and relevent with a couple of shows coming up I believe(hope the link works).

Back in the not so distant days when sets were built for videos.

Memories of days when dials went around!

I loved this band! Saw them live in December 1997 and they were phenomenal. Was disgraceful what EMI did to them - they had reasonable sales and suddenly dropped them. A week later EMI announced they had signed The Divine Comedy, the band who many compared to My Life Story.

They still hold up great.

I hadn`t heard them until Jake Shillingford, who I had only read about in the NME, turned up in our dressing room one night at a freshers ball. I really liked the guy and bought the album the next day, once you start listening to the thought that went into the works, its very hard to listen to anything else that day.
Superb strings that could so easily have been overblown.

Check out "Its a Girl Thing" on the 2nd album as well. Why that was not a global hit I have no idea.

It's A Girl Thing was actually on their third album, Joined Up Talking.

Shame they'd gone to an label by that point that didn't really have the resources to sell an album - there are two songs on that record that could've been enormous hits in the right hands:

If You Can't Live Without Me Then Why Aren't You Dead Yet (which was given away free as a download, at a time when downloading an mp3 took best part of an evening), and Neverland, which I understand those Sam & Mark creatures had their eyes on covering for use on their planned (but never recorded) album.

Shillingford was an acquired taste, but there's no doubt he could write a pop song.