How much Rafferty is too much Rafferty? Of course, the punchline is that they wouldn’t change it for the world.
This July saw Spearmint release Stop Singing Baker Street’ a classic Spearmint pop song that tells a story of loving someone, but being perpetually irritated by one thing they do, in this case singing ‘Baker Street’… The song was released a week before the London band’s ambitious new concept album ‘Chase Me’ and this week there is a chance to hear the lads live in London at Hoxton’s Colours.
Re-united with producer Rhodri Marsden (Scritti Politti, Cardiacs), the ‘Chase Me’ album tells a story of success, disillusionment, disconnection, peril, and resurrection. Anchored by three chases across a city at night, book-ended by two out-of-body experiences, and working towards a suite of uplifting love songs, it’s a thriller, it’s a horror, it’s an allegory. Song-writer Shirley explains “The story would make a good movie I think… but we don’t know how to do that, so we did this.”
Spearmint have been making great records since debut ‘A Week Away’ in 1999 (‘Sweeping The Nation’, ‘A Trip Into Space’, ‘We’re Going Out’). Still the same line-up: Shirley Lee (singing, guitar), Simon Calnan (singing, keyboards), James Parsons (guitar) and Ronan Larvor (drums). This will be their eleventh album proper and the 65th release on their own hitBACK label.
Spearmint will premiere songs from the album alongside tracks from their catalogue that haven’t been played for years, or ever in one instance, live at Colours in Hoxton, London, on Tuesday 29th September 2026.
Tickets on sale now: https://link.dice.fm/da4e532c29df
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