(black in name drop alert), you'll find messers refoy and mattock on my facebook.

the first line up with will (before he jumped) was utterly superb, even with sean they were still pretty fantastic. my second spiritualized gig, was the LGM line up, with levitation and aphex twin dj'ing. the ladies and gents line up was good, but nowhere near. and these days, its what i call the american, radio friendly spiritualized.

but, pierce is a businessman, and effectively they are his employees. its not really a live band in the slightest.

he's always kind of been sidelined as the man who sits in his terraced house, in rugby, and hasnt moved on. but the recent stuff with magnetophone and jim dickinson, is a real return to form. whilst i listened to the new spiritualized album, realised it really was a spiritualized by numbers package, and stuck it straight back in the cd rack.