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Mold Box Set - Wide Misses and Purple Flashes '93-'23

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A high quality ltd edition cassette copy of 'Mold Box Set' in an environmentally friendly O-Card case (not shrink-wrapped). No unnecessary plastic. 50 copies available.

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1.	Praying For Sunshine (1993 Gwydir Castle Demo) 03:26	buy track
2.	Not Shabby 02:45	buy track
3.	Stay Young 03:19	buy track
4.	Shadows and Ghosts 05:26	buy track
5.	Pockets 02:36	buy track
6.	Blue 04:15	buy track
7.	'Til Darkness Dies 03:05	buy track
8.	On Snail Patrol Again 03:55	buy track
9.	What's the Matter Kevin Jones? 03:01	buy track
10.	The Dreamers 05:53	buy track
11.	Unrequited 01:26	buy track
12.	By Now Things Should Have Changed 04:59	buy track
13.	Sever 03:11	buy track
14.	Divide 02:43	buy track
15.	The Boy Who Tried to Change the World (BBC Session) 04:04	buy track
16.	Karen Carpenter 03:55	buy track
17.	Hot Mercury 02:52	buy track
18.	Don't Give Up 04:25	buy track
19.	No Heaven 04:08	buy track
20.	Yoko 03:09	buy track
21.	Seagull 06:14	buy track

about

The Immediate are a mod-ish, guitar-fuelled, power pop three-piece from Mold in North Wales.

To celebrate 30 years since our first release as The Immediate, I have compiled a C90’s worth of our best moments. ‘Mold Box Set - Wide Misses and Purple Flashes’ features highlights from our earliest years as well as recordings from our more recent albums, 2017’s ‘Manbuoy’ and 2018’s ‘More Sheep Than Humans’.

The compilation is available as a limited edition cassette (in the tradition of our original ‘The Boy Who Tried To Change The World’ tape from 1993) on bandcamp, and as a digital download / stream from all of the usual platforms.

Our songs have been played on 6Music, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio Wales and on a number of other excellent radio stations and programmes around the world.

I feel a need to provide you with compelling reasons as to why you should listen to these recordings, the back catalogue of a band who unintentionally evaded every zeitgeist like pre-topknot Gareth Bale evaded the Milan defence. By the time Britpop slid in, we’d already been ripping off Waterloo Sunset for half a decade.

We were always more in thrall to The Real People than we were to Oasis. We supported Stereophonics the night they were signed to V2 Records, and did nothing to stop it. We played Mansun’s debut album launch party at the Stakis Casino on the Isle of Man, confusing the gathered crowd who asked why we hadn’t played Wide Open Space as we shuffled off stage.

We never made it to Camden, but we were massive in Crewe. For one spring / summer in St Tropez we were almost proper pop stars: not bad for dole kids from Mold, north Wales.

There are reasons for our lack of success; so many near miss / one-that-got-away stories, but they’re stories for another time. This is a collection of our tunes, and - if we had anything right - it was our tunes. Unironic, heart-on-sleeve, power pop anthems wrought from our love of All Mod Cons, The Who Sell Out and Ride’s first two albums.

If you love The Who / Husker Du / The Jam / Badfinger / XTC / 60ft Dolls / Teenage Fanclub / Ride there will be music here you will like, and hopefully love.

The story stretches from our first UK release in 1993 to our most recent recordings, last year. The fact that it all sounds like the same band - whether it’s the pre-Suede nocturnal psychodrama of 1993’s ‘Praying For Sunshine’ or the fierce, tight, tuney thunder of last year’s ‘Divide’ - is a matter of some pride to us.

We never sold out, probably because no one was buying, but the fact remains.

Enjoy.

Adam Walton, Feb '23

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released February 19, 2023

Duncan Farmer - drums & vocals
Richard Harrison - bass & vocals
Adam Walton - guitars, keys & vocals

All songs written by Adam Walton (Copyright Control) / arranged by The Immediate

Artwork by Jon Mlynarski / Safari Art

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Adam Walton Mold, UK

My name is Adam Walton. I’m from Mold in north Wales.

I love slightly off kilter chord sequences & melodies that weave and glow. If the melodies weave and glow for you, I’ll be a happy-ish man.

There are scraps of Emitt Rhodes, Beck, De La Soul, Elliott Smith, Love, Teenage Fanclub, Modern Life Is Rubbish-era Blur, Richard Holland’s compilation tapes… The Zombies, Pink Floyd & The Boo Radleys. ... more

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