Pool Of Sound - SPQR

SPQR original line-up

 

'SPQR' is an alternative rock/post punk three piece band from Liverpool, formed in 2015 and made up of Peter Harrison on guitar and vocals, Bex Denton on drums and Nick Daniel on bass guitar. The band themselves describe the music they make as 'Rock music' but  you wouldn't think that this trio were capable of the dark, furious presence they possess when on stage if you met them. BBC Introducing named them the upcoming band of the year 2015 and they were featured in rock music and pop culture website The Quietus as playing honest, unpretentious lo-fi weird rock delivered with all the charisma of a cracked psychopath. Peter says that he didn't take much influence from an any particular artist’s songs when he started SPQR. The band rehearsed in the spare room of the veterinary clinic where Peter was working, he says, "it was a big, lovely massive house with three floors, the first floor was the pet stuff, the top floor was somebody's flat, and then the middle floor was offices and us. We used to practise in the 'recreational area'." Bex did anatomy at uni for three years, then saw a job advertisment and for 12 years went round the country to all the different mortuaries to remove organs people had donated."

 

Their single, 'Suffer' has a heavy, abrasive rock sound, with direct, harsh and intelligent lyrics and comes from their debut EP, 'The House That Doubt Built'. The band announced their signing to Modern Sky Records (The Blinders, Calva Louise, SPINN, The Slow Readers Club etc) in late 2018, plus further live dates, with their biggest hometown headline show to date in Liverpool Arts Club Loft, and the Liverpool Sound City Festival 2019. They kicked off a busy 2019 by revealing a painstakingly crafted and thoroughly engaging shadow puppet video for their latest single 'Slowly' on Modern Sky UK. Their single, 'Blood Pump' was added to the Alt. Rocked. Spotify playlist and 'Slowly' had also by then made its way onto the New Music Friday, All New Indie, New Indie & Alt, and The Punk List playlists, receiving further support from The Line of Best Fit, Discovered Magazine, BBC Introducing, Amazing Radio and more. With their first magazine cover already under their belts courtesy of the hugely well-respected local music mag Bido Lito!, they have been very busy for the past year with a slew of sold out local gigs. Wild-eyed appearances at the likes of WRONG Fest and the 'Strange Collective' All-Dayer have seen their reputation for being one of the city’s most promising new live acts growing amongst the weirder denizens of the Liverpool freakscene, drawing early praise in the media from the likes of The Line of Best Fit, The Quietus and CLASH.

Now a 4-piece band

 

March 2020 saw the band announce the release of their latest single, 'Just Sumfin', which shows lead singer Peter Harrison’s lyrical growth - as he takes the listener on a journey, touching on darker themes such as depression and guilt and it is the first track to be taken from the band's third EP proper, 'No Brain, No Pain'. Now a four piece, having being joined by Connor Dickson on guitar, synth and vocals, this four-track EP is mixed by Alex Quinn ('The Blinders', 'She Drew The Gun') and is their first project since the 2019's, 'Low Sun, Long Shadows', and was released on the 30th of April 2020 via Nuthin Gud Records. It is the first release on their newly established label, announced last year, alongside a single of the same name.

Having recently sold out back-to-back residencies at the Kazimier Stockroom in Liverpool, the band hope to be supporting 'SHEAFS' ahead of several festival appearances this summer, which will include appearances at Liverpool Sound City Festival and Newcastle's Hit The North.

see also:- http://www.thefootballvoice.com/2020/09/pool-of-sound-brothers-of-mine.html