Earlier in the month Schonberg told you about Dark Sparks and picked out We Are Just Flies. For the end of month playlist I thought I'd bring you the other track from the same EP. I'm looking forward to hearing the track Schonberg heard live that we're told will be available this year. MP3: Crying In The Spotlight - Dark Sparks
We first came across Dark Sparks when they provided the local support to Good Shoes and Wild Palms at the Leadmill in Sheffield before Christmas. The sparse crowd were treated to a very accomplished set which started, albeit a little timidly, by this song "We are just flies". The band remind me very much of The Young Knives, with a Noel Fielding-esque front man in Leigh Greenwood. The best song of a darkly-entertaining set was "Picture without sound" which Leigh promised to make available free on their website once they had recorded it early in 2010, so watch [...]
Dark Sparks are a reformed and adjusted indie rock band from Sheffield who, with the boost of a new line-up on top of already garnered success in autumn 2008, are looking to take their infectious mix of darkened 80s post-punk and contemporary British indie rock to even wider audiences than they managed last year. In their relatively brief time together as a band (they only formed in January 2007) they've toured and written extensively, and played a prominent selection of support slots with the likes of The Enemy, Boy Kill Boy, The Whip, The Courteeners, Air Traffic, Blood [...]
Dark Sparks formed on January 1st, 2007. The band consists of Leigh Greenwood, Adam Greenwood, Simon Green & Rich Kightley. Based in the small town of Swadlincote in South Derbyshire, they play music that is fiery, exciting and intelligent and therefore totally at odds with their surroundings! They have shared the stage with Boy Kill Boy, The Enemy, The Whip, We Start Fires, The Departure, The Strange Death of Liberal England, The Hiss, The Courteeners, The Twang, Komakino, Louie and Air Traffic among others. [...]
Dark Sparks 's mission statement invites us to hold on to them, through nights of beating drums and hearts, the world that can pass you buy when you're just sitting still. Their music, and the forthcoming double A-sides of Blood Petrol Fire and Bullet In The Eye, reflect this energy and desperate yearning for substance in an otherwise watercolour world. Blood Petrol Fire's pounding drums and sparky, jumpy guitar, soon covered in an abrasive rendition of the tracks title refrain, set out the tone for this and the following track. As singer Leigh Greenwood dives in and out of verses [...]
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