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)