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Dead Spies

Dead Spies

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Dead Spies are three anonymous boys making unique and captivating music. They take alternative rock to its logical conclusion, using their hands, feet and voices to create a wash of spiky beauty. Aware that all modern music takes place in a hegemonic marketplace, they are nonetheless artists, and hope to capture your hearts with their mournful melodies, twisted harmonies, relentless rhythms and careful words. If you need a touchstone, you may struggle. There is no objective correlative, but you will find the efficiency and cynicism of post-punk, that alt-rock fusion of tunefulness and boundary-pushing, and (increasingly) touches of the wide-eyed expansiveness of contemporary post-rock. Dead Spies move between the minimal and the soaring, sometimes gracefully, sometimes playfully and sometimes with all the subtlety of a fist to the face - whatever the song requires. They hope you can find something to latch on to in their world... Come and talk to us at http://www.deadspies.com/forum/FDLS

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Member Since: 7/27/2005
Band Website: deadspies.com
Band Members: [dead spy #1 - ade (gtr/vox)] [dead spy #3 - bill (bass/vox)] [dead spy #4 - charlie (drums/vox)]
Influences: // [beach boys, wire, kraftwerk, graham coxon, nick cave, pink floyd, television, herbie hancock, andrew blades, interpol, the smiths, can, samuel j mccready, msp, the clash and various other modern beat combos] // [huxley-camus-salinger-kafka-pinter-shakespeare-kerouac-deli llo-banks-and-the-like] // [wernerherzogmarkrothkomariecuriejareddiamondpablopicassojac queslouisdavidandthemightybooshgoyaylucientes&diegovelaz quez] // and more - so, so much more // box three: spool five...
Sounds Like: "WELL ON THEIR WAY TO THE SUBTLE, DEADLY LYRICISM OF MORRISSEY" (Notion Magazine)..........."QUIRKY AND AMBITIOUS" (Planet Rhythm).......... "CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED, CHOPPY AND SHARP" (The Dish).......... "UTTERLY INSPIRED MOMENTS... COMPLEX AND BUSY SOUNDS MADE TO FEEL SIMPLE AND BREEZY" (Opposition T)
Record Label: Buy our debut album at www.deadspies.com/shop.htm
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Spyfest was the bomb!

Thanks to all of you who came down to Spyfest on Saturday, it was totally great! We kicked it off with a little acoustic set before passing the baton on to Marmaduke Dando and the Mooche, who furnishe...
Posted by Dead Spies on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:18:00 PST

Dead Spies Mailout No 58 (SPYFEST DETAILS!)

SING HALLELUJAH FOR SPYFEST IS ALMOST UPON US! (8th December 2007) Rejoice, Spyfans, because this is the festival you have all be waitingfor. Possibly since you were born. Great line-up, hand-picked b...
Posted by Dead Spies on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:28:00 PST

Dead Spies Mailout No 57

..> ..> That's right, Spywatchers, triple nineteen! Thanks to all who came to our surprise gig at the Brixton Windmill on Monday... June Madrona and Dexy, that means you! Setlist was: Stamina, ...
Posted by Dead Spies on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:48:00 PST

Dead Spies’ Collective Manhood

Always nice to get e-mails like this sent to [email protected] - Great to see you again info be the talk among your peers once they hear about your penis...
Posted by Dead Spies on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:41:00 PST

Dead Spies Mailout No 56

Spyfans, Just a quickie with a few bits of potent tosh: 1) GIG THIS THURSDAY!!!That's right. Don't miss it or you will feel like a chump. Details here: http://www.myspace.com/thegoodship and we are on...
Posted by Dead Spies on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:20:00 PST

Dead Spies Mailout No 52

I'm going to start putting the regular news mailouts on here for you all to read, spyfans... back issues 1-51 available in all good newsagents...  ds3 xx *****************************************...
Posted by Dead Spies on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:41:00 PST

Slimming down and moving on...

Dead Spies have parted company with mercurial guitar hero Mr Samuel J McCready as of last week. Dead Spies are now a triangular concept and will soar into the stratosphere on that basis. Dea...
Posted by Dead Spies on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:42:00 PST

Evacuating, writing, returning

Your faithful Dead Spies decamped to the countryside this week to take up temporary residence in the East Wing of a lovely house and write some new material. With the sun on their backs and ...
Posted by Dead Spies on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:55:00 PST

New Tour Blog Ends Here! Gig #8 Leeds

Saturday 17th March - The Cardigan Arms, Leeds Setlist: Contrition, Pimmsy Twitch, Voluntary Mediocrity, Le Fou, FDLS, Filmor, Godthab A mammoth, probably hungover drive from Canterbury to Leeds (via ...
Posted by Dead Spies on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:46:00 PST

New Tour Blog: Gigs .6 + .7 Margate & Canterbury

Thursday 15th March, Qubar, Margate Setlist: tbc We had a bit of a mare in Margate what with setting our stuff up in some unique way so that none of us could hear anything, but it was a pleasure as al...
Posted by Dead Spies on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:38:00 PST