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Spare Snare

The 46th Best Scottish Band Of All Time

About Me

Let's make it brief... Jan made a record, then put together a band to play live.
He asked Barry, Alan and Paul, and they toured America, twice. We have released 7 albums and various singles and recorded 4 John Peel sessions.
The line up varies, depending on who's around.
Paul has left, Ross joined, then left, and another Ross joined. Graeme and Kevin appeared for one show, as Alan left, now Kevin has gone, and Alan returned, while Graeme stayed. Then Ross left, but Adam joined - so that makes 5 of us.
We continue to release and record music.
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Spare Snare T in the Park 2001. "Stop Complaining" & "Surrender"
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Spare Snare Instore at Virgin in Dundee, 1995. 'Wired for Sound' and 'Smile it's Sugar'
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Here's a clip of Gary from Snow Patrol namechecking the Snare (clip brought to our attention by Sanders)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/15/2006
Band Website: wearethesnare.com
Band Members: Jan Burnett, Alan Cormack, Barry Gibson, Graeme Ogston. Adam Lockhart.
Influences: we don't do influences...
Sounds Like: no one else
Record Label: Chute - self owned / unpublished / admin by PRS
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

SPARE VISUALS

Some of the keenly eyed may have already noticed we have started inserting some archive footage of ourselves. Included is a home video of 'As A Matter Of Fact', fuck, was was I thinking, or more inter...
Posted by Spare Snare on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:54:00 PST

UNRELEASED VERSION OF ’BUGS’ and NEW SONG NOW AVAILABLE

Available to hear from our player, a previously unavailable version of 'Bugs' recorded at EMI demo studios (watch out for the false start!), and a brand new song, still to be mixed, edited etc entitle...
Posted by Spare Snare on Sun, 11 May 2008 11:47:00 PST

mail order - t shirts, CD and vinyl...

We have various catalogue CD’s, vinyl and the classic ’Spare Snare Fae Tay Territory’ Tshirt now available via eBay. Search for ’Spare Snare Direct From Band’ a...
Posted by Spare Snare on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:25:00 PST

Obscure Demo track

I have put up on line an obscure demo of a track Alan and I did with a view to be recorded for a Snare album, Alan says we may have played this track at some point live but i can't remember. Anyway we...
Posted by Spare Snare on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:57:00 PST

67th Least Influential Act of All Time!

This is an honour!!! Although, I have to say that, at some point in our musical careers, one or more members were influenced by some of these acts - see if you can guess who influenced who!100 Least I...
Posted by Spare Snare on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:56:00 PST

Review of King Tut's

This is from the Bowlie website's forum, posted by SmileyJonny."I just got in from seeing the mighty Spare Snare at their return gig at King Tuts. Smileysister accompanied me, rather to my surprise s...
Posted by Spare Snare on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:15:00 PST

Let us know your favourite Spare Snare tunes

For those of you who know us already, leave us a comment with your favourite Spare Snare songs.  We're currently rehearsing for live shows....
Posted by Spare Snare on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:29:00 PST

Buy 'Garden Leave' direct from us early!

Our new album 'Garden Leave' is now available directly from us. Just jump over to www.wearethesnare.comand click on the album sleeve. ...
Posted by Spare Snare on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:09:00 PST

New album tracklisting

Here is the track listing for the new, as yet untitled, Spare Snare album coming later this year. Titles subject to change...Field TripSort It For AfterwardsPick Up The PhoneRidingJust Let GoVolume Fo...
Posted by Spare Snare on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:19:00 PST

ROUGH TRADE SHOP REVIEW OF SINGLE

a marvellous return for the mighty spare snare, scotland's lo-fi legends and r.t. favs. the first sounds from jan and gang in a while, the a-side finds them trying to get the necessaries arranged over...
Posted by Spare Snare on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 02:47:00 PST