Squire Fan Club Newsletter

Welcome to the latest Squire Fan Club Newsletter, and to all the new members who signed up for the weekly email!  We still have some copies of the recent release and here is a link in case you missed the emails or posts. We are keeping the newsletter short this week as we are running a special competition for Squire Fan Club members, those of you who are subscribed to the mailing list here. So if you enjoy reading these newsletters but come direct, or follow a link through Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or Bandcamp etc. we encourage you to join...

Welcome to the new Squire Fan Club newsletter. We are looking at the hidden history of ‘The Place I Used To Live’ single! Last week we dived into the story behind the song, and identified all the landmarks in the lyrics based around the town of New Malden in South West London. This week we look at New Malden’s most famous lost landmark - the Decca Records vinyl pressing plant! Thanks to everyone who got in touch last week mentioning they knew or grew up in the area - we didn’t know New Malden was so ‘on the map’.  Musically,...

  Hi, and welcome to this weeks Squire Fan Club Newsletter. We are going ‘Behind The Music!’ to look at the writing and production behind the song ‘The Place I Used To Live’. The song ‘The Place I Used To Live’ has an interesting back story. It name checks various locations in New Malden, Surrey, a relatively obscure and generic suburb in Zone 4 of South West London, lying between Kingston and Wimbledon. In 1979, Squire were regularly playing live in London and the drive from Woking into London took us, and our van full of gear, along the A3...

Squire celebrate the first day of spring with a new record release! In stock and shipping now!Squire are thrilled to announce the release of their iconic single THE PLACE I USED TO LIVE b/w OVER YOU!Now for the first time ever, this classic single is issued on Hilo Records as a 7 inch, pressed in fresh spring yellow and luscious green vinyl! The record combines the energetic, lyrically sharp anthem with a true classic Squire ballad on the flip side. The songs, first released as an EP on Detour Records in 1994 showed Squire at a new peak of their...

  Hi, and welcome to this weeks Squire Fan Club newsletter! We are taking a deeper dive into 'The Young Idea - A pop tribute to Anthony Meynell & Squire' album released back in 2007, where we discuss the connection between Debbie Jones and 20/20 and reveal the true 'Face Of Youth Today'! Some of you may not have seen last weeks newsletter which introduced the Tribute album and reproduced the liner notes in full! So please have a look at the link here as it all got stuck in the web somewhere instead of getting properly published!  The idea...