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» A Different Lifetime – Live! [posted by admin on Mar 16th, 2017]

Spearmint will play our album ‘A Different Lifetime’ live in full for the first time ever on Monday 12th June 2017 at the Lexington in London.

Special guests will be announced soon. Secure your ticket now at the early bird price of £10!

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/391537

This is the album we’ve been most proud of since its release, and we’ve always intended to come back to it, it’s pretty much got a life of its own. Long term we’d like to perform the album on the South Bank, with animations, dancers and a full string section… oh, and maybe rain on the stage too…. that’s not going to happen any time soon, but this is the first step towards it: playing the album live for the first time.

In the words of Uncut Magazine: “Spearmint’s second album proper is a flowering, a joy to behold. The ‘fun’ indie-poppers have carried off an extraordinarily ambitious concept: fifteen songs that chart the rise and fall of a romance, from early tentative tactical manoeuvres, through sweet surrender, to doubt and demise and an ultimate coming to terms. It has the courage to accept that love is finite, and to try to deal with that. All this with Bacharach-sweet tunes, a cameo set at a Flaming Lips gig, and an homage to the joys of Scottish pop. Any justice and it’s album of the year.”

Also, the new Spearmint album ‘It’s Time To Vanish’ is out now! Order your copy on vinyl, CD or digital here:

http://www.hitbackonline.co.uk/acatalog/PRE-ORDER-New-Spearmint-Album-Here.html

Finally, join our mailing list and we’ll keep you up to date, plus send you the odd free song!

http://www.spearmint.net/mailing.html

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» Final Spearmint shows of 2014!  [posted by admin on Sep 4th, 2014]
Berlin Popfest: On Friday 26th September Spearmint return to the Gruner Salon Berlin for the Popfest Berlin Popfest Berlin (I believe we are on around midnight): http://popfestberlin.blogspot.de/p/tickets.html Nottingham Pop All Dayer And our final show for this year will be at the Maze in Nottingham on Saturday 4th October (we are on about 10pm): https://www.facebook.com/events/214858375374648/ New Album The new album ‘News From Nowhere’ is out now: http://www.hitbackonline.co.uk/acatalog/Spearmint.html

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» New Album, Lyrics, Shows  [posted by admin on Jul 15th, 2014]
The new Spearmint album ‘News From Nowhere’ is now out and available here. You can now also see the lyrics. Indietracks We are playing at Indietracks, Derbyshire, UK on Friday 25th July. Please note that we are on at 6.50pm on the Friday night; would hate you to make the journey then miss us! Schedule is here. Indietracks have produced a compilation of the bands at the festival, available here for as little as £2 – all profit goes towards the Midland Railway: Berlin Popfest: On Friday 26th September we return to the Gruner Salon Berlin for the Popfest Berlin. There will be one or two more shows announced soon.

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» New Album!  [posted by admin on May 2nd, 2014]
The new Spearmint album ‘News From Nowhere’ will be released on Monday 26th May. You can order it and get a free early download here. London Gig We’re playing with The Fireworks at the Guided Missile night at the Buffalo Bar, London, UK on Wednesday 14th May – tickets available now. It’s possibly our only London show this year… we will be playing in our original 4-piece line-up with Jim on bass, for the first time since 1999! New York Gig NYC Popfest in New York, USA on Saturday 31st May. Our first ever show in the US! We will also play this in original quartet line-up. Download the festival sampler here, including a new tune from us. Indietracks We are playing at Indietracks, Derbyshire, UK on Friday 25th July. Great that we’re playing this lovely festival – Andy will return from this show onwards as we revert to a 5-piece.

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» Solo Gig  [posted by Shirley Lee on Jan 12th, 2012]
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Greetings and a happy new year to you from an unseasonably warm Brighton (see yesterday’s sunset). I will be playing solo at the How Does It Feel night at the Buffalo Bar, next to the Highbury & Islington tube in London on Thursday 26th January. A Little Orchestra will also be playing and we will revive the versions of “Scottish Pop” and “The Reservoir” from last year’s show in Brixton. Apart from that I will play Spearmint and Shirley Lee songs completely different from previous solo gigs, if you see what I mean… Full details are on the How Does It Feel site or here on Facebook. Shirl

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» Gigs, Live Tunes, Interview  [posted by Shirley Lee on Aug 21st, 2011]
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GIGS +++ More solo Shirley Lee shows are confirmed: Saturday 1st October: Lille – “Domino Boomerang” (I will be playing for around an hour at this “living-room” gig. If you are interested in attending, please email Nicolas: dominoboomerang@yahoo.fr ) Saturday 15th October: London – Wilmington Arms (with The Bitter Springs) OTHER STUFF+++ Go here and here to see me performing The Reservoir and Scottish Pop live with the splendid A Little Orchestra at last month’s How Does It Feel shows. Here’s an interview I did with the estimable Eric Stephenson, firstly some chat about the new album, Then about “A Week Away” and “A Different Lifetime”, and finally Eric’s Top 10 Spearmint tunes.

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