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Pint O Spirits

About Me

The lyrics have been created in response to the following- We are each placed upon the earth as a 'faulty skin sack' inextricably interconnected with our fellow human and animal skin sacks- Together, making mistakes, clinching victories and misinterpreting signals and motives that our core and spirit communicates to that soft pink rebel in our brittle bone domes. This earth being a harsh testing ground full of challenges and suffering - it's the way that we 'skin sacks' deal with these obstacles that advances our spirits/souls and character. Complete these tests and along the way gain knowledge and an understanding of the natural laws of the universe. Because remember we will keep coming back until we learn what we must learn!

Persevere, be constructive and help your fellow faulty skin sacks!
M.Bassett
An odd yet distinctive pint with a sharp head, followed by many flavour-some infusions, distilled in Bristol.
This brew is digested aurally as opposed to orally.
You could try to digest music orally, but we have not yet seen this accomplished. You could also try and consume a pint aurally but this may reduce the quality of future listening pleasure.
Mixing ingredients Bassett and Evans: Pint O’ Spirits has been brewing in a flat in Stokes Croft, Bristol since April 2007. Pint O’ Spirits finally attained maturity by adding a generous helping of Spiller in April 08.
Our first CD 'Brewed' was recorded with Alan Smyth at his 2Fly Studios in Sheffield (Aug '08). After throwing this 3 track EP around for a year, we returned to 2fly, pepped with a glazed experience of the music world to recorded a 2 track CD titled "Pour It In Your Ears" containing an up-to-date distillation of our sound.
The name Pint O’ Spirits materialised one drunken evening after coming to the conclusion that; drinking a pint of vodka is not a good idea, over thinking things of a spiritual matter is not a good idea and that listening to boring, non-dynamic, linear music is not a good idea either!
A Pint O’ Spirits is a reminder to attempt to attain a balance. Although we are still giving ourselves many an opportunity to fail especially at weekends and after gigs.
CD's are available to buy with artwork for anyone who wants to caress the shiny exterior of our music! (£2 each + Postage)
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Pour It In Your Ears!
Brewed
Like your average punter, we are looking for some trouble / something interesting / exposure, throw something our way (preferably not a broken bottle).
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 31/10/2007
Band Website: myspace.com/pintospiritsband
Band Members: Crush & boil some MARK BASSETT with GUITAR & VOCALS in the liquor, run this into the mash tun. Sparge the BASS of DAN EVANS over wort crust, then scold a hop bag of LEE SPILLER's SNARE into the wort to impart bitterness.
Leave to ferment in the ear and cask.
Best served cold & loud.
Potency will increase with time.

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Sounds Like: "Sounding like a lounge band from a David Lynch film, Pint O’ Spirits will delight most listeners with their bass lead alt-rock. Mind you, the bass isn’t the only enticing thing about this EP, Mark Bassett’s confident attitude and obscure lyrics make him sound like a slightly demented yet refined English version of Neil Fallon (Clutch). It’s hard to determine how the music would transfer live, ‘Fizzycyst’ is a track made for jiving to, jumping around and flailing your limbs would just seem insulting. This EP is highly recommended to those who like their not so straight forward rock music. 13 minutes and 36 seconds of pure alternative enjoyment."
Rock Pulse MusicZine - 8/10

"These Bristolians at least offer a different take on indie music, taking up a mantle recently left somewhat understaffed after the death of the Cramps’ Lux Interior. Their music swings on a rockabilly groove with an Ian Curtis-type baritone laid over top. All three songs on this demo are catchy and an enjoyable listen. I’m curious to hear what these guys could do over an entire album. It could be a fun listen, as long as they manage to maintain the feel of this demo without the resulting songs all sounding too alike."
Dion Curry - Soundman Magazine
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

The News and Booze

Pint O' Spirits made the Lincolnshire newspapers... click below.Charity gig for "hiccup-man"We've also got a nice mention in Kerrang magazine this week, and our song Sensible Thought Embargo has been ...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:46:00 GMT

A Stressed Pint


Posted by on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:25:00 GMT

Download It Through Your Fingers!

Click below to download "Pour It In Your Ears" for free!01 - We Are Recycled02 - Bald Squirrels In SuitsWe also have physical copies which are very special, and for special people mainly, so if you t...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:19:00 GMT

Soundman Magazine / Rock Pulse CD Reviews

A brisk wisk of verbal understanding for you whilst sipping tea.Click on the quotes for the full articles. "Sounding like a lounge band from a David Lynch film..." ROCK PULSE MUSIC ZINE "These Bristo...
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 07:48:00 GMT

Shedding skin and poking pies

Our run of promoting our debut CD 'Brewed' is now over, as now we concentrate on a whole bunch of new songs, a new CD, creating a plathora of arty pictures with various media, and crafting a new live ...
Posted by on Wed, 13 May 2009 12:18:00 GMT

Clogs and Curdling

Hi all and every-who, We're set to record 2 songs for a new promo CD, so make sure you check back here in June to hear what the outcome is.For those who have seen us live before, which song would you ...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:56:00 GMT

We Are Recycled - Live Preview

New song... WE ARE RECYCLED... Is a treat for all you guys and girls who've braved the outside world, with all of it's daily chaos, to watch us melt our brains over our musical equipment.Recorded at T...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:08:00 GMT

Cyst Monsters needed for new home

We want a new pet, cats and dogs are boring, it's been done.Can someone grow me a new one? I'm sure it can't be that hard, a few chemicals, a surgeons kit, a bunch of test tubes, lots of electricity, ...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:03:00 GMT

10th February Louisiana gig * CANCELLED *

No gig here, a massive sorry to everybody who wanted to stomp about, but it's not our bad.The other (.............. .r{} @font-face {font-family:SimSun; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1; mso-font-alt:‹S; ...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:23:00 GMT

Free Free Free - Download our EP!!!

Since Myspace has gone all grumpy and stopped downloads, we thought we'd be sneaky weasels and let you have our tracks for FREE. 01-The Sensible Thought Embargo02-Fizzycyst03-Pint O' SpiritsOr... if y...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:53:00 GMT