| Unexpected Guest at a Cancelled Party | |
| Type: | Compilation album |
| Artist: | Spoons |
| Cover: | Spoons - Unexpected Guest At A Cancelled Party.jpg |
| Recorded: | 1982–1985 |
| Genre: | New wave, synthpop |
| Length: | 43:59 |
| Label: | Spoons Music |
| Producer: | Various |
| Prev Title: | Collectible Spoons |
| Prev Year: | 1994 |
| Next Title: | Static in Transmission |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
Unexpected Guest at a Cancelled Party is a compilation album of unreleased material by Canadian 80s new wave band Spoons. Named after the B-side to their "Talk Back" single, it was released independently by Spoons member Gordon Deppe in .
According to Gordon Deppe the album "covers the time roughly between 1983 and 1985",[1] and was the band's first release of studio material since their 1988 Vertigo Tango album.
Deppe related the origin of the material: "Most of these songs were recorded after "Romantic Traffic" and "Tell No Lies", in a tiny, hidden away studio in Oakville, Ontario. We were about to embark on a whole new chapter in our musical lives that would leave these old ideas forgotten, to slowly weather over time and eventually fade into the earth."[2]
A few of these songs were played live including "In the Hands of Money" (circa 1984) which can be seen on the Spoons' DVD Spoons Live in Concert.