Spree are a five piece drum'n'bass band formed from the ashes of Solarise, who as a prolific live act played as far afield as the first ever Drum and Bass festival, France.  The three came together purely by chance a meeting of like minded souls on a musical journey merging the open endedness and beauty of Jazz with the new beat patterns of drum and bass to create their own unique laid back yet powerful energising sound.

Formed in April 2001, spree have in a short amount of time established themselves as rising players within the local club and music scene. Local legend Terri hooley has said they are the most exciting thing he has seen since the Undertones.

In the later part of 2001 spree partly composed the music for  " Out of their heads" a stage play by Marcus Romer. March 2002 saw spree make their first visit stateside performing at the prestigious SXSW festival Austin, Texas.

As a side project Simon joined forces with Paul Brown (Bedlam) and Robin (Touched and Crazy) to produce dub reggae and also performed a live set supporting the Legendary Lee "Scratch " Perry. Simon has also worked with Belcrash and release on Hertz Recordings.

Antoine has been performing for the past six years in some shape or form, including New world, Cuban, and Spanish Traditional and has also worked as a conductor for a large jazz ensemble. Antoine studied music production @ Queens University, Belfast, and is now the head engineer at a new studio complex in Antrim.

Spree have released on the Stella Aspect Records and Direct recordings & Eight Ball Records. They have played many live dates across Ireland & Scotland, as well as being invited to events across Europe.

Releases :

- Neon Junky  skank ( solarised dub - solarise remix ) / bolder - Brightstar

Records                                                                        (12"/CD)  BSR12

- Solarise - sanctified - - Hot Black One EP - Hot Black Records - DEA

-(12") HB3001

- Belcrash - full of music ( features simon on rhodes ) - Horizontal Beats

sampler, Frequent Soundz Recordings (12") FZ1201

- Spree - move / move ( state of play remix ) - Aspect Records (12") ASP019

Compilation's :

- Apache Tribe - Apache Records - solaris -  fresh (CD)

- Digital T @ 2000 - Creeping Herb Records ( wchbelf4 ) - solaris - black

eye (CD)

- Coffee shop 2 'the chillin sessions'- Toot'n'Herb ( TNH002 )- solarise -

fresh (CD)

- Apache tribe Vol 2 - Apache records - spree - get there (CD)

- Digital T @ 2001 - Creeping Herb Records  - spree - symmetry of movement

(CD)

- Digital T @ 2002 - Creeping Herb Records  - spree - all mine (CD)

Supported :

London Elektricity, Jazzanova, Konflict, Total Science, Teebee, Asian Dub

Foundation,  Filthy Rich, Richard Fearless, Jon Carter, Mark Rae, James Lavelle and

Rennie Pilgrim, Keith Tenniswood, amongst many others.