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Entries Tagged as 'Spizzenergi'

Spizzifying Spotify

November 17th, 2009 · No Comments · 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 plus [...]

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Spizzenergi t-shirts get you noticed

September 24th, 2009 · No Comments · 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 [...]

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Spock’s Missing

September 7th, 2009 · No Comments · 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 [...]

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Summer in the Greenhouse

September 7th, 2009 · No Comments · 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…
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Spizzenergi 30th Anniversary Gig

September 4th, 2009 · No Comments · 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.
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Thirty years on – Spizzenergi in London

August 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · 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.

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Coming attractions

July 14th, 2009 · No Comments · 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Airships

June 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Music

As mentioned in a recent comment, a video for Airships by Athletico Spizz 80 has been uploaded onto Youtube.  It has some slightly ambiguous comments attached.
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The description says:
The longest and most popular song wanted / requested to be included in the modern SPIZZENERGI set.
Always [...]

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Spizz Trekkin’

May 3rd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Music

Spizzenergi’s classic single Where’s Captain Kirk? and its sequel Spock’s Missing are now available from Cherry Red Records as a download-only single called Spizz Trek.  Only £1.50 for both songs together. Bargain.

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