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Sparks on BBC America, Friday August 21st

Sparks’ performance of I Can’t Believe That You Will Fall For All The Crap In This Song on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, that was broadcast in the UK on March 20th, will be shown on BBC America on Friday August 21. EST 9.00 pm

Sparks Release New Album

‘The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman’ By Ron Mael and Russell Mael Double vinyl release October 19th 2009 In 2002 Sparks released their 19th album, the much-feted and genre-generating ‘Lil Beethoven’. The subsequent albums, ‘Hello Young Lovers’ (2006) and ‘Exotic Creatures’ (2008), emerged as its happy siblings with similar musical DNA, but undoubtedly their own personalities… Read More

Just a little over 24 hours until…

..the world premier of The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman. You can listen live via the following for PC/Windows users: mms://wm-live.sr.se/SR-P1-High and Real Audio for Mac and PC users: rtsp://rm-live.sr.se/broadcast/p1.rm Tomorrow night will see the broadcast of a special Swedish version of The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman. The album (see post below) will be predominantly in… Read More

Listen Live To The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman

For those of you outside of Sweden you can listen live to The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman on 14th August at 19:03 (CEST): for PC/Windows users: mms://wm-live.sr.se/SR-P1-High and Real Audio for Mac and PC users: rtsp://rm-live.sr.se/broadcast/p1.rm

Sparks RadioLive At Sodra Teatern

On August 14th The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman will have its world premiere when it is broadcast on Swedish national radio station Sveriges Radio. We are delighted to announce that Ron and Russell will be in Stockholm for this broadcast and will be at the Sodra Teatern for a RadioLive presentation of Sparks’ 22nd album…. Read More

Sparks on 6Music

We've just found out that on Gideon Coe's show this evening he will be playing live tracks from Sparks set at Electric Picnic in Ireland… if you miss it you can listen again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l1qg4 Today, 21:00 on BBC 6 Music Synopsis: Sparks draw from almost forty years of back catalogue as we revisit live tracks… Read More

Japanese Reissues – Available To Buy From Sparks Mart

You can now place orders for 5 of the albums reissued by Imperial Records, Japan in February of this year. These albums are in very limited supply which means that No 1 In Heaven is currently unavailable. Sparks Mart will be taking orders for the albums from the 27th May. All orders will then be… Read More

The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman

Sparks' Ron and Russell Mael have been commissioned by the Swedish National Public radio SR to write and produce an original radio musical. Sparks creation, “The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman,” is a musical fantasy based on the internationally acclaimed film director Ingmar Bergman. Though his films' themes have traditionally centered on matters of death,faith,God's existence,… Read More