stream on MySpace, the material is more song-driven than the m...
Adam Franklin The Singer, guitarist and Songwriter of the legendary Gaze Rock band Swervedriver has just released his solo debut CD. Bolts Of Melody offers some of the full band sound as well as some more stripped down tracks. Add Adam Franklin to the list of recent successful Gaze Rock solo efforts (Mark Gardener (Ride), Rob Dickinson (Catherine Wheel(). Who's next? Sample Tracks Se...
Adam Franklin, the main creative force behind Swervedriver, has just embarked on a US tour with Hopewell, the Mercury Rev offshoot, whose Beautiful Targets I mentioned (positively) a couple of weeks ago.Here's a show preview I wrote for Philadelphia Weekly.Adam Franklin + HopewellFri., Aug. 24, 9:30pm. $10. With Orphan Family. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 Frankford Ave. 215.739.9684. www.johnnybrendas.
Probably a total of about 5 moggers will care about this (if I'm lucky), but since Swervedriver were absolutely awesome and Adam Franklin's post-Swervie project Toshack Highway wasn't half bad, here it is anyway.Franklin is set to drop a solo album Bolts Of Melody on June 26th. Judging on the basis of a couple of tracks that you can stream on MySpace, the material is more song-driven than the m...
The live set from Adam Franklin today was awesome - hope some of you guys got a chance to listen to the show and the interview afterwards. The set is available as a free on demand stream at http://www.jamnow.com/adamfranklinI did a one hour interview with him that we'll be posting within the next day, we discuss a ton of stuff including the upcoming Swervedriver reunion tour.This is an unreleas...
Hey all - Adam Franklin will be doing a free audio webcast next week from The JamNow Bomb Shelter in Tinton Falls, NJ. Adam will be performing tracks from his new record "Bolts Of melody", and a sprinkling of other stuff from his career (maybe a Swervedriver song or two). Them I'll be interviewing him live, and amongst other things we'll get to hear all the details on next year's Swervedriver r...