History

Spitfire were formed from the remnants of a former Crawley band, Bobby Scarlet, which featured brothers Jeff and Nick Pitcher, and Steve Walker .

Formed in 1990 in Crawley in Sussex (they were nick named The Crawley Doors) They signed to the Eve label and released a 3 EPs.

They also produced an aclaimed John Peel session for the BBC produced at Maida Vale by Dale Griffen. The Original guitarist went onto form The Spectrum Zero who realsed a sigle Free My Soul.

They then with MattWise as new gutarist produced an EP and album on Paperhouse and did national tours supporting Blur and Lush in their van ,supported by road manager Charlie.

Around this time Justin moved on to join Elastica and was replaced with Scott Kenny.

The next releases were on the Lowlife label (an Album and 2 singles)

The band drifted apart around 1999, with the Pitcher brothers forming Cheetah, a new (but very similar sounding) garage rock band. Matt Wise and Scott Kenny had, meanwhile, started a new band called Society who continue to write and perform material to the present day.

Steve Walker went onto work with The Autuers and may or may not be living in America.

Justin lives in Devon races cars and performs in Beauty School and has a dog called Iggy Pup !

again,again,again,then i'll learn ...