A selection of songs recorded by the dutch New Wave band The Spivs. Enjoy!

Derrick

From the 1983 album "Yellow and Blue" 

Recorded at Studio 't Woud by Ide Min & Ben Kamp
Produced by Ton Dijkman. 
Music & words by Rob van der Plas.
Label: Loof Records, Spierdijk, The Netherlands 

Calling (The Spivs)

recording i made with Joffry Arthur, early nineties. It was all about slapping the bass back then ;)

happy slapper

The One

Here's my take on Hallelujah for Open D Lap Steel.

Hallelujah - for Open D Lap Steel

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Part song, part experimental tech-art piece, Toronto’s cinematic indie-pop/rock duo W I N C H E S T E R reveal their second single I'm Not Ready to Go Yet, taken from their forthcoming EP, “If Time is Not Linear Why Can’t I Forget the Past?”. The high-tech visual and audio experience is the product of the unbridled collision of the pair’s backgrounds in architecture, classical music, coding, visual art, DJing, and design. Together, Canadian artists Lauren Austin and Montgomery de Luna forge an atmospheric sonic palette brought to life by an equally hybrid video art piece that blurs the line between computation, projection mapping, photography, and still life.

A refreshing, genre-bending composition of cinematic swoons, pop hooks, luscious synths, and surreal guitars, songs from the W I N C H E S T E R debut have been described as, “epic tracks” by Velvet Rope Magazine’s editor Care Finch, stating, “this is certainly a band that I can get into”. Despite only releasing their first single in October of 2016, the song has already been picked up by the Hype Machine, IX Daily, Pan od Muzyki, Le Canal Auditif, Aimless Skylarking, Indiemono, and Indie Bands Blog. Their informal demos have previously garnered the attention of Velvet Rope, the Indie Rock Playlist, ongeKunsteld, 88.3 CJIQ’s Indie Rock Invasion Show, Bells Brigade, Coast2Coast Mixtapes, Music of the North, and 89.5 CIUT’s Unsigned Radio.

Fully self-produced in domestic secrecy, I'm Not Ready to Go Yet is the second in a series of art pieces to be released later this year through Label Labs Records, an emerging grassroots recording club based out of Toronto. With each release the group will carve out another piece of the W I N C H E S T E R universe, methodically developing the visual companion to each song. This combination of sonic and visual elements as one integrated work advances the duo’s vision of a holistic concept realized through multiple media which will define their place in the music scene.

I'm Not Ready to Go Yet

W I N C H E S T E R - I'm Not Ready To Go Yet

Boystown, from the album "To all our Friends"  (1995)
Jaap Castricum, Paul Bruijn, Wout Folmer
(Written by Jaap Castricum)
Recorded by Albert Schierbeek.

Gary Doesn't Play

self produced + written song. hope u enjoy. picture taken by my lovely and talented best friend: instagram.com/6wies

yesterday's interlude

ZOMBIES OR SLAVES

This is where I store my early Band Recordings of The Spivs (80's) +later projects, early Hurryman songs & some of my brother's  demo's.
For my latest work with Hurrymania go to https://soundcloud.com/hurrymania For my new material I'm setting up a new account.

Derrick

Rob's old tracks