Rambling
written by Cosmo BoY and Mathew Samuel
produced by Cosmo BoY and Matt Thirlwell
mixed by Matt Thirlwell

Rambling

Pan Ddaw'r Nos

Elbow Grease is taken from the forthcoming Secluded Bronte album Incidental Games. 

Secluded Bronte - Richard Thomas, Adam Bohman, Jonathan Bohman - formed in London and launched in New York City in 2002. The trio have been likened to This Heat, Wire, The Specials, Talk Talk, The Residents, The Fall, John Cage and Sun Ra, but this doesn’t really touch the sides, Secluded Bronte are unclassifiable.

Since 2020 Secluded Bronte have released six albums on the Ffordd Allan label, an album on Cafe Oto’s Takuroku label, a 7” EP on Felix Kubin’s Apolkalypso label, contributed to several compilation albums and toured extensively throughout Europe and the UK. A new album, Incidental Games, is imminent in late 2024.

PRESS
“What is this? The pop group we always wanted.” - Jennifer Lucy-Allan, The Quietus/BBC Radio 3, October 2023.

"People who hate my stand-up often deny it even constitutes ‘comedy’. Doubtless many would wonder if the work of the veteran improvisatory trio Secluded Bronte should be considered ‘music’. Instruments may be involved, perhaps furniture, maybe even words, or all three in a chance collision of calculated heterogeneity.  All that is certain – time will pass, and something will happen. Start your day in a right state.” - Stewart Lee, Brighton Psych Fest publicity blurb, June 2024.

“Metronomic electrical pulses are made beautiful by multiple layering into complex rhythms with melodic pitch changes, accompanied by spoken words as if walking through a hall of mirrors or a scene from Alain Resnais’s Last Year in Marienbad.” - Jo Hutton, The Wire Magazine, December 2022.

RECORDINGS
https://fforddallan.bandcamp.com

VIDEO
youtu.be/IRaf9rhmybw
youtu.be/_zpg5E-72Gc

DISCOGRAPHY 2020 – 2023
The Horns of Andromeda - re-issue (Ffordd Allan)
Live at Acid Horse (Ffordd Allan)
Live at Supernormal (Ffordd Allan)
Live in Zurich (Ffordd Allan)
Queens (Ffordd Allan)
For Entertainment Everyone Dies (Apolkalypso)
The Horns of Andromeda (Takuroku)
Magnetic Crochet (Ffordd Allan)

LIVE: SELECTED CONCERTS

Rough Trade East, London, Sónar Festival, Barcelona, Das Institut, Zurich, Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels, OCCII, Amsterdam, Cave 12, Geneva, Instants Chavirés, Paris, Papiripar Festival, Hamburg, Blow Out, Oslo, Supernormal Festival, Oxfordshire, Queens University, Belfast, Wysing Festival,
Oxfordshire, Gerlesborg School, Sweden, WORM, Rotterdam, The Knitting
Factory, New York, Le-non Jazz, Paris, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Prestatyn,
Cafe Oto, London, Wharf Chambers, Leeds, The Cube, Bristol, Close-Up Cinema, London, Musik Aktuelles Festival, Bremen, Kongsberg International Jazz Festival, Kongsberg, Eastville Project Space, Yeovil, Klang Tone Records, Stroud, Audiograft, Oxford, Rammel Club, Nottingham, Le 102, Grenoble, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, FON, Barrow-in-Furness, Fuel, Manchester, Acid Horse festival, Wiltshire, LCB Depot, Leicester, Shift, Cardiff.

RADIO
Secluded Bronte have recorded sessions for BBC Radio 3, WFMU, Radio Worm, Concertzender, Resonance FM. Their music has been played on broadcast channels throughout the EU and North America.

Incidental Games

Secluded Bronte - Elbow Grease

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)

Haunted

Adam Walton ‘Afal’ single release
Friday 26th September 2025
Whipcord Records

‘Afal’ is a brand new recording from north Wales songwriter Adam Walton.

‘Afal’ embraces the melancholy and colours of Autumn. It’s a flashback to annual late September foraging behind The Sportsmans Arms on the Denbigh Moors (Mynydd Hiraethog) when I was a teenager, lying on our backs and falling into the sky.

I broke down up there once, in the late 90’s or early 00’s, on the way to a Gruff Rhys gig. No signal on my clamshell mobile phone. I walked to the only habitation I could see… an isolated cottage defying the heather, to call the AA as night fell hard.

The skies up there are bigger and darker than most places, and while I waited for the AA van to arrive, orbs of light span and wheeled above me… eerie and beautiful.

I’ve never know what they were. 

This single has no connection to my previous album of the same name.

‘Afal’ is the Welsh word for ‘apple’. I munched through 12 of them recording the rhythm track. A doff of the cap to McCartney’s contribution to The Beach Boys’ ‘Vegetables’. I haven’t been able to eat another apple since.

‘Afal’ is on my new album ‘Burmo’ which I’m releasing on the 14th November on Whipcord Records.

‘The Silent Strings’ isn’t on the album. It’s a standalone b-side because I love standalone b-sides.

‘Afal’ - written, played and recorded by Adam Walton (published by Copyright Control).

‘The Silent Strings’ - written and played by Adam Walton (published by Copyright Control). Recorded by Russ Hayes at Orange Sound Studios, Penmaenmawr.

Afal

The Silent Strings

This is the title recording from my upcoming album, due to be released on 14th November 2025.

Much more info coming later this week. But this is a special preview for those of you following on Soundcloud.

Thank you for listening / diolch am wrando x

Burmo (single)

Meaning of the song: I grew up in care, my last foster placement was like home. The woman was like my mum and my bestfriend in one. I let her in and got too attached just to push her away before she chose to leave. Life has been so hard without her and I've felt so lost because she was my go to person especially when I was struggling. I wish I never had to say goodbye

Falling apart without you - Chlo Louise

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

Buy On Bandcamp

The Immediate - With The Fireflies

[For enquiries about my BBC Radio Wales music show, please email my BBC email address... you can easily guess it. Music submissions for the show should be sent via the BBC Introducing Uploader (please). I can't guarantee that I'll see messages sent via Soundcloud - thank you.]

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.

The Immediate - With The Fireflies

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