The Great Escape

Good evening,

Just a quick message to inform you of our upcoming performances at 'The Great Escape' Festival in Brighton. 

We will be performing at The 'King & Queen' venue on Thursday the 14th May at 9:15pm, and the following day at the same venue at 3:15pm. If you are down in Brighton, come and say hi!

Regards,

James H.

Ice Cream Van Orchestra/Danny Boyle

This is a video of the Ice Cream Van Orchestra that performed in East

London this afternoon in conjunction with the Whitechapel Art Gallery. To the left of the picture is a young man named Danny Boyle. Director of Trainspotting, and recently, Slumdog Millionaire.

Jack had a chat with him after!

Jack.

Something/Beautiful

This is a picture, and a link to the most coveted photos the Hubble Satellite has taken over its illustrious career in the great unknown.

And here is the link to the rest of them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/scienceandtechnologypicturegall/5055210/Hubbles-greatest-hits-Hubble-space-telescope-images.html

Jack.

**

It's heavier than sin, 

Don't stop to ask me if I'm all in, 

It's cleverer but thin.

And harder to hide

if somethings set aside

We wander in between, 

Anticipate the push but take the lean, 

It is eager, just too keen.

Makes it harder to survive 

if somethings set aside

Well, On your marks, ready... steady... Go!

When you run a hard race but you come in low, 

You wouldn't chuck a stone to disrupt the flow.

At least you know that tried

even with something set aside.

By Jack on 20th April 2009

Answer for the Owl

"Happy Birthday To Ya.."

This is it. We are officially one year old! We signed up to myspace one year ago on the 1st April 2008!

Radio Ladio.

Good day to you all,

Albeit a good month or two old, we have uploaded, onto our myspace, an interview of Spires with Bath Spa radio. It covers numerous topics, for example, information about our songs, our time on tour with 'Cage the Elephant' and any pre gig rituals we have. Also, in the midst of the interview is a recording of Victoria, live at Shepherds Bush Empire!

To listen, please follow this link: www.myspace.com/spiresofficial

You can also listen to radio Spa online at www.radiospa.co.uk

Thank-you,

Andy, James, Jack and James

The times they are a-changin'

Dear all,

We have a new myspace URL. www.myspace.com/spiresofficial

Not only that, we have a new myspace layout too.

I hope you like it.

Goodbye,

Andy.

Video Killed The Radio Star

A promotional video for 'New Light' is currently in the making. If you still haven't heard 'New Light', you can at:

www.myspace.com/spiresofficial

Thanks to Ben Browning and Sam Bassett who are behind it. We are very much looking forward to it.

That is all i will say, however, I have uploaded the pictures to provoke everyone's thoughts a little.

Andy

Out with the old, in with the new.

Afternoon,

We now have the first of our recordings from the Strongroom recording sessions mixed and up on the Spires myspace page for you all to have a listen to. Take a listen at:

http://www.myspace.com/spiresofficial

Thanks to Pixie for all his efforts. And Al of course.

Let us know what you think!

Regards,

Andy, James H, James RF and Jack.

Spring

Spring

'The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month'.

Henry Van Dyke, American Writer/Poet 1852-1933

From Jack.

LAST MINUTE LONDON GIG

Evening,

Our management has just confirmed a great last minute gig.

We are supporting "Wintersleep" at the Hoxton Square Bar this Wednesday (the 18th).

Check out their great music at: Wintersleep Myspace

We will be on stage around about 8pm. A link to the venue is below if you need anymore details.

http://www.hoxtonsquarebar.com/music.php

Hope to see you down there.

Update.

Good day everyone,

We hope you are all well and surviving the weather. Here's a quick update for you!

We played at Monto Water Rats last night and what a brilliant gig it was! Thank you to everyone who ventured out to see us. We know some of you travelled quite a distance, which is really appreciated. Fun was had by all, we met some great people and heard some great music. So all in all, a great night!

The new recordings we've been working on should be ready very soon. If everything goes according to plan, the tracks will be mixed this Sunday by our producer Pixie Mills (a true legend) and will be uploaded to myspace as soon as they are done.

Thanks to everyone who has commented on our other blog posts, especially the cover suggestions. We will be looking at them soon, but if you have any more, don't hesitate to send them in!

Our next gig is at 'Southampton Joiners' on the 7th March. We are supporting a great band called 'Pure Reason Revolution'.

Check them out on myspace.

Over the next couple of weeks we will be rehearsing and writing new material. We will let you know how we progress at some point soon.

Regards,

Andy, James, Jack & James

(Spires).

Q Glastonbury Competition.

Afternoon Everyone,

We have entered into the yearly competition to win the chance to play at Glastonbury 2009. This is a great opportunity for the winners to have their songs played on Q Radio.

There are a panel of 11 Judges who will choose the finalists, who will then take part in a performance, in Glastonbury, where the winner will be announced.

This is where you come in.

We are currently situated in the most visited acts on the page. If you want to help us stay in that list, please have a look at the following link:

http://www.qthemusic.com/cgi-bin/glastonburynewtalent/show_band.pl?id=657aa580016458b5cfe8502e6fc86627

Thanks,

JRees-Flynn.

Monto Water Rats - London.

Good evening,

I hope you are all well.

Firstly, thank you to everyone who came to the Boileroom gig last night. We all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and played along side two other great bands, here are a couple of links to their myspace pages:

- www.myspace.com/yearnerbabies

- www.myspace.com/agenuinefreakshow

Secondly, we are playing at the "Monto Water Rats" in Kings Cross in London next Wednesday evening, on the 11th of February. We are on at about 8pm and you can preorder tickets from the link below:

http://www.themonto.com/listings_detail.php?listings_id=902

It would be great to see some familiar faces!

Regards,

James (Rees-Flynn).

London in the Snow.

London in the Snow

'When a man is bored of London, he is bored of life; for there is in London all that life can afford'

Samuel Johnson

From Jack.

'New Light' Drum Recording.

Here's a video of James Rees-Flynn in the Strongrooms in London, recording drums to our new song 'New Light'. A preview of the song enters halfway through. Hope you like it.

- Andy.

Your suggestions please.....

Good evening to you all,

We hope you've all had a day as good as ours. We've had a good 12 inches of snow in Guildford, the consequence of which was an enormous arranged snowball fight in Stoke Park in Guildford. It was epic.

Now, down to business - we have a proposition for you. Here's how it will work:

1. You comment us on here (or on myspace if you prefer) with a suggestion of a popular song that you would like to hear us do our own version of, in an acoustic or electronic style.

2. On the 1st of March we will announce which song we will be covering.

3. By the middle of March we will have recorded the track and it will be posted up on here for you all to have a listen to!

So let's have fun with this, make them interesting, funny or impossible and we will give it our best shot!

Feel free to make more than one suggestion if you wish.

Take care and get in touch!

-James.
(Spires)

Silks At The Start - Acoustic.

Having been inspired by Arcady Bliss' cover of our song 'Circles' (which you can check out at www.myspace.com/arcadybliss, I decided that it'd be interesting to record a few acoustic versions of our songs. So here's a video I recorded earlier of an acoustic version of Silks. The full band recording of this song will soon be up for a listen!

Regards,

Andy.

Shepherds Bush.

Here we have a video of us performing 'Capital' live at Shepherds Bush Empire in October 2008. Just for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy.

Welcome.

Evening,

Congratulations for finding Spires' first ever online blog. Over the coming weeks we shall endeavor to use this page as a medium to keep the outside world updated on our latest happenings; posting pictures, videos, new and exclusive recordings, and any thoughts we wish to share.

Thank you for taking a look. Please check back regularly and enjoy the site.

Fond regards,

Andy, James, Jack and James.

(Spires).