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Spring

tuneful indie rock band tinged with folk

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BUY CDs below using paypal!ONLY £5 using button below- "Cornered" - the 13 Track latest December 2005 CD album - shrink wrapped - Songs: Clipped Wings, Cornered, Face This Down, The Gallery, Ursa Major, Shadows, Gone All The Time, Ursa Minor, Seal Your Fate, The Core To Its Orbit, Way Down Inside, I Don't Ask Why, Jupiter. "Cornered" CD Album - ONLY £5:Only £5 using button below "Circle Cake" - 14 Track 2003 CD album - shrink wrapped - includes limited edition CD-Rom video - Songs: Circle Cake, Limpet, Not Gonna Forget It, Flicker, Lonely Road, Quiet One, On The Way, Down The Road, Never Know, Bottom Of My Heart, Anaheim, Little Town, The Visitor, Heaven's Asleep"Circle Cake" CD Album - £5:Only £5 using button below - "Four" - 10 Track 2001 CD album - includes limited edition CD-Rom video - Songs: Not At The Same Time, Cross The Line, I'll Be Around, To Belong, Hideaway, Filling Up, Got To Be Alone, Fall Away, Where You Going Now?, Years From Now"Four" CD Album - £5:Only £5 using button below - "Anytime Now" - 18 Track 1998 CD album - Songs: Anytime Now, I Will Wait, About You Too, Heaven's Asleep (early version), Let It Go, Interlude, Latchkey Houdini, River To The Plain, Loop, I've Seen You, Rambling, Your Every Need, Instrumental, Used To Me, Move On, Lose My Wings, A Happy Place, Filling Up (acoustic version)"Anytime Now" CD Album - £5:Spring are a four piece band from Leeds, U.K. Their songs are full of tunes and hooks and interweaving guitars. Spring released album Circle Cake "at the end of December 2003. Spring spent much of 2004 doing various gigs and selling CDs via the net. Spring have spent the summer / autumn of 2005 recording their new CD album Cornered , which has just been released on Neon Glitter Records. Here are some things others have said about Spring:- Spring's sound is one of mass appeal, yet they sustain their distinctive quality. A fusion of indie-rock with electric blues creates an idiosyncratic style that needs to be discovered. With an exceptionally polished performance Spring are destined to succeed." Victoria Beercock, B.B.C. "Cornered finds Spring in tuneful mood. It's well written and well produced sounding clean and impressive. Well crafted songs and melodic guitar dominates, a little bit alternative, a bit country, with a little bit of R.E.M., Wilco, the Byrds, Revolver era Beatles and Richard Hawley audible in the mix. they've got an impressive collection of songs here and I'd recommend giving them a try." John Jervis, Vibrations, U.K. "It's refreshing to hear a band happy to try and take their influences and do something different with them, as regards Spring, this is genuinely complementary. So yes, they do have their moments of Stone Roses-esque grooves (just listen to the title track), the guitarist may well be Johnny Marr (or perhaps a good impersonator, it's hard to tell). Throughout Circle Cake, Spring carry themselves with a similar swagger to The Coral, and do occasionally sound like a ska record played at half speed (see Down The Road). What Spring do with these sounds is what separates them from the baying pack of bands happy to reheat someone elses sound. Rather than jumping styles track-by-track, each song is a veritable mixing pot of influences. Spring are also in the rather enviable position of having some great pop songs and hooks, with a Badly Drawn Boy quality in both the song writing and the vocals. That is a Badly Drawn Boy with a whole band behind him, each jumping in with their own ideas, and vying with each other for attention. The fact that the band can sustain these ideas over fourteen solid tracks only serves to prove the talent they possess." Tom Goodhand, Sandman Magazine, U.K. "Whilst the band have a fairly standard line up of two guitars, bass and drums, its how they arrange these that makes things interesting. A bright clear production lets you hear the songs, which in the most part are very tuneful and memorable. Rich (vocalist/guitarist/songwriter) has a natural warm soulful edge to his voice. He seems to be trying to sound like nobody but himself. Spring have the tunes, craftsmanship and above all self-belief to do their own thing. Whilst some influences are discernable, Spring sound refreshingly like themselves. Recommended." - Yorkshire Post, U.K. "Spring are one of the more popular bands around at the moment. Opening track Circle Cake is a greatly melodic indie-rock song, which you can really get into. The band have other good songs as well, Limpet is another melodic, indie song and shows off the lead singer's distinctive voice as well as the prominant guitar solo. Flicker has a country feel to it to add to the indie-rock style of the band. It is near impossible to find a weak point in the album, every track has quality running through it. As a music fan, it is your duty to get a copy of this CD, you won't regret it." Edward Douglas, UK Bands Review!

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Member Since: 4/26/2006
Band Website: springband.co.uk
Band Members: Rich Gibson (vocals/guitar/keyboards/songwriter),Gary Pearson (guitar/ex-drummer/dot reader),Matt Gibson (bass/dance aficionado/baby of the band),Jonny Wilkinson (drums/percussion/resident artist/merchant of chill)


Here's a video for "Not At The Same Time" from CD Album "Four":Here's a video for "Circle Cake" from the CD Album:
Influences: Here in no particular order of people we like, and have maybe got an idea or two from or dig: The Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground, The Byrds, Matthew Sweet, The Jayhawks, Velvet Crush, Urge Overkill, Husker Du, Wilco, Jay Bennett, Frank Black, Paul Weller, The Webb Brothers, Television, The Who, The Black Crowes, R.E.M., Jimi Hendrix, Radiohead, The Posies, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Supergrass, Teenage Fanclub, The Beatles, Sandy Denny, The Thorns, Tim Buckley, Lemonheads, Cosmic Rough Riders, Chuck Prophet, Bob Mould, Grant Hart, Richard Thompson, Smog, David Bowie, Love, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, The Band, Blondie, Led Zeppelin, Elliott Smith, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty, Nick Drake, Pixies, Ramones, The Jam, Richard Hawley, The Grateful Dead, The Doors, The Clash, The Cult, Jeff Buckley, Howlin' Wolf, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Elvis Costello, Squeeze, Pink Floyd, Cream, Smashing Pumpkins, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Nirvana, Aimee Mann, Marvin Gaye, The Beach Boys, The Supremes, Spector, Motown, Pretenders, Green On Red, Talking Heads, Faces, T. Rex, Tom Waits, Undertones, REM, Van Morrison, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Morrissey, Kings Of Leon, PJ Harvey, Grandaddy, Talking Heads, Miles Davis, Dinosaur Jr, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Cure, The Cult, The Small Faces, Doves, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Prince, Beck, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Otis Redding, Johnny Cash, The Flaming Lips, Queens Of The Stone Age, Mercury Rev, Lloyd Cole, The Smiths, Crowded House...........
Sounds Like: Loads of melodies, hooks, lyrics, warm dry soulful vocals, interweaving guitars, melodic bass, inventive drumming. People have mentioned we're a bit like these artists: Teenage Fanclub, The Jayhawks, Matthew Sweet, Lemonheads, Velvet Crush, Aimee Mann (but male vocal!), Grant Hart, Elliott Smith, Wilco, Tom Petty, Nick Drake, Cosmic Rough Riders, Badly Drawn Boy, Richard Hawley, The Byrds, Radiohead (Bends/Computer), R.E.M., or REM
Record Label: Neon Glitter Records.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Hyde Park Gig Cancelled + more positive news

Hi thereWe’re not having a lot of luck here. Another venue has stopped putting on music. This time it’s the Hyde Park Social club where we had an acoustic gig due, so we’ll not be pl...
Posted by Spring on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:07:00 PST

Royalty Gig Cancelled (venue stopped having music)

Hi thereI'm just writing as I've today got word that the Royalty gig in Otley that was to have taken place on 9th March has been cancelled. Sorry!Unfortunately this appears to have been a decision tak...
Posted by Spring on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:13:00 PST

"New" Song Posted

Hi there I've added another song from Cornered CD, to put in balance the material from our almost current line up, as it was looking a bit drowned by back catalogue. The one I've chosen is called T...
Posted by Spring on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:38:00 PST

Ive got my own website

Hi there!What I really mean is, I've got an extra one, website that is rather than my "own". It can be found at the top of Spring's friends or by going to www.myspace.com/richgibson. Since I only reco...
Posted by Spring on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:41:00 PST

More music

Hi thereNow that myspace allows up to 6 songs, I have added three more, removing Circle Cake as that can be heard via the You Tube video. This means a total of 8 songs can be heard on the website, a...
Posted by Spring on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:55:00 PST

Gigs and life

Hi there againWell we've been pushing forward with rehearsing and I've been doing a bit more writing, so there's a full album of stuff written and about half of that has started being rehearsed by the...
Posted by Spring on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:13:00 PST

Music Stuff

Hi thereHappy New Year.We're all now back in town following being scattered across the globe for Christmas. It's been fun. We had a really great band night out, the week before Christmas where we dran...
Posted by Spring on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:13:00 PST

Songs

Hi Well it's been a busy week, especially if you are talking about the last 7 days. Last Thursday saw me playing with Midnight Special in Bradford. On Friday we had a full Rich, Jonny, Gary, Matt Spri...
Posted by Spring on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:10:00 PST

Santiago Spring Set Time Revised & Confirmed

Hi therePlease note Spring will be playing this Fri 16th Nov at Santiago's, Grand Arcade, Leeds and will be on stage at 10.10pm. The doors open at 8pm with the first band on at 8.30pm. It's £4 on the ...
Posted by Spring on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:49:00 PST

Next gig

Hi allWe're doing the next gig to get us back in the swing of playing full band stuff. Consequently it's low key and SPRING ARE ON STAGE AT 10.10pm PRECISELY. The doors open at 8pm with the first band...
Posted by Spring on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:29:00 PST