Music / Indie/Alternative
Bristol band Spectres in rival Bond theme
Bristol band Spectres couldn’t pass up the opportunity to make a cheeky unofficial theme to the new Bond film, Spectre.
As Sam Smith’s official version was played for the first time on Friday, the alt-rock heroes and founding members of Bristol’s influential Howling Owl collective released a rival.
Here’s what they had to say about it:
“What began as a flippant bit of cheek–tonguing has ended up being probably the most elaborate thing we have ever done. When the title of the next Bond film was announced last year, we joked online that we had been chosen to write the theme song for it. A few people believed this, so we decided we may as well go through with it. Fast forward many months and trying to work out what a chorus is, ‘hiring’ suits from Asos, praying to Q that Radiohead weren’t doing it, and a horse, among other things – and we have Spectre.
“Musically, this is like nothing we have ever done before or will do again (so it’s a shame a lot of people have said it’s the best thing we will ever do) but the spirit within the whole thing is all 100% Spectres. We perhaps shouldn’t have spent half a year on a project when we should be writing a second album, but when we start something we find it hard not to put all our energy into it and this has been nothing different. We hope people take Spectre for what it is: a band who no one would ever expect-re pop song from, trying to write a song that can compete with what will be the biggest pop song of the year. Of course, we have failed miserably, but we’re proud of what we’ve achieved. We hope one day we appear in the autobiography of the real singer of the anthem, which I predict will be called Sam’s Myth.
“Waking up this morning and listening to Sam’s song felt comforting because nothing in the world had changed. The cat yawned, the wallpaper was still there and Sam Smith really must regret telling everyone he wrote it in 20 minutes; it shows.”
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