Exciting news. Our Jane, Spiro’s main composer and arranger, has been included in ‘Folk Tunes from the Women – Over 150 contemporary tunes written by 100 female composers from Britain and Ireland’, a Faber publication, curated by Kathryn Tickell OBE, to celebrate International Women’s Day. This comes at a great … more
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Tongue Like a Drum: Spring Tour
This spring sees the launch of a brand-new Spiro project. Spiro’s main composer, Jane Harbour, presents Tongue Like a Drum, a new composition, featuring Steve Reich’s Synergy Vocals (Micaela Haslam, Jo Goldmith-Eteson, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange and Kirsty Hopkins), Spiro and synth player Ruth Wall. This 8-piece, interlocking vocal, analogue-synth driven, … more
Remembering Alan James: Real World’s tribute
Read Real World’s tribute to our dear friend and manager Alan James, seen here standing in on guitar. https://realworldrecords.com/news/remembering-alan-james/… more
US Tour 2018
We’re delighted to announce that we will be touring the USA for the first time in September. Thanks so much to Rob Simonds for making this happen!
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The Copper Suite is out now
We were delighted to return to Real World last month for one day to record the Copper Suite. We tracked live in the Big Room and managed to film everything as well. The suite, which lasts eight minutes, features elements of classic folk songs from the Copper Family collection. It … more
Spiro / Leveret tour dates announced
We’re very excited to announce the dates of our tour with the mighty Leveret in February / March 2018.
The dates are now on sale – details here
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