Simon Spire: General Info:
Band Website: SimonSpire.com
Band Members: Simon Spire - vocal, guitars. Words and music By Simon
New Zealand Music Month
As well as hearing Hiding So Long on Classic Hits , More FM , Juice TV and C4, you can catch Simon during the following appearances this New Zealand Music Month (May 2009):
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Juice TV Garage Sessions - May 15th and 16th
Sunrise morning TV show (TV3) May 5th
Classic Hits and More FM radio in-studio interviews
Juice TV NZOWN May 15th
C4 Select Live (TV), May 19th, 5:30pm live interview
May 21st, CD Release Party, Auckland
The Good Morning Show (TV1) May 28th
Classic Hits Showcase, Auckland, May 28th
June 5th, Full band show at the King’s Arms, Auckland
Classic Hits Competition
New Zealand radio network Classic Hits is sending two lucky winners to New York to see a Simon Spire show!
Check out the competition online here
Hear a couple of fun radio advertisements from the Classic Hits team here and here .
Hiding So Long hits radio
Watch Simon listening to Hiding So Long's radio release here
Live Band - USA:
Drums - Massimo Maiorana
Keyboards - Rob Clores/Neil Shah
Guitar - Oscar Bautista
Bass - Tom Welsch
New Zealand band:
Richard Mrkusich - guitar
Chris Grant - drums
Timothy William - keys
Alex Urlich - bassInfluences:
Anything new - I mean in terms of creating something that hasn’t been heard before, or saying something in a way that it’s never been said before, and managing to really touch a person’s heart at the same time. I love watching music and art develop as the world progresses. Some of my favorite artists: John Mayer, Alanis Morissette, Neil Diamond, Jason Mraz, Coldplay, Evermore, Nelly Furtado, Richard Ashcroft, the Romantic period in general, and all those nineties bands whose tunes I still can’t get out of my head (Soundgarden, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam). But really, what I love more than anything else is hearing something newly released that I’ve never heard before.
Some other influences...
Simon Spire, Hiding So Long, official music video
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Simon Spire: Inside Out Music Video
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Simon Spire, Video Biography, August 2008
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FREE Song Download
To celebrate Hiding So Long's radio debut, for a limited time only download the Hiding So Long mp3 for free and remember to tell a friend!
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Here it is ALL or NOTHING – my first full-length album. After leaving New Zealand for Los Angeles; recording a demo on Orcas Island, Washington; and then ALL or NOTHINGin Sedona, Arizona I now find myself living on the quaint East-Coast island of Manhattan.
In short, the path from New Zealand to New York went a little like this: I stepped off the plane from New Zealand (originally my home) and into the perpetual sunshine of Los Angeles not knowing what to expect, armed simply with my first recordings and my guitar. My aim was simple: I wanted to create powerful music. My plan, despite my best efforts, was still suffering from a serious case of non-existence.
No sooner had I discovered the sweet liberation of driving on the right-hand side of the road (woohoo! just like they do in the movies!), than an earlier contact with Lenedra Carroll , former manager of singer/songwriter Jewel, opened the door to a whole new leg of my musical journey when she selected me for her Artist Advance project and began to offer career guidance. Now, in New York, the ALL or NOTHING phase begins.
Read more here , or hear the album here…or just stay on this page and snoop around.