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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bandcamp, Dreamboat, Epidural, Hannah Fraser, Jon Mcleary, Les Knight, Lisa Tomlins, Louise Loft, Malky Taylor, Maurice Priestley, Riki Gooch, Spines, Spines: Dreamboat, Spotify, The Spines, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 7, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 208 Pete Shelley

Late 2009. The Spines at that time were Les Knight on bass, Riki Gooch on drums and me. We had just recorded the Bloodmonster album and I was about 50 and drinking a lot at Bodega – a period of renaissance for the band. I’d always been a fan of the Buzzcocks in the early […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged # 208, 2009, Bloodmonster, Bodega, Buzzcocks, Eulogy, Ghost, Ghost Stories, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Jon Mcleary, Les Knight, Moe, Opening Act, Pete Shelley, Pop, Punk, R.I.P., Riki Gooch, Singles Going Steady, Spines, Steve Diggle, The Buzzcocks, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 208 Pete Shelley, War Stories, War Stories by Jon McLeary, War Stories by Jon McLeary # 208, Wellington, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bloodmonster, Bloodmonster Part Two, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Hannah, Hannah Fraser, Jon, Jon Mcleary, Les, Les Knight, Malky, Riki Gooch, Spines, The Ghost, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 187, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 187 The Things That Stay, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 187 The Things That Stay (Bloodmonster Part Two), The Spines, The Things That Stay, War Stories, War Stories # 176, War Stories by Jon McLeary, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bloodmonster, Buzzcocks, demos, Drummers, Drumming, Drums, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Jon, Jon Mcleary, Jorden Tredray, Les, Les Knight, Long Lost Album, Love Songs, Riki Gooch, Spines, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 186, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 186 Bloodmonster, The Spines, Trio, War Stories # 186, War Stories by Jon McLeary, Wellington ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged #142, 1981, 2016), 35th Anniversary, Art, Ben Fulton, Bodega, Family, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Hannah Fraser, John Th eGhost, Jon Mcleary, Les Knight, Lisa Tomlins, Malky Taylor, Meow, Mike Nyland, MOON, Music, Neil, Simon Sweetman, Spines, Steve Holloway, Stu Brown, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 142 The Spines – 2016, The Spines, Tora, Tora Tora Tora, Valhalla, War Stories # 142, War Stories by Jon McLeary, Wellington, Writing ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged #139, Art, Bar Bodega, Bodega, DJ Simon Sweetman, Dr. Overlord, Friends, Gig, Gretsch, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Hannah Fraser, Jon Mcleary, Les Knight, Live, Live Gig, Live Music, Malky Taylor, Music, Painting, Spines, Terror of the Deep, The Bodge, The Fall, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 139 The Bodge, The Spines, Thursday, War Stories, War Stories # 139, War Stories by Jon McLeary, Wellington, Wgtn, Writing ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Tour of Two Cities, Art, Fishing, Hannah Fraser, Jon Mcleary, Julie Lamb Band, Les Knight, Masterton, Music, NZ, Painting, Simon Sweetman, Spines, Sweetman, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary A Tour of Two Cities Part One: Masterton, The Spines, War Stories, War Stories # 87, Writing ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Art, Dougal Speir, Guest Blog, Jon Mcleary, Les Knight, Mark Austin, Music, Peter Robinson, Phil Rowntree, Riki Gooch, Solo, Solo Album, Spines, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stores by Jon McLeary # 16 The Hand, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 70 The Jon McLeary Band, The Jon McLeary Band, The Jon Mcleary Experience, The Spines, Vanessa Stacey, War Stories, War Stories # 70, Writing ·

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May 10, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 58 The Solo Album

In 2002, in the aftermath of our relationship meltdown, Michelle and I had to sell our place on Wigan Street as part of the settlement. I rented a little flat overlooking the city and bought a computer and a Boss digital 8-track recording device – I had a new bunch of songs and wanted to […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged AK Goss, Andy Craig, Art, Guest Blog, Jon Mcleary, Les Knight, Mark Austin, Music, Peter Robinson, Riki Gooch, Solo Album, Spines, Steve Gallagher, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 58 The Solo Album, The Great Unloved, The Solo Album, The Spines, Tim Robinson, War Stories, War Stories #58, Writing, Your Body Stays ·

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