{"id":32612,"date":"2019-10-29T12:15:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=32612"},"modified":"2019-10-19T13:45:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T17:45:42","slug":"spearmint-share-new-single-st-thomas-in-the-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=32612","title":{"rendered":"Spearmint share new single &#8216;St. Thomas In The Darkness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UK cult favourites Spearmint have released&nbsp;their new single <em>St. Thomas In The Darkness<\/em>.&nbsp;The band have shared a&nbsp;video for the track directed by Martin Gordon and filmed in the Observer Building,&nbsp;Hastings that has been left derelict for over 30 years. The band have also announced the upcoming release of their new album &#8216;Are You From The Future?&#8217; on November 1st&nbsp;via hitBACK label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spearmint songwriter and lead singer, Shirley Lee, has said that lyrically,&nbsp;<em>&#8220;it\u2019s a love song, and it\u2019s totally literal \u2013 I don\u2019t feel like it needs any explanation. I\u2019m very fond of the words as they are close to my heart, but also, I really like the \u201cWhen I\u2019m weak\u2026\u201d and the \u201cI\u2019m not good with names\u2026\u201d sections<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>We shot the video in the Observer Building in Hastings with director Martin Gordon. I really enjoyed how pretentious it all got, almost Hammer Horror, with us creeping round the vaults in darkness.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the video clip for <em>St. Thomas In The Darkness<\/em> via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TQSmNTwKWWY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year marks the 20th anniversary of their 1999 debut release &#8216;A Week Away&#8217;, but Spearmint have their minds  focused on the years to come.&nbsp;Shirley Lee explains,&nbsp;<em>&#8220;The title \u2018Are You From The Future?\u2019 refers to the younger folk, who will see a future that I won\u2019t. I can only apologise for what my generation and the baby boomers are passing on \u2013 the sooner the current teens and twenty-somethings are running the world the better, as far as I\u2019m concerned.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first taster from the release came in the form of single &#8217;24 Hours in A&amp;E&#8217;, that was a late addition to the record that then became a favourite with the band themselves.&nbsp;<em>&#8220;It was written when we were half-way through actually recording the album.&nbsp;I was so proud of the song, especially the structure, which I think is unique. I was worried that band or JB wouldn\u2019t get it, and would want to change it to make it more orthodox. But they all got it straight away, it was a pleasure to work on, and makes the perfect opener to the album<\/em>&#8220;, says Lee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen to<em> 24 Hours in A&amp;E<\/em> via <br><a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-czkkky-ejlihlkhu-k\/\">YouTube<\/a>\/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-czkkky-ejlihlkhu-u\/\">Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spearmint will premiere the new songs live with some choice cuts from the band\u2019s catalogue at the legendary Water Rats on&nbsp;November 14th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-czkkky-ejlihlkhu-q\/\">Buy tickets for the London live date <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>More on Spearmint and &#8216;Are You From The Future?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">London-based Spearmint have been quietly getting on with making great albums for a couple of decades now. Still the same line-up, still all on their own label. Often referred to as \u2018Britain\u2019s best kept secret\u2019, the band have resolutely ploughed their own path, ignoring all else, to concentrate on what they set out to do. Their single-minded search led Joseph Gordon Levitt to bemoan&nbsp;<em>\u201cI don\u2019t want to live in a world where no-one\u2019s heard of Spearmint\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;in the movie \u2018500 Days of Summer\u2019 (itself inspired by the band\u2019s \u2018My Missing Days\u2019 album), and led US publishers Image to issue a coffee-table book of graphic novellas based around 19 Spearmint songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Singer Shirley Lee&nbsp;says,&nbsp;<em>\u201cSomebody compared us to those soldiers who were still in the forest years later, because they didn\u2019t realise the war was over. I get that, but for us there never was an army, let alone a war\u2026 we never were part of a movement, or part of a scene, we\u2019ve been on our own all the way&#8230; and we still are. It sometimes makes it hard financially, but it\u2019s worth it. We\u2019ve been happily ignored most of the time, but it\u2019s allowed us to just get on with it.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;As a result, the band sound as fresh now as they did when their debut album \u2018A Week Away\u2019 was released twenty years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now comes the new Spearmint album &#8216;Are You From The Future?&#8217;, a heady, energetic, romantic exploration of the chaos we are all living through. Re-united with their original producer JB to make the record in Brighton, the band feel that the album is one of their very best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spearmint is still Shirley Lee (singing, guitar), Simon Calnan (singing, keyboards), James Parsons (bass, artwork) and Ronan Larvor (drums). The band are occasionally joined by Andy Lewis (Paul Weller). Andy was busy with other projects during the making of this album but will return in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As well as the 20th anniversary of their debut album \u2018A Week Away\u2019, the band are also celebrating the 50th release on their own hitBACK label.&nbsp;<em>\u201cWe only&nbsp;started hitBACK to avoid all that business of sending off demo tapes to labels. We saw so many good bands losing heart because they were rejected, or worse, splitting up because they&nbsp;<\/em>were<em>&nbsp;signed and then got dropped.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of Spearmint\u2019s key previous albums are the afore mentioned \u2018A Week Away\u2019 (1999), as well as \u2018A Different Lifetime\u2019 (2001), \u2018My Missing Days\u2019 (2003), \u2018Paris in a Bottle\u2019 (2006), \u2018Shirley Lee\u2019 (2009) and \u2018It\u2019s Time to Vanish\u2019 (2016), which was their latest release. \u2018Are You From The Future?\u2019 is out&nbsp;on 1st November&nbsp;digitally, on CD, and on very limited customised vinyl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8216;Are You From The Future&#8217; track listing<\/strong><br>1, 24 Hours in A and E<br>2, Pick The Papers Up<br>3, Senseless<br>4, Fireflies<br>5, Thomas<br>6, I Don&#8217;t Sleep Well Without You<br>7, Boom Boom Boom<br>8, As I Write This<br>9, St Thomas In The Darkness<br>10, I Met A Boy<br>11, The West Pier<br>12, It Won&#8217;t Happen To Me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-czkkky-ejlihlkhu-c\/\">Pre-order the album<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information on Spearmint, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-czkkky-ejlihlkhu-z\/\">spearmint.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>UK cult favourites Spearmint have released&nbsp;their new single St. Thomas In The Darkness.&nbsp;The band have shared a&nbsp;video for the track directed by Martin Gordon and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=32612\" title=\"Spearmint share new single &#8216;St. Thomas In The Darkness&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"On Culture Addicts: Spearmint share new single 'St. Thomas In The Darkness'","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,23,28,29,30],"tags":[8614,8612,8613],"class_list":["post-32612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","tag-are-you-from-the-future","tag-spearmint","tag-st-thomas-in-the-darkness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/11160DDA-516E-469D-89BB-EAA21BA68B74.jpeg?fit=900%2C599","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-8u0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2454,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=2454","url_meta":{"origin":32612,"position":0},"title":"Concubines release debut single + video","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"March 31, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Concubines' debut single Darkness will be released on limited edition vinyl via Howling Owl Records on May 14. 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