Had to comment again, the guitar work in this is really something else. X

Beautifully fitting tribute Adam, Also shows what a superb guitarist you are.

THE IMMEDIATE
‘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

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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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