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A Brian Spence Fan's Web Site
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Spence
Music is a web site about Brian Spence, the singer, songwriter, producer,
multi-instrumental musician and all-round nice-guy who creates and performs
fantastic music.
On this site you can find out about Brian's albums "Brothers" and "Reputation" along with "MacGregor's Trap", his marriage to Debbie McKenna, the band The Wish and musical Picnic at Hanging Rock. In addition there is also information on his early career with Bilbo Baggins and Chisholm and Spence.
This web site is 100% unofficial, although Brian has visited the site he has not told me to stop (yet) or to "get a life" (maybe soon). There are a couple of other sites about Brian, one in German and one in Japanese (the very first). Please support these sites too by visiting them. I have provided links to these on the navigation column on the left by using nationality flags.
Latest News
23rd June 2010
MacGregor is No More: Tam White, the the voice of MacGregor in Brian's MacGregor's Trap died on Monday 21st June. Tam was a musician of many years, having released around 8 albums since 1970, he was also an actor having had parts in Cutthroat Island, Taggart, Rebus and Eastenders (he married Barry Evans and Janine Butcher).
Brian said about Tam's passing "This is the end of an era as far as I am concerned. [He was] a really important person in my life and totally responsible for my move to London. Tam was a big influence and he was totally passionate about his music.
In addition to his musical talents Tam was no only the voice of MacGregor in Brian's MacGregor's Trap but he also played MacGregor in Mel Gibson's movie Braveheart.
Brian also said of Tam "A big talent but an even bigger character. Edinburgh is a smaller city without him." Tam was 67.
Additional information about this loss can be found at:
Thanks to Gary for letting me know about this tragic loss.
2nd March 2010
So, what happened in 2009?
- Discovery of Kenny and The Car Parks, a record by Brian and his brothers Kenny and Stuart from 1980. As I have mentioned before, if you know something not mentioned on the website then I probably don't know anything about it. So please let me know.
- A performance of Picnic at Hanging Rock by the Royal Berkshire Academy in July.
- Okay, there was probably more than this but I have not had much contact with Brian in 2009 due to personal circumstances.
Live Visit: In late January Sue and I went to see Brain and Debbie perform at the Lord Morpeth in Bow, London. During the evening I took a few pictures, one of which you can see below. Brian is every the showman, but was horrified by the number of chins visible. I sure this is just the light from the camera flash. :-)
YouTube Tribute: Whilst browsing YouTube one day I can across the following video of Doug Armstrong doing a rendition of Brian's "My Arms Are Strong", which appeared on the "Reputation" album. I hope you like it as well.
I asked Doug his permission to include his video on the site, he agreed adding that he had been part of the Chichester cast of Picnic at Hanging Rock, playing Dr McKenzie and was now a fan too.
Want More News
Looking for more news? Wondering where the old news has gone? Why not visit the news archive for older news - which can be found on the navigation section on the left.
Page Last Updated: 4th March 2010
© Morley Enterprises 2001-2010. This site, SpenceMusic, is a personal site and is not affiliate with Brian Spence, Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins, Chisholm & Spence, The Wish or anyone else for that matter. Any copyright infringement is accidental. The pictures and music on this site are there for information only. They are not there for any commercial purpose. Therefore, if anyone representing the artist(s) or record company(ies) want me to remove these items please mail me and I will remove them immediately! This site, SpenceMusic, and Morley Enterprises are not responsible for the content of any other websites that are linked from here. So there.