Swervedriver live:
04.27.08 Coachella, Indio (CA)
05.22.08 The Waiting Room, Omaha (NE)
05.23.08 Marquis Theater, Denver (CO)
05.24.08 Paladium, Salt Lake City (UT)
05.26.08 Neumo's Crystal Ball..., Seattle (WA)
05.27.08 Wonder Ballroom, Portland (OR)
05.29.08 The Fillmore, San Francisco (CA)
05.30.08 Casbah, San Diego (CA)
05.31.08 Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles (CA)
06.03.08 Emo's Alternative Lounging, Austin (TX)
06.04.08 One Eyed Jacks, New Orleans (LA)
06.05.08 The Masquerade, Atlanta (GA)
06.06.08 Cat's Cradle, Carrboro (NC)
06.07.08 Theatre of Living Arts, Philadelphia (PA)
06.08.08 930 Club, Washington (DC)
06.10.08 Paradise, Boston (MA)
06.11.08 Bowery Ballroom, New York (NY)
06.12.08 Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn (NY)
06.13.08 Lee's Palace, Toronto (ON)
06.14.08 Metro, Chicago (IL)
02.01.08 The Luminaire, Kilburn, London
02.15.08 The Zoo, Brisbane, Australia
02.16.08 Oxford Art Factory, Sydney, Australia
02.17.08 East Brunswick Club, Melbourne, Australia
Tickets available online at Custom Made.
No shortage of other Franklin news bubbling beneath the surface: work on both a new solo album and a full length Setting Suns album should begin during the early months of 2008. We also hope to have more information on the upcoming Swervedriver tour for you very soon... Stay tuned.
10.03.07 Local 506, Chapel Hill (NC)
10.04.07 Village Tavern, Mt. Pleasant (SC)
10.05.07 The Earl, Atlanta (GA)
10.06.07 The Bottletree, Birmingham (AL)
10.08.07 Proletariat, Houston (TX)
10.09.07 The Mohawk, Austin (TX)
10.10.07 The Cavern, Dallas (TX)
10.11.07 Hi-Tone, Memphis (TN)
10.12.07 The Basement, Nashville (TN)
10.13.07 Bluebird, St. Louis (MO)
10.15.07 The Record Bar, Kansas City (MO)
10.16.07 The Waiting Room, Omaha (NE)
10.17.07 400 Bar, Minneapolis (MN)
10.18.07 Empty Bottle, Chicago (IL)
10.19.07 Cactus Club, Milwaukee (WI)
10.20.07 Elbow Room, Ypsilanti (MI)
10.21.07 Andyman's Treehouse, Columbus (OH)
10.22.07 Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland (OH)
10.23.07 Club Café, Pittsburgh (PA)
10.24.07 Mohawk Place, Buffalo (NY)
10.25.07 Drake Hotel, Toronto (ON)
10.26.07 Zaphods, Ottawa (ON)
10.27.07 Le National, Montreal (PQ)
06.24.07 BAR, New Haven (CT)
07.02.07 Mercury Lounge, New York (NY)
07.14.07 Sonic Boom Records* (5pm), Seattle (WA)
07.14.07 The Crocodile Café, Seattle (WA)
07.15.07 Jackpot Records* (3pm), Portland (OR)
07.15.07 The Doug Fir, Portland (OR)
07.16.07 Café Du Nord, San Francisco (CA)
07.17.07 The Echo, Los Angeles (CA)
07.18.07 M-Theory Music* (6pm), San Diego (CA)
07.18.07 The Casbah, San Diego (CA)
08.21.07 Great Scott, Boston (MA)
08.22.07 Maxwell's, Hoboken (NJ)
08.23.07 Cake Shop, New York (NY)
08.24.07 Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia (PA)
08.25.07 IOTA, Arlington (VA)
* in-store performance
More to come...
Also, Adam will find his way back to the road with our friends in Sophia for the next leg of their tour:
04.12.07 Teatro Cicconi, Sant'Elpidio a Mare (IT)
04.13.07 Bronson, Ravenna (IT)
04.14.07 Velvet, Rimini (IT)
04.15.07 Schüür, Lucerne (CH)
04.16.07 La Casa 139, Milan (IT)
04.18.07 Circolo degli Artisti, Rome (IT)
04.19.07 Indieclub Sintetika, Firenze (IT)
04.20.07 Velvet, Giais di Aviano (IT)
04.21.07 Estragon, Bologna (IT)
04.23.07 La Casa 139, Milan (IT)
04.24.07 L'Usine, Geneva (CH)
04.26.07 Musikcaféen, Aarhus (DK)
04.27.07 Studenterhuset, Aalborg (DK)
04.28.07 Pumpehuset, Copenhagen (DK)
04.29.07 John Dee, Oslo (NO)
05.06.07 Spitz, London (UK)
Also the album is much more song/guitar driven, and to me Toshack is more this instrumental / keyboardy thing, so actually the Toshack name might re-appear at some point with music more in that original vein, but for the time being AF it is..
The album will feature the recent Syd's Eyes single
and Birdsong (Moonshiner Version), which were
previously only available as Black Mountain seven inch and Shifty Disco download-only release respectively, as those tracks should be made more widely available.
The cover of Wolf Parade's Shine A Light that was
posted at www.myspace.com/toshackhighway will also be on the album due to a certain amount of public demand - the lyric about "waiting for something that'll never arrive" seemed particularly appropriate due to this album taking so long to get released!
The album should get released in the US/North America May/June time and there will be full band dates with the Bolts of Melody band in the US around that time. We're still finalising European release schedules..
In the meantime people can check out my new Setting Suns collaboration with Sam Fogarino from Interpol at www.myspace.com/thesettingsuns. Me and Sam have been knocking out a few ideas in recent months and will continue to do so in between doing our other stuff - Interpol have reached the mixing stage for their new album I believe and Sam will then embark on an endless touring schedule but we'll take that project out on the road at some stage in the future.
People should also check out The Still Out at
www.myspace.com/thestillout which is a new band
featuring Josh Stoddard who will be playing bass for
Bolts of Melody, and Arjun Agerwala who recorded the drums for Syd's Eyes. I've also contributed some
guitars and vocals for this project.
And hey, why not also check out Rol Jui at
www.myspace.com/roljui featuring Locksley Taylor from Sianspheric and Dean Williams who of course played on/recorded Bolts of Melody. Ley will also be touring Bolts of Melody..
And lastly, Sophia plays Holland and Belgium next week and will be touring Scandinavia and Italy in April/May and is sounding pretty rocking - Will, Jeff and Robin made up the rest of Toshack Highway when we toured the Orange Album in Europe in 2000 and the band has aged like a fine wine! ...well, it's certainly aged... So come and check out the band if we're close by at all and have some More Wine..."
01.15.07 Zakk, Düsseldorf (DE)
01.16.07 Karlstorbahnhof, Heidelberg (DE)
01.17.07 Substage, Karlsruhe (DE)
01.18.07 Manufaktur, Schorndorf (DE)
01.19.07 E-Werk, Erlangen (DE)
01.20.07 FM4 Fest, Arena, Wien (AT)
01.21.07 Rockhouse, Salzburg (AT)
01.23.07 Feierwerk, München (DE)
01.24.07 Alte Mälzerei, Regensburg (DE)
01.25.07 Conne Island, Leipzig (DE)
01.26.07 Fritzclub im Postbahnhof, Berlin (DE)
01.27.07 Café Glocksee, Hannover (DE)
01.29.07 Uebel & Gefährlich, Hamburg (DE)
01.30.07 Kulturzentrum Lagerhaus, Bremen (DE)
01.31.07 Forum, Bielefeld (DE)
02.01.07 FZW, Dortmund (DE)
02.02.07 Kulturkirche, Köln (DE)
02.04.07 Gleis 22, Münster (DE)
02.05.07 Mousonturm, Frankfurt (DE)
02.06.07 Roxy, Saarbrücken (DE)
02.16.07 La Route du Rock Festival, Saint-Malo (FR)
02.18.07 Pumpehuset, Copenhagen (DK)
02.21.07 Grand Manège, Namur (BE)
02.22.07 Vera, Groningen (NL)
02.23.07 Paard Van Troje, De Haag (NL)
02.24.07 Muziekodroom, Hasselt (BE)
02.25.07 Effenaar, Eindhoven (NL)
Look for some Toshack news to follow this jaunt.
11.17.06 Maria am Ufer, Berlin (DE)
11.18.06 Gebäude 9, Köln (DE)
11.24.06 Uebel & Gefährlich, Hamburg (DE)
11.25.06 Star Club, Dresden (DE)
11.26.06 Club Schocken, Stuttgart (DE)
11.27.06 Backstage München (DE)
12.09.06 Melkweg, Amsterdam (NL)
12.10.06 Vooruit, Gent (BE)
12.11.06 Botanique, Brussels (BE)
12.12.06 Rockhal, Esch-sur-Alzette (LU)
12.13.06 Fri-Son, Fribourg (CH)
12.14.06 Abart Club, Zurich (CH)
Toshack Highway's Syds Eye's 7" is out via Black Mountain Music and available here.
Toshack
Highway live:
SEP 27 - E-Bar, Guelph ON
SEP 28 - The Casbah, Hamilton ON
SEP 29 - El Mocambo, Toronto ON
SEP 30 - The Drake Hotel, Toronto ON (Adam solo)
Arthur,
rest in peace.
Check out the latest Toshack Highway myspace tracks; Seize The Day, from the soon to be released Bolts of Melody. LSD Baroque, a laid-back alternate version off the Bird Song EP. A fantastic interpretation of Wolf Parade's Shine A Light. And Curtis Knight's Gloomy Monday by way of Jimi Hendrix.
Syd, rest in peace.
In Soundtrack to Nothing, Christy Bush's photographs document contemporary teenage music fans attending rock concerts (Interpol, The Others, Elefant and The Secret Machines) in various cities across the United States, Europe and Australia.
The subjects of Bush's photographs, shot extemporaneously in diverse concert-venue locations -- lobbies, lavatories, backstage, in the audience -- are decidedly unabashed and devoid of self-consciousness...
...The audio track playing in conjunction with Soundtrack to Nothing comprises a number of songs written for the exhibit by The Last Night (Sam Fog of Interpol and Dagon James, in collaboration with guest musicians Adam Franklin of Toshack Highway and Swervedriver, Grasshopper of Mercury Rev, and Michael Stipe)"
Soundtrack to Nothing by Christy Bush runs from April 27th to May 27th, 2006.
The Shifty Disco Download Singles Club pumps out weekly releases each and every Friday throughout the year, a 12-month subscription comes in at only £12.
The EP features four different versions of two songs to be featured on the latest Toshack Highway album Bolts of Melody to be released later in the year.
This Friday's download is Birdsong (album version) and Theme From LSD (live version), the latter recorded with full band in Toronto on Nov 12th last year.
The following Friday will be Birdsong (moonshiner version) a stripped down folk-sounding rendition and Theme From LSD (baroque version) a film score-like home studio interpretation.
Says Adam Franklin, ex of Swervedriver and the main man behind Toshack: "It's quite a cool thing doing a downloads only release because the whole thing has such a quick turnaround.
"Dave Newton (Ride's manager who also runs Shifty Disco) heard the new Toshack Highway album and suggested putting a track up at Shifty Disco. "I said Why not, and when Dave said the track he wanted to use was Birdsong it reminded me that I had intended to record a slowed down solo version of that song.
"Then the idea of expanding this to an EP release sprang up as we had these versions of Theme From LSD lying around as well.
"But what makes it really like a 45 release from the 60s is that we're still finishing off the 'baroque version' of LSD - Ley Taylor and his brother Mike up in Toronto are putting a few finishing touches to it, piano and stuff. So we'll finish off the track and it'll be released within the week."
NOV 10 - The Old York, Toronto (Adam solo)
NOV 11 - Casbah, Hamilton
NOV 12 - The Drake Hotel, Toronto
The first show is a solo performance, while the following two shows will be full Toshack Highway sets. Also, Adam will be on Toronto's CFNY 102.1 with Dave Bookman on Wednesday, November 9th at roughly 6:00p
Everyday, Rock'n'Roll Vol.2 is out soon, honestly. It can be ordered from the new Toshack Store.
Oh and yes, we're inching closer to the release of both the new Toshack Highway studio album and Everyday, Rock'n'Roll Vol.2. An on-line store is under construction and should be up and running soon.
99th Dream
The Streets That Spin Off
interview
Sundown
Song Of Solomon
interview
Thank you KEXP for being KExcellent.
Adam should be in the UK for the month of October recording with our good friends in Sophia. After that, it's back to North America where there are whispers of a few full-on Toshack Highway shows in preparation for the release of the new studio album.
September 8th Adam will open for Mazarin and Apollo Sunshine at the Mercury Lounge. Adam is due up at 8.30p
And of course, September 12th Adam will be playing a live session for Seattle's KEXP 90.3 FM at high noon. This session will also be podcast.
Does rock'n'roll continue to save your life daily? You bet! September should see the online release of Everyday Rock'n'Roll Is Saving My Life Vol.2, a collection of thirteen life saving recordings:
Long Way Home
The Trial
Mary Jane
Theme From LSD (4-track demo)
Parasite (studio demo)
Last Train To Satansville (live acoustic)
Harlem (live)
Time It Takes
Silverstone Dogs (4-track demo)
Canvey Island Punk Version (studio/4-track demo)
Mars (4-track demo)
Sci Flyer9 (home demo)
VUland (alt. studio mix)
This disc will be available from toshackhighway.com and will also be sold at live shows. More info and audio samples of this limited pressing to follow.
However, there will be another Toshack releases this
year as plans are afoot for a CD that will be available through this site only. This release will round up loose ends, stray tracks, home recordings and explore the debris from the side streets of the
Highway.
There are also some plans in place for reissuing the
existing Toshack releases and yes, there will also be some touring news coming shortly.
Finally, corporate downsizing hits home as Adam does a little spring clean. A handful of Adam's stomp boxes that are no longer required have been made available here. Get'em.
Also, keep an eye on Queensizemusic.com for a recent interview with Adam Franklin.
Ramonesland
Shining Somewhere
Birdsong
Carousel City
Theme From LSD
Seize The Day
Sundown
Morning Rain
In other news, February might also see the release of Juggernaut Rides, the much anticipated Swervedriver anthology. It would appear this is the best source for information. The hills are alive.
Keep an eye... along with the usual assortment of goodies, a selection of 4-track recordings will most likely be made available soon.
If all goes well, Adam should find himself back in England early December to begin mixing his next release. Stay tuned for more info.
A version of Wire's Outdoor Miner was recorded in Brooklyn, NY during the early part of summer '04. It will be available on the compilation A Houseguest's Wish, due out this November on Words on Music.
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