GIGS +++ More solo Shirley Lee shows are confirmed:
Saturday 1st October: Lille – “Domino Boomerang” (I will be playing for around an hour at this “living-room” gig. If you are interested in attending, please email Nicolas: dominoboomerang@yahoo.fr ) Saturday 15th October: London – Wilmington Arms (with The Bitter Springs) OTHER STUFF+++ Go here and here to see me performing The Reservoir and Scottish Pop live with the splendid A Little Orchestra at last month’s How Does It Feel shows. Here’s an interview I did with the estimable Eric Stephenson, firstly some chat about the new album, Then about “A Week Away” and “A Different Lifetime”, and finally Eric’s Top 10 Spearmint tunes.

The brand new Shirley Lee album is out now! You can get it here. The album is entitled “Winter Autumn Summer Spring”, is a double-album featuring 30 songs, and is available on double CD, heavyweight double gatefold LP and digital download. I will be making my solo debut in London on Thursday 23 June at Jamm in Brixton. This is band night from the “How Does It Feel To Be Loved” team and will also include me performing a song or two with A Little Orchestra. There’s more information here and a Facebook event page here…

The new Shirley Lee single will be released digitally on Monday 23rd May. It is called “An Old Cricketer”, and is made of my personal memories of John Peel. Grab it here: http://www.hitbackonline.co.uk/acatalog/Shirley_Lee.html and watch the video (which took three minutes to make) here: The second Shirley Lee album will be released on Monday 13th June. It’s entitled “Winter Autumn Summer Spring”, it’s a double-album featuring 30 songs, and will be released on double CD, heavyweight double gatefold LP and digital download. If you order the CD or Vinyl from us you can get the digital download absolutely free! Pre order from the same link: http://www.hitbackonline.co.uk/acatalog/Shirley_Lee.html I’m going to play the following shows totally solo: Saturday 11 June – Lille: “Domino Boomerang” (I will be playing for around an hour at this “living-room” gig. If you are interested in attending, please email Nicolas ondominoboomerang@yahoo.fr ) Thursday 23 June – London: Jamm, Brixton (a band night from the “How Does It Feel To Be Loved” team) If you are interested in booking me for more gigs, please drop me a line on mail@spearmint.net. Best, Shirl

Single The new Shirley Lee single will be released digitally on Monday 23rd May. It is called “An Old Cricketer (For John Peel)”, and you can hear it now on this website. New Album After (the usual) slight delay, the second Shirley Lee album will be released on Monday 13th June. It is a double-album featuring 30 songs, and will be released on double CD, double LP and digital download… and you can now have a listen to 10 tracks on this site! Shows I am going to play the following shows totally solo. If I get through these in one piece then I will add more through the summer: Saturday 7 May – Leeds: “Don’t Falter” at Baby Jupiter (a really good club night; I will be playing a half-hour set around 10pm) Saturday 11 June – Lille: “Domino Boomerang” (I will be playing for around an hour at this “living-room” gig. If you are interested in attending, please email Nicolas on dominoboomerang@yahoo.fr ) Thursday 23 June – London: Jamm, Brixton (a band night from the “How Does It Feel To Be Loved” team) If you are interested in booking me for more gigs, please drop me a line on mail@spearmint.net. Shirl

Hello And welcome to 2011! I appreciate that it has been a while, about a year in fact, but we have been busy. I have written and recorded a new Shirley Lee album for release in the spring and am planning to play solo live, Andy has completed his third solo album, and we are about to start on the next Spearmint record. I asked Jim if he had any cool photos of me and this is what he sent… Radio Interview Go here to listen to me chattering at some length a few days ago to the splendid Geoff Lokke on his U.S. radio show. New Album The second Shirley Lee album is pencilled in for release on 25th April. It will be a double-album featuring 30 songs, and will be released on double CD, double LP and digital download. I have written, performed and produced this one myself, so unfortunately am unable to blame anyone else for the way it has come out. Jim is currently finishing the sleeve artwork. Single The album will be preceded on 4th April by a digital single “An Old Cricketer (For John Peel)”. Shows I intend to attempt playing some shows totally solo. If you think you have the perfect venue to host a tall, tentative man singing with an acoustic guitar very quietly then drop a line to mail@spearmint.net. Spearmint The next album is currently a blank page (my favourite bit). Jim and I have had two long walks in the woods, and got quite excited about how we are going to approach it. Ideally we will write and record this year for release with live shows next year, but this is all subject to us coming up with something we feel is worthy!