Adam Franklin has been making music in several guises – most notably as the singer, guitarist, and songwriter in Swervedriver – for the best part of thirty years. I should say also, there were some really great engineers on that. I guess Record Story Day is much maligned now. I thought it was interesting that Lemmy had done that. At completely solo shows probably, though not as a full band. K, but you could get bootlegged copies of the film from France.

Adam Franklin – Wikipedia

Yes, that Director seems to pick good music. He also sings and plays guitar in Magnetic Morninga collaboration with Sam Fogarino from Interpol who have released an EP and a full-length album. So, in the end, we ended up playing most of swervefriver bass parts. It sounded quite different to what Motorhead became. We are always open to offers. So that’s how the story got out. Get yr tickets here. So they sent me this, and various other pedals. Also, the new Blonde Redhead stuff is sounding great.

He was doing Lush and Ride of course, as well.

You can do whatever the fuck you want to do. And then Ley zdam down various bass parts and various piano and odds and ends.

You should check fraklin Harlem and Board The Bullet Train – someone said they thought the Lost In Translation soundtrack would have been even better if those songs had been on there. You’d see a post on Facebook or Twitter where someone’s name would come up and my immediate reaction would be “Oh no, not them!

Do you feel like you have to use the Swervedriver name to get people to pay attention sometimes? Would we be putting stuff out ourselves or signing to a label? Then heartbreakingly, Nick was killed by a falling tree like two years ago which shocked wnd, people in the guitar community and beyond.

Around the UK in 20 Songs.

They sort of move around when played live – sewrvedriver recordings can be like photographs, they’re just a record of how the band played the song that day but when played live, the songs are constantly evolving. And that track seemed to fit in nicely with everything else. It was quite incredible. Translations of Wire’s ‘Outdoor Miner’.

Interview: Swervedriver’s Adam Franklin

That was also a mess. After the release of Raise inSwervedriver was considered part of the diverse sound of British alternative rock groups that included My Bloody ValentineJesus and the Mary ChainRideand Slowdive.

Winter, Winter, Winter Released: Well, you can get too much into it. But then Adzm guess social media is the same in a different kind of way. I just saw this documentary on da Vinci and he never finished the Mona Lisa. We are at The Fillmore to meet with Swervedriver, an influential English rock and roll band that emerged during the s.

Great way to record. I went through the keyboardy thing, and then the solo acoustic fingerpicking thing.

FCJ Interview: Adam Franklin of Swervedriver

And still using guitar pedals, but putting keyboards through them instead. Shoegaze is such a ludicrous term. Asam, I think Mezcal Head was recorded in one go.

Sam had some strong ideas that he’d written on keyboards or guitar, some of which was quite abstract and I helped turn them into songs.