There are 5 bands with the name The Spivs.

1) The songs It's True and Men Don't Cry, along with all the gig listings, on this last fm page are connected with The Spivs here: www.myspace.com/thespivsonline. This band are hard-gigging punk 3 piece based in Hackney, London. They have one single out on 1965 Records, another release on Holy Twist Records, and a forthcoming album on Dirty Water Records.

2) The picture and the song Sticks And Stones on this Last.fm page are connected to a different band, The Spivs here: www.thespivs.co.uk.

3) There is also a band in Calgary, Canada using the name The Spivs: www.myspace.com/thespivsrock.

4) Back in the UK there is another The Spivs who record The Kinks song in their own style: www.myspace.com/itsthespivs.

5) The first known use of the name The Spivs was in the early 1980s, by a Dutch power pop band whose fine single "Boys Of Disillusion" can be found by searching you tube.
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