really cool indeed!... sounding so great!

Stateside's Ballad

SPIES are: 
Michael Broderick // Neil Dexter // Conor Cusack // Hugh O'Dwyer // Jeffrey Courtney //

Engineered by by Rian Trench at The Meadow, 
Delgany, Wicklow.
Mixed by Jake Miller
Mastered by Fergal Davis.
Released by Trout Records. 
All songs written and performed by SPIES. 
© SPIES ℗ 2014. All rights reserved.

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Bryan Ferry’s most recent musical odyssey came in the form of 2014’s critically acclaimed
Avonmore album, now the LP gets some very special remix treatment by a connoisseur selection
of disco artists from around the globe. The celebrated and taste-making likes of Leo Zero, Ray Mang, Prins
Thomas, Justin Robertson, Leftside Wobble, Idjut Boys, Man Power and many more all lend their
well trained ears and serve up some sizzling new versions of the superb originals.

Bryan Ferry is one of the UK’s foremost singer songwriters, a pop artist and musician whose
appeal has spanned five decades. With his elegant virtuoso performances as the
front man Roxy Music, and his subsequent illustrious solo career Ferry has achieved numerous
accolades and has been a great source of influence and inspiration for
ensuing generations of musicians. As such, a project like this allows some of these established and rising talents the
unique opportunity to add their own spin to Ferry’s singular style.

A broad palette of sounds, scenes and genres are traversed along the course of this absorbing
collection. It kicks off in style with two different versions of ‘Loop Di Li’. Leo Zero’s take is sun-kissed and breezy, 
with trilling riffs and sweeping synths. UK disco don Ray Mang then offers a
more pumping, groove driven effort that wraps Ferry’s unique vocals up in neo-Balearic cool.
Next up, the marvellous ‘Midnight Train’ is offered as a late night and romantic affair by Johnson
Somerset, a cosmic chugger by Man Power and a characteristically left of centre house version
by the inimitable Idjut Boys, famed for being remix kings.

Fans of dubbed out and slo-motion disco will love the brilliant Beard of Concern mix of ‘Soldier of
Fortune,’ before five fascinating versions of ‘Driving Me Wild’ take in lush 80s nostalgia,
swaggering dub, mechanical psychedelic disco, horizontal grooves and elastic kosmiche from
Johnson Somerset, Leftside Wobble, Justin Roberton’s Deadstock 33s, Leo Zero and Ray Mang
respectively.

The latter half of the album finds nu-disco pioneer Prins Thomas masterfully flip the title track into
a broody affair with corrugated bass and tense, scintillating synth lines, whilst PBR Streetgang
work ‘One Night Stand’ into a deep and synthetic disco bomb that will have dance-floors in
raptures. Elsewhere, Idjut Boys, Ray Mang, Leo Zero, Johnson Somerset offer more expert reworks.
Ambient Pioneer Ulrich Schnauss has the coveted task of adapting ‘Johnny & Mary’, Ferry’s timeless collaboration with Norwegian man of the moment Todd Terje.
Hidden Orchestra layer grand instrumentals and sweeping strings into a dramatic and theatrical
remix of ‘Send in the Clowns.’ Leftside Wobble is then left to bring us back down to earth with an
intoxicating brew of molten synths, woozy chords and smeared pads that sooth mind, body and
soul.

The rich source material here, along with the wealth of stars chosen to remix it, all make for
another fascinating chapter in the life of one of the UK’s most cherished artists.

Loop De Li (Leo Zero Extended Dub)

Forget About It - Any Other City Records

this song is from our new EP "Weed for The Parrots" out on 22nd June.

10"/digital via Luv Luv Luv Records (WW)
10" via Sonido Muchacho (SP)
CASSETTE via Burger Records (WW)

art by C.M.Ruiz

To The People Who Showed Me Their Love While I Was Here

Petrol Station Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS9s_Ia_iCI


Produced by @bailemusic 
Recorded by Gian Stone 
Mixed by Gian Stone and Harper James
Mastered by Anthony Scott DePerto 
Artwork by Shane Gormley


Lyrics:

We stayed up late to watch a movie
April fools I think a Tuesday
Spring had just arrived
And so our clothes were hanging loosely

We stepped outside
To the old petrol station
Out of nowhere started raining
Kinda suited the occasion
Reminded me of when we spent our whole summer vacation
Two thousand eleven
Sleeping in my basement
Looking back I think that we just spent those 2 weeks wasted
Some side of love we tasted
You find your love you chase it

If I, If I never told you
That I wanna hold you
That I wanna hold you
I just wish it was old news
If I, If I never told you
That I wanna hold you
That I wanna hold you
I just wish it was old news

By now,
Cause you're coming over to my house
You're coming over to my house
Red eyes don't get rid of your doubt
By now,
Cause you're coming over to my house
You're coming over to my house
Red eyes don't get rid of your doubt

We stayed up late to watch the day arrive
Lucky number 25
Take a minute 
Just to live it
And that's when you'll realize
Every now and then 
The worst week makes the best weekend
And everything is better
Because I'm with all my friends
Some suburban kids just getting drunk out in the garden
Sitting by a swimming pool
With the best dressed kid from Harlem
Grass stains on my shoes
My rib cage is bruised
But that side of love we tasted 
You find that stuff you chase it

If I, If I never told you
That I wanna hold you
That I wanna hold you
I just wish it was old news

If I, If I never told you
That I wanna hold you
That I wanna hold you
I just wish it was old news

By now,
Cause you're coming over to my house
You're coming over to my house
Red eyes don't get rid of your doubt
By now,
Cause you're coming over to my house
You're coming over to my house
Red eyes don't get rid of your doubt

I'm not holding out For anything better
Can we just stay here forever? Can we just stay here forever?
I'm not holding out For anything better
Can we just stay here forever? Can we just stay here forever?
I'm not holding out For anything better
Can we just stay here forever? Can we just stay here forever?
I'm not holding out For anything better
Can we just stay here forever? Can we just stay here
Cause I should have told you

By now,
Cause you're coming over to my house
You're coming over to my house
Red eyes don't get rid of your doubt
By now,
Cause you're coming over to my house
You're coming over to my house
Red eyes don't get rid of your doubt

Sorcha Richardson - Petrol Station

Written, arranged and performed by Gemma Doherty and Morgan MacIntyre, with the exception of drums programmed, and bass performed by Alex Ryan. 

Produced by Gemma Doherty, Morgan MacIntyre and Alex Ryan.

Recorded and mixed by Alex Ryan at Noise, Bonane, Co. Kerry. 

Mastered by Fergal Davis.

'Madrid' EP to be released by Trout Records, November 2015.

Artwork by Deborah Sheedy.

Logo by Éna Brennan.

Madrid

Written by Paddy Hanna 
 
Mark Chester - Guitar 
Bobby Aherne - Bass, Piano 
Enda Canavan - Drums 
P. Hanna - Guitar, Vocals, keyboards 
Produced by Mark Chester 

Recorded in Orphan Recording, Dublin 

Cover design by Jill Redmond 
Cover photo by Conor Steenson.

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