On Saturday I made a rare visit to London. I realised that I have not been in central London for a long time: the last few times I was in London it was only Hammersmith for Sunday night comedy. It must be more than a year since I took a train into Victoria. What finally […]
Entries Tagged as 'Spizzenergi'
It must be a World Cup year
May 26th, 2010 · Comments Off on It must be a World Cup year · Music
All the signs are there: feature-length adverts for Nike, a collective knot in the stomach, St George’s flags flying from every white van, tenuous football-related marketing for a range of diverse products… and a new Spizzenergi song! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video It’s a tradition or an old […]
Spizzifying Spotify
November 17th, 2009 · Comments Off on Spizzifying Spotify · Music
I just found a single Spizz track on Spotify and it is a bit of a surprise one. I have all the Spizz singles (somewhere) from the first Spizz Oil 7-incher through to the Spizzles, plus the Spizzenergi:2 single ‘Work’. I have both the A&M albums and all the compilation CDs that were officially released […]
Tags: Spizzenergi·Spotify
Spizzenergi t-shirts get you noticed
September 24th, 2009 · Comments Off on Spizzenergi t-shirts get you noticed · Life, Music
I went to a quiz night tonight, in aid of the Alpha people, which is a strange thing for an atheist to do I suppose, but they are nice people and I do enjoy a quiz. I was wearing my 25th anniversary Spizzenergi t-shirt – the one that says “1979-2004” on it so it looks […]
Tags: Doh!·Quiz·Religion·Spizzenergi
Spock’s Missing
September 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Spock’s Missing · Music
Another clip from the Leuven show. A shame the camera doesn’t pick up the reactions of the musicians in the band while Spizz is murdering the guitar. Love the wall of sound at 2:50 and the jump into reggae at 3:25. It has been intersting to see the song develop over the years: when they […]
Tags: Belgium·Concerts·Spizzenergi·YouTube
Summer in the Greenhouse
September 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Summer in the Greenhouse · Music
I don’t think anybody filmed the 100 Club show, but this is the next best thing – the Spizzenergi Stella Artois-fuelled show in Leuven two days later. This is their climate change song… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Tags: Belgium·Concerts·Spizzenergi·YouTube
Spizzenergi 30th Anniversary Gig
September 4th, 2009 · Comments Off on Spizzenergi 30th Anniversary Gig · Music
Went to see Spizzenergi (again) tonight. I’m not keen on going ‘up west’ when I have to work the next day, but it was to mark 30 years since the first Spizzenergi incarnation, and having seen them on tour back then in 1979 I thought it would be good to make the effort. As always […]
Tags: Concerts·London·Spizzenergi
Thirty years on – Spizzenergi in London
August 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Thirty years on – Spizzenergi in London · Music
I went online tonight and bought my ticket for the Spizzenergi 30th anniversary gig at the 100 Club. I decided that it wasn’t worth the risk of just turning up because with all the publicity there is a real chance of it selling out.
Tags: Concerts·London·Nostalgia·Spizzenergi
Coming attractions
July 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Coming attractions · Life
So much to look forward to all of a sudden. On top of the Spizzenergi 30th anniversary show, there is now a Spizzoil re-union because Pete Petrol is over from NZ for a while, and now there is the exciting news of Jerry Sadowitz coming to Brighton. I was only thinking about his the other […]
Tags: Comedy·Spizzenergi
Where’s Captain Kirk?
June 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Music
Still on a Spizzenergi theme. I found this on Youtube: it is the cover of Where’s Captain Kirk? that REM produced as a xmas single for their fan club in (I think) 1992. The arrangement is based on the version performed in the film Urgh! A music War.  As far as I know, this cover […]
Tags: Spizzenergi·YouTube
