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About Me

The songs featured on the site currently are from Flower In The Wild which may or may not be released in CD format,...........................The Kings of Spain are are loose collection of spirits who drift together from time to time to perform and record. Their base is Birmingham UK though some reside as far away as Berlin and Koblenz in Germany and Maine and San Francisco in USA. TKOS recorded their first album, ..Trafalgar Road.. in a tiny terraced house garden, totally live without mixing or a single overdub. The audience was a group of friends of the band sharing the sunshine on a lovely Sunday afternoon. Following this TKOS released ..Sweet Cheap Luxury.. and ..Fluid not Rigid... Their most recent recording is Flower in the Wild... In performance, whenever the acoustics allow, TKOS often perform without even a vocal mic. Discography: Albums .. Trafalgar Road .. Sweet Cheap Luxury .. Fluid not Rigid. Tracks on compilation albums .. Glory be is on ..From the Region.. and ..Bonne Annee 2007.. (www.disquedevoeux.com) - Let the wind blow is on ..Music Live.. - Here I stay (the track is wrongly titled as ..there's pigs in the sky again..) is on ..Creative Insight Vol 4.. .. CD albums are available from Life of Man, 124 Trafalgar Road, Moseley, B13 8BX - Compilation CDs are available from www.gotham-records.comI edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

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Member Since: 2/4/2007
Band Website: Gigs? please get in touch.
Band Members: TKOS recordings - Vocals and Guitar: John McElwee (Mac) Bass: Paul keeves, Mickey Harris, Simon Colley - Guitar: Russell Poyner - Drums/Percussion: Richard Heath, Tim James, Raymond "charge" Walker - Keyboards/Accordian: Bob Wilson, Gerry Smith - Violin: Steve Shaw (aka Brennan) - Harmonica: Martin "Vole" Smith - Backing Vocals: Sandra Williamson, Audrey Murray -TKOS gigs - most of the above plus: - Percussion: Rob Peters, Nick Poyner, Steve Yimbe, Paul Comaskey - Violin: Pete Hartley, Chloe Millar, Helen - Backing vocals: Patti Liddy - Guitar: Sean Coleman - all musicians are listed under their main instrument, many also contribute backing vocals.
Influences: Recent gigs attended: Orchestra Baobab - Duffy - The Imagined Village - The Divine Comedy - The Sex Pistols - Ted (The Music Lovers) - Hot Pants Romance - next up: Jah Wobble - Leonard Cohen - Tom Waits - Recent Cinema: In search of a midnight kiss - Persepolis - Priceless - Recent reading - Cuban press - Word magazine - The Independent - B13
Sounds Like: Last 10 songs on shuffle: I can't stop loving you (Van Morrison) Broken Harp (P J Harvey) Gubelye (Mulatu Astatqe) Wounded knee (Yoriyos) Night soil (Bait - Nick Duffy) Not ready to love (Rufus Wainwright) Mount wroclai (Beirut) All aboard (Alison Moorer) The wind cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix experience) Farewell Nancy (Ed Harcourt)
Record Label: Life of Man
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Competition

The Kings of Spain played "Artsfest" yesterday and handed out these questions - we ran out of flyers so here it is online - send your answers via message or comment - there will be a draw for the the ...
Posted by The Kings of Spain on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:35:00 PST

mac live radio interview and songs

http://www.outside-centre.com/ocnet/radio1.htmlfollow the link - click on listen again 18 julycount the pausescheersmac
Posted by The Kings of Spain on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:56:00 PST

Some Reviews of Trafalgar Road

From the gentle opening chords played on acoustic guitar by Mac (John McElwee) and the soaring violin of Steve Shaw on "Hold Fire" to the last cut, the acoustic rocker "Here I Stay," English band The ...
Posted by The Kings of Spain on Sun, 27 May 2007 08:06:00 PST

your choice

Hi Good Peopleif you know our music and would like to request a particular song to be posted then please do - via blog, comment or message.if you don't know us and are just passing through, make up a ...
Posted by The Kings of Spain on Thu, 10 May 2007 12:25:00 PST