Swervedriver

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.
Record label issues and waning interest within the group led to their split at the end of 1998. A decade later, Swervedriver reunited and toured periodically over the next five years, releasing their first new material in fifteen years with the 2013 single "Deep Wound". They have since released two full-length albums, I Wasn't Born to Lose You in 2015 and Future Ruins in 2019, with touring stand-ins drummer Mikey Jones and bassist Mick Quinn permanently joining the band.
==Links to Peel==
In an interview with Mirrin Gray, singer Adam Franklin mentioned Peel as one of the many people that inspired him to make music:
"Glam rock singles, things like T.Rex, Slade, The Sweet, Mud, Mott the Hoople and the like as well as very early on records my dad bought like Neil Young, Lindisfarne, Carole King or Argent and albums he had brought back from business trips to South America. All sorts really. My parents had three Beatles albums and one Rolling Stones which I think my dad had found on a park bench, bizarrely. It had no sleeve. Later on came punk rock and new wave and everything changed, other genres had to tighten up and chart pop music in the UK was mostly pretty interesting until Live Aid I would say but there was still the John Peel show. We also started delving into 60s psychedelia around this time." 
The band got their first airplay on Peel's show in 1990 and in the same year did a session for his programme. A year later the group performed at Reading, where according to Adam in an interview with Drowned In Sound, Peel announced the band as full of ex-roadies:
"I remember me and him (Adi, member of the group during that time) chatting to John Peel before we went on stage at Reading Festival in 1991. Adi told him he used to be a roadie, so when we went on, John Peel announced us as being four ex-roadies that formed a band!" 
Although Peel primarily played the group's material in the early 90's, he did revisit them when they released a new single in 1997 by playing that track on his programme, a year before the group initially split up.
==Sessions==
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1. Recorded: 1990-07-31. First Broadcast: 03 September 1990. Repeated: 17 November 1990
*Out / Over / Volcano Trash / Zed Head
==Other Shows Played==
;1990
*09 July 1990: Son Of Mustang Ford (12") Creation 
*The Peel Tapes Vol.11: Volcano Trash (12" - Son Of Mustang Ford) Creation
*19 July 1990: Volcano Trash (12" - Son Of Mustang Ford) Creation
*25 July 1990: Juggernaut Rides (12" - Son Of Mustang Ford) Creation
*09 August 1990 (Radio Mafia): Juggernaut Rides
*11 August 1990 (BFBS): 'Son Of Mustang Ford (12")' (Creation) 
*24 November 1990: Rave Down (12") Creation 
*25 November 1990: She's Beside Herself (12" - Rave Down) Creation
*08 December 1990 (BFBS): 'Zedhead (12"-Rave Down)' (Creation) 
*09 December 1990: Afterglow (12" - Rave Down) Creation
*15 December 1990: She's Beside Herself (12" - Rave Down) Creation
*22 December 1990 (BFBS): 'She's Beside Herself (12"-Rave Down)' (Creation)
*December 1990 (BBC World Service): Zedhead (12" Rave Down) Creation
;1991
*20 July 1991: Out (7" - Sandblasted) Creation
*27 July 1991: 'Flawed' (Flexidisc free with 'Submerge' fanzine issue 3)
*03 August 1991: Out (7" - Sandblasted) Creation
*05 August 1991 (Radio Bremen): Flawed (7" - Sandblasted) Creation
*05 August 1991 (Ö3): 'Flawed (12 inch-Sandblasted)' (Creation)
*12 August 1991 (BBC World Service): Out (12" - Sandblasted) Creation
*25 August 1991: Juggernaut Rides (12" - Son Of Mustang Ford) Creation
*28 September 1991: Pile-Up (LP - Raise) Creation
*06 October 1991: Sunset (album - Raise) Creation
*07 October 1991 (Ö3): 'Pile-Up (LP-Raise)' (Creation) (JP: 'I should warn you, though, that on the LP at least three out of the nine tracks have already been released, so approach with caution and somebody else's credit card, if you possibly can.')
*17 October 1991 (Radio Mafia): Pile-Up (album - Raise) Creation (CRE LP 093)
;1992
*18 January 1992: Jesus (12") Imaginary
*02 February 1992: Jesus (compilation tribute album - Heaven And Hell Vol 3 - A Tribute To The Velvet Underground) Imaginary
*03 February 1992 (Ö3): 'Jesus (Compilation CD-Heaven & Hell Vol. 3 (A Tribute To The Velvet Underground)' (Imaginary)
*22 May 1992: 'Scrawl And Scream (CD single-Never Lose That Feeling)' (Creation)
*30 May 1992 (BFBS): Scrawl And Scream (single - Never Lose That Feeling) Creation 
;1997
*18 February 1997: ‘93 Million Miles From The Sun [...and Counting] (7 inch)’ Sessions
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Official Website
Category:Artists