Swervedriver
Founded: 1989
Location: United Kingdom
Swervedriver are an English alternative rock band formed in Oxford in 1989 around core members Adam Franklin and Jimmy Hartridge. Between 1989 and 1998, the band released four studio albums and numerous EPs and singles despite a considerable flux of members, managers, and record labels. By 1993 the band's lineup had settled with Franklin on vocals/guitar, Hartridge on guitar, Jez Hindmarsh on drums, and Steve George on bass. They had emerged with a heavier rock sound than their shoegaze contemporaries, and over the next five years it evolved to include elements of psychedelia, classic pop, and indie rock.
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Live Review: Swervedriver
"Drop into Swervedriver’s world, it’s a nice warm, fuzzy place to hang out for a while."
Live Review: Swervedriver, Ulta Material, Kellie Lloyd
"A rare band that stand with one foot in the old world and one in the new, and both worlds are worth a visit."
Live Review: Swervedriver, Sounds Like Sunset, Grinding Eyes, The Holy Soul
"They still possess the key elements of their sound - inventiveness and propulsion."
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"The biggest fear would be doing something that ruins the legacy."
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Swervedriver Announce Australian Tour
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Album Review: Swervedriver -- I Wasn't Born To Lose You
"Effortless melodies still abound, and the whole thing has a dreamlike quality that is more pretty than powerful."
Live Review: Swervedriver, All We Want To, Mosman Alder
Still a great band and a great album, even some twenty years after the fact.
Live Review: Swervedriver, Iowa, White Walls
Having played Raise fully through, the encore brings with it Last Train To Satansville, and the change in audience mood is immediate, bodies moving with renewed vigour.
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