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September 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 179 On the Radio
It must have been Fishing – either the song itself or maybe Gillian. The first time I heard myself on the radio. Bryan Staff our producer was also a DJ and he played it on a late night slot on commercial radio It was a strange feeling – like hearing your speaking voice back on […]Archive
August 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 176 The Record Covers
I started buying albums in the 70s and it was a great time for the cover artwork. I have to admit that was part of the attraction for me – those Hipgnosis and Roger Dean images grabbed my imagination. It was an essential aspect to enjoying an album for me. By the time the Spines […]Archive
May 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 161 Cosgroves
It was a little bar down the side street, part of the Cambridge hotel. Clarke Gregory had started booking bands there in the early 80s. It was semi-underground and the coolest venue in town in its time. He brought through a wide range of bands of the day to play there and it was a […]Archive
October 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 133 Majoribanks Street
It was a big old house on Marshbanks Street and my cousin Mark got the lease for half of it in 1982. I’d been living in a little room in a boarding house on The Terrace and getting hassled for writing songs too loudly in the middle of the night. My girlfriend Nikki used to […]Archive
May 15, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 111 Ripper Records
Caroline, Rob and I formed the Spines in early 1981 and we started getting gigs straight away. We rehearsed a lot too and were searching out our own sound – they both played professionally in a jazz band as well at the time and we were always tight but experimental. When Bryan Staff moved to […]Archive
November 29, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 87 A Tour of Two Cities Part One: Masterton
Fishing In our first year of existence, the Spines travelled and played around the lower North Island a fair bit and one of those early gigs was in Masterton. It started out as a holiday but it soon got bigger than that You know you’re fishing know your bait but you don’t know what you’ll […]Archive
September 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman