On: Tue 9th May, 2023
At: Sheffield Sidney & Matilda
Door time: 19:30
Start time: 20:30
Price: £10.00
The link for this event is https://www.wegottickets.com/event/573804
Tickets will go on sale at: 11:00am Fri 24th Feb, 2023

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They combine Joy Division’s intensity – especially with, despite his heavy accent, Burnett’s blunt, Ian Curtis-like delivery - and a likeable C86 amateurism.  They deserve more than ‘Scotland’s Best Kept Secret’ status. 

The Skinny: 5 STARS 
The album manages to capture the uniquely Scottish sensibility of brief confidence, or gallousness, with an underlying self-deprecating streak. It is both the perfect introduction and retrospective to a band of real cultural significance. 

The Scotsman: 4 STARS 
Albini’s characteristically raw analogue stamp is all over Action Hero, with bonus outbreaks of crazed jazz trumpet, while the blithe guitars and synth drone of I Hope You Never Go are weighted with deep bass rumble, but the tempo and temperature cool with the languorous twanging country guitar and twinkling keys of Grow.

Is This Music: 
This a mighty album, the reinvention of Dundee legends Spare Snare with the help of Chem19 (Paul Savage overseeing) and Steve Albini producing, what a story! And the band delivers, in spades… 
Spare Snare have excelled themselves and really taken the Albini challenge seriously – fantastic music.