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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
December 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 88 A Tour of Two Cities Part Two: Napier
There were never really any groupies that followed the Spines – or not that I knew of. I put it down to the fact that we were pretty intense and through the times in the eighties that I was single we always had women in the band itself. There was one period there though, after […]Archive
November 1, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 83 Punch
It’s kind of the forbidden song – about domestic violence and eating your family and it’s set in that post-apocalyptic world that Russell Hoban created in his novel Riddley Walker. That book and the strange degraded English language he used to tell its story had a deep effect on me in the early 80s. There […]Archive
September 21, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 77 Vocals
It’s the best time. When you go into record the vocals over the tracks with the headphones on or when you open your lips to sing that first line at a live gig to a big crowd – there is nothing quite like it. I wasn’t blessed with any great voice and so I had […]Archive
May 12, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 7 Your Body Stays
I wrote this song. .. 1982. All this stuff was going down – a close friend of mine was in an abusive relationship – I was in a relationship with a strange girl that turned to pus when this other boyfriend of hers emerged out of nowhere. So I had a wild one night stand […]Archive
January 14, 2012 by Simon Sweetman