{"id":1212,"date":"2007-04-27T18:20:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T18:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/vox-hurricana-spiritualized-live\/"},"modified":"2011-06-11T22:49:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T22:49:52","slug":"vox-hurricana-spiritualized-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/vox-hurricana-spiritualized-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Vox Hurricana – Spiritualized live"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Andrew Stevens.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Spiritualized Accoustic mainlines, Shepherds Bush Empire, 26 April 2007<\/em><\/p>\n

Since the acrimonious parting of the ways for Spacemen 3<\/a> \u2013 with co-songwriters Jason Pierce (J. Spaceman) and Peter Kember<\/a> (Sonic Boom) founding Spiritualized<\/a> and Spectrum (gotta love the Sp) respectively, it has been the solidly more coherent and commercial outfit of the two that’s kept on the road and released a solid body of albums over the past 15 years. For Kember, it’s been a case of now obscure space pop albums, the last of which was released a decade ago (with vague rumours of a new one for half of that time). For Pierce, on the hand, it has been critical acclaim all round, as well as surviving a near-fatal illness recently. Anyone connected to either musician in a serving capacity has a tale to tell \u2013 from the summary dismissals of Cook and Mooney (who became Lupine Howl and now The Flies), Mattock and Refoy (now Slipstream<\/a>, again) and Will Carruthers<\/a> (now recording as freelovebabies) from Spiritualized to the various run-ins with former band members that Sonic Boom<\/a> has had to endure over the years (and vice versa).<\/p>\n

Which brings us to London \u2013 Shepherd’s Bush to be precise \u2013 and Pierce’s acoustic showcase of his material in both Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized. Augmented by strings and gospel. As far as the Spacefan’s lot goes, it doesn’t get any better than this. <\/p>\n

The awed reverence of the crowd, mindful of the Spaceman’s recent brush with death but looking somewhat healthier for it, added to the religiosity of the occasion, embellished by the rock n’ soul gospel chorus on numbers from down the years \u2013 \u2018Walking With Jesus’, \u2018Feel So Sad’, \u2018All of My Tears’, \u2018Broken Heart’, \u2018Think I’m In Love’ and a sadly truncated \u2018Funeral Home’. Beyond the gospel, Pierce’s voice shone as brightly as luminescence through a cathedral window during an epiphany. Before blowing the fucking roof off, like the blast of horn at an early Sam Cook gig. Though as he also sought to convince us, \u201cfreedom is just another word”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong>
\nAndrew Stevens<\/a> is contributing editor to 3:AM<\/strong> and lives in London. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"js2.jpg\"The awed reverence of the crowd, mindful of the Spaceman’s recent brush with death but looking somewhat healthier for it, added to the religiosity of the occasion, embellished by the rock n’ soul gospel chorus on numbers from down the years \u2014 \u2018Walking With Jesus’, \u2018Feel So Sad’, \u2018All of My Tears’, \u2018Broken Heart’, \u2018Think I’m In Love’ and a sadly truncated \u2018Funeral Home’. Beyond the gospel, Pierce’s voice shone as brightly as luminescence through a cathedral window during an epiphany. Before blowing the fucking roof off, like the blast of horn at an early Sam Cook gig.<\/p>\n

\nAndrew Stevens<\/b> reviews a recent Spiritualized<\/b> accoustic set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}