Spin Spin The Dogs - Leave Me In Leicester

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4...according to our Business Lady on Thu 28 Jan, 2010.

Spin Spin The Dogs are in the house! Formed a while back, this London based avant rock band have been doing the rounds for sometime, finally settling on a solid line-up that includes original members Vincent Larkin, Dean Hinks and John Wilson and new addition Luke Younger of Birds Of Prey/delay/etc infamy. Musically the group sit somewhere amongst the murky worlds of post punk, avant rock and good old rock'n'roll making up new rules as they good along. Songs build themselves into a frenzy before tripping over themselves in all the excitement and confusion with Vincent Larkin's odd musings leading the group into ever more curious territory. They are not unlike quirky, guitarless progsters Cleckhuddersfax especially on 'Digging and Driving' but they also share alot in common with The Fall, Pere Ubu and other scatty yet ingenious rock outfits. 'Leave Me In Leicester' is yet another notch in the Gringo records belt and a fine example of the occasional greatness of uk guitar bands. Very nice.

Four piece band based in London but formed in Nottingham in February of 2003. Original members Vincent Larkin, Dean Hinks and John Wilson began making music in the basement of their shared Nottingham house after a compromise was made on who would get the biggest room. The band needed members. Ben Woods began by playing drums, but then some time in 2004 he disappeared. His departure heralded the arrival of a new drummer, James Smith, and a tenor saxophonist, Cyril Diels. Quietly, and with a great amount of respect, they also disappeared. A spate of disappearing band members followed, until two years and a few successful (notorious?) live performances later the group recorded a 10” EP named Cats! in the basement of East London pub. Released with characteristically ill-timing in 2005, the band promptly went on indefinite hiatus as current drummer and principle songwriter John Wilson did as all Spin Spin The Dogs drummers do, and disappeared. This hiatus was brought to an end in 2007 after John was discovered in South Australia. Realising there is more to life than sun, sea and warm burnt meat, he returned to the UK, tail between legs, and put the band back together. Impatient to return to live performance, highly regarded and never to be underestimated avant-garde noise musician Luke Younger was drafted in to play guitar for the band in late 2007. And thus a new golden age for the band was entered. A band is often a collaborative venture, requiring compromises between individual members and their opposing visions. With Spin Spin the Dogs this is not this is not the case. Each member of the group is invited to believe that the vision is his alone. In fact, no one person can control Spin Spin the Dogs. The music and performance is driven and directed by an invisible hand of name unknown and intention withheld. The impression of the each member past and present is that they are the masters of their own destiny; this is their joyous delusion! Spin Spin The Dogs you to share this joyous delusion - to transcend notions of the ridiculous and the sincere. Spin Spin The Dogs look like tennis umpires. They are also that rarest of things: an English guitar band worth a shit. // Vice Magazine.

Tracks : 1. New World Hands 2. Digging And Driving 3. Big Ben 4. Leave Me In Leicester 5. Kingdom Time 6. Bed 7. Heads Nose Teef Toes 8. Saddam Insain? 9. Hungry For Love

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