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Emo's Austin
Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody featuring Ringo Deathstarr / TBA
Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010 10:00 PM CST
(9:00 PM Doors)
- Thursday, Jan 14, 2010 1:30 AM CST
at Emos Austin
in Austin, TX
"Melody and power seldom went together so well" Ed Ball on Swervedriver Jan 1st 2009 10.02 am
From 1990 to 1998 Adam Franklin was the singer, guitarist and main songwriter for London-based Swervedriver; contemporaries of and label mates with My Bloody Valentine and Ride but with a more adrenalized rock 'n' roll sound, showing flashes of Husker Du and Sonic Youth. Then from 1999 to 2006 Adam recorded and toured as Toshack Highway, a gentler but no less inventive folky/electronic/film-soundtracky hybrid, releasing a full album and flurry of EPs, split releases, seven inch singles and the like.
In 2007 an album that had started out as the next Toshack Highway release became the first album to be released under the moniker Adam Franklin and was titled Bolts of Melody - which also became the name of Adam's adaptable, forever-changing and quite formidable live group. Sometimes a rock 'n' roll four-piece and at times expanding to take in pedal steel and piano, the live band and album showcased a return of sorts to the searing, guitar-constructed songwriting style Franklin's followers were familar with from Swervedriver days, but also with an air of the musical experimentation more redolent of the Toshack era.
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