| 14th May 2002 | Sorry for the HUGE delay in updates to this
site..I have many excuses but you don't want to hear that! Anyway
I have added a new feature to 12RW...a Separated
at Birth page which has a bit of an X-Files feel to it...
A new MLS tribute site has been launched by Caroline from 'Welcome to my Archipelago' fame. Check it out, it's called Checkmate! I will try and update the Afterlife pages too soon, although Jake and Aaron seem to be doing great on their own site so just look there really! |
| 17th June 2001 | Jake exclusively informed 12RW that his new band will launch their web-site and hence themselves on July 1st 2001. Watch this space for further news and reviews of some Demo Tracks. See the new 'Jake's New Band' website. |
| 14th June 2001 | 12RW received a copy of a pre-Mornington Crescent demo CD with a previously unheard track 'Meet Myself' on. This track has been added to the Discography and Music pages. |
| May 2001 | Lucy and Rob were spotted on CD:UK playing with The Divine Comedy on their new single 'Bad Ambassadour' This follows an earlier sighting of them on T4 playing with the Dum Dums on 'Army of Two' a few months ago. |
| 8th April 2001 | 12 Reasons Why has launched a new
site....Jake's New Band ...a home for
information, rumours, reviews, previews about Jake's new project with
Aaron Cahill.
COMING SOON..some sneak previews of five demo tracks! |
| 7th April 2001 | *THIS WEEK: JAKE SHILLINGFORD ON THE
WHEELS OF STEEL!*
At the end of last year, after a decade as the best live band in London and the best kept secret in pop, the fabulous My Life Story sadly called it a day (boo! sob!) with three unforgettable farewell gigs at the Camden Underworld. Fear not, however, for MLS main man Jake Shillingford will be back (hooray!) sooner than you expect in a different guise. In the meantime, we have spared no expense to jet in the gap-toothed genius all the way from New York, where he now lives (OK, OK, he was coming over anyway), to entertain you lot on the Stay Beautiful decks this week (Wednesday 4th April). - from Sparkle mailing list |
| 3rd April 2001 | Le Grand Magistery have announced that they will be releasing 'Joined Up Talking' in Summer 2001. |
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7th January 2001
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Excite has suspended all their clubs...therefore More Reasons Why has vanished without a trace..sorry for any inconvenience. |
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16th December 2000
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THE END OF THE STORY! In a shock (but worryingly anticipated) announcement by the band just before the three Camden gigs, these were the last UK gigs ever. My Life Story came to a very emotional end on Friday 15th December 2000. For details of the last three gigs with set lists and photos see the Gigs Page.There are no plans for www.twelvereasonswhy.co.uk to stop and will remain as long as possible. I will aim to include ANY new reviews, photos etc that I find and will also try to include news of any ex-member's musical careers. I am also in the process of including a copy of www.mylifestory.uk.com here as Jake mentioned it will be deleted in the near future.
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24th October 2000
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My Life Story will be performing 2 very rare shows as a stripped down 3 piece (Jake Shillingford, Danny Turner, and Roger Moore) this coming Wednesday (tonight at Midnight) AND Saturday (October 27) at The Fez (372 Lafayette Street, under Time Cafe) in New York City, as part of their U.S. label, Le Grand Magistery's festivities at this year's CMJ Music Marathon. |
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14th October 2000
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NEWS from www.mylifestory.uk.com.... London Shows The full band are to play a hat-trick of London shows just before Christmas. My Life Story, who will be approaching it's 15th year in 2001, will be celebrating with 3 retrospective sets at The Underworld in Camden Town on 13th, 14th and 15th of December. The band felt it would be appropriate to echo the now 'infamous' Month of Sunday's shows that took place in 1996 at Dingwalls, up the road, where Jake hatched the master plan and the group eventually got signed. Similarly MLS will be performing a different set each night with an acoustic set beforehand and one (as yet unannounced) support band for each night. The albums 'Mornington Crescent' and The 'Golden Mile' will be covered as well as 'Joined Up Talking' that was released this year. Times and ticket information when they have it....check the official site for details. |
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28th July 2000
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MLS will be playing at the Loot Music Awards 2000 grand final as Special Guests. The show takes place at the Forum in Kentish Town on Friday 28th July. For more information on the event call Blurb 020 7419 1221. No tickets are needed, just turn up and it is FREE on the door! Doors open at 19:30. |
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7th July 2000
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A certain Mr. Gammon was spotted on the UK Living's 'Relationship SOS' today...a programme in which the cockey fashion geezer helped smarten up a tasteless husband. |
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29th May 2000
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MLS announced a new record deal with the American label Le Grande Magistery (Momus' label) and will release JUT in the USA this summer. Jake, Paul and Simon also played in Fat Les' soccer 6 team at Chelsea again this year, only to be beaten to their crown by Robbie Williams. See www.mylifestory.uk.com for more details. |
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7th February 2000
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Live session, repeated from 1999, will be aired on X-FM. A live acoustic session will be aired on GLR. |
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24th January 2000
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Walk/Don't Walk makes it onto the playlists of Liberty, GLR, X-FM and Radio 2, even making it to the top of the latter. Jake is interviewed on X-FM's website and recorded possibly for a live transmission. |
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6th October 1999
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MLS announced they will be playing a live set for XFM (no date known) and performing at the Sound Republic, off Leicester Square, London on the 18th October at 5 p.m. This date is also the release date of the new MLS single 'Empire Line', for details see the Music Page |
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21st September 1999
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MLS embark on their biggest tour for 3 years, in Glasgow, supported by Younger Younger 28's |
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30th August 1999
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The E-single 'If You Can't Live Without Me, Then Why Aren't You Dead Yet? is 'released'. It reputes to be the first UK single to make use of the new Microsoft Audio/Visual format 'WMA' which compresses files twice as much as 'MP3'. See the official site for more info. |
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30th July 1999
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Jake will be appearing on ITV's 'Popped In, Crashed Out' at 1 a.m., recorded straight after his arrival back from the stag-do in Italy |
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20th July 1999
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The NEW Album has been re-scheduled? for a January 2000 release date - from the MT Message Board |
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23rd June 1999
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Jake sent Steve Lamaqq a note saying he was off to Italy on a 10-day stag do, although he would be working by writing some songs for Marianne Faithfull |
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23rd June 1999
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Boy George announced that if he was feeling happy then he would like to listen to MY LIFE STORY! and the best song around at the moment was It's A Girl Thing! on Jo Whiley's Channel 4 pop chat show |
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21st June 1999
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The UK Arena channel's 'Reviews You Can Use' reviewed It's A Girl Thing and aired the clever 'girl's toilet' video. Unfortunately I only caught the last minute so anyone?? |
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June 1999
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Jake appeared in the Channel 4 documentary Diceworld, based on the novel The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart the favourite book of MLS's frontman. |
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17th June 1999
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Jake and Paul review the singles in Melody Maker, June 19th 1999 edition. They dish the single of the week to The Klyvz 'Saturday' and put Britney Spears's 'Sometimes' in The Dumper. |
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13th June 1999
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It's A Girl Thing entered the UK Top 40 at number 37 |
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12th June 1999
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MLS, the five piece version, appeared on CD:UK with Ant and Dec on ITV. They 'performed' It's A Girl Thing and got a brilliant reaction. |
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4th - 8th June 1999
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My Life Story Session (from the Evening Session)
will be aired around the country: Fri 4th June: BBC Radio Leicester, Chazz Carroll's Friday FM, 7-9 p.m. Northsound One, Jim Gellatly's The Vibe, 7-10 p.m. BBC Radio Wales, Kevin Hughes, 8-10 p.m. Forth FM, Paula Whitehead's Lockout, 10-1 a.m. Sat 5th June: BBC Radio Nottingham, Derby, Lincs, The Beat, 6-10 p.m. BBC Humberside, Mountain Range, 7-10 p.m. Sun 6th June: BBC West Midlands, Ian Wood, 10-1 a.m. 103.4 The Beach, Martin Bruce, 7-10 p.m. Key 103, Terry Christian, 9-11 a.m. Hallam FM, XS with Emma Scott, 7-10 p.m. Central FM, Not The Network Chart Show, 6-9 p.m. Tues 8th June: Downtown, Johnny Hero, 8-9 p.m. |
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9th June 1999
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It's A Girl Thing declared Single of the Week by Younger Younger 28's in Melody Maker and also receives a good review on BBC Ceefax. The Sheffield Gig is favourably reviewed in Melody Maker in contrast to the slamming they received in NME last week. See the Media section for full text. |
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14th June 1999
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The Evening Session will air the MLS live set recorded in May. It will include tracks from the forthcoming album. |
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22nd-28th May 1999
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'It's a Girl Thing' was declared Single of the Week in Music Week! |
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19th May 1999
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MLS, the four-piece?!, recorded a set for Steve Lamacq's 'Evening Session' at the Radio 1 Maida Vale Studios. This set is planned to be broadcast later this year. Jake & Co. also performed a version of 'It's a Girl Thing' live on the night. |
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May 1999
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The new MLS single 'It's a Girl Thing' is announced to be released by It Records on 7th June. For more details see the MLS Music page. |
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May 1999
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The OFFICIAL My Life Story Website is launched at www.mylifestory.uk.com. Read Jake's diary, THE LATEST news and lovely links to wonderful websites such as this!! |
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May 1999
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Lucy appeared on Top of the Pops backing Martine McCutcheon and 911! |
| March 1999 |
MLS Signed to Andrew Lloyd-Webber's record label, part of the Really Useful Group, and are planning on releasing the new album, working title Joined Up Talking, around June time. Following a few gigs they plan a possible residency possibly at Dingwalls, London. Album being mixed, some parts recorded in Jake's brother's flat in Lanzarote, described as beiing less orchestral, more contemporary but still involving the whole band, with lyrics along the usual MLS lines. |
| June 12th 1998 |
After a fantastic two-gig spectacular, one small acoustic set and a stonking loud pre-Lightning Seeds gig, Jake managed to find a spare ten minutes to have a chat with me!! Okay I jumped him near the bar and asked him to sign my copy of MCC, during which I accidentely mentioned 12 Reasons Why expecting no more than a polite comment. Gentleman Jake, however gave me more than that!! He said that he and the rest of the band (including Lucy I hope) have seen the pages and really like them. After I picked myself off the floor.. We had a really nice chat about Jake's ideas for an official "www.mylifestory.com" website which would be simplistically arty and cool which could bring together all the MLS pages and info! Good idea. Regarding the record label, he wouldn't tell me who they are with (via Polygram though), BUT the contract was going to be signed this week, with a single (Neverland!!) coming as soon as possible. Here, Jake got even more enthusiastic about the possibility of releasing a new single over the Internet, if a more conventional way wouldn't be possible soon. A seven-minute long song, similar to Angel but not as dramatic, would be Jake's candidate for this novel approach, using the websites as a advertising and downloading source, exciting. Ben, is apparently fine in himself, but is still unfortunately in pain. So much so that he can't go to any of the MLS gigs to which he is always invited. My wishes go out to him. The Acoustic Set included: The Live! Set included: and new songs (in their rough form according to Jake) and many others I can't quite remember, any help anyone??? The whole night was fantastic, a perfect end to my five years at Sheffield, although my aim to marry Lucy still has to be only a dream! See some photos from the night on The Sheffield Page |
| April 8th 1998 | Jake's Email from Megaphone Theology My Email:My LiFe Story Comments: Dear Theologists, I'd just like to thank all the people that made the trip to Farnham from London and beyond. I was very pleased with the way the night went especialy as the show was nearly cancelled due to the fact that I had contracted pleurisy the week before and could barely breathe (don't ask me how I got it, the last person to contract pleurisy was an eighteenth century cabin boy. I was also glad that we used the concert to perform songs that will form the backbone of the 3rd album. To those people who constantly want to hear old material, tuffff, you should have come to one of the thousands of gigs we have played over the last 5 years. Negotiations are at last in motion for the new deal and I am hoping we can announce our new label in time to celebrate during the London Garage shows on Fri 22nd and Sat 23rd May. I can see that a lot of you have bought tickets already as both shows are quickly selling out. I'm also pleased to announce our first gigs in Germany We're playing the Rock am Ring festival at the F1 racing track near Koblenz on May 29th and the Rock Im Park festival in Nürnberg on May 31st. Last years event drew 45000, so we're hoping to get at least a reaction as EMI didn't really bother trying to push us in Germany with GM. June and July will see us in the studio, I want to record the album in New York as I feel it has more of an International feel. If not then there's a great new studio in Belgium that Dan is keen on (or is that the Leffe). Love Jakexxx |
| August 4th 1997 | Single Release Date. The new MLS single is now confirmed to be 'Duchess', a cover of the Strangler's song taken from a compilation album to celbrate EMI's centenary. STOP PRESS likely release put back to Aug. 11th! |
| July 28th 1997 | Rumoured to be the release date for 'Perfect Day', the NEW MLS single. More to follow...? Following which, further rumours are of Jake taking time out to do a series of remix collaborations!? - from Sparkle. |
| May 18th 1997 | Some members of MLS, at least Lord Shillingford played in a charity football match with teams comprising of popular music icons, Damon Albarn, Mark Owen etc. Jake's team were runners-up to Damon's. |
| May 1997 | BAD NEWS - Ben is leaving MLS due to continued problems with Tinnitus, a nasty 'ringing ears' complaint. There are no current plans to replace him, from the Sparkle mailing list |
| April 25th 1997 | MLS on T.F.I. Friday tonight!!! |
| April 16th 1997 | Mark Radcliffe plays Strumpet again, the new sparkly version with added 'stylophone' whining in the background and lots more OOMF!. The Breakfast boys called it BRILLIANT!! |
| April 15th 1997 | Strumpet Single release date is 5th May. Look for the message in the run-out groove. |
| April 14th 1997 | New Single News: The next single is likely to be a re-mix of Strumpet from The Golden Mile. It seems likely to be a 2-CD set again. The B-Sides are named as: I Faced The Music, March 9th, The Return Of Emerald Green, Waiting To Explode, Wallpaper and Welcome To My Archipelago. No release date is available at the moment |
| 12 Reasons Why WebSite added a MLS Pop Art Wallpaper for Windows | |
| April 13th 1997 | 12 Reasons Why Website went on-line |
| MLS on the Stuart Maconie Show, Radio 1 - played a version of the Stranglers "Duchess". |
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