Spearmint | |
|---|---|
| Origin | London, England |
| Genres | Indie pop, post-Britpop |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Labels | hitBack |
| Members | Shirley Lee Simon Calnan James Parsons Ronan Larvor Andy Lewis |
| Past members | Martin Talbot Dickon Edwards |
Spearmint are a London-based indie pop band, founded in 1995 by Shirley Lee. The group has received coverage in the NME,[1] Time Out, Melody Maker and Uncut magazines.[2]
The original lineup included founder Shirley Lee (guitar and lead vocals), Simon Calnan (keyboard and backing vocals), Ronan Larvor (drums), and Martin Talbot (bass guitar). Forming their own record label (which they named hitBack), the group released their earliest songs as vinyl white labels. James Parsons replaced Talbot before the release of the band's second single, "Goldmine". Dickon Edwards joined as second guitarist around the time of the album A Week Away. Parsons soon replaced him, the bass vacancy filled by Andy Lewis.. They have more recently reverted to the four-piece line-up of the late 1990s.
The band were referenced in the film (500) Days of Summer wherein Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character states “It pains me we live in a world where nobody's heard of Spearmint.”[3]
Album Discography
- Songs for the Colour Yellow (1998) (Compilation)
- A Week Away (1999)
- Oklahoma (2000)
- A Different Lifetime (2001)
- My Missing Days (2003)
- A Leopard and Other Stories (2004) (Compilation)
- The Boy and the Girl That Got Away (2005)
- Paris in a Bottle (2006)
- News from Nowhere (2014)
- It's Time To Vanish (2016)
- Are You From The Future? (2019)
References
- ^ "Spearmint : Sweeping the nation - NME". NME.
- ^ "Spearmint... A Leopard..." www.spearmint.net. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
- ^ "(500) Days of Summer, ICA Gig, Germany here we come!". Shirley Lee. 2009-09-10. Retrieved 2014-05-16.