London La Scala 1999

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MY LIFE STORY
THE SCALA, LONDON
DID anyone else feel that My Life Story's recent comeback single, "It’s A Girl Thing", plodded when it should have glided? That it wasn't the flamboyant, orchestrated pop we were used to? Where once, say about five years ago, they were the next big thing, now they’re looking like also-rans.

Tonight, though, they’re sounding great when they start off with new song "If You Can't Live Without Me Why Aren't You Dead Yet". It has all the swagger, wit and ambition of vintage My Life Story. In fact, they sound great when they play vintage My Life Story - it’s the other new songs that don’t sound so great.

l don't want to trample on your parade ground, Jake Shillingford, but you're fast becoming part of the cabaret circuit. No longer the back- street glamour of "the greatest living singer, stuck inside a damp bedsitter" you sing of on "You Don’t Sparkle", but an old star trading on former glories.

Ironically, Jake rants about how bad the charts are, how "Wallpaper" is a call to form a band and change things, "like we did". Hello? Straight in at Number 32 and straight out again for the most part changed nothing. Sure, those songs are bold, gold and audacious, they offered romance and glitter in the harsh domain of Britpop, but what are ycu offering tonight?

Some fantastic old songs, some hints that the beauty’s still there and a suggestion that your best days have gone. More fantastic new songs, please.
Melody Maker - October 16th 1999

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