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Don’t miss your chance to see My Life Story play as a full band live at our very intimate Rainham Platform 3 club night at The Oast community centre.Tickets are £22.50 in advance
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Britpop favourites My Life Story released three successful albums and six top forty singles in the 1990s.Combining playful, evocative lyrics with memorable melodies, My Life Story is best known as a flamboyant orchestral 11-piece with string and brass section.Signed to Parlophone in 1996, the band released The Golden Mile which spawned hit singles Sparkle, 12 Reasons Why I Love Her, The King of Kissingdom, Strumpet and Duchess, and re-released a remastered version of 1995 album Mornington Crescent.Joined Up Talking followed on Mother Tongue Records in 2000, featuring the sixth hit single, It’s A Girl Thing.
After enjoying early dates headlining over Oasis, My Life Story went on to tour with Blur and Pulp, among many others, at the height of the Britpop era. My Life Story were firm favourites on the live scene and enjoyed particular success in France and Germany.The My Life Story orchestra also collaborated with acts such as Morrissey, Marc Almond and The Wonderstuff. The band’s current quintet lineup is led by frontman and songwriter Jake Shillingford, with a distinct rockier sound.In 2017 My Life Story completed the Star Shaped Festival sell-out tour of four O2 Academy venues throughout the UK and headlined the Star Shaped Christmas Party at the O2 Academy Islington. And last year they were the only act to feature on every date of the tour for the second year running.My Life Story released a new single in 2016 (24 Hour Deflowerer) which was playlisted by Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 6 Music and the band is working on a new album for release in 2019.The band's current line up features Jake Shillingford (vocals), Nick Evans (guitar), Chris Hardwick (drums), Jack Hosgood (bass) and Aimee Smith (keys).
Support comes in the form of local Medway Band The Pastel Waves.
The Pastel Waves are a Medway-based indie band who fuse their collective influences of New Wave, Indie and Brit Pop.
With a full line-up in 2017, it was actually 2015 that Rob Percy and Chris Parsons (previous members of Medway band Speedwell) began writing new material together. Soon after, they knew they was onto something with this new project, and thus invited Joe Liste Romero and Mike Grigson (previous members of Medway band The Ambience) to join to add drums and vocals to the songs’ bare bones.
Their debut album ‘All Things To All People’ was released in March 2019 on Trouserphonic Records, with a follow-up digital single ‘Ten’, and the CD EP ‘I Hate Myself For Wanting It’ in May 2020. In April 2021, the band released ‘The Influencers EP’ on vinyl via Spinout Nuggets, with four strong tracks, each receiving enough attention to force them to continue recording. The band released their second album, ‘Back In The Land Of The Living’, in 2022, also receiving much interest.
A limited lathe cut 7” was released in 2023.
The Pastel Waves found themselves in The Moon Studio, under the hands of Rob Grigg (ex-The Dentists, currently These Guilty Men), with some time to gain four songs for two continuous grooves, including strings and arrangements by The Pastel Waves, Richard Moore and Clementine Canpont.
Britpop favourites My Life Story released three successful albums and six top forty singles in the 1990s.Combining playful, evocative lyrics with memorable melodies, My Life Story is best known as a flamboyant orchestral 11-piece with string and brass section.Signed to Parlophone in 1996, the band released The Golden Mile which spawned hit singles Sparkle, 12 Reasons Why I Love Her, The King of Kissingdom, Strumpet and Duchess, and re-released a remastered version of 1995 album Mornington Crescent.Joined Up Talking followed on Mother Tongue Records in 2000, featuring the sixth hit single, It’s A Girl Thing.
After enjoying early dates headlining over Oasis, My Life Story went on to tour with Blur and Pulp, among many others, at the height of the Britpop era. My Life Story were firm favourites on the live scene and enjoyed particular success in France and Germany.The My Life Story orchestra also collaborated with acts such as Morrissey, Marc Almond and The Wonderstuff. The band’s current quintet lineup is led by frontman and songwriter Jake Shillingford, with a distinct rockier sound.In 2017 My Life Story completed the Star Shaped Festival sell-out tour of four O2 Academy venues throughout the UK and headlined the Star Shaped Christmas Party at the O2 Academy Islington. And last year they were the only act to feature on every date of the tour for the second year running.My Life Story released a new single in 2016 (24 Hour Deflowerer) which was playlisted by Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 6 Music and the band is working on a new album for release in 2019.The band's current line up features Jake Shillingford (vocals), Nick Evans (guitar), Chris Hardwick (drums), Jack Hosgood (bass) and Aimee Smith (keys).
Support comes in the form of local Medway Band The Pastel Waves.
The Pastel Waves are a Medway-based indie band who fuse their collective influences of New Wave, Indie and Brit Pop.
With a full line-up in 2017, it was actually 2015 that Rob Percy and Chris Parsons (previous members of Medway band Speedwell) began writing new material together. Soon after, they knew they was onto something with this new project, and thus invited Joe Liste Romero and Mike Grigson (previous members of Medway band The Ambience) to join to add drums and vocals to the songs’ bare bones.
Their debut album ‘All Things To All People’ was released in March 2019 on Trouserphonic Records, with a follow-up digital single ‘Ten’, and the CD EP ‘I Hate Myself For Wanting It’ in May 2020. In April 2021, the band released ‘The Influencers EP’ on vinyl via Spinout Nuggets, with four strong tracks, each receiving enough attention.
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The Oast, Granary Close,Gillingham, Medway, United Kingdom
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