SWERVEDRIVER 'Raise: Demos' LP

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Limited edition Red vinyl + Film Strip via Outer Battery Records.

London, the affordable years. Circa Autumn/ Winter 1990-91. In the no man’s land between the arse end of Camden Town and the red light end of King’s Cross, sits St Pauls Crescent. Located in the shadow of the Maiden Lane estate, where the high walls of the whitewashed concrete housing units cast a menacing Clockwork Orange vibe over the area, the street is short and terminates in a dead end. Number 44 turns out to not be a Georgian townhouse, common to the area, but a small industrial yard set back from the road. At the rear is Playground Studios. Housed in a former car repair workshop, the building is a single storey, breezeblock construction. The rear borders a footpath overlooking the electrical umbilicals and parallel steel of the London Overground railway tracks, while at the front, the potholes and ruts of a short driveway are filled with dirty rainwater, that does nothing to brighten the reflection of the overcast skies.

Entry is via a set of battered double doors and finds you in a concrete corridor, flanked on both sides with wire mesh storage cages, where overhead strip lights cast their fluorescent wash over the stacked musical belongings of nascent and semi-successful bands, waiting patiently for the recall to action. At the end of the corridor is the studio office, small and functional with a couple of...  more
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releases October 23, 2026

Adam Franklin - guitars left channel & vocals
Jimmy Hartridge - guitars right channel
Adi Vines - bass
Graham Bonnar - drums & percussion

Recorded at Playground Studios, Camden Town 1991
Digitised by Adam Franklin & Tim Turan
Produced by John Catlin
Mastered by Tim Turan at Turan Audio
Sleevenotes by Adi Vines

Cover painting by Robin Lee
Photography by Douglas Hart
Band photo by Martyn Goodacre