SPACEHOPPER
SILENT FILM / YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE
Release Date: 17th Feb, 2003Cat No: DISCO0301
Format: CDS
Tracks: Silent Film ~ You Know Who You Are
HOP ON BOARD ...
Welcome
old welcome new, and a belated happy new year .. are you back in the
swing of things yet? .. good, then we’ll begin.
The first entrée of this twelve course gastronomic gorge is from
a band we have admired from afar for some time now. Not so very far
mind as they hail from the ‘historic market town’ of Farringdon,
a short sprint up the old A420, or ‘the road to hell’ as some
call it, but that’s another story. This is rolling country on the
Cotswolds edge, Pam Ayres’ yard, you remember ‘How I laughed
at my Mother's false teeth, As they foamed in the waters beneath’
no? .. just as well then.
BOING! BOING! BOING! BOING!
As with many fine bands Spacehopper’s is an organic metamorphosis,
mates from school, jamming covers, plucking up the courage to pen their
own tunes, scrimping and saving for that first studio time, it’s
a well ploughed furrow. Present at front and centre, Lee started as
one of those much maligned ‘singing drummers’ the bods that
knew it all scoffed, "get out front boy" they demanded, "you’re
pretty, and you got good lungs" being deeply scared of Matt Kilford
and Dave Corrigan - his other two founding fathers, he saw sense, and
things have, in the immortal words of John Motson got ‘better and
better and better’. As the songs also evolved, so the whole sound
had to follow, and a wise sage known only as Martin Townshend made union
to tickle the ivories (well, plastics thankfully these days) and with
new dynamic tubthumper Richard Millin, the three were five .. ‘like
a giant refreshed’.
COULD YOU BE THE VOICE IN MY HEAD?
So here it is, our first ever ever double A side, we couldn’t decide
between them, so took this decision, not lightly .. if you get the chance
go see Spacehopper live, that’s what turned us on in the first
place, they’re always out and about, and last year toured with
Cosmic Rough Riders, for regular updates and all manner of information
visit their site www.spacehopperworld.com
.. but remember where you heard them first!