Squire Fan Club Newsletter

  Welcome to the new Squire Fan Club newsletter, where we take you into the rehearsal studio and perform ‘Has Our Love Gone Bad’ with the Get Smart horn section! This week starts with a sombre moment as we reflect on the passing of Charlie Watts, drummer for The Rolling Stones. This is a sad occasion for everyone, and we have read many wonderful tributes and remembrances in newspapers, TV and on line - it was front page news across all the UK daily papers, and the stories continue to resonate around the world. It is a particularly poignant moment for...

Welcome to the new newsletter, where we reveal the winner of the ‘Jesamine’ white label Test Pressing and Squire T-shirt competition!  This time we decided to make the prize extra special by combining two items!  We’ve tried all sorts of interesting ways to set the competitions, from hidden history question, to identifying the sound on the record, being on the mailing list and sending in pictures. This time we simply asked who designed the 'Jesamine' single sleeve! Not so simple though because the answer isn’t credited on the new 'Jesamine' sleeve, so some of you had to go digging for clues!...

Welcome to the new Squire Fan Club newsletter where we listen to the vital input of the Rickenbacker guitars in the Squire sound and play some unheard Get Smart backing tracks! First of all thanks to everyone who has entered the Jesamine White Label Test Pressing and Squire T-Shirt competition so far. Lots of people have found the correct answer, and we will pick the winner next weekend! So theres still a week to enter! The question is in last weeks newsletter, linked in the photo below. Meanwhile, we can see the Competition has also inspired many of you to...

Hello and welcome to the latest Squire Fan Club Newsletter. It’s competition time! We are keeping the newsletter short this week as we are running a special competition for Squire Fan Club members, those of you who are subscribed to the mailing list here.  So if you enjoy reading these newsletters but come direct, or follow a link through Facebook or Bandcamp etc. we encourage you to join the mailing list as this is the key to joining in with special competitions, receiving news first, getting 'first dibs' on limited edition issues, special merch and rare stuff! So here is...

Welcome to the new Squire fan club newsletter, where we reveal The Style Council connection, and play the never heard before original Jesamine demo! The recording of ‘Jesamine’ is notable for the incredible trumpet solo, as well as the brass section on the choruses. While the brass section gives the song the character, adding to the joyous celebration, like a bandstand brass band, it is the Beatlesque veneer of the solo echoing the Beatles ‘Penny Lane’ single that is the highlight of the song, appearing with its unexpected timbre in what should be a guitar solo in an guitar/bass/drums band song....