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SPESS v5.0

About Me

Formed in Mold, North Wales around 1982! Now scattered around the North(specifically Manchester, Huddersfield and Sheffield) Spess make music. We'll let you be the judge of the quality of that music.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/15/2005
Band Website: spess.co.uk
Band Members: Mathew Seamarks [Vocals, Guitar], Huw Jones [Keyboards, Programming], Ed Bowen [Guitar, Technology], Mike Tunney [Bass]
Influences:

    The StranglersJoy Division/newOrderThe SmithsLeonard CohentheweddingpresentThe CureEcho & The BunnymenBuzzcocksThe UndertonesKate BushArctic Monkeys

Sounds Like: Nothing on earth. (Or all of the above... take your pick!)
Record Label: Grimble Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

A Spess Video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TspDkPFssg8 A lovely video by Chris Evitts (who also provided the art work for our recent CD, what a guy!) This is one of our gentler songs....
Posted by SPESS v5.0 on Tue, 20 May 2008 02:08:00 PST

10 facts about DOS

The Disciples of Spess were forged in the white hot creative furnace of the Mold area in 1982. Their highlights have included...1. Being forcibly removed from the Mold Drama Studio stage by eccentric ...
Posted by SPESS v5.0 on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:49:00 PST

The Wedding Present

Having signally failed to catch any of theweddingpresent's 100s of gigs since they started using the name again we've been unexpectedly presented with an opportunity to see them live and right on my d...
Posted by SPESS v5.0 on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 05:23:00 PST

MySpace bots and pieces

I've noticed a lot of friend requests coming from "people" without any profile info. I suspect that these are not really "people" at all but some new-fangled software designed to automatically add fri...
Posted by SPESS v5.0 on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:36:00 PST

Studio success and identity crises...

We had a great time in 6db Studio last weekend. Ding, the engineer was fantastic and we managed to record five whole tracks.You can hear the results in full on the Spess website and we've posted the m...
Posted by SPESS v5.0 on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:04:00 PST

Studio time approaching.

DoS are studio bound once again, heading for 6db Studios in Manchester for a couple of days and hoping to get good versions of some new songs down. A bit apprehensive at the moment since we haven't pl...
Posted by SPESS v5.0 on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:44:00 PST

Rock the Haus

We went on a band field trip last night to see goth rock icons Bauhaus at Manchester Academy. They were monumental! For me it was definitely a gig of two halves picking up markedly in the second half....
Posted by SPESS v5.0 on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:24:00 PST

Thank Grimble it's Chrimble

Season's greetings from Disciples of Spess and our erstwhile record label Grimble Records.
Posted by SPESS v5.0 on Wed, 28 Dec 2005 06:27:00 PST

First Blog Syndrome

Don't you just hate that blank piece of paper feeling? Sitting there thinking, "what can I write?" At times like these I like to reflect on exactly what value there might be in communicating my though...
Posted by SPESS v5.0 on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 04:56:00 PST