Adam Walton - Afal (album)
release date: Friday 29th April 2022

 STREAM: https://soundcloud.com/adamwalton/sets/adam-walton-afal (shareable)

My name is Adam Walton. I’m from Mold in north Wales. 

My new album ‘Afal’ is released on Friday 29th April 2022. It’s folkish, melodic (I hope) and a little bit trippy, dictated by the songs having been mostly written and recorded after late shifts at work. I wanted to preserve as much humanity and natural grain in the recordings as possible… eschewing autotune, multiple takes and any urge for perfection.

I love slightly off kilter chord sequences and melodies that weave and glow. If the melodies weave and glow for you, I’ll be a happy-ish man.

Musically-speaking? I don’t know… there are scraps of Emitt Rhodes, Beck, De La Soul, Elliott Smith, Love, Teenage Fanclub, Modern Life Is Rubbish-era Blur, Richard Holland’s compilation tapes… The Zombies, Pink Floyd and The Boo Radleys.

It’s about being older and not hating it; not eschewing responsibility, but giving your imagination and flights of fancy daily mouth-to-mouth and defibrillation. 

It’s trying to elicit the same sense of wonder that Operation Jonah, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Wacky Amoebatrons, Many Happy Returns, The Lotus Caves, And Your Bird Can Sing, Strange Perceptions, Runequest, The Losers Club, and rainy, deserted winter afternoons in Portmeirion elicited in me.

To my mind, the instrumental sketches interspersed throughout the album are just as important as the songs, but then the songs aren’t all that important, anyway, so it’s a moot point.

I do hope you like ‘Afal’, I won’t pretend otherwise. I hope it casts a spell over you.

Thank you for listening / diolch am wrando.

The album is available via all the usual streaming / download outlets from Friday 29th April 2022, and also as a limited edition black vinyl LP (300 copies) from bandcamp.
https://theimmediate.bandcamp.com/album/afal

All songs ©2022 written by Adam Walton (Copyright Control) 

Recorded by a combination of me and Russ Hayes, between my house and Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr.

Artwork by the very wonderful Beverley Dale
http://beverleydale.com

Live Dates
10.06.22 The Lexington, London (with Helen Love)
18.06.22 Le Pub, Newport (with Martin Carr and Richard J. Parfitt)
24.06.22 Elysium, Swansea
09.07.22 B-Fest, Caerwys
23.08.22 Loud & Local Festival, Alexander’s, Chester
03.09.22 Well Inn Music Festival, Holywell

For bookings, please mail: mradamwalton@googlemail.com

Adam Walton - Afal

Listen in solitude.

SIDE 1
	1.	#1									0’33
	2.	Rain On Your Parade					2’59
	3.	#6									0’46
	4.	Emily Said (On Account Of The Days)		2’16
	5.	#4									0’34
	6.	Mary Sees UFO’s						3’22
	7.	Cornelian							2’49
	8.	#12									1’10
	9.	Cloudburst II							3’20
	10.	#5									1’31

SIDE 2
	1.	Blinded By Headlights					2’55
	2.	#8									1’01
	3.	Goldfinch							3’36
	4.	#2									0’27
	5.	2269								3’23
	6.	#3									0’30
	7.	Foreveryou							3’08
	8.	#10									0’43
	9.	The Moon And The Stars					3’16
	10.	#7									1’53

All songs ©2021 Adam Walton except track 12 which was co-written by / features a sample from ‘Walker’ by David Ian Roberts ©2020.
2, 4, 13 & 19 recorded and mastered by Russ Hayes at Orange Sound Studios.
All other tracks recorded at home.
Cover painting and design by Beverley Dale. http://beverleydale.com

For Jane and Graham.

Thanks to: Gail Watt, Ava Walton, Jo Walton, Danny Walton, Ritzy Bryan, Janice Long, Ben Hayes, Huw Williams, Tom & Carrie Hyndman. 

facebook.com/adamwaltonsongs

Made in the UK
Whipcord Records WCRACKLP01

Adam Walton - Afal

My name is Adam Walton. I’m from Mold in north Wales. I love chords, melodies and writing songs inspired by the likes of The Kinks, Nick Drake and Elliott Smith.  ‘Mary Sees UFO’s’ was originally released exactly a year ago. Back then, my new solo album ‘Afal’ was at the pressing plant, the test pressings had been OK’d, and I was expecting 300 copies of the album to arrive imminently.

But the albums didn’t arrive in April… or May… in fact, they didn’t arrive until December. And then, when they did arrive, there were flaws in the vinyl on each and every copy. And so another wait began until late January. 

The wait was - ultimately - worth it, and the album will finally be released on Friday 29th April 2022. 

I wrote and recorded the album in the small hours after producing Janice Long’s show on BBC Radio Wales. Low volume, lo-fidelity psychedelic folk songs, recorded minimally, with as much natural grain in the recordings as possible… eschewing autotune, multiple takes and any urge for perfection.

The music Janice was championing on her show was undoubtedly an influence - Seatbelts, Katherine Priddy, Ali Horn and Kathryn Williams, in particular - and the album itself is dedicated to Janice, who died on Christmas Day and was a great friend as well as an inspirational colleague who it was a privilege to work with.

‘Mary Sees UFO’s’ is on the album; ‘Have you Seen Lyra Today?’ is only available on the EP in the great tradition of exclusive B-sides.

Both songs were written and recorded at home by me. The title track was mastered by Russ Hayes at Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr (Kidsmoke, Campfire Social, Peaness).

The single will be available via the usual download / streaming outlets from April 15th 2022.

Thanks for listening / diolch am wrando.

Mary Sees UFO’s single tracklisting
Mary Sees UFO’s
Have You Seen Lyra Today?
 All songs ©2022 written by Adam Walton (Copyright Control) 

https://linktr.ee/waltonic

17.04.22 Wales Goes Pop, The Gate, Cardiff
23.04.22 Central Station, Wrexham (with Jack Jones)
10.06.22 The Lexington, London (with Helen Love)
18.06.22 Le Pub, Newport (with Martin Carr and Richard J. Parfitt)
24.06.22 Elysium, Swansea
03.09.22 Well Inn Music Festival, Holywell

Artwork by the very wonderful Jon Mlynarski / Safari Art.
http://instagram.com/jon__safari

Adam Walton - Mary Sees UFO's

My name is Adam Walton. I’m from Yr Wyddgrug (Mold) in north Wales. I love chords, melodies and writing songs inspired by the likes of The Kinks, Nick Drake and Elliott Smith.  The first song I ever wrote was called ‘Cloudburst’, back when I was 14 or 15. The title track of my new E.P isn’t that song; I just love the word and I remember being a kid in Nannerch, playing out in the fields and woods, and how a sudden rain shower - especially on an otherwise bright day - would cast everything in a strange light and mood. That’s what I wanted to capture with this song. 

When I wrote ‘Cloudburst II’ I was listening to Beck’s album ‘Morning Phase’ a lot. That album has a really distinct atmosphere: something a little removed and observational that I liked, a faith that things would get better that has nothing to do with a god but everything to do with nature and time.

There is a philosophy to the recording of this song - and the rest of the album. I listen to a lot of new recordings that have been fixed - partially dehumanised - by the miracles of tuning plug-ins, multiple takes and editing. Although I think it’s valid and interesting to use the technology of your time to best capture your music, I also wanted something that sounded more human, flaws and all.

‘Aspartame’ is about accepting people even if they hold different views to you, and how fake news sites and corporations benefit from stirring us up, exaggerating the differences between folk who would otherwise get along with each other. 

‘Rainy Sky Sunday’ is an old song I originally wrote for a Neil Crud acoustic session in 2016. I couldn’t sing it then, which was mortifying, but I love the chords and the melody, and - like ‘Cloudburst’ - it’s similarly obsessed with using weather as a hackneyed metaphor. 

’27’ is an instrumental interlude. I love effects pedals, sampling and manipulating whatever I can capture or play to convey a mood that’s sympathetic to the songs it introduces. The forthcoming album - ‘Afal’ - is interspersed with many such interludes. I hope they’re interesting companion pieces.

When I released my previous single ‘Mary Sees UFO’s’ last April, the album pressing was due to arrive imminently. However interminable delays at the vinyl plant meant that the pressing didn’t arrive until mid-December. Then - upon closer inspection - there was a blemish in every copy of the vinyl that meant I had to wait even longer, while it was re-pressed.

The pressing has now arrived and is blemish free. I will release ‘Afal’ on Friday, 18th. April 2022.

The Cloudburst E.P cover was designed by SafariArt (Jon Mlynarski) 
https://instagram.com/safariartdesign

‘Cloudburst II’ was recorded at Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr by Russ Hayes (Kidsmoke, Campfire Social, Peaness). All other tracks were recorded at home by me.

The EP will be available via the usual download / streaming outlets from Friday, February 25th 2022.

Thanks for listening / diolch am wrando.

Cloudburst E.P tracklisting
27 (instrumental interlude)
Cloudburst II
Aspartame
Rainy Sky Sunday

 All songs ©2022 written by Adam Walton (Copyright Control)

Cloudburst E.P

Adam Walton - Looms

Adam Walton - Afal

Listen in solitude.

SIDE 1
	1.	#1									0’33
	2.	Rain On Your Parade					2’59
	3.	#6									0’46
	4.	Emily Said (On Account Of The Days)		2’16
	5.	#4									0’34
	6.	Mary Sees UFO’s						3’22
	7.	Cornelian							2’49
	8.	#12									1’10
	9.	Cloudburst II							3’20
	10.	#5									1’31

SIDE 2
	1.	Blinded By Headlights					2’55
	2.	#8									1’01
	3.	Goldfinch							3’36
	4.	#2									0’27
	5.	2269								3’23
	6.	#3									0’30
	7.	Foreveryou							3’08
	8.	#10									0’43
	9.	The Moon And The Stars					3’16
	10.	#7									1’53

All songs ©2021 Adam Walton except track 12 which was co-written by / features a sample from ‘Walker’ by David Ian Roberts ©2020.
2, 4, 13 & 19 recorded and mastered by Russ Hayes at Orange Sound Studios.
All other tracks recorded at home.
Cover painting and design by Beverley Dale. http://beverleydale.com

For Jane and Graham.

Thanks to: Gail Watt, Ava Walton, Jo Walton, Danny Walton, Ritzy Bryan, Janice Long, Ben Hayes, Huw Williams, Tom & Carrie Hyndman. 

facebook.com/adamwaltonsongs

Made in the UK
Whipcord Records WCRACKLP01

Afal (mastered)

Emily Said (On Account Of The Days)

Rain On Your Parade

The title song / single & a b-side from a new EP I'll be releasing via usual streaming & download outlets on Fri April 23rd 2021.

There will be an album - 'Afal' - a little later in the year. It's all finished and off to be pressed at the magic vinyl sonic induction factory.

'Have You Seen Lyra Today?' won't be on the album. It had a late night out and this is its punishment. It laughed when I told it.

All these songs were recorded at home.

My neighbours are saints, and my garden is very very overgrown, but you only live once, right?

Thanks for listening / diolch am wrando.

Have You Seen Lyra Today?

Mary Sees UFO's

You Can't Answer To Some Sort Of Authority That You Don't Even Know Who They Are

The Hills Will Hold You Now

B side that'll be exclusive to an upcoming single release.

Thanks for listening / diolch am wrando.

Aspartame (B side)

Rainy Sky Sunday (B side)

Cloudburst II

FOR FANS OF: Peter Green, Elliott Smith, Bonnie Prince Billy, Teenage Fanclub, The Kinks

“The songs are deliciously quirky and evocative - so refreshing. I love it!” 
Mary Hopkin

“… he’s been making his own solo album of sublime lysergic folk reveries. I fell hard for this last night & perhaps you might too“ 
Pete Paphides

“… a magical piece of work“ 
Louder Than War

“… not one of the songs on this record outstay their welcome. Instead they fill the room (your headphones) with warmth, hope and humility”
link2wales

My name is Adam Walton. I’m from Mold in north Wales. 

‘Cornelian’ is the final single release from my current album ‘Afal’.

I’ve been moved hugely by the response to ‘Afal’ since its release at the end of April. The album hasn’t sold in large numbers and the streaming figures are literally humbling, but the emails, messages, reviews and conversations have shown me that ‘Afal’ is being appreciated by people all over the world and that the songs haven’t fallen on stony ground.

That means the world to me and it’s more than I could have hoped for or anticipated.

A sincere thank you to everyone who has taken the trouble to listen.

The emails, messages and conversations mentioned above have almost all mentioned ‘Cornelian’ as being the quiet heart of ‘Afal’. That was very much the case for me, too. I don’t know what the song is about specifically. It’s a sadness and an empathy, a hand in the darkness… something like that.

The title song is accompanied by a B-side exclusive to this release. ‘Amethyst’ is musically inspired by Fleetwood Mac’s founder and original genius, Peter Green. He’s the most lyrical and evocative guitarist of his era, to my ears and heart. The instrumental in the middle of the song is very much a tribute to Green. I hope he’s listening somewhere and nodding with approval.

The single release also features two new impressionistic instrumental sketches.

These snapshots were intended to bring a variety of moods and textures to the album, outside of the more traditional folkish acoustic timbres of the songs themselves.

I will be releasing an album of previously unused instrumentals in due course. 

Thank you for listening / diolch am wrando.

The single is available now via all the usual streaming / download outlets.

Vinyl copies of ‘Afal’ are available as a limited edition black vinyl LP (300 copies) from bandcamp.
https://theimmediate.bandcamp.com/album/afal

All songs ©2022 written by Adam Walton (Copyright Control) 

Recorded and produced by me at home.

Artwork by the very wonderful Jon Mlynarski / SafariArt
http://instagram.com/jon__safari

Live Dates
09.07.22 B-Fest, Caerwys 
17.07.22 Orange Aid, Llandudno
23.07.22 Llangollen Fringe, Gale’s Marquee
07.08.22 Storyhouse Outdoors, Grosvenor Park, Chester
28.08.22 Loud & Local Festival, Alexander’s, Chester
03.09.22 Well Inn Music Festival, Holywell
14.10.22 Cwrw, Carmarthen
28.10.22 Cwtch Festival, St David’s Pembrokeshire

For bookings, please mail: mradamwalton@googlemail.com

2 - Adam Walton - Cornelian

prelude

villancico

julia florida

eddies

early summer evening chorus

adagio for waverley

amethyst

aventurine

twenty six

opalite

looms

robert

parish

circlewalking

gwahoddiad

agate

Exploring textures, simplicity, noise and repetition without using looper pedals.

Aspiring towards hypnotic and meditative.

This is a follow-up to the Looms album from a couple of years ago.

Equipment used: Eastman T486; Roland JC20; SM57 mic; Chase Bliss: CXM 1978, Dark World, Tonal Recall RKM; Boss: RV-6; JHS: Pulp ’n’ Peel.

buy on bandcamp

Adam Walton - Corona Borealis

For my dad, Graham, who's been gone too long, and for anyone missing their dad today, or any day.

Dad took us all to Italy in 1977. He borrowed John Selby's Maxi and we drove from Nannerch to Lucca. It took three or four days: three or four days of a leaky tent; little bro Danbles demanding fish 'n' chips from bemused French, Swiss and Italian waiters; me completely refusing to go to the toilet. 

It was the most exciting holiday I've ever been on. Sometimes the smell of the Tuscan hillsides comes back to me, or the feeling of absolute contentment reading my dinosaur book by candlelight in our rickety, leaking villa.

And there were scorpions and lizards... SCORPIONS AND LIZARDS!!

Love you and miss you dad.

There is a new album coming soon. This isn't on it.

Thanks for listening.

Written and played by Adam Walton
Drums by Rachel Williams (Peaness)  https://www.facebook.com/rachelwilliamsdrummer
Produced by Adam Walton & Russ Hayes
Recorded at Orange Sound Studios, Penmaenmawr by Russ Hayes.
Field recording courtesy of Eliseo Di Malto & Roberta Musillami
Artwork by Adam Walton

Adam Walton - On a Hillside (With The Fireflies)

THE IMMEDIATE
‘Not Shabby’ - free download single
released Thursday, 11th. May 2017
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=K_qEoLLaLZM
—

“… a great tune, great playing, wild spiky guitar, odd lyrics, a light sprinkling of anarchic menace and the perfect pop radio length.” Tom Robinson, BBC6Music
—

Adam Walton (guitar & vocals) / Richard Harrison (bass & vocals) / Duncan Farmer (drums & vocals)

We are The Immediate, a three-piece band from Mold in north Wales. We reconvened after a long hiatus last year, and have subsequently released two EP’s that received airplay and support from Tom Robinson on BBC 6Music, BBC Introducing, and from a host of excellent independent radio shows and blogs (Sweeping The Nation, The Breakdown, Music Is My Radar).

We release our new single, ‘Not Shabby’, on 11th May 2017 as a free download from our bandcamp page: http://theimmediate.bandcamp.com  

‘Not Shabby’ is the lead track from our debut album Manbuoy (released on 16th June 2017). The single also features a b-side exclusive to this release: ‘Suffer In Silence’.

‘Not Shabby’ is an uplifting burst of guitar pop, catalysed by experience of coming out the other side of a depressive illness. Musically, our reference points were the opening tracks on The Beatles’ untouchable mid-60’s albums - Rubber Soul and Revolver - with the proviso that we were determined ‘Not Shabby’ would not sound like a song inspired by The Beatles. No Mellotrons were harmed during the recording of this single.

However another trope of The Beatles’ mid-60’s recordings - the backwards guitar - is very much apparent on the b-side, ‘Suffer In Silence’. The original technique for recording backwards guitars was to flip the tape over on the studio’s tape machine, and to have the guitarist record a part playing along to a backwards version of the backing track. When the tape is then flipped back over, the recorded guitars are reversed and take on an otherworldly sound, like violas strung with LSD. 

There were no tape machines in the studio we used to record these songs, so we had to improvise with digital technology. Hopefully to interesting effect.

‘Not Shabby’ c/w ‘Suffer In Silence’ were recorded at Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr, North Wales by Russ Hayes, who has worked on recordings by Peaness, Campfire Social, Kidsmoke, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Billy Bibby and the Wry Smiles.

The single sleeve was designed by Paul Maurice (ex-Gallops) from Wrexham. It’s a detail of the iconic lighthouse at Talacre beach, on the northeast Wales coast.

Not Shabby tracklisting (r/d 11th May 2017):
1.	Not Shabby
2.	Suffer In Silence


GIGS
Thursday, 11th. May		Focus Wales, Wrexham (Undegun, 9:45pm)
Saturday, 26th. May		Cwmafan Festival, Port Talbot
Friday, 2nd. June		Neuadd Ogwen, Bethesda
Friday, 16th. June		Telford’s Warehouse, Chester (album release show)


If you have any further enquiries, please contact:
theimmediateband@gmail.com

http://theimmediate.co.uk
http://theimmediate.bandcamp.com
http://facebook.com/theimmediate 
http://twitter.com/the_immediate 

There is a YouTube video telling the story of the band so far, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtERsE3ihDg

Thank you for listening,

Adam, Duncan and Richard.

Not Shabby [single]

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Suffer In Silence

THE IMMEDIATE
‘Not Shabby’ - free download single
released Thursday, 11th. May 2017

—

“… a great tune, great playing, wild spiky guitar, odd lyrics, a light sprinkling of anarchic menace and the perfect pop radio length.” Tom Robinson, BBC6Music
—

Adam Walton (guitar & vocals) / Richard Harrison (bass & vocals) / Duncan Farmer (drums & vocals)

We are The Immediate, a three-piece band from Mold in north Wales. We reconvened after a long hiatus last year, and have subsequently released two EP’s featuring songs that received airplay and support from Tom Robinson on BBC 6Music, BBC Introducing, and from a host of excellent independent radio shows and blogs (Sweeping The Nation, The Breakdown, Music Is My Radar).

We release our new single, ‘Not Shabby’, on Thursday 11th May 2017 as a free download from our bandcamp page: http://theimmediate.bandcamp.com  

‘Not Shabby’ is the lead track from our debut album Manbuoy (released on 16th June 2017). The single also features a b-side exclusive to this release: ‘Suffer In Silence’.

‘Not Shabby’ is an uplifting burst of guitar pop, catalysed by experience of coming out the other side of a depressive illness. Musically, our reference points were the opening tracks on The Beatles’ untouchable mid-60’s albums - Rubber Soul and Revolver - with the proviso that we were determined ‘Not Shabby’ would not sound like a song inspired by The Beatles. No Mellotrons were harmed during the recording of this single.

However another trope of The Beatles’ mid-60’s recordings - the backwards guitar - is very much apparent on the b-side, ‘Suffer In Silence’. The original technique for recording backwards guitars was to flip the tape over on the studio’s tape machine, and to have the guitarist record a part playing along to a backwards version of the backing track. When the tape is then flipped back over, the recorded guitars are reversed and take on an otherworldly sound, like violas strung with LSD. 

There were no tape machines in the studio we used to record these songs, so we had to improvise with digital technology. Hopefully to interesting effect.

‘Not Shabby’ c/w ‘Suffer In Silence’ were recorded at Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr, North Wales by Russ Hayes, who has worked on recordings by Peaness, Campfire Social, Kidsmoke, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Billy Bibby and the Wry Smiles.

The single sleeve was designed by Paul Maurice (ex-Gallops) from Wrexham. It’s a detail of the iconic lighthouse at Talacre beach, on the northeast Wales coast.

Not Shabby tracklisting (r/d 11th May 2017):
1.	Not Shabby
2.	Suffer In Silence


GIGS
Thursday, 11th. May		Focus Wales, Wrexham (Undegun, 9:40pm)
Saturday, 26th. May		Cwmafan Festival, Port Talbot
Friday, 2nd. June		Neuadd Ogwen, Bethesda
Friday, 16th. June		Telford’s Warehouse, Chester (album release show)

Not Shabby

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The Immediate - Not Shabby [release date: 11/5/17]

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‘With The Fireflies’ single
OUT NOW

“… I just think this is absolutely beautiful.” (referring to With The Fireflies)
Janice Long, BBC Radio Wales

  “… a great tune, great playing, wild spiky guitar, odd lyrics, a light sprinkling of anarchic menace and the perfect pop radio length.”
Tom Robinson, BBC6Music (referring to What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?)

“The Immediate could conceivably be the Welsh REM.”
Louder Than War, 8/10 (review for Manbuoy)

For fans of: Teenage Fanclub, James Taylor, Neil Young.

We are The Immediate, a three-piece band from Mold in north Wales. We have released a critically acclaimed album, two EP’s and a single, receiving airplay and support from Tom Robinson on BBC 6Music, Janice Long, BBC Introducing, Chris Needs on BBC Radio Wales and from a host of excellent independent radio shows and blogs (Louder Than War, Sweeping The Nation, The Breakdown, Music Is My Radar, Neil Crud).

Our new single, ‘With The Fireflies’, is OUT NOW as a download (bandcamp / iTunes) / and to stream via Spotify etc. 

‘With The Fireflies’ is a brand new song written as a tribute of my (Adam’s) dad, who died in July, and had been hugely supportive of the band, regardless of our limitations and despite some of the questionable decisions we made. He was aghast, for example, that we cut short a paid residency that we had in Saint Tropez in the early 90’s; he just couldn’t comprehend why we’d give up the sun and money to return to a life on the dole, in drizzly, grey Mold, and he was -of course- absolutely right.

‘With The Fireflies’ is not intended to be mawkish or exploitative. My dad encouraged us, and instilled his passion for music into me, and ‘With The Fireflies’ is a musical echo of many of those artists that I grew up listening to: Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, particularly.

The song details a memory from an ad hoc family holiday to Tuscany when I was young. This wasn’t quite the supremely comfortable, middle class holiday experience that Tuscany usually evokes: there was a harem scarem drive across Europe in a borrowed Maxi; nights in windblown tents, and - of course - fireflies.
 We have just played their final gig of 2017 and will spend the end of the year writing for, and recording, our next EP, due for release early in 2018.
	
If you have any further enquiries, please contact:
theimmediateband@gmail.com
http://theimmediate.co.uk

With The Fireflies

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The Immediate - With The Fireflies

I’m Adam Walton. I grew up in Mold in north Wales. I’ve been obsessed with making music since I heard a schoolmate, Graham Devine, playing classical guitar at a Welsh language training camp when I was 11. Graham is now a world-renowned classical guitarist, whereas I talk too much while celebrating other people’s music on the radio (BBC Introducing in Wales).

The band I sing and play guitar for - The Immediate - reformed after a long hiatus in 2016, and have since released two albums that earned airplay on various stations worldwide, including 6Music and BBC Radio Wales. We've played some great gigs with the likes of The Darling Buds, The Blockheads, Kidsmoke and Campfire Social, but not nearly enough gigs because Big Important Life (my bandmates' families and their proper, demanding jobs) make rehearsal and travel difficult. 

The problem with twiddling my thumbs and fingers at home, however, is that songs fall out. Lots of songs. And some of those songs have grown into this album.

Love, Death & In Between, then, has been shaped by my wanting to do something regardless of who else is available: a have-guitar, will-travel philosophy, with a set of songs written specifically to be played solo.

I re-read Viv Albertine’s brilliant memoir, Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys, over the summer. It’s such a motivational story, uncompromisingly and brilliantly told. Viv’s commitment to re-learning the guitar and writing songs, and her determination in taking those songs out to open mic nights, away from home and out of her comfort zone, is particularly inspirational.

That's my plan, then, for this set of songs: a cheery selection inspired by grief and despair, and finding joy in the rain, or in music, or in the arms of the person you love while the world goes to pot outside.

The approach for Love, Death & In Between was really simple: one man, one guitar, one voice, no overdubs, and recorded at home, in mono. Not as Luddite affectations, but because I wanted to keep it as simple and direct as possible.

I hope you like these songs. I’m too old and grumpy to pretend otherwise, and I want to take them out of the house as often as possible, away from clearing up continuously after my kamikaze kittens.

Thank you for your time.    
The album is available on CD from bandcamp:

https://theimmediate.bandcamp.com/album/love-death-in-between

There will be a limited edition 7” single in January 2020, featuring 'When I Hear Dylan' and 'Forever Again', an exclusive AA-side that isn't available on the album.

Hopefully for fans of: Teenage Fanclub, Bob Dylan, Stella Donnelly, Billy Bragg, The Go-Betweens, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon and Husker Du.

Love, Death & In Between

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Carpe Diem

From an album that I'm releasing tomorrow (31st May 2020).

https://theimmediate.bandcamp.com/album/citalopramadingdong

Hobbyhorse home instrumentals, recorded to stave off the lockdown heebie jeebies. 

Envisaged as a solo headphones experience. May harm smart speakers and / or young children. 

Wanted to record something which sounded like a discarded compilation tape that's warped a bit on someone's car seat, and been retrieved from a gutter in Flint. Something imprecise but also nicely played. 

Have no real history or deep knowledge of electronic music, so this is my organic take on things. 

Inspired by Twisted Nerve, Soundhog, Soft-Hearted Scientists and fairy lights. 

featuring 1 x Teenage Engineering OP-1 / 1 x Alvarez Artist 60 Series Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar / 1 x Fender Stratocaster (Mexican) / 1 x cedar Alhambra 9P Classical Guitar / 1 x Vox AC15 amplifier / 1 x Chase Bliss Mood / 1 x Chase Bliss Blooper / 1 x Chase Bliss Warped Vinyl / 1 x Boss RV-6 / 1 x Electro Harmonix Pitchfork / 1 x Sony PCM-D50 handheld recorder / 1 x Technics SL120-mk2 / 1 x hungry gobshite male kitten (Marmite) / 1 x sE Electronics sE7 condenser microphone / 1 x copy of GarageBand / 1 x copy of Audacity + a handful of records off the shelves. 

Spoken word vocals on 'Iawn' courtesy of Elin Angharad & Theston Jones.
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releases May 31, 2020 

Written, played & recorded by Adam Walton.

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The Immediate are a three-piece indie, power pop band from Mold in north Wales.

We release our Mold EP on Friday 3rd March 2017. The EP will be available to buy on limited edition CD and digitally via bandcamp / iTunes etc.

Mold features 4 brand new recordings, 3 of which are exclusive to the EP.

Lead track, What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?, is a song about some of the kids we went to the Alun School with, who weren’t as fortunate as us and didn’t make it into their 30’s. 

Light Dimensions is the first song we wrote when we reconvened after a long hiatus.

Manbuoy is the title track of our forthcoming debut album, however it does not feature on the album itself. It’s a mostly spoken-word piece that exaggerates all of its writer’s worst qualities.

Mold was recorded at Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr, North Wales by Russ Hayes, who has worked on recordings by Peaness, Campfire Social, Kidsmoke, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Billy Bibby and the Wry Smiles.

The sleeve design was done by Paul Maurice from Wrexham. It’s a detail of Shire Hall, the brutalist former seat of Flintshire County Council that sits on a hill, above Mold town centre.

The Mold EP will be launched at a hometown gig at Theatr Clwyd, Mold on Friday, 3rd. March. We’ll be joined by our friends Campfire Social and Skellums. Tickets are £7 and available here:

https://www.theatrclwyd.com/en/whats-on/headliner-rock-night/

Mold EP tracklisting (r/d 3rd March 2017):

1.	What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?
2.	Light Dimensions
3.	Tremble
4.	Manbuoy

If you have any further enquiries, please contact:

theimmediateband@gmail.com

http://facebook.com/theimmediate
http://twitter.com/the_immediate

There is a YouTube video telling the story of the band so far, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtERsE3ihDg

We originally split in 1997 due to frustration, an argument over a mouth organ and the success of Stereophonics.

We released one single (unaccountably popular in Sweden), made every conceivable mistake in the How To Be A Successful Indie Band handbook, toured with some excellent bands (Mansun, 60ft Dolls, Dodgy) and flickered out, leaving behind the memory of some great gigs, a few fine songs, and little else.

In March 2016, we reconvened to repair friendships and renew tinnitus. New songs came much more easily than the old ones, probably because we are playing to please only ourselves - with no thoughts of success or acclaim - for the first time in our existence.

There is more truth and resonance in our songs now than ever before. And power. And invention. We write songs about hope and love in the face of the moribund, daily grind. 

You will possibly hear fragments and echoes of the following artists in our sound (The Jam, Wire, XTC, Pixies, Badfinger, REM, Dr Feelgood, Small Faces, Husker Du, The Who, Ride, Big Star, The Cure, Joy Formidable, The Go-Betweens, Teenage Fanclub), but nothing has been plagiarised or misappropriated to mask a deficiency of our own ideas.

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