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November 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Spines: Dreamboat

Spines Dreamboat Spines/Bandcamp The new album by the Spines is the best the band has sounded in the studio, certainly since the very early days of the band (getting back towards 40 years now). Dreamboat follows on, nearly two and a half years after Epidural – an excellent set of songs too  but Dreamboat features […]

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April 16, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 203 Visions of JoHannah

“But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles” Bob Dylan I’ve said it before – It’s hard to talk about the act of painting without appearing pretentious

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November 13, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 187 The Things That Stay (Bloodmonster Part Two)

I think like most songwriters – I have my favourites amongst my own songs. In my case they are the ones I feel will still be around after my band and I have shuffled off. They tend to be the songs that other people take to their hearts – almost like I’m out of the […]

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September 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 80 – Hannah Fraser & Jon McLeary (Spines)

Welcome to episode 80 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a little different – it’s a chat with Hannah and Jon from the Spines, specifically, a track-by-track walk-through of their new album, Epidural. It’s the first album released by the Spines for 30 years, Hannah is […]

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December 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 142 The Spines – 2016

1981 – “It was a terrible song but The right name for this band” 2016 – This being our thirty-fifth anniversary I was hoping to get to play a lot of gigs and things always shape up differently than you had planned… In the summer we played at a few carnivals and parks. There was […]

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December 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 139 The Bodge

I’ve got this foot pedal called Dr. Overlord and it has a mind of its own It’s very old and wont take batteries – you have to plug it into the wall but it has a valve in it The trick is to let it warm up for a good while and then it starts […]

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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 […]

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September 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 75 The Spines Girls

I’ve always enjoyed playing music with women. Louise Loft – In the early days it was with Louise in Negative Theatre – we had a rare chemistry and played off each other’s strengths. The man/woman relationship that was at the centre of what we were trying to do and our little song dramas played out […]