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Hardwire Speers

About Me



Acoustic guitar driven, finger pickin', roots blues and alternative folk singer/songwriter Hardwire Speers. The new full length CD Breakfast at Epiphany's is available now.

My tunes have been described as "Blue Rodeo meets The Eagles crossed with Bruce Cockburn."

You should also check out my official site: HardwireSpeers.com where you can hear samples from my new release.

Ways to buy my songs:

You can go to iTUNES , or if you want the actual CD itself to hold in your hot little hands, it is available at CDBaby.com .

Follow my twitter.com/HardwireSpeers feed.

My day job is photography, which you can see on my other myspace profile or my commercial photography site .

I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V3.6 !

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 02/06/2006
Band Website: http://www.HardwireSpeers.com
Band Members: Neil Speers - vocals, accoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, some drum programming.
Influences: Hendrix, Pat Methany, John Schofield, Jeff Beck, Django, George Harrison, Joe Strummer, Adrian Belew, Tori Amos, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, Bjork, Concrete Blond, Beck, Metric, Oscar Lopez, Billy Bragg, The Stones, Santana, Tom Waits, The White Stripes, Pink FLoyd, Neil Young, Kelly Joe Phelps, Joseph Arthur, Jane Sibery, Franz Ferdinand, David Sylvian, Bruce Cockburn, Bill Frisell, and others.
Sounds Like: "Keith" says I sound like Blue Rodeo meets The Eagles crossed with Bruce Cockburn. Okay.
Record Label: Indie
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Latest Review - "just oozes Canadian flavours"

Bullfrog Music Reviews:Jeremiah Sutherland had this to say about "Breakfast at Epiphany's""....picture your favourite uncle, arriving in the night from a long trip and sitting down in the kitchen wit...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:47:00 GMT

Bacon & Hotcakes hits 8 on top 30 East Bank Radio list

Very cool, just found out the September 11th TOP 30 list for East Bank Radio out of Nashville TN has my song Bacon & Hotcakes at number 8.
Posted by on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:52:00 GMT

Best Original Score for video

I was involved in creating a video for the Georgies awards which happened last Saturday. The film - Culture Lost and found - won Best Film, and the music I wrote and performed for the video won Best O...
Posted by on Sun, 11 May 2008 19:00:00 GMT

Breakfast At Epiphany’s now in Calgary stores

Copies of my new CD - Breakfast at Epiphany’s - is now in stores in Calgary. You can find it at:Megatunes (932 17 Avenue SW)Hotwax (114 10 Street NW)80/20 Cafe (1301 10 Avenue SW) You can also g...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:31:00 GMT

New Website up - HardwireSpeers.com

Check out www.HardwireSpeers.com - its my newest version of my site, all new design. Took me until about 2am but got it mostly in place with lots of information. Did a finishing touch this afternoon.
Posted by on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:05:00 GMT

Download "Monday Blues" for free, until....

You can grab a download of Monday Blues for free until I actually release the new album. Go to my iSound PROFILE - click on download and follow the instructions. You can also buy tunes there as well.I...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:25:00 GMT

Reworked the mix and uploaded new tunes

Redid the mix on "Bacon And Hotcakes" to make it sound a little more like the amazing guitar I played it on - thanks for Norm for lending me his custom acoustic guitar, its so awesome. Also uploaded a...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:11:00 GMT

Fresh song on the list - Bacon and Hotcakes

Well, the new album - Continental Breakfast is slowly coming together, although never as fast as one would like. But, I did manage get one song up as a teaser - the instrumental "Bacon And Hotcakes" w...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:28:00 GMT

Radio Play

Just found out CJXF in Edmonton has played two of my songs - its a small station, but am glad they liked the songs Luna and September Wind (instrumental - you can go to NeilSpeers.com to hear it) eno...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:29:00 GMT

Calgary Songwriters and Fans Group

Just started up a new group for Calgary songwriters and fans of local music:groups.myspace.com/CalgarySongwritersIts open for anyone to join up so check it out.
Posted by on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:42:00 GMT