My Life Story, Talk In Code

Ticket: £14.00 Buy Now
Doors: 19:30pm
Age: 14+

MY LIFE STORY, the legends of orchestral pop return performing their greatest hits from classic albums ‘Mornington Crescent’, The Golden Mile’ and others!

Named by NME as “one of the greatest lost bands of the 90s” and back on the road with a sleek new rock n roll line up and a brand new single!

‘The 24 Hour Deflower Tour’ will include songs from their 90s back catalogue, and the first new material for fifteen years. “24 Hour Deflower” will be released on 1st November via their own Exilophone Records and is classic MLS in the vein of past hits as ‘Strumpet’ and ‘12 Reasons Why I Love Her’.

Mainman Jake Shillingford says, “In the last few years I’ve moved into writing for movies and TV and as much as it satisfies my orchestral and filmic bent, I don’t have much time to write spikey 3 minute pop songs anymore! So I sat down with my trusty old 12 string and all these twisted couplets started to fire out; a sort of machine gun of vitriolic social commentary. I felt like I’d been reborn!” He added, “Whilst the orchestral line up has been indefinitely rested, I felt desperate to get out and air the new material, to the most patient and loyal fans on the planet. The new songs and sound capture the New Wave influences that I grew up with. Despite the Baroque Pop and Britpop tags that were hung on us in the early 90s the heart of MLS was always the edgy passionate and honest songwriting of Badfinger, Cheap Trick and Costello”.

My Life Story enjoyed a string of ’90s chart hits at the heart of the Britpop movement, being huge live favourites with flamboyant shows and a loyal fan base, scoring six Top 40 hits, including ‘12 REASONS WHY I LOVE HER‘ (“The best pop single of last year not to feature the Spice Girls” – Smash Hits), ‘STRUMPET‘ and ‘SPARKLE‘ (“Satisfying escapism taking life’s mundanities and making them magical” – Melody Maker).

The band briefly returned in 2006, after a six-year hiatus, with a ‘Best Of’ album entitled Sex & Violins. This was followed by Megaphone Theology (B-sides & Rarities) and packed out shows at The Astoria, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire and Koko.

So looking forward to this show; wonderful exalted glorious pop!