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What we’re up to in 2012
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
For the past year Swimmer One have been working on an exciting project with theatre director Cora Bissett and playwright David Greig. The results will be unveiled in July of 2012. There will be a live show featuring lots of interesting people, and the first new music from Swimmer One since 2010’s Dead Orchestras album. There will be an announcement soon - watch this space.
In the meantime, the second Seafieldroad album is now on sale on Biphonic Records. Click on the link above to watch the beautiful short film that Quintana Films made for the album’s opening song Cramond Island Causeway.
There will be Seafieldroad live dates in 2012. For updates, follow Seafieldroad on Facebook.
New Seafieldroad single online now
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
As of today, you can download two FREE tracks from the second Seafieldroad album at Seafieldroad’s Bandcamp page. The tracks - the album’s opening song, Cramond Island Causeway, plus a cover of Walking on a Dream by Empire of the Sun - will be available to download for free until the album’s release date, Monday 21 November.
Andrew will launch the album with a rare live gig at the Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh on Sunday 20 November. Advance tickets are on sale now and can be booked online here.
For those who don’t know, Seafieldroad is a side project by Andrew from Swimmer One. The new album is the follow up to Seafieldroad’s debut, There Are No Maps For This Part Of The City, which was released in November 2010, was produced by Hamish from Swimmer One, and included several songs co-written by Laura from Swimmer One, who also sang on the album. You can read reviews here and buy it online here.
Edinburgh Fringe news
Monday, June 13, 2011
For this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Laura is curating a programme called (g)Host City. Edinburgh’s first virtual festival, (g)Host City consists of downloadable performances, all designed to be listened to in particular places around Edinburgh, and created by talented people including Momus, Alan Bissett, Kirstin Innes, Jim Colquhoun, Kieran Hurley, Jenny Lindsay, Jenna Watt, Hannah McGill and Christopher Collier.
The full programme will be online from 1 August - visit www.virtualfestival.org. You might find yourself recognising some of the incidental music.
Seafieldroad - new album, EP and live show (20 November 2011, tickets on sale now)
Sunday, June 05, 2011
A quick newsflash. The second Seafieldroad album will be released on Monday 21 November 2011 on Biphonic Records.
Andrew will launch the album with a rare live gig at the Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh on Sunday 20 November. Advance tickets are on sale now and can be booked online here.
For those who don’t know, Seafieldroad is a side project by Andrew from Swimmer One. The new album is the follow up to Seafieldroad’s debut, There Are No Maps For This Part Of The City, which was released in November 2010, was produced by Hamish from Swimmer One, and included several songs co-written by Laura from Swimmer One, who also sang on the album. You can read reviews here and buy it online here.
An EP will be released before the album. Watch this space for further details.
Andrew and Laura are married
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Happy news from the world of Swimmer One. Andrew and Laura were married on Saturday 14 May, 2011, in a Humanist ceremony on Portobello Beach. Hamish was Andrew’s best man. Despite the weather forecast predicting thunderstorms, the sun came out, as you can see from this photo. It was a beautiful day.
What we’re up to in 2011
Monday, February 07, 2011
For the latest updates, follow us on Facebook. Meanwhile, here’s a summary of what we’re working on at the moment….
A LIVE SHOW
Swimmer One have teamed up with Cora Bissett (pictured above), David Greig, digitial media artist Kim Beveridge and the Arches in Glasgow to make a large-scale live performance that’s part theatre show, part gig, and features collaborations between bands and theatre writers from across Scotland. The project just won a Vital Spark award from Creative Scotland, and should hopefully come to fruition early next year. We’re very excited to be working with all these people, particularly Cora - who we’ve known for many years, and who sang on two early Swimmer One recordings (which you can listen to here).
A SECOND SEAFIELDROAD ALBUM
If you liked Seafieldroad’s first album, There Are No Maps For This Part Of The City, you’ll be glad to know that a second album is already recorded and will be released later this year on Biphonic Records. Meanwhile, Andrew continues to post a free song every Friday at his music blog, Might Make A B Side. For more regular updates, visit Seafieldroad’s Facebook page.
OTHER STUFF
We’re also working on more remixes and theatre projects. More info as it comes in…
A Christmas gift from Swimmer One - four free songs
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Today we’re offering a Christmas present to all our listeners - a FREE download of an early, unreleased Swimmer One EP, available now on our Bandcamp site.
These four rarely heard songs were the fruits of our first ever visit to a recording studio, back in 2001. One of the songs, How Could Something Like That Be Love, was rerecorded for our second single two years later. Another song, Here, was later reworked (with a completely different tune but part of the same lyric) as Regional, on our first album. The other two, World Tat and Throwing ideas In The Air Like Buquets, have never been heard anywhere since.
You can download the EP here. Happy Christmas.
Ashton Kutcher in Swimmer One video
Friday, December 03, 2010
As much as we enjoyed having one of our songs feature in a high profile movie last year - Spread, directed by David Mackenzie and starring Ashton Kutcher, now out on DVD - it was always slightly frustrating that the song faded out before the best bit.
Well, not any more. Someone (not us) has re-edited the scene, added in other footage from the film, and made what is in effect a Swimmer One promo video starring Ashton Kutcher.
This is, we’re guessing, not an ‘official’ video (if it was, we’d be in it, throwing rock star shapes in some glamorous sun-kissed LA location, ideally the hilltop house where Ashton does most of his shagging in the film). It may, therefore, get removed from YouTube at some point, so enjoy it while you can.
Seafieldroad album ON SALE NOW
Monday, November 29, 2010
There Are No Maps For This Part Of The City, the debut album by Seafieldroad, is available to buy from today. It’s a download only release for the moment, but if there’s enough demand we’ll think about putting out a physical release in the new year.
The album is available via the Swimmer One online shop, the Biphonic Records online shop, or direct from Seafieldroad on Bandcamp.
For anyone who doesn’t know already, Seafieldroad is the ‘solo’ guise of Andrew from Swimmer One. But it’s been a group effort - the album was produced by Hamish from Swimmer One, while Laura from Swimmer One co-wrote several songs and sang backing vocals. You can read reviews of the album here.
Seafieldroad album launch, Edinburgh, Saturday 27 November
Sunday, November 14, 2010
The Seafieldroad album is released on Monday 29 November. Andrew will launch the album on Saturday 27 November with an early evening live set at Technicolour in Edinburgh. Technicolour is a new boutique shop run by artists Joanne Richardson, Magda Boreysza and Jenny Sweetnam. Technicolour is at 2 Bruntsfield Place, a short walk up Leven Street from the King’s Theatre.
The evening will mark the shop’s official opening, so instead of selling CDs Andrew will be encouraging you to buy some of the beautiful things Joanne, Magda and Jenny make. If you want to buy the album, you can do it online very shortly here. In the meantime, visit Seafieldroad’s Bandcamp page to download two songs from the album for free.
The event will start around 6pm. Our good friend Benofficial is playing too.
Thanks to Neil Thomas Douglas for the photo above.
