{"id":1057,"date":"2016-04-18T17:06:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2016-04-19T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T07:48:00","slug":"1057","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"The Dreaming Spires ‘Paisley Overground’ debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exclusive streamed preview from The Dreaming Spires from the forthcoming\u00a0Paisley Overground<\/em> album<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It must all go back to The Beatles and their ringing 12-string Rickenbackers, heard by us all as children, and heard by Roger (Jim) McGuinn too. In the Bennett household the band\u00a0were bouncing round the living room to all of \u2018Hard Day\u2019s Night\u2019 and to \u2018Turn, Turn, Turn\u2019 as well, despite being 30 years too late for the moment that chord first struck. They\u00a0didn\u2019t know either that The Long Ryders and others were right then resuscitating that sound, with a discordant edge, in sweaty rock clubs on Sunset Boulevard, planting a seed that led to California\u2019s modern day Rickenbacker revivalists. When they started creating pop songs dominated by the chime of the 12-string guitar in their band Goldrush \u2013 ones that even made the real charts \u2013 the lads weren\u2019t the first Brits to revive the sound; Tony Poole\u2019s Starry Eyed &\u00a0Laughing had done so in the \u201970s when McGuinn and co were already fading out of fashion. Sid Griffin of The Long Ryders and Tony Poole are both on board here, Sid contributing \u2018Tell Her All The Time\u2019, and Tony producing and playing on that track and the first two Dreaming Spires tracks on the EP, as well as mastering the record.<\/p>\n

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By the turn of the millennium, a lot of allegedly \u201ccontemporary\u201d music to their ears sounded squeaky-clean and soulless, marking back the worse aspects of the \u201980s, and the fashion boat had sailed again with them overboard. Trained as teenagers watching streaky VHS tapes of The Stone Roses, clad in paisley shirts and jangly guitars, and later by Ride\u2019s Mark Gardener, who\u00a0lent the group his\u00a0custom John Lennon Rickenbacker for tours to the USA, where they met the likes of Rob Campanella (of The Quarter After and Brian Jonestown Massacre). He lent them his 12-string Rickenbacker too (and he\u2019s on board here producing The Hanging Stars in his LA studio).<\/p>\n

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After Goldrush called it a day and \u00a0The Dreaming Spires were formed, brother Joe purchased his own 12-string guitar, in fact, two: a Rickenbacker and a Danelectro. He plays them on Co-pilgrim\u2019s \u2018Save the Queen Blazer\u2019, and has been kind enough to lend them to his brother for their tracks on the album. \u201cI really should get my own one of these days (maybe if enough of these records sell),\u201d says Robin. \u201cThree of our songs were recorded at the legendary Ardent Studios in Memphis, home of the equally-legendary Big Star. The other, \u2018Silverlake Sky\u2019 was written right on Sunset Strip, the heart of The Paisley Underground, and recorded here in Oxfordshire using a 60s Eko 12-string acoustic. Jamie Dawson played drums on our four songs before upping sticks permanently to California himself \u2013 and who are we to blame him? The final track on this record is \u2018Arrows\u2019 by The Raving Beauties, a fictional band echoing the \u201960s era, but created in 21st century Brighton for a book, and now a real live group: with the right amount of jangle, you can cross between decades and between fiction and reality, discord and harmony. Strike the right chord and the sun will shine, even in rainy grey England. \u201cLove will shine on you, if you want it to.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Paisley Overground is released on\u00a012 Inch Vinyl on June 10th<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exclusive streamed preview from The Dreaming Spires from the forthcoming\u00a0Paisley Overground album https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/at-the-helm-records\/sets\/the-dreaming-spires-paisley\/s-2I4TJ It must all go back to The Beatles and their ringing 12-string Rickenbackers, heard by us all as children, and heard by Roger (Jim) McGuinn too. In the Bennett household the band\u00a0were bouncing round the living room to all of \u2018Hard Day\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[264],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-videos","tag-the-dreaming-spires"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":-1,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}