Silver Spurs profile picture

Silver Spurs

About Me

Silver Spurs have been wrenching the hearts of south Wales gig-goers since the autumn of 2006, using a special combination of banjo magic and three part vocal trickery. Influenced as much by the hardcore lifestyles of the country greats as by their music, Silver Spurs are genuinely living what they sing. Ellie even sleeps in her country-lady boots. A collective dictatorship of songwriters who sideline under silly names like Zumbar and The Gentle Good, the band mix up the best of Appalachian bluegrass, Bakersfield honkytonkin and sweet Nashville harmonies with a distinctive Cardiffian dark sense of humour. If you find yourself hosting an occasion that requires both hilarity and despair, or you just want the closest thing you’re going to get to a hoedown in the deep South (of Wales), we'll play for payment of any kind, as long as it either tastes nice or makes life more interesting.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 09/11/2006
Band Members: Ellie Harwood (guitar, autoharp & vocals)
Elliott Green (guitar & vocals)
Gareth Bonello (banjo & vocals)

Influences: Gillian Welch, Tom Waits, The Meat Purveyors, Smog, Merle Haggard, The Louvin Brothers, The Sadies, Will Oldham, Johnny Cash, Ralph Stanley, Gram Parsons, Handsome Family, Laura Cantrell, Townes Van Zandt, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Johnny Paycheck, Neko Case, Earl Scruggs, The Carter Family, Glen Campbell, Lambchop, Silver Jews, Patsy Cline, Sun Records and ZZ Top in Back to the Future 3.
Sounds Like: The dark corners of your psyche, a hoedown in your noggin and all places in between.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

What's been happening...

It has been a wee while since Silver Spurs have played in Cardiff but we haven't been resting on our laurels too much, honest! Gareth has been extremely busy becoming the darling of the plinky-plonky ...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:55:00 GMT

Jon Clee, awesome friend, RIP

We in the band are really sad to announce the passing of our good friend Jon Clee. Jon was a great supporter of Silver Spurs and designed many of the posters for our gigs. He could always be spotted i...
Posted by on Wed, 23 May 2007 09:45:00 GMT

3 gigs down... more to come?

Hi all, Right, we just did our 3rd proper gig on the weekend - it was ace! We played well and were well received too, and we can't ask for more than that during these early days. We're doing some reco...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:34:00 GMT

Greetings from Silver Spurs

Hi everyone, Just a quick word to say thank you for being our friend - pics and music will appear here slowly but surely (well, we do need to record something first!), we'll let you know when there's ...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:42:00 GMT