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spunge are a ska punk band from Tewkesbury, England. The lead singer, Alex Copeland, has commented that the brackets are in the name so that the letters don’t fall out. The correct name does not capitalise the ‘S’, probably for aesthetic reasons. spunge are the only band who has ever officially been given permission by the Marley family to change the lyrics of a Bob Marley song, on their cover of “No Woman, No Cry” (this can be found on their second album, Room For Abuse). The brackets in the name also make it difficult to type in sources using bbcode.
The Story So Far…
Concieved in July 1994 with almost the same line up as today (the only difference being that vocalist Alex used to double up on bass), the band went through a lengthy gestation period (adding bassist Simon Bayliss in 1995 and replacing him with local hardcore man Martin Holt in 1997) before emerging with the ‘Kicking Pigeons EP’ in 1998.
Having sold 5000 copies at pub gigs the boys decided that there was enough potential to jack in the day jobs and make the band a full time concern.
Having soon gained a manager in Dave Juste of Birmingham’s Xposure Rock Cafe (a regular early haunt), hit the road, and would eventually notch up well over three hundred gigs in just two years.
Less than a year later in 1999, released their debut album Pedigree Chump on MoonSka Europe and thus set about introducing the band and their unique brand of ska, dub, punk and comedy to a wider audience.
Unfortunately Martin got sick of being on the road, so good friend Jarvis from local pop-punks B-Movie Heroes jumped in on bass despite being a guitarist and stayed there!
The Story So Far…
Concieved in July 1994 with almost the same line up as today (the only difference being that vocalist Alex used to double up on bass), the band went through a lengthy gestation period (adding bassist Simon Bayliss in 1995 and replacing him with local hardcore man Martin Holt in 1997) before emerging with the ‘Kicking Pigeons EP’ in 1998.
Having sold 5000 copies at pub gigs the boys decided that there was enough potential to jack in the day jobs and make the band a full time concern.
Having soon gained a manager in Dave Juste of Birmingham’s Xposure Rock Cafe (a regular early haunt), hit the road, and would eventually notch up well over three hundred gigs in just two years.
Less than a year later in 1999, released their debut album Pedigree Chump on MoonSka Europe and thus set about introducing the band and their unique brand of ska, dub, punk and comedy to a wider audience.
Unfortunately Martin got sick of being on the road, so good friend Jarvis from local pop-punks B-Movie Heroes jumped in on bass despite being a guitarist and stayed there!
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JerryZucchini wrote:
Room For Abuse would be a solid, fantastic album if not for the shitty reggae covers.
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frrr0 wrote:
oh yea hyea
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zerika1 wrote:
Come to Brazil!
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number2xtreme wrote:
so good
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JonnyRIDDLE wrote:
Fuck yeah. They're playing here in a couple weeks. I haven't listened to them in forever. They played here in about 2005 or something too and were fucking awesome.
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SkankinStephen wrote:
I would also shit if you came to the U.S. (preferably Atlanta Ga), but then again I would shit if you didn't! Constipation is not my cup of tea.
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rAsTaPUNX91 wrote:
COME TO THE U.S. DAMMIT! I would shit!
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JoeyDigsThis wrote:
fuckin great band
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BoniBoyBlue wrote:
Best British band I've heard in a while. Saw them supporting the Dropkicks.
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rotfel wrote:
YEAH!
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Music_Walrus wrote:
no scrobbles :( glad i found out about it.
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andysniper wrote:
you guys were epic last night at chaos in guernsey. epic.
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FramedThief wrote:
JUST found these guys on Pandora radio. Already love them.
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lightfilter wrote:
this band deserves so much more recognition
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Rogar wrote:
I noticed that too. It won't scrobble their music unless I take out the brackets, and then it auto-corrects itself to have the brackets... : \
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meagmog wrote:
pleeeeeeeease come to canada D:
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_Ivar_ wrote:
Tag as 'spunge', not as '[spunge]', if you want it to scrobble...
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Moonburp wrote:
My spunge tracks won't scrobble D:
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eatyour_face wrote:
fucking thing won't scrobble!!!!
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News
[spunge] in Newcastle on 22/10/11
22 Oct 2011 | from spunge.co.uk
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Tour: October 2011
Date: Saturday, October 22nd 2011
Time: 6:30pm
City: Newcastle
Venue:
O2 Academy
Address:
Westgate Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1
1SW
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