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Why ever did we choose a name like Spearmint?

At the time we decided to call ourselves Spearmint, the trend was to choose quite serious sounding "meaningful" names for bands. I wanted a name that was actually a little bit naff, something very light, with no implied depth. I also saw the music we would make as very Poppy, and at first listen, shallow. I loved the idea that we would make fizzing Pop songs that also had levels of meaning within them so that the listener who wanted to could dig deeper into the lyrics and music and get loads of listens out of it. That is why have done over the years with my favourite artists. I considered it genuinely subversive to make apparently mainstream Pop music which had a real independent attitude to it, and was also on our own label, so that nobody could interfere. Kind of like a big Pop Trojan Horse...

We've released quite a few records now, and I often get asked how many albums we have actually made - there seems to be confusion. My answer is that we have made four albums proper, plus two collections of b-sides and singles, as well as a Christmas mini-album, and an acoustic mini-album.

But the first proper album was A Week Away.