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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 […]Archive
November 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 186 Bloodmonster
We’ve been thinking about finally releasing the Bloodmonster album on CD. We recorded it about ten years ago when the band was a very different animal. For the previous few years Les and I had played with a spate of different drummers who all brought their own touch to the band. The latest was Jorden […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]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
August 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 70 The Jon McLeary Band
In the course of recording my solo album, Mark Austin and I got in various players to work on different tracks. My old buddy Les Knight played double bass on The Great Unloved and Peter Robinson did terrific piano arrangements for Your Body Stays and Say Why You Ache. When my son broke his neck […]Archive
May 10, 2015 by Simon Sweetman