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Spector
The Portland Arms
Monday 11,November 2019
7:00 pm
Monday, 11 Nov 2019 @ 19:00 Past Event
Spector
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Photo: Spector
http://www.spector.co.uk

Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult

At the beginning of 2013, Spector decided to cut short further touring and promotion of their debut album 'Enjoy It While It Lasts' in order to start focussing on music that they felt was a more up to date representation of their ideas. Founding members Chris Burman and Fred Macpherson had been making music in various forms since their early teens and had started Spector in order to communicate and share a series of "experiments in pop". But one album and two years into their career, as far as Burman was concerned, it was mission accomplished.

Shortly after five became four (in a continuing series of events that journalists might one day describe as "difficult"), original drummer Danny Blandy was told by doctors not to drum for six months after "doing his shoulder in", so suggested moving to keyboard: "The news came at a good time as I'd been playing a lot of piano anyway and I was happy to give my tired arms a rest." So with Jed Cullen now the sole guitarist in the group and Danny as full time keys player, the new writing core of Spector started to emerge, bolstered by bass player Tom Shickle. "I'd spent the best part of my early twenties with these guys", Fred explains "but had no idea what any of us were really capable of. The first album happened in such an entertaining haze that it took until a year after it came out for the penny to actually drop and for the band to start to making sense for the first time."

"When we started out, I almost saw writing a song as a magic trick," says Fred with typical candour. "It was just a question of doing whatever it took to further this adventure. But at some point on the journey we discovered the art of it and began taking pride in that. Other musicians put me off taking one's own work seriously, but that's something I think we're slowly starting to do." With a new found self-respect the band started to collate their final ideas locally in Hackney, at Unwound and Strongroom studios, but Dev Hynes' plans to fly to London to complete production of the album were curtailed by a house fire. Rather than delay further, the band decided to move forward with engineers Duncan Mills and Adam Jaffrey, while also handling a lot of production personally at home. The song selection was bolstered by collaborations with Hynes ('Decade of Decay' and 'Cocktail Party') and "a day making a banger" with former Craig David mastermind and Adele writer Fraser T Smith.

The live shows also had an overhaul, with new responsibilities for most of the band and the introduction of a new drummer, Yoann from Lille, France. "We're a hundred times better live now" Tom tells me, "we actually know what we're doing."
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