Adam
Schreiber - our bubble-crazy lighting director, aka The Wizzard or Charger After
Hours - our splendidly loyal, long-suffering radio pluggers
Andrew
Farley - longtime fan of the band with a website
devoted to Spearmint - including the lyrics! Apricot
- our German record company Azam
Yusof - ex-South London cohort, co-wrote "Vivian"
Bad
Earth - most of "A Week Away" and "Songs For The Colour Yellow"
were recorded here - part of the Fortress complex, also home to home to
Fatty's Diner, and now no more Bug
Bar - fave Brixton veggie restaurant for special band occasions
Ben
Lewis - provides essential assistance to James in laying out the sleeve
artwork Blackwing
- South London studio - did several b-sides here Blow
Up - Andy used to DJ here - a Sat night london club Bush
- current rehearsal space in Shepherds Bush
Chapel
- excellent studio in South Thoresby, Lincs, where we recorded "Oklahoma!"
Charmenko
-: without our manager Nick we would have fizzled / fallen out by now...
Christina
Taylor - choreographed our sexy routine in the "We're Going Out"
video Crayola
- long time Spearmint assistant and now runs cool-as-you-like CD-R label
Kabuki Kore
Dickon
- played guitar for us live in 1999, now fronting the exotic Fosca
DJ
Said Liquidator - aka Simon McKay, one of regular live DJs
Escapade
- the Greenwich studio we recorded "Goldmine" in & used to
rehearse in Ewan
Davies - engineered recording of "Oklahoma!" Fin
Costello - did the Brighton photo-shoot for "A Different Lifetime"
Fortuna
Pop - Excellent label & promoters
For
Us - Rough Trade shop label, put out "Songs For The Colour Yellow"
on vinyl Free
French - our first signing to our hitBACK label: ace band led by
brilliant songsmith Rhodri Marsden
Gareth
Parton - engineered recording of the "A Week Away" album + several
B-sides
Guided
Missile - label / promoters who did London ep featuring Hefner &
ourselves Hayley
Madden - did the photos for the "Oklahoma!" album
Homesleep
- Italian label who put together the tribute to Pavement album "Everything
Is Ending Here" on which we appeared HOST
- second signing to hitBACK: fantastic! How
Does It Feel To Be Loved - Excellent monthly London club-night
Indian
Veg Bhel Poori - tremendous Islington restaurant - fave haunt for meetings JB
- producer of virtually all our tunes up to "Oklahoma!" JC
- our Swedish driver: long live the castle! Jeff
Thomas - our driver - "Dad" as he's known to the band Jemina
Cox - our live sound engineer for all tours up to "Oklahoma!"
Jesper
- Our Swedish promoter: we threaten to kick his arse, but I don't think
he's scared
John
Silk - He looks like someone we can'y place off the telly, he wears
shorts a lot, we call him Silky, he does our live sound & we love him!
Konk
- JB mixed most of our early releases to date at this Ray Davies owned Hornsey
studio
La
Porchetta - Fave London pizza restaurants, led to unfortunate incident on
Upper Street in early 2003 London
Cafe - As seen in the artwork & video for "My Missing Days"
Manga
- pop pal made several glittering live appearances duetting "We're
Going Out" Martini
Bros - Italian DJs; A Spearmint song is never very far away in their
set...
Maya
Gavin - did all the lovely illustrations for the "Oklahoma!" album
Michael
Bradshaw - brilliant songwriter, ex Laverne & Shirley star, and a lovely
little fella! Mingo
PR - Our groovy Glasgow based press agent Jill
Paradiso
- Amsterdam venue, released a Spearmint CD in their singles club series Pete
Hofmann - Produced "A Different Lifetime" PIAS
- released our early releases in Benelux Pinnacle
- our distributors in UK and Ireland
Pop
It! - fave Tokyo club-night run by Nozomu, who helped introduce us in Japan
Primeros
Pasitos - Excellent Spanish label who originally released "The
Last Bus Home" ep Quattro
- our Japanese record company up to "A Different Lifetime"
Rhodri
Marsden - he does this website and leads The Free French and co- produced
"My Missing Days"
Samanthi
- DJ, Merchandising Hostess at gigs, co-star of "We're Going Out"
& "Left Alone Among The Living" videos, & sings on 4 tracks
on "My Missing Days"
Scaramanga
6 - great Huddersfield based band, used to comprise Supersaurus along
with James Strange
Fruit - Cool London club & gig promoters Survival
- Acton studio we moved to after Escapade for rehearsals
SYFT
- Tomo's Osaka shop, responsible for importing our singles into Japan –
a great supporter of the band!
Toby
Carter - south london song-writing genius: current band "Unconscious
Collective"
Weatherbox
- Steve Young gets our records into shops all over the world...
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