Squire Fan Club Newsletter

Hi and welcome to the latest newsletter! I've been busy listening to all the rough mixes of the upcoming LP and what jumps out more than anything is the Rickenbacker 12-string sound - it's so characterful. It's always been a major part of the Squire sound; I was already using the azure blue 12-string live on stage in 1979! And in 1980, when we recorded My Mind Goes Round In Circles / Does Stephanie Know?, it was my main guitar, and has been ever since really. I rarely play a live date without it nearby, and on some tours -...

Hi and welcome to the Squire newsletter! The weather has suddenly become summer! A new day! While working on the Smash LP release, I’ve been reminiscing about the time spent in California and realising that a lot of the stories have been subjects for the Squire newsletter, that is now up to 160 editions! While its May Bank Holiday in the UK, it’s a good time to relax and think about some of those stories in the context of how I’m writing longer posts on Substack as ‘Sunday Listening Sessions’ and introducing new tracks from the forthcoming record. The latest...

Hi and welcome to this weeks newsletter! We’re diving into Smash! The missing Squire album. Last week we previewed two tracks and this week a special third track… The title is written on the reel! Winterman! It seems apt. It’s the middle of May and it feels like February. North wind, heating back on, coat back on.This is  the perfect week for Winterman. 'Hey! Mr. Winterman, give us back our sunshine if you can!' The song is the penultimate track on Side Two of the forthcoming Smash LP, and if you've ever had to nervously knock on a grumpy neighbour's...

Hi and welcome to the latest newsletter! Deep in the run-out groove of the 1983 Get Smart album, scratched into the vinyl, are the words 'GET SET FOR A SMASHING TIME…' That was a clue to the planned next Squire record release! But it was quietly set aside- until now! Smash was written fast, in the mid-1980s, dashing between London and Los Angeles. The songs came from that sense of dislocation,  jet lag, two cities, two cultures, hearing two completely different versions of what pop music was supposed to sound like. It wanted to be modern without being avant-garde, personal...

  Hi and welcome to the latest Squire newsletter! It’s Mods Mayday London - again! Unfortunately Squire had to withdraw from the line up at the last minute this year - unplanned last minute family obligations, not illness thankfully. But its a shame because we never miss it! And this year we were looking forward to meeting and seeing our overseas mod colleagues The Inciters, from California, and Little Murders from Australia. But here we are as a special treat, on stage at The Forum in London in 1999, playing the rarely performed ‘The Youth Of Today Are Gonna Make...