ADAM FRANKLIN AND THE BOLTS OF MELODY + Vessels + Nazca Lines

Fri 1st Feb 2008

Club AC30 presents
ADAM FRANKLIN AND THE BOLTS OF MELODY
+ Vessels
+ Nazca Lines
+ Club AC30 DJs

Doors 8.00
£6 via WeGotTickets
£7 door

Adam Franklin spent the 1990s as singer, guitarist and main songwriter for London-based Swervedriver, Creation Records rock'n'roll band. Were they 'dream pop'? Were they 'shoegrunge'? Go listen to them playing live and shuffle the words "dream", "grunge", "pop", "shoe" and "merangue" to your own taste. Certainly their heavy melodies incorporated traces of The Stooges, the Velvet Underground, Husker Du and Sonic Youth. Live shows were known for being loud and hypnotic with soaring, hook-laden tunes about UFOs and driving through the desert in the middle of the night etc blah blah.

Since Swervedriver 'went into orbit' in 1999, Adam has taken in a number of different stylings on six releases under the name Toshack Highway and one appearance on compilation album as Adam Franklin. Sometimes a full band sound with acoustic/electric guitars, electric keyboards and bubbly moogs played through guitar effects pedals - somebody described the first album as 'Spacefolk', there's a couple more words to throw in the air - sometimes a much more back to basics affair, just Adam on his own playing simple melodic pop songs accompanied by the warm glow of the compression of the tape machine, sometimes a little electronic and sometimes a little bit psychedelic, a little bit country, a little bit rock'n'roll. You know, whatever.. Just take a listen. A seventh release, a full-length album called Bolts of Melody, will be released early in the new year - honest!

Experimental/post-rock band Vessels (Martin Teff, Tim Mitchell, Tom Evans, Lee J.Malcolm) formed in 2005, with Peter Wright joining in summer 2007, and have since played at the Leeds and Latitude festivals and with Mono, Jeniferever, The Appleseed Cast, Efterklang & Youthmovies.

More info on Nazca Lines shortly.

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