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November 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 188 Go To New York

Whatever I write Won’t necessarily make any sense I wouldn’t lie to you And I didn’t make it last week For whatever reason No one really noticed and I couldn’t explain There wasn’t anyone else there to blame Since then we travelled south and back And had our little adventures I found myself playing the […]
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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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August 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 175 Epidural

It was John’s idea initially. He’s an old friend and drinking buddy and an excellent sound engineer and musician in his own right. He came to a Spines practice with his laptop and some good mics and tried to record us rehearsing. It was like a dry run. Our time in the practice space is […]
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February 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 148 The Album

We have been recording it in our downtime since late last year and it is something I’ve been wanting to do or a long while. Back in the eighties we recorded in some wonderful studios – EMI, Marmalade, Last Laugh, Writhe but there were nearly always time and budget constraints. Our album The Moon was […]
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January 8, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 144 Spines Practice

The absent-minded maestro was racing up New York’s Seventh Avenue to a rehearsal, when a stranger stopped him. “Pardon me,” he said, “can you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?” “Yes,” answered the maestro breathlessly. “Practice!” It happens every week for us these days on a Sunday almost religiously Back in the eighties […]
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August 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 124 The Sound Guys

So much trust and hard work and they always do their very best. As I mentioned last week we’ve always somehow managed to get the best sound engineers with the Spines and its hugely important playing live. These people make you sound like you do and make you hear what you hear onstage – on […]
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December 20, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 90 The Spines 2015

We had a pretty good year as it unfolded. It started with a big profile on the band’s first decade in Audioculture – the NZ music online archive. Strongly written by Gary Steel with interesting insight into those early line-ups and the records we made. Great to be officially represented in an historical and cultural […]
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August 16, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 72 Unplugged

I think the last solo acoustic set I’d done was back when my life bottomed out and was probably the last time I got to play my beloved Ovation – the guitar that I had written all my best songs on. I was drunk and had talked about the songs rather than actually playing them. […]
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