Squire Fan Club Newsletter

Welcome to Smash!  - The new Squire Album! Smash - coloured vinyl, CD and cassette! Sign up for early access to the pre-order! Email Address Website This is the story of one of of the songs on the new album: Winterman. This tape holds all the clues! The title is written on the reel! Winterman! It may be summer, but sometimes it only lasts a week! 'Hey! Mr. Winterman, give us back our sunshine if you can!' The song is the penultimate track on Side Two of the forthcoming Smash LP, and if you've ever had to nervously knock on...

Hi and welcome to the latest newsletter! Deep in the run-out groove of the 1983 Get Smart album, scratched into the vinyl, are the words 'GET SET FOR A SMASHING TIME…' That was a clue to the planned next Squire record release! But it was quietly set aside- until now! Smash was written fast, in the mid-1980s, dashing between London and Los Angeles. The songs came from that sense of dislocation,  jet lag, two cities, two cultures, hearing two completely different versions of what pop music was supposed to sound like. It wanted to be modern without being avant-garde, personal...

  Hi and welcome to the latest Squire newsletter! It’s Mods Mayday London - again! Unfortunately Squire had to withdraw from the line up at the last minute this year - unplanned last minute family obligations, not illness thankfully. But its a shame because we never miss it! And this year we were looking forward to meeting and seeing our overseas mod colleagues The Inciters, from California, and Little Murders from Australia. But here we are as a special treat, on stage at The Forum in London in 1999, playing the rarely performed ‘The Youth Of Today Are Gonna Make...

Two weeks ago we were playing in Guadalajara in Spain. It seems like an age ago! There is something extraordinary about playing overseas dates. It is an epic expedition for starters. It's not jump in the van and two or three hours later you're there. It is an all-day affair, up early, immigration and customs, the whole journey seems designed to stop you getting there, and then when you arrive, everything is exciting and different, and the overwhelming desire to sleep is overtaken by the overwhelming desire to join the party! The event of course was Guadasoul 11. Guadalajara is...

Hi, and welcome to the latest Squire newsletter! First of all, thank you to everyone who came to see us at the My Generation Weekender in Minehead in January. It was a weekend full of drama, not least because travel coincided with the worst storm in ages, and nobody was quite sure whether anyone was going to get there. But we all did, and by all accounts around 4,000 people made it to enjoy everything. Pretty much every mod band in existence was there. It felt like a gathering rather than a gig, and that's exactly the point of this...