Ahead of the third leg of Spector’s UK tour promoting their new album ‘Moth Boys’, I managed to catch up with the band themselves. Remarkably relaxed, frontman Fred MacPherson explained his preference for such tours as this one in the place of playing festival sets. ‘I think with festivals you travel, it’s a one-off gig and then it’s done, whereas with a tour everything seems to flow and gather momentum like a snowball.’ Presumably this didn’t include the troubles which domin

It was on a Thursday night in a packed, perspiring room at the Nottingham Rescue Rooms that the evidence was provided that Spector have really, truly, arrived. The gig had it all. From the moment the opening bars of melancholic synth-pop tune ‘Lately It’s You’ began to echo across the room, frontman Fred MacPherson had the crowd eating out of his hand. This continued as the band included seven songs off new album ‘Moth Boys’ within the opening nine hits of the setlist, with t

Fresh from successful performances at Reading and Leeds festivals and the positive critical reception given to their newly-released second album ‘Moth Boys’, Cockney indie-rockers Spector bring their Autumn tour to Nottingham Rescue Rooms this week. Led by frontman Fred MacPherson, expect a drastic contrast created by the combination of electric synth-pop, melancholic soft rock and high-tempo indie-rock; something that defines both their first and second records. A venue such