Though Wes Swing was feeling under the weather last week, and had to call off his Tea Bazaar show, fans from all over are going to be getting a lot more of his loop-heavy chamber folk if everything goes according to plan. Swing and his band recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a touring van, which they plan on converting to run on biodiesel and vegetable oil.
Since the January release of his debut album, Through a Fogged Glass, Swing and his band have toured the West Coast and Europe, and played in cities up and down the East, but the size of his two-door Civic often limits them to playing shows as a two-piece (and apparently, even doing that requires a significant amount of packing Tetris). If the band can get enough pledges in by mid-December, they plan on paying it forward by creating a website for connecting and educating musicians interested in green touring.
Though Swing has experienced the same "greater appreciation in Europe" phenomenon that drove Paul Cerreri and Devon Sproule to decamp for Germany, van pending, fans can expect a lengthy U.S. tour in the not-too-distant future, with many a stop to fill the tank with donated fryer grease.