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Where’s Captain Kirk?
Still on a Spizzenergi theme. I found this on Youtube: it is the cover of Where’s Captain Kirk? that REM produced as a xmas single for their fan club in (I think) 1992. The arrangement is based on...
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So much to look forward to all of a sudden. On top of the Spizzenergi 30th anniversary show, there is now a Spizzoil re-union because Pete Petrol is over from NZ for a while, and now there is the...
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Thirty years on – Spizzenergi in London
Spizz at the Tate Modern in August 2008 I went online tonight and bought my ticket for the Spizzenergi 30th anniversary gig at the 100 Club. I decided that it wasn’t worth the risk of just turning up...
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Spizzenergi 30th Anniversary Gig
Spizz on stage at the 100 Club 3/9/9 Went to see Spizzenergi (again) tonight. I’m not keen on going ‘up west’ when I have to work the next day, but it was to mark 30 years since the first Spizzenergi...
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Summer in the Greenhouse
I don’t think anybody filmed the 100 Club show, but this is the next best thing – the Spizzenergi Stella Artois-fuelled show in Leuven two days later. This is their climate change song…
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Spock’s Missing
Another clip from the Leuven show. A shame the camera doesn’t pick up the reactions of the musicians in the band while Spizz is murdering the guitar. Love the wall of sound at 2:50 and the jump...
View ArticleSpizzenergi t-shirts get you noticed
I went to a quiz night tonight, in aid of the Alpha people, which is a strange thing for an atheist to do I suppose, but they are nice people and I do enjoy a quiz. I was wearing my 25th anniversary...
View ArticleSpizzifying Spotify
I just found a single Spizz track on Spotify and it is a bit of a surprise one. I have all the Spizz singles (somewhere) from the first Spizz Oil 7-incher through to the Spizzles, plus the...
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It must be a World Cup year
All the signs are there: feature-length adverts for Nike, a collective knot in the stomach, St George’s flags flying from every white van, tenuous football-related marketing for a range of diverse...
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A night on the town
On Saturday I made a rare visit to London. I realised that I have not been in central London for a long time: the last few times I was in London it was only Hammersmith for Sunday night comedy. It...
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