Iron Horse / Born To Lose / Thursday's Child

This is a Record Store Day 2017 item. It will be available to purchase from our stores from 8am 22nd April. Remaining stock will be available to purchase from this page at 00.01 29th April.

500 copies on translucent blue vinyl with green splatters. Adam Franklin (Swervedriver) covers Bowie and Lemmy. "When Lemmy and Bowie passed away within two weeks of each other at the end of 2015 / start of 2016, I realised I had two unfinished cover versions of songs by each lurking on my laptop and decided to pull them up and finish them off in one session. The two songs are from hugely different eras - Iron Horse / Born To Lose is a very early Motorhead song first appearing in 1977 while Bowie's Thursday's Child was released as a single in 1999 but there's a vulnerability in them both which links them together and although these two interpretations sound nothing like the originals they do somewhat sound like each other. There's late 70s / early 80s technology going on here with Wasp Synth and 808 Drum Machine sounds as well as my trusty old Crumar Nu Performer and after sprinkling stuttering delayed electric guitars over both tracks in one continuous overdub, I'd like to think that what comes out of the speakers might sound a bit like some alternative version of the late 70s, like the Scarfolk Council vision of the dystopian future - sadly a lot less scary now that the actual dystopian future seems like it may finally have arrived in 2017.