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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
4th September 2008
Old Track Come Back to Haunt?: Between the break up of Chisholm and Spence partnership and Brian going solo he honed is writing and performing skills. It was during this time that Brian wrote a track called "I Don't Want Your Love Now" which was released by a group called The Mood. I have found this track and place a very short sample of it in the Downloads section. Tee hee.
31st August 2008
Don't Panic. Picnic!: It would appear that Brian's Picnic at Hanging Rock musical is starting to gain interest. According to the Picnic at Hanging Rock Musical website, there are, not one new production of the show but, three.
The Norfolk Youth Music Theatre will be performing the show between 29th October and 1st November at the Maddermarket Theatre, in Norwich. The Maddermarket sits in St John's Alley, next to St John Maddermarket Church, in the very heart of Norwich. Tickets cost £10, with concessions being £6. The box office can be contacted on 01603 620917 or by writing to the following address. www.maddermarket.co.uk
The Maddermarket Theatre
St. John’s Alley
NORWICH
NR2 1DRNicholas Chamberlaine Technology College, Warwickshire - will also be performing it in November 2008. Although, when I did a search on the Internet I could not find any details. So if anyone can provide me with more info please let me know.
Royal Berkshire Academy, Bracknell will be staging it in July 2009
Thanks to Ritchie, my colleague at BilboMusic, for sending me this information.
30th July 2008
Video Update: I have been quiet for some time, but it is time to tell you about a new page that has been created bringing together all of Brian's videos. To find this page click on Videos on the naviagation section to the left or here Videos. To celebrate this I have also incuded a new filmed with Brian in where he is acting (he's the bleach-blond guy wearing the kilt). The video features Regina Saidasheva's first video featuring Paul Jackson and Ashley in advance or her up and coming thriller.
25th March 2008
More Videos: More of Brian's videos have appeared on YouTube, this time under the name of DrumbraeSouth (who is also Brian). As a teazer I have placed a link here, however, I plan to include all of the Spence videos in this site.
YouTube Hack: Whilst playing on YouTube I came across a hack which improves the visual quality of the videos. The above link has the additional text already included.
Add "&fmt=18" to the URL so that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTSX4H0drp0
becomes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTSX4H0drp0&fmt=18
Obviously, there is only so much that the hack can do but please give it a go on any video, not just Brian Spence ones, and let me know what you think.
6th March 2008
Spence Videos: Brian has informed me that he has uploaded 3 videos to YouTube under the name Cheeky Buffalo (one of Brian's old bands). You will be able to watch Picnic at Hanging Rock - The Musical, Debbie singing Sunlight (from The Wish) and Holiday (the Madonna song) sung by Debbie and The Whizz Kid. Brian is hoping to upload his own videos in due course, depending on if his other projects allow him time. http://www.youtube.com/user/CheekyBuffalo
Irving Update: Stewart Irving, Brian's partner in The Wish with Debbie McKenna has hooked up with Cindy Alter of Clout fame (they had a huge single called "Substitute" in 1978) in South Africa. Despite the distance Brian is hoping to be able to work with Stewart again.
7th February 2008
Birthday Wishes: Today is Brian's birthday. I hope you will join with me in wishing him a happy birthday.
Old News: I have archived the news from 2007. Should you wish to read it, and why wouldn't you, either click on the link at the bottom of this page or find it in the navigation bar to the left.
So what happened in 2007?
- At the beginning of the year Brian, along with Bob Thomson, let loose and musical based on Picnic at Hanging Rock. It was well received by all that saw it.
- A play, directed by Bob Thomson, called The Last Laugh used Brian's music. The play starred Martin Freeman and Roger Lloyd-Pack.
- April saw the launch of BilboMusic, a website about Bilbo Baggins - which Brian was a member of in his early music career. The website is enjoyed by not just the fans but also the band members, who also provided some pictures from their own collections.
- Colin Chisholm, vocalist of Bilbo Baggins and one of Brian's best mates, sung on stage for the first time in a long while stoking rumours that Bilbo may get back together for a one off gig.
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: 4 September, 2008
© Morley Enterprises 2001-2006. 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.