Babyshambles Adam Ficek 'Roses Kings Castles' album release

• 30th Sep 2008

Babyshambles drummer, fast-rising DJ and deft multi-instrumentalist Adam Ficek, who records barbed and bittersweet solo material under the moniker 'Roses Kings Castles,' is releasing his eponymous debut album.

Recorded in Adams own bedroom over a two-week period that presented itself when Pete Doherty took time out from Babyshambles to work on his own non-band material, 'Roses Kings Castles' is a short, sharp and savvy burst of sorrow-pop perfection, shot through with jingling melodies, toe-tapping acoustics and a wry lyrical nous.

The back-to-basics dynamic that drove the recording process and inspires the RKC concept as a whole has produced a ten-track LP at once pared-down and multi-layered, comprised of sonorous, chiming highs and whispered, spaced-out lows.

Roses Kings Castles is being put out by Mr. Ficeks own label, The Sycamore Club, and will be available in all good record stores. Buoyed by the success of his previous releases, Adam intends to insure that the personal and uncompromised relationship he has built-up with his audience goes from strength to strength. The main ethos behind the music is that it exists in a community between artist and fan.

You can catch Adam and his acoustic at the following venues :-

26th Sept @ 19.30 (supporting Pete Doherty) – Kasbah, Coventry

27th Sep @ 17:00 – Spillers Records, Cardiff

28th Sep @ 15:00 – Rough Trade East, Brick Lane E1, London

28th Sep @ 19:00 – 2floors, Kingly Court, Carnaby St, London

30th Sep @ 16:00 – Rise Records, Cheltenham

2nd Oct @ 19:30 – 100 Club, Oxford St, London

6th Oct @ 20:00 – In The City, Manchester

9th Oct @ 20:00 – Brunswick Cellers, Glasgow

11th Oct @ 13.00 Bubblegum Recordsl, Southend

15th Oct @ 17:00 – Tower Records, Dublin

1st Nov @ 20:00 – Electric Boogaloo, Hitchin

26th Nov @ 20.00 – The Mill, Mansfield