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Swimmer One
Pop / Experimental / Other

"Look out from Whithorn, at the wild, wild sea"

Edinburgh,
United Kingdom

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Last Login:  7/25/2008
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   Swimmer One: General Info
Member Since12/13/2005
Band Websiteswimmerone.co.uk
Band MembersIn the studio: Andrew Eaton and Hamish Brown. On stage: Andrew, Hamish and Laura Cameron Lewis.
InfluencesPulp, Sparks, Laurie Anderson, Steve Reich, Kate Bush, The Associates, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Pet Shop Boys, Kraftwerk, Blondie, Prefab Sprout, ROC, Saint Etienne, Jane Siberry, Orange Juice, the Blue Nile, Bjork, the Cure, New Order (but only a bit, so please stop saying we sound like them, because we really don't), Cocteau Twins, the Smiths, Suicide, Throbbing Gristle, Boards of Canada, Talking Heads, Soft Cell, Brian Eno, To Rococo Rot, Delia Derbyshire, OMD, Belle and Sebastian, Mark Eitzel, Kitchens of Distinction/Fruit, Stereolab. Other people like that. Many, many nights in dark, loud places. Various wild parts of Scotland. The sea. Worrying about the state of the world too much. Not wanting to be bored. Random stuff. (The noises that trains make. Shortwave radio. David Greig plays. Mondrian paintings. Peter Carey's short stories. Momus's online diary. The Scottish weather.)
Sounds Like'Terrific. A little bit Elbow, a little bit Pulp, a little bit the Blue Nile, a little bit The Who, even.' - Mark Radcliffe
Record LabelBiphonic
Type of LabelMajor








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Aug 10 2008 8:00P
Cabaret Voltaire Edinburgh, Scotland

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   About Swimmer One

MORE SONGS ETC

You can listen to more songs at our Last FM page and at the Biphonic Records MySpace page.

There is much more to look at and read at our main website. We've just joined Facebook too, so if you're fed up of MySpace come and be our fan/friend/whatever it is there instead.

DEBUT ALBUM OUT NOW

See below for reviews of our album The Regional Variations, available now. To read more, visit the reviews page at the main Swimmer One website.

'They give intelligence a good name and are more windswept than worthy. Their music has the quirky intricacy of Belle & Sebastian and the soaring atmosphere of Blue Nile, and it is very, very good.' The Guardian

'Andrew Eaton and Hamish Brown make their angsty but uplifting electronic pop in a small attic by the sea just north of the Scottish capital, and their songs often evoke the wind-blown expanses of the Scottish countryside and coastline. But there's little narrow-minded or hidebound about their exhilarating debut, The Regional Variations, one of the finest of this year's freshman efforts.'
The Independent

'Swimmer One's debut is a promiscuous synth pop marvel, littered with doomsayers, fakesters, drowning men, black sheep, theatre freaks and TV clowns in fuck-me heels... A bookish, codpiece-disco treat.' Plan B

'Might just be the find of the year... Like a stripped-down Scottish Pet Shop Boys or a more melancholy synth-based Pulp, Swimmer One's brilliance should be shouted from the rooftops.'
The List

'If David Bowie ever got stuck in a lift shaft with Jarvis Cocker and Bill Drummond, they might eventually come up with something as enticing as The Regional Variations.' Metro

Swimmer One
The Regional Variations

Released September 2007
Biphonic Records
BIPH06CD

Tracklisting:
1. Drowning Nightmare 1
2. Largs Hum
3. National Theatre
4. But My Heart Is Broken
5. The Fakester Genocide
6. The Balance Company
7. Drowning Nightmare 2
8. Whatever You Do, Don't Go In The Basement.
9. Regional
10. The Dark Ages
11. A Petrol Pump In The Cradle Of Christianity

BUY IT IN ITUNES

Swimmer One - The Regional Variations..

ONLINE SHOP

Amazon, Play.com, Selectadisc, Rough Trade, Cargo Records and Norman Records.

LOCAL SHOP

You can order our records from any good record shop. If they don't have it in stock, ask them to order it in for you from our distributor Cargo, which should take one or two days. Most record shops have internet access so can get the information they need to order it in from there.

DOWNLOAD SHOP

We are in iTunes, emusic.com, virgindigital.co.uk and lots of other digital retailers.

MAILING LIST

The easiest way to be told about upcoming releases and shows is to be on this. You'll get an email every month or so which may or may not be mildly entertaining reading.
Subscribe at www.swimmerone.co.uk or send us a MySpace message.

BIOG

Swimmer One make pop music in a small attic room on the Scottish coastline. Their debut album, The Regional Variations, was released in September 2007 on Biphonic Records. It follows the release of three singles, We Just Make Music For Ourselves, Come On, Let's Go! on Biphonic Records and Largs Hum backed with a cover of Kate Bush's Cloudbusting (as a free download single on Dogbox records). Swimmer One songs and short films have also appeared on various compilations, including Blue Skies Up - Welcome To The New Pop Revolution, also on Dogbox records.

There is more music, plus pictures, short films, a blog, a shop, lyrics and a regularly updated news page at www.swimmerone.co.uk. Please do pay a visit and say hello. You can also hear various Swimmer One tracks for free at our Last.fm page.

If you like us, try our Biphonic Records label-mates Luxury Car, who we really cannot recommend highly enough.

What other people have said about Swimmer One...

'We want more, more, more of their wily words, their tender synth fare, their surprisingly colossal pop.' - Plan B magazine.
'Intelligent experimental pop with quite lovely melodies.' - Scotland on Sunday
'One of the country's most exciting bands.' - The List.
'Electropop marvels.' - Metro.
'The KLF are jealous, Death in Vegas more so. How, I wonder, can they fail to be ruling the universe?' - Unpeeled.
'One of the best debut outings I've had the pleasure of hearing in a long while. Very smart stuff indeed.' - Losing Today.
'Sounds like the Divine Comedy dabbling with mellow techno. Definitely something very interesting going on here.' - Playlouder.
'(Swimmer One) fit effortlessly into the upper echelons of Scottish music.' - Logo.
'The missing link between Pulp and the Chemical Brothers.' - Jim Gellatly, XFM.
'The sound of Berlin-era Bowie being tied up under the stairs of a sex shop with the seedy electro of Soft Cell and the grandiose melodic pop of the Pet Shop Boys.' - God is in the TV.

FILM

Edinburgh artist/film-maker Daniel Warren has made several works that feature Swimmer One music and have been screened and won awards worldwide. You can watch one of these below and lots more on YouTube.

The Balance Company
A collaboration between Daniel Warren, the theatre company Highway Diner and Swimmer One.

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JL Williams





Jul 23 2008 2:31 AM

PhotobucketNOW WITH THE STARLETS http://www. starlets. co. uk/, http://www. myspace. com/starletsuk./.

....some of the finest pop songs you've never heard. **** Sunday Herald

....major thumbs up. Evening Times

....sumptuous European balladeering translated into an urban Scottish setting. **** The List

In the top 100 albums by a Scottish Band. Is this Music

"A polished, spellbinding little gem" **** The List

"Frightingly beautiful" **** Careless talk costs lives

"Beautiful, their melodies will haunt you all day, like a dream" **** Bang

YOU CAN
BUY TICKETS ONLINE NOW!!!:
www. urgoing. to/lanterns

WHEN: 23 July @ 9pm
WHERE: The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, Edinburgh.
COST: £6 / 5 (Tickets available soon from Ripping Records & Avalanche)

You are invited to the acoustic gig of the year....

JL Williams (Neue Liebe) and Weaponizer unite to present an evening of enchanting music and hypnotic poetry - not to be missed!

WHEN: TONIGHT
WHERE: The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, Edinburgh.
COST: £6 / 5 (Tickets available soon from Ripping

LIPSYNC FOR A LULLABY
www. myspace. com/lipsyncforalullaby

Sonic star-travellers, melding ethereal noise and classical textures - Edinburgh's answer to Sigur Ros...

LAURA LEWIS & THE TEA DANCE ORCHESTRA
www. myspace. com/lauralewisandtheteadanceorchestra

Experimental heartbreak songwriting and esoteric instrumentation...

AND THE STARLETS! http://www. starlets. co. uk/, http://www. myspace. com/starletsuk./.

Hosted by poets Texture (Chemical Poets) and JL Williams (Neue Liebe)
sellotape





Jul 16 2008 12:22 PM

can't wait!! see you tomorrow x

s/e/l/l/o/t/a/p/e

LIVE*FREE*TOMORROW

thursday 17th july

7pm - 10pm earlyish!!

CABARET VOLTAIRE

plus F.A.N.G.S & sWiMmeR oNe

mENd*STicK*fiX





BabyBones





Jul 16 2008 4:46 AM

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LOGAN 5





Jun 5 2008 3:50 AM

The Radio 1 session last night was fantastic!!You were all on great form,the new songs are just brilliant.
Sparklegash





May 27 2008 5:23 AM

Yowl!

Thanks for the add, we love you

xxrawk the Sparklegash
LOGAN 5





May 26 2008 12:44 PM

Sunday night at Neue Liebe was awesome-thank you so much!!
Swimmer One
Horsebreaker





May 23 2008 3:45 AM

so excited for neue liebe on sunday! y'all are gonna rock xxxxx
Jim Gellatly (Xfm Scotland)





May 21 2008 11:56 AM

Giving you another spin tonight on the show.

Jim
LOGAN 5





May 18 2008 1:23 PM

I am very excited about seeing you guys perform again in Edinburgh on Sunday!
Good luck in London-Gavin
Neue Liebe





May 7 2008 5:19 AM

Very excited to see your new video at the Voodoo Rooms on the 25th darling Swimmers! xxx
Green Wedge Edinburgh





May 6 2008 2:40 PM

calumhaggerty
Eve Buigues





Apr 18 2008 9:53 AM

Paying a little visit...hope all is well.
:)
eVe Buigues
Alex





Feb 26 2008 4:10 AM

Nice new video you've got there. A veritable work of artpop.

Be good.
a.x
laura c l





Jan 24 2008 8:08 AM

Check you famous boys out!

I voted for yis bytheway.

Braw. Keep it up.
xL
is this music?





Jan 21 2008 2:36 PM

vote for Swimmer One in the 2007 jockrock annual poll - only one week to go !
Laura Lewis and The Tea Dance Orchestra





Dec 27 2007 9:04 AM

Merry Christmas boys!

love an tinsel an that
The Tea Dance Orchestra
Dusty Garota





Dec 17 2007 3:25 AM

why wouldn't you run if it meant
one last chance to see the sun?

xxxx
Trudi G





Dec 9 2007 8:53 AM

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LOGAN 5





Dec 1 2007 3:06 PM

Memories of a lovely evening in Edinburgh...
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Laura Lewis and The Tea Dance Orchestra





Nov 23 2007 5:08 AM

Yeah, you guys rocked. The Tea Dance Orchestra loves ya baby.

See you in London!

xLL&TDO
LOGAN 5





Nov 23 2007 2:39 AM

Last night's performance was really fantastic-thank you so much for chatting to us.Sublime.
clausia





Nov 17 2007 3:01 AM

hi,thx for your nice comment.
appreciate your melodic tunes so much,very emotional ,and you write what you think in daily life,the lyric is full of introspection!
hope everything is going well with you^^
Laura Lewis and The Tea Dance Orchestra





Nov 15 2007 6:19 AM

the tea dance orchestra loves swimmer one
4 eva
IDST
INDST
LOGAN 5





Oct 30 2007 7:09 AM

Your album is beautiful-so many emotions,so much feeling,so melodic and thought provoking.Thank you.
Logan 5
Morton Valence





Oct 19 2007 3:26 PM

We are throwing are party on a boat on the River Thames. It'd be great to see you there.

look on our page for details

MVxx
Will





Oct 8 2007 5:18 PM

Got some decent pics of you guys at the Barfly Foxx gig, a couple can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/77305267@N00/sets/72157594468255399/
LOGAN 5





Oct 8 2007 6:46 AM

I was totally bowled over by your show at Glasgow Barfly-CD is on its way from Amazon-damned postal strikes!
Logan 5
Pale Fox Records





Sep 1 2007 7:01 AM

Ordered the album from Amazon - can't wait for its arrival. Well' I suppose I'll have to but you know what I mean.

Come back to London please!
Jannica Honey





Jul 19 2007 1:45 AM

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Hope you are all good! xx
Sonia





Jul 1 2007 3:19 AM

Just had a peek at your new website - it's gorgeous! Love the YouTube clip too!!

S x
Pale Fox Records





Apr 3 2007 5:47 AM

Huzzah! The new songs are lovely and Pale Fox's head is full of sunshine.