Illicit Spirits are a band from Fife, Scotland.
Their music fuses rock, americana, country and folk, with a Byrdsian psychedelic influence.

Lead singer/songwirter, Stephen Dempsey writes of the intracies and the complexities of life as we grow. He writes of lost friends and lost days yet balances it with ideas of contentment and creation.

Stephen Dempsey – lead voc and electric guitar, Gus Black – bass, keys and back vocs, Iain Johnson – electric guitar and back vocs, Jamie Henry – drums and back vocs,  Ian Anderson – percussion and back vocs.