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Member Since1/31/2005
Band Websitehttp://www.quireboys.com
Band MembersSpike (Vocals)
Guy Griffin (Guitar)
Paul Guerin (Guitar)
Keith Weir (Keyboards)
Phil Martini (drums)

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Sounds Like"If you were to get the Stones, The Faces, Humble Pie, Aerosmith, Mott The Hoople, Slade, ACDC and other great rock n' roll bands of their era - mix them together, add some great stage presence, 6 great personalities and some top songs - then invite them and all your best mates to your house for the best party ever - you would probably get something close to a Quireboys gig"

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A little bit of what you need to know

There are those who’d have you believe that bands like The Quireboys aren’t supposed to make records this good.

That in the 21st century there’s no place for a type of music which, it was once famously pointed out, was supposed to have passed out permanently after a particularly heavy drinking session in the 70s.

That the trademark urchin-shaggy hair, scuffed boots, flares and waistcoats are now the preserve of skinny comedians, not a disparate bunch of rock’n’roll ragamuffins.

So welcome, my friends, to the continuing true adventures of the last gang in town.

With the release of their latest album Homewreckers & Heartbreakers everyone’s favourite vagabonds prove that - like the finest red wine - true quality only improves with age.

You know the history; the late 80s stories of round-the-clock boozin’, cigarettes and the most elegantly ramshackle flash-trash-rock’n’roll. The dalliance with Sharon Osbourne’s delicate management touch; the fall from grace which so many great British bands underwent when the record companies went looking for the grimy grunge dollar. Then the late 90s re-emergence, and the band’s re-establishment as a keystone of British rock’n’roll.

But quitters never win, and winners never quit. So now, well into the new Millennium, The Quireboys just keep on doing what it is they do best.

Festival favourites once again, they cemented their concert legend with the 2006 release of the live DVD One More For The Road. Their last two releases This Is Rock’n’Roll and Well Oiled hinted loudly at it, but the evidence of a full-scale rehabilitation is writ large all over Homewreckers & Heartbreakers (make up your own mind about whether the title refers to the band, or the here-today-gone-later-today ladies who’ve left stiletto marks all over their bruised hearts.)

Just like on his excellent solo record It’s A Treat To Be Alive, singer Spike turned to his hometown of Newcastle for lyrical inspiration. And Homewreckers & Heartbreakers’ opening track, I Love This Dirty Town, is a joyous ode to Tyne-life, name-checking Dog Leap Stairs and Amen Corner with a joyous exuberance. The chopping guitars from Guy Griffin and Paul Guerin, and wailing harmonica hark back to the traditional Quireboys sound, but there’s a maturity too, bringing in elements of country and even folk.

Spike says: “I think overall, I’m very happy with this album. There’s a different feel to some of the songs, we wanted to stretch ourselves a little on things like Blackwater, because that makes it interesting for us as well as the listeners.

“We’ve introduced some of the new numbers into the live set as well, and we’ve all been really pleased with the response they’re getting.”

Guy adds: “It’s an album that works on plenty of levels - there’s material that will keep the loyal fans happy, but there’s also stuff in the mix that we hope can help introduce a new generation of fans to The Quireboys. “We’re a very different band to what we were all those years ago, all a lot older and a lot wiser, which is bound to be reflected in the kind of material that we’re doing and the sort of pressure we put on ourselves.

“So although we’re still very proud of everything we achieved back then, Homewreckers & Heartbreakers is very much where The Quireboys are now.”

The beautiful Mona Lisa Smiled is a mid-paced, acoustic-led number with delicate touches of mandolin, recalling the genius of Frankie Miller. Once again, Spike’s raggle-taggle vocals are perfectly suited to a whiskey-soaked lament for a bittersweet love. It’s an inescapable truth that the music of The Quireboys is rooted in the Seventies, the era of flag-waving anthems, and Mona Lisa Smiled deserves to take its place alongside the best of them.

Louder is underpinned by Keith Weir’s piano and a honeyed, gospel-style backing vocal; a tale of the evils of TV evangelism, while Fear Within The Lie is the record’s first out-and-out ballad, a nagging, insistent tear-stained letter to a love gone bad, as the guitars cut loose.

Blackwater is among the most ambitious tracks The Quireboys have attempted; a near seven-minute epic slice of southern funky rock. The swampy bass pattern transports the listener to the backwoods of Lynchburg, Tennessee (home, of course, to the Jack Daniel’s distillery). It works beautifully.

There’s a joyous feel too about One For The Road, Spike’s favourite lyrical theme (raising a glass...) leading a bittersweet fiddle-driven romp which takes the band a fair way down the road into country territory. There’s even a lyrical tip of the hat to the Georgia Satellites’ album In The Land Of Salvation & Sin – former Satellites man Dan Baird mastered the album.

We’ve all been there; a few too many drinks and the desire to speak to a former love takes hold.Well, ladies and gentlemen, Late Nite Saturday Call is the theme song of all those emotion-choked confessions and apologies. A stunning ballad with sterling backing vocals from Welsh folk-blues belter Cherry Lee Mewis, it’s a guaranteed lighter-waver and, if anything, the natural, soulful sequel to The Quireboys’ massive 1980s hit, I Don’t Love You Anymore.

Hall Of Shame swaggers in on a Stonesy, Crowesy riff and funky keyboard motif, recalling the cocksure heyday of The Quireboys. The folksy, campfire, guitars that usher in Take A Look At Yourself evoke a million love songs and again there’s a thick musical tapestry, while Hello’s laid-back acoustic charm belies the vitriolic lyrical attack within (you wouldn’t want to be the person on the end of Spike’s barbs here).

Album closer Josephine takes us back once again to The Quireboys’ roots as out-and-out shinkicking rock’n’rollers, a raucous 12-bar romp through a perilous minefield of teenage temptresses and lipstick queens.

Dismiss The Quireboys at your peril because Homewreckers & Heartbreakers – and the string of rollocking, good-time live shows that have followed it – are among the classic rock’n’roll events of the year.

by Johnny Sparks
Record LabelJerkin' Crocus/Universal
Type of LabelMajor


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Playa Club, A Coruna Spain
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El Sol or Caracol, Madrid Spain
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Q, Sevilla Spain
Nov 19 2009 8:00P
El Tren, Granada Spain
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Durango Club, Valencia Spain
Nov 21 2009 8:00P
Apolo 2, Barcelona Spain
Dec 4 2009 8:00P
Spring and Airbrake, Belfast Belfast
Dec 5 2009 6:00P
Hard Rock Hell 2009 Prestatyn
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Mr Kyp’s, Poole Poole
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Academy, Bristol Bristol
Dec 11 2009 8:00P
The HMV Forum, London London
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JB’s, Dudley Dudley
Dec 17 2009 8:00P
Academy, Liverpool Liverpool
Dec 18 2009 8:00P
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Dec 19 2009 8:00P
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Dec 20 2009 8:00P
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Every time vocalist Spike self-confidently informs his enthusiastic audience We're the Quireboys ... and this is Rock n Roll everyone present has a pretty clear idea where this musical journey is about to lead. For fifteen years, the Quireboys have been synonymous with hand-made rock music, spiced with edgy riffs, driving rhythms and their frontmans unique voice.

The Quireboys have never felt the need to emulate their supposed idols; their originality, their charisma and their unequivocal Rock n Roll slogans have always guaranteed the band their very own place in rock history.

Having got together in 1986, the Quireboys were soon thrilling live audiences with their live shows.. Two singles released by a small independent label in England consolidated their fan community, which continued to grow with every gig. When Ozzy Osbournes wife Sharon signed the band in the late Eighties, everything went its apparently almost inevitable course: their debut album, A Bit Of What You Fancy, came out in 1990 and went straight to no. 2 of the Japanese and British album charts an amazing success for a new band. Live, the Quireboys developed a charm all of their own. Their stage set resembled an English pub, their songs were about the most tempting of all vices namely wine, women and good music.

In the early Nineties, the Quireboys were enlisted to play as opening act for the Rolling Stones and performed at Englands legendary Castle Donington festival. Only a few months later, Live Around The World arrived, an impressive stage document immortalising those first successful concerts. In 1993, the musicians ensconced themselves in a Vancouver studio with production legend Bob Rock to cut their second studio recording, Bitter, Sweet & Twisted. But in the meantime, the arrival of grunge had thoroughly influenced the zeitgeist of the scene, and the media reacted with restraint. In other words, there wasnt much more to be said on the subject of the Quireboys, and their 1994 best-of release gave the impression of a posthumous obituary. There was still the odd show, but life as a real band appeared to be a thing of the past for the time being.

For six long years, between 1993 and 1999, not much was heard from the band.

Then all of a sudden it was in 1999 that the band returned to the stage to the delight of their many faithfuls. A new recording contract and the albums Lost In Space (featuring older cuts) and This Is Rock n Roll resuscitated the groups career.

They played in Canada in Spring 2001 and embarked on a major European tour in October of the same year. Only a few months later, Danny Bowes (Thunder) invited them to play at the revived Monsters Of Rock festival, featuring Alice Cooper as headlining act. Their second live album, 100% Live 2002, was recorded during the Monsters tour.

In 2004, with their current line-up, consisting of the three original members, Spike, guitarist Guy Griffin and bassist Nigel Mogg, plus new additions Keith Weir (keyboards), Paul Guerin (guitars) and drummer Pip Mailing, they released Well Oiled, featuring 9 convincing new tracks.

The end of 2006 will see a DVD Release from the band, and will also see them continuing to work on their brand new album. More news on these to come...


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Nov 8 2009 5:44 PM

Hey,

great concert in Vaureal!!! we are waiting for the next time, maybe in Paris!!!
 

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Nov 8 2009 5:44 PM

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Nov 8 2009 5:43 PM

Just ordered the new album, looking forward to hearing it through,

all the best lads

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Nov 8 2009 5:42 PM

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Hi there fellas !
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Nov 1 2009 1:18 PM

Greetings from the graveyard ! Happy Halloween...and keep on rockin' !!!
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LOST VOLTAIR

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Oct 26 2009 1:21 PM

Hey ! Grat songs !
Cheers
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Oct 26 2009 1:20 PM

Can't be missed!
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LOST VOLTAIR

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Oct 26 2009 1:20 PM

Hey !

We were at the MOODS, saturday nite, the girls next to the stage... Do you remember ? Your show is great and really Rock'n'roll !!!
We like it !
We will play on the same stage in a few days ;)

Keep on rockin' QuireBoys !

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Oct 26 2009 1:19 PM

Love your songs..

They always get played when we party!

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LOST VOLTAIR

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Oct 26 2009 1:19 PM

Hey guys !

Very big show for your last gig at the Moods of Monaco... At the programme : beers, french vine, sweat, red hot tube amp, beautiful old lady called Les Paul, and pure Rock'n'roll to wake up the sleeping town of Monaco ! Thanks a lot for the night !

We're sure you remember us : our drummer was the girl in the front of the scene who never clap, who never stand up, who never smiled. And now, she has a spider ;)

We play at the Moods the November 7 !

See you soon, we hope...

The Lost Voltair
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