The Dreaming Spires, featuring brothers Joe and Robin Bennett of not only Goldrush and Danny & The Champions Of The World but also of Truck festival-founding fame, play a free gig at The Head Of The River pub in Oxford on the evening of Friday 1 June. It kicks off at 7.30 pm and will also include a support set from Gabriel Minnikin.

Hopefully the gig will whet your appetite for the forthcoming album from The Dreaming Spires, Brothers In Brooklyn, which is released on Clubhouse Records on 11 June. The eleven-track collection will be available as a hand-numbered digipak CD edition (limited to 1,000 copies), and the first 100 copies bought direct from Clubhouse Records will come with a free signed copy of a previous 7″ single, ‘Everything All The Time’ b/w ‘In Our Lifetimes’. The usual digital formats will also be available through the usual online outlets.

As a taster for the album, within which the band apparently “ditch any attempts at sounding artificially modern – instead this is an album that celebrates and name checks the artists, the songs and the second-hand vinyl the band love”, a single with the mouthful of a title ‘Not Every Song From The Sixties Is A Classic’ was released on Clubhouse yesterday (28 May). Here ’tis:

More details about the free gig are available here, and you can read about (and, indeed, purchase stuff by) The Dreaming Spires on the Clubhouse Records website.