THE ADELINES

The Adelines are a guitar-driven quartet comprising Jennie Morris on vocals and guitar, Anton Dodwell on guitar, Eddie Russell on bass and Ray Thomas on drums. Formed in 2011 and named after their next door neighbour's cat, they cut their teeth playing house parties in Swansea and pricked ears with their tom-boyish vocals, jangly reverb-guitars and warped pop sensibilities. Their sunshine-drenched songs paint an intimate portrait of coming of age and late night dalliances, combining pop choruses with resonant wall-of-sound guitars and bittersweet lyrics that walk a tightrope between naiveté and spirited frankness. Favourable comparisons have been made variously to Juliana Hatfield, The Vaccines and Throwing Muses - though the band state that they draw their influences "from life".

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Farewell

Some of you may know this already, some may have guessed. The Adelines is over.  Thank you to everyone who ever came to a show, bought our music, played our songs. We had a great time while it lasted but unfortunately it wasn't to be.  Here are some songs we recorded in September which it seemed a shame to keep hidden away. You can download them for free. 

Anton is now playing with Why We Love and Ray with Tree Of Wolves. We'll let you know about any other future projects. 

Jen, Ray, Anton and Russ

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BBC Radio Wales 'Welsh Artist of the Week'

We're very happy to say that we are BBC Radio Wales' 'Welsh Artist of the week'!

  They'll be playing a radio edit of ‘Park The Car’ four times a day, Monday to Friday! (Jason Mohammad's, Louise Elliott's, Alan Thompson's and Chris Needs' shows).

  Also, Jennie and Anton will be popping over to Cardiff on Tuesday afternoon for an interview and acoustic session live on Louise Elliot's show from 1.30-2.00pm.  Adelove x

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Look at these pretty pictures of us at T in the Park!

Thanks to Samuel Legge of Dead Man's Shoes Zine for coming along with us and documenting the weekend.

You can see the full set of photos over on his website 

Adelove x

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Swn Festival 2013

We're very happy to announce that we are playing Swn Festival again this year! Today they announced the first 50 acts for this year's festival, including us! Loads of other great bands were announced today including the likes of Everything Everything, Dutch Uncles, Wolf Alice and Temples as well as our Swansea bedfellows Heavy Petting Zoo! Go check out the full list of Swn's first wave of acts here

Adelove x

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T in the Park 2013

We're very pleased to announce that we'll be playing the BBC Introducing stage at T in the Park!!! Adelove :) x

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'Alleyways' is released!

Today is the day! You can now go get a copy of 'Alleyways' for your very own! 'Alleyways' is now available for download on iTunes or you can buy one of the limited edition cassettes from the Kissability store! Here's some of the lovely things people have been saying about it already: "A bittersweet paean to reverb and teenage summers that manages to sound, above all, thoroughly current." -the 405 "Jennie Morris’s honeyed, alluring vocals are undoubtedly the star here. They forge a path through rich and melodic guitar lines that drift by and create a wistful and romanticised sense of yearning that never really comes to the forefront, but instead bubbles just under the surface." - GoldFlakePaint "Welsh purveyors of perfect indie pop" - Ruth Barnes, Amazing Radio "Well, y'know, it doesn't really get much better than that. that was absolutely gorgeous" - Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales We've also been named Artist of the Week on Amazing Radio by Bethan Elfyn. You can listen to an interview Jennie did for them here You can also watch the official music video here! Have a great day! Adelove, Jennie, Ray, Anton and Russ x

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'Alleyways' Video

Here's the video for 'Alleyways'! Premièred yesterday by The 405

We had so much fun making this with Harry and Caylee of Turnshoe Productions. Lovely people :) x Hope you enjoy! Adelove x

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We're playing The Great Escape!!!

We're very happy to announce that we will be playing this year's Great Escape Festival!

We will be playing Kissability's party at The Blind Tiger with London's Rainer and our buddies from Llanelli, Cut Ribbons!

It's gonna be ace!

See you there :)

Adelove x

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NEW SINGLE!

We are very excited to announce that our new single 'Alleyways' is coming out on May 6th on Kissability - the new cassette label from Radio 1's Jen Long and Transgressive Records! Have a listen :)

Adelove x

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Focus Wales 2013

We're very pleased to be playing the SWN Presents Showcase at Focus Wales 2013. There are some amazing bands playing and it is an honour to share the stage with them :)

Get your tickets here!

Full Weekend Tickets available here.

Adelove x

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Silver Street Session

Recently, we headed down to Silver Street Studios in Reading for the day to shoot some live studio videos for you, that’s right, you, cos we’re nice like that ;)

Thanks to the help of our manager Rob Bloomfield and his band of merry men we were able to create these live studio videos of ‘Little Games’, ‘Alleyways’ and ‘Park The Car’.

We’ve been giving them to you one by one over the last few weeks as little surprises and we’ve loved your response to them so far

Here they are as a playlist which you can share to all your friends and whatnot. Along with some pictures we took while making them for you to look upon with amazement.

Adelove x

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Gwyl Pili Pala Fest

So, in case you hadn't heard already, we're playing Pili Pala Festival in May! Pili Pala is a new festival starting up this year in Swansea to fundraise for and raise awareness of the West Glamorgan Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (WGCADA) and is being coordinated by Angela Muir (of The Echo And The Always).

The line up for the festival is looking pretty amazing already including Masters In France, Houdini Dax, Cut Ribbons, We're No Heroes, Denuo and many more.

We'll be playing at The Scene (formerly Milkwood Jam) on May 18th along with Denuo, Violas and Neotropics.

You can get tickets for the festival here, at the moment you can get an early bird ticket for just £10! So grab your's quick before they run out! See you there,

Adelove x

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God Is In The TV: Tip Tape for 2013

We've been included in the "Tip Tape" for 2013 by God Is In The TV.

They had this to say about us :)

Their only recorded release to date ‘ Little Games’ hints at their commercial potential a gorgeously bittersweet pop song with Jennie’s dulcet vocals offering a strident edge to their alt-pop sound that’s the interesting meeting place between the most commercial cuts of Throwing Muses and the cinematic pop of early Texas. Their live shows hint at an even more dynamic widescreen rock sound to come hinting at the likes of the Pixies and North Walians The Joy Formidable.

Take a look at the full article here. And you can listen to the "Tip Tape" below 

Bill GIITTV's Tip Tape 2013 by Godisinthepod on Mixcloud

Adelove x

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South Wales Echo Sound of 2013

We have been listed in the South Wales Echo's Sound of 2013 list!

(Click the picture to see the article online)

Here's what they had to say about us

Pretty pleased with that! Adelove x 

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We are doing Movember!

A little while ago we heard from our friends in Plastic Youth that their drummer Kieran had been diagnosed with testicular cancer. As you can imagine this was shocking news to us, and we all felt for him and his bandmates. No one ever thinks this will happen to them or anyone they know. Thankfully Kieran is doing ok now but it hit home with us and so we've decided to do Movember.

Admittedly a couple days in but here's our start photo...

As you can see Anton may have a bit of a head start... but the rest of us will give it our best, even Jen! Look at her tensing trying to sprout a lip fringe. Click the picture to go to our team page and donate! You know you want to ;)

Adelove :) x 

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Swn Festival Nws

Today Swn Festival announced the second wave of acts to be added to the line-up. That's right even more awesome bands! Go check out who's been added here.

As well as announcing more bands, early-bird tickets are now on sale. These are gonna go quick so best go grab yourself some soon! 

And finally, they've compiled a playlist of some of the bands playing (including us!), here it is for you to pour into your lovely earholes ;)

Adelove :) x

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Vienna Ditto remix 'Little Games'

The brilliant Vienna Ditto have only gone and remixed Little Games! 

Have a listen and download it if you want ;)

Adelove :) x