SWERVEDRIVER have announced a very special London show for the Autumn.
The Oxford psych legends will be celebrating the 35th Anniversary of their classic debut album Raise with a show at Village Underground, Shoreditch on Saturday 24 October.
Originally released in Autumn '91 through Alan McGee's Creation label, Raise followed a series of EPs which had already firmly established the band. Initially loosely bracketed by the inkies as 'shoegaze', their coruscating guitar soundscapes and heavy riffing demonstrated an intrinsic Detroit rock power absent from their contemporaries and aligned them more with the grunge wave emerging from the US.
For the Village Underground show, the band will be playing Raise in its entirety plus various classics from throughout their career.
“The thing about Raise is it has a really good flow,” explains singer/guitarist Adam Franklin. “The way the tracks are sequenced, it works perfectly as a live set. It comes in strong with ‘Sci-Flyer’, then you’ve got ‘Son Of Mustang Ford’ and ‘Deep Seat’ in there early on and it’s all over in forty minutes! There’s even a little area before ‘Sandblasted’ that has a great jam that we extend. Then the final song, ‘Lead Me Where You Dare’, we never played that live back in the day, until we decided to do the album in its entirety, and then we had to learn how to play it. It’s definitely a fun album to play from start to finish.”
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