This 7 date tour got off to a bit of slow start, with only a half full
venue at Sheffield University's "The Foundry". Support was provided by
Rialto and Bennet. The former were a slightly better than average guitar 3
piece guitar band, the latter were a slightly worse than average 3 piece
guitar band who shot to fame with "mums gone to Iceland", and ever
since seemed to have dissapeared into obscurity My Life
Story, however were fantastic. A good mix of new songs from The Golden
Mile, a few old songs such as Motorcade and Funny Ha Ha which delighted
both new and long standing fans
alike, and a liberal smattering of B-sides, in the shape of A boy Called
Daydream and The Garden Fence Affair. Getting a 13 Piece Orchestra wired
up and sound checked can't be an
easy job, but the My Life Story road crew seemed to have got it down to a
fine art. Not only was the sound superb, but they were ready on stage only
20 minutes after Bennet had finished their set. The intro track for
this set of dates had changed from Danny's rendition of Sparkle to Sir
Richard Steele, however it seemed to go on slightly too long and left
some of the orchestra standing on stage not knowing quite what to do
untill Jake ran on. That aside the rest of the set went brilliantly. "You
Can't Uneat The Apple" now makes a regular appearance near the start of
the set, and most of the other great My Life Story songs appear
somewhere in the 50 minute set list, the only noticable ommission being
Strumpet which was rumoured to be part of the set, but was left out,
apparently because the orchestra hadn't practised it!
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