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The Spanish Amanda
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Unreconstructed C86-ish indie kids who've kept their chops, their hair and their NHS specs in spite of Brexit, Trump and Farage. Go, Amanda! Go, indiepop!
Pinned
Out now..!! Get 'im while 'ee's hot..!! ☕

thespanishamanda.bandcamp.com/album/paint-...
Paint, Sing, Burn Down Everything, by The Spanish Amanda
10 track album
thespanishamanda.bandcamp.com
Aaaah, the ravages of time.

A fortnight passes... and I can now report that 'Paint, Sing...' is NO LONGER WARM but now IMPERIOUSLY COLD, icily unapproachable and FROSTILY MAJESTIC.

It doesn't, in its present state, give two shits whether you buy it or not - it's just TOO DARNED GLACIAL.

❄️🏔️🥶🏔️❄️
Still 'out' (if you will), and while technically no longer 'hot', I can nonetheless confirm that this long-player remains acceptably warm throughout, and is crisping nicely at the edges. Delicious.

So... erm... 'STILL out now..!! Get 'im while 'ee's ACCEPTABLY WARM and crisping nicely..!!

🍳❤️🍳❤️🍳
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Three-fifths of Skimmington Ride at Hitchin's (delightfully NOT axed) Club 85 last night... remarkable for their amiably beery pep, their winning way with a 14th century banger and - most remarkable of all - their entirely invisible drummer.

We have an invisible drummer too. T'ain' easy.

❤️
November 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Spanish Amanda nominated for 'BEST SEXY CHANSON' Grammy - by the French..!!

Yes - WE couldn't believe it either, until we (think we) DISTINCTLY HEARD it in the between-song DJ patter RIGHT HERE:

canalb.fr/lollypop/8526

...admittedly, in a language we don't actually speak.

But hey - A GRAMMY..!!
Lollypop | paul felix
canalb.fr
November 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
One of our people ('the cat') informs us of the presence of 'Walter Benjamin' - a recent SpanAm creation - on this otherwise exemplary selection of tunes.

Be under no illusion - listening to 'Walter Benjamin' WILL cause temporary blindness, uncontrollable pottymouth and hives.

Stay vigillant..! 🧐
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Today's arrival: "Paint, Sing, Burn Down Everything" by The Spanish Amanda ... Limited edition CDr in a gatefold cardboard case ... Profit made from CD sales will be sent to UNICEF. So order a copy on bandcamp.

@spanishamandauk.bsky.social #TheSpanishAmanda #NewAlbum #IndiePop #JanglePop
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOmH...

What with that nice Mr Musk about to become a trillionaire, it seemed a pertinent time to post this again.

'S on the album, y'know - a better mix, actually (but just as drenched in cheerily apocalyptic bile... 🙂).
The Day The World Turned Cosplay - The Spanish Amanda
YouTube video by The Spanish Amanda
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November 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Racist Nigel Farage has grifted over a £1M from his jobs on the side since becoming an MP.
He’s never in Clacton, probably can’t even find it on a map, and now he says £10 an hour minimum wage for
young people is too much, and it should be cut.
He’s a cunt.
Sack him Clacton!
YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.

Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people

...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"

It's £10ph FFS!

Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger

DO YOU SEE IT NOW?

Spread far & wide.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Out now..!! Get 'im while 'ee's hot..!! ☕

thespanishamanda.bandcamp.com/album/paint-...
Paint, Sing, Burn Down Everything, by The Spanish Amanda
10 track album
thespanishamanda.bandcamp.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Still 'out' (if you will), and while technically no longer 'hot', I can nonetheless confirm that this long-player remains acceptably warm throughout, and is crisping nicely at the edges. Delicious.

So... erm... 'STILL out now..!! Get 'im while 'ee's ACCEPTABLY WARM and crisping nicely..!!

🍳❤️🍳❤️🍳
November 1, 2025 at 6:54 AM
thechickpeadarlings.bandcamp.com/track/your-h...

AND there's a black cat on the sleeve art. Jes' sayin'.

"Maow..!!"

🐈‍⬛👻🐈‍⬛💀🐈‍⬛👻🐈‍⬛
🐈‍⬛👻🐈‍⬛🎸🐈‍⬛👻🐈‍⬛
🐈‍⬛👻🐈‍⬛💀🐈‍⬛👻🐈‍⬛
Your Hungry Ghosts, by The Chickpea Darlings
from the album 'Beef' EP
thechickpeadarlings.bandcamp.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Amanda loves you, Mr Voodoo, sir... and in the event that Mrs Voodoo ever tires of your mighty beard and deft poetic chops (which, clearly, she WON'T), then Amanda is waiting in the wings to cleave you to her more-than-ample bosom.

You lovely man, you.

Amanda (Spanish) xxxx xxxx xxxx
As I mentioned on the show, It’s always lovely to receive physical media in the post!
Thanks Spanish Amanda. Thspanishamanda.
Feel free to send music for Playlist Obscure either to the address shown or to bruthavoodoo@gmail.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Out now..!! Get 'im while 'ee's hot..!! ☕

thespanishamanda.bandcamp.com/album/paint-...
Paint, Sing, Burn Down Everything, by The Spanish Amanda
10 track album
thespanishamanda.bandcamp.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
FIFTEEN HOURS 'til execution time. Brave New Girl has made its final confession and chosen its breakfast (brioche roll, haloumi, avocado, fried egg, loads of hot sauce, bloody mary chaser) - then it's OFF TO THE CHAIR.

Our advice - download 'er WHILE YOU STILL CAN..!!

💀❤️👻❤️💀❤️👻❤️💀
A hearty 'Yo, chaps..!!' to our celebrity chums - Bono, Taylor, Donald - who've already had a lackey download a copy of BNG for them.

Everyone else - y'll have to do it y'selves, and within the next 48 hours... 'cos after that, we're TAKING IT OUTSIDE and PUTTING IT OUT OF ITS MISERY.

Harsh times.
Celebrating its quarter-century today - our 1st album, 'Brave New Girl', given an imperceptibly light remaster and a free '25th Anniversary' re-release on Bandcamp... for ONE week only!

thespanishamanda.bandcamp.com/album/brave-...

New album - 'Paint, Sing, Burn Down Everything' - out NEXT Sunday!
October 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A hearty 'Yo, chaps..!!' to our celebrity chums - Bono, Taylor, Donald - who've already had a lackey download a copy of BNG for them.

Everyone else - y'll have to do it y'selves, and within the next 48 hours... 'cos after that, we're TAKING IT OUTSIDE and PUTTING IT OUT OF ITS MISERY.

Harsh times.
Celebrating its quarter-century today - our 1st album, 'Brave New Girl', given an imperceptibly light remaster and a free '25th Anniversary' re-release on Bandcamp... for ONE week only!

thespanishamanda.bandcamp.com/album/brave-...

New album - 'Paint, Sing, Burn Down Everything' - out NEXT Sunday!
Brave New Girl - 25th Anniversary, by The Spanish Amanda
12 track album
thespanishamanda.bandcamp.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Celebrating its quarter-century today - our 1st album, 'Brave New Girl', given an imperceptibly light remaster and a free '25th Anniversary' re-release on Bandcamp... for ONE week only!

thespanishamanda.bandcamp.com/album/brave-...

New album - 'Paint, Sing, Burn Down Everything' - out NEXT Sunday!
Brave New Girl - 25th Anniversary, by The Spanish Amanda
12 track album
thespanishamanda.bandcamp.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
CD copies of 'Paint, Sing, Burn Down Everything' now exist... and they have, as you can see, been scattered insouciantly on the carpet at Amanda Towers.

'Teaser' song still accessible on SpanishAmanda.com - www.spanishamanda.com/4_The_Doctor...

Releases on Bandcamp on 26th October - hurrah..!! 👍
October 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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We don't normally GET excited by things - we don't have the requisite glands - but our next long-player is just heading down to Essex to be duplicated.

This is on it:

www.spanishamanda.com/4_The_Doctor...

Enjoy.
October 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
We don't normally GET excited by things - we don't have the requisite glands - but our next long-player is just heading down to Essex to be duplicated.

This is on it:

www.spanishamanda.com/4_The_Doctor...

Enjoy.
October 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Distrokid informs us, alarmingly, that 'Bitter Lemon turns 5 today!'

Christ..!! We never put its name down for Eton, started a trust fund for it or got it a nanny. We are BAD PARENTS.

Find out just *how* bad here (and download it for nowt 🙂):

thechickpeadarlings.bandcamp.com/track/my-bab...
My Baby Wants A Riot, by The Chickpea Darlings
from the album Bitter Lemon
thechickpeadarlings.bandcamp.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Distrokid informs us, alarmingly, that 'Bitter Lemon turns 5 today!'

Christ..!! We never put its name down for Eton, started a trust fund for it or got it a nanny. We are BAD PARENTS.

Find out just *how* bad here (and download it for nowt 🙂):

thechickpeadarlings.bandcamp.com/track/my-bab...
My Baby Wants A Riot, by The Chickpea Darlings
from the album Bitter Lemon
thechickpeadarlings.bandcamp.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Delightfully - as of 5 minutes ago - we appear (after much tea'n'dunkies) to have a rough start-to-end mix of the soon-to-be new SpanAm album.

The pic is me (or possibly my brother... can't be sure), c.1976, pre-emptively jumping for joy... a prescient 49 years early.

Possible sleeve art..? 🙂
September 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It is now RAINING on the Balstock festival.

I do not have the Trumpian hubris required to claim that IF the Chickpea Darlings had been asked to play it WOULDN'T have rained...

...I'm just saying that we WEREN'T invited to play, and it did.

Jes' sayin'. That's all. Sayin'. 🙂

☔🌧️☔🌧️☔🌧️☔🌧️☔🌧️☔🌧️☔🌧️☔🌧️☔🌧️☔🌧️☔
Well... the Chickpea Darlings haven't, it seems, made the grade to appear at this year's Balstock festival...

...AGAIN.

Unlike the North Herts Ladies' Choir and Are Friends Electric ('an electro 80s party band based in Hertfordshire').

Is this what Kurt died for..? IS IT..?!! IS IT..!?!!

😠
September 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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As usual where Trump’s concerned the politicians and the talking heads have got it all wrong. He wouldn’t spit on the UK if it was on fire, and nothing he says can be trusted. We’re rolling out the red carpet to a Nazi rapist. Shame on us.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump loves all things royal. Will that be the King's ace card when he visits?
If anyone can get the president's attention, King Charles and the Royal Family must be close to the top of the list.
www.bbc.com
September 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"Career Retrospective"..?!! HA..!!

I have it on excellent authority ("myself") that an absurdly fine new 10-choon SpanAm album is only DAYS away from being mixed* - "Paint, Sing, Burn Down Everything" - vinegary ditties for the most vinegary of times...

...oh yes, yes, YES...

🙂

* - by the 🐈‍⬛.
The Spanish Amanda - Sweet Dreams, Dreams Charlie De Gaulle - A Spanish Amanda Retrospective

"career retrospective"

#bandcampcodes #indiepop #janglepop #music

getmusic.fm/l/YEx0hu
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Now then..!! Apparently, the Spanish Amanda's "Let 'Em Eat Art" - the only EP *ever* to be released in 'confectionery' form ('a heavily customised KitKat') - is 3 YEARS OLD TODAY(ish)..!!

Still a cheeky wee bugger today, and FREE to y's all..!!

❤️❤️❤️

thespanishamanda.bandcamp.com/track/the-bo...
The Boy Salome, by The Spanish Amanda
from the album Let Them Eat Art! EP
thespanishamanda.bandcamp.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM