Acoustic solo supporting Logoz 8th August ashington

well i haven't had time to blog but here it is finally.

a few weeks back i played my very first acoustic solo supporting Logoz for me not gigging for a while it was a breath of fresh air.

soon i arrived early after looking for a car park space i caught the boys of logoz setting up the amps
and guitars, all i had to do was put in a battery and tune up my 40 year old acoustic praying the thing
wouldn't break during the set.

after about a hours hanging about it came to 8:15 and for my time to shine,

though feeling nervous, i didn't have the time to think about it i was more worried about the guitar dying, i kicked off the set with Ramones rock away beach then sliding in to 5th gear with cretin hop a personal favourite song of mine (as you can tell the whole set was mainly Ramones) while playing 4 original spitfire bullets songs for the first time acoustically, everything seemed to just go perfect, the full 20 min set ended with not a Ramones cover but a misfits track!! Astro Zombies which am sure shocked Peesh when i played it.

Peesh took over on stage with his personal solo acoustic set from his acoustic calendar challenge

these songs are just great to listen to, even performing his own version of only fools and horses hooky street track before slipping in a cover of the minder theme tune. all in all the whole set was great, the crowd was enjoying it the drink was flowing and the main band logoz hadn't even kicked off yet!

Logoz took to the stage with their amplified 100mph in your face punk rock, blasting out the tunes nice and loud (my ears were ringing for 2 days)

soon after the show, we all had a good chat then set off home.

on the 27th you can catch Spitfire bullets playing live and loud down at the corner flag with support from guilty and scilence fiction 

Radio Northumberland, Gigs and more

Recently our old drummer John had rejoined us to continue the adventure in Spitfire Bullets

In more recent news Rob was live on Radio Northumberland talking about upcoming gigs,
spreading the sound of spitfire bullets to the Cubans and attending the live radio Northumberland
under the dome event and hanging out with the guys from Logoz

GIGS GIGS GIGS!!

Spitfire Bullets have a gig coming up at the Sunderland local bar the corner flag on the 27th August with a small line up which will be announced on the face book page.

but if you can't wait till then be sure to head to Ashington to catch rob doing a one off solo acoustic
after finding a guitar small enough for rob and having to fix it up, hes strumming away and practicing a list of covers and originals for the set.

thats all for now folks but keep checking in for more updates

FORKSTER'S Daily Band Review - Spitfire Bullets New York City

July 24th 2015 Intro on Spitfire Bullets at FORKSTER

 Forkster did a review of our new Single you can see the original article here >>> Forkster

FORKSTER Introduces

Punk Rock Magnificence with that ‘Back In The Day’ Era Charge Vibe

 Spitfire Bullets

Genre: Authentic Punk Rock/Rock N’ Roll Goodness!
Location: Sunderland, England, UK

Find Their Music at: Their YouTube

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The Intro-Fork Tidbit on The Spitfire Bullets:
The Spitfire Bullets are an exhilarating rock n’ roll that hail out of the UK in Sunderland, England. This rocking trio bring and authentic punk rock era brilliance in ‘now present’ rock and roll music times. They have recently released their exceptional single ‘New York City’ that will ‘thrill and chill’ any true punk rock music appreciator. In my case, they exceptionally ‘roared and soared’ my ear rock module orbits with sizzling riff chord jolts, throttling mighty vocal stances, stomping huge low-end bass booms and stickman actions that are ‘bringing and swinging out the rock bounce backbone immensely. This is a glowing example that punk rock still deserves to be recognised as a rock music that still can be made respectfully satisfying in modern rock era times. On that note, these rocking cats should really excite the ear rock catalogs who love their rock musics with ‘loud and proud’ 1970’s rock/punk energy and reminds you of bands from the RAMONES to The Clash. They ‘rock it out’ huge, ‘class rock n’ roll’!

For More on these rockers:
Their Website

Forgotten Records REVIEWED: Spitfire Bullets – New York City July 22, 2015

Sunderland local Record Label Forgotten Records did a review of our new Single you can see the original article here >>> Forgotten Records Spitfire Bullets

Here's what hey made of it

Sunderland punk act Spitfire Bullets recently released their single ‘New York City’. Here’s what we made of it:

Spitfire Bullets are an act I always enjoy watching, not for the short and sweet song structures, ruthless guitar sound, or aggressive vocals – but for the defiant perseverance to even attempt to execute all of the aforementioned things in 2015. They are nearly 40 years out of place.

‘New York City’ delivers on all I expected, but is no less satisfying. At just 1:57 in length, the track is as long as a punk song probably ever needs to be. A vocal hook is established early on, with a simplistic chord structure and a surprisingly elaborate guitar solo pushed in to add variety, because why the fuck not?

The song probably doesn't do the band’s schizophrenic live sound any justice, but that’s punk music for you.

Spitfire Bullets update July 2015

Its all quiet in the spitfire bullets base....

After the highlight gig of supporting the Ramonas back in march with their stand in drummer
things have been quiet too quiet.

There has been rumours about the band quitting and packing up for good
and they are probably still going about right now.

30th of June spitfire bullets had released their newest single New York City on CD
with 4 already sold things are going steady with reviews of the CD due to be coming
in during the month, we have already heard good things about it.

the newest release

so over the past 3 months the band has been quiet apart from recording the single

and also going to a few gigs seeing a few local bands and saying hi to a few familiar faces

HAVANA AFFAIR

it seems spitfire bullets made it in to communist territory recently

back in 2014 i was on a family holiday in cuba taking in the sights of that wonderful

communist country, meeting the locals and checking out all those beautiful classic american 1950's cars. 

all in all it was a great time. Until recently.......

I received a email in june of some photos from two people in Cuba holding what appears to be

the spitfire bullets EP. eventually i found out my mam had been chatting to some locals in

the hotel who were also on hoilday and were very interested in music and so a spitfire bullets

CD was sent over with out me knowing, it was a surprise i can say that and very exciting.
below are the photos i was sent along with a caption of the locations.

taken on the steps of the Loma de la Cruz, a place that represents the City of Havana, Cuba.

this was in Key Bariay, historical place of our island, the bay the Spanish Admiral Christopher Columbus and his crew had 3 ships discovered the island of Cuba on 28 October 1492. This place is located in the municipality Rafael Freyre, Holguin province.

this was in Key Bariay, historical place of our island, the bay the Spanish Admiral Christopher Columbus and his crew had 3 ships discovered the island of Cuba on 28 October 1492. This place is located in the municipality Rafael Freyre, Holguin province.

New York City Single

New York City Single

You may have heard this song live at one of our shows or on YouTube or even heard our demo on sound cloud, but after a year of meaning to get it recorded, we have finally recorded it ready to be released!

Though it will not be available to download off the internet, we are doing it the old-fashioned way of putting it on CD with two bonus live tracks but we aren't telling you the names of them so you gotta get this CD to hear the tracks!

Just like when a band in the 70's released a single 45rpm vinyl with a A and B side. S

Such exciting times waiting for the album to come out and playing the single over and over again.

There will be a limited number of these CDs released in June so once they are gone they are gone!

the reason why we have decided to release our single on CD instead of being available to be downloaded is because we want to keep it as a physical piece so you can hold it and look at it and not just stare at some tiny picture on the screen

it may not be a vinyl record but it does have some character to it, even looking at the cover makes it more interesting.

cover photos by Lisa Volpe

What has been happening?

What has been happening?

So as most of you know our drummer John had left us back in February and we began the long and painful search for a full time drummer.

With us having to cancel a few gigs and being lucky enough to have played with the Ramonas thanks to a temporary drummer, but ever since we have been advertising in music shops on Facebook and on the internet with no luck on getting a drummer from the local area we are just sitting about and doing nothing but twiddling our thumbs and strumming guitar and asking every one we know if they know a musician but it seems there is hardly a drummer about, even a lot of bands seem to have lost drummers this year alone.

New York City.

You probably heard it at one of our gigs on YouTube or sound cloud, our fifth song "New York City" was planned to be rerecorded in 2014/2015, and it finally has. with help from Herrington Rock skool music teacher bob and his recording studio and Elliot on the electric drum kit, the full song was recorded over a couple of days and is now in the process of being mixed and mastered ready to be uploaded to sound cloud and sent to a few radio stations most notably radio Boise and radio Northumberland.

Wanna buy our EP?/

over a few weeks i have distributed the bands EP  to two local Sunderland shops

Hot Rats Records and Riff Raff Guitars, so e sure to pop down to the shops and have a look about

or even buy one!