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With hair straight from The Horrors' barber shop and riffs courtesy of King Adora's second hand Manics chord school, you just know that it's all going to end in tears for Hertfordshire quintet My Passion.
Not content with the aforementioned one-way tickets to Hades, they've also adopted several silly names ('John Be' anyone?) and just in case they've missed anyone out, describe themselves as [deep breath] "ArtrockElectroShockEmo-ElectrogothDiscoMetalNewWaveRockRave". Damn, what are the post rockers gonna do then?
Leave this well alone if they've any sense. Singer Laurence Rene screams "We want your blood now!" in the over-cliched mess that is the title track which at one point, when the keyboard squiggles take over, actually manages to make The Automatic sound like the most incisively original band on the planet.
Flipside 'Last Day In Paradise' fares slightly better, preferring to just play it route one down the indie rock and roll field, and while it may not be that different from any one of a thousand artists before, at least it hints that there may be the odd tune lurking somewhere in My Passion's airing cupboard. Couple them with some songs worthy of the name and who knows..?
Well...
... I've seen My Passion lots of times and can say from the heart that they're geniuses. The music isn't really worth noting (as it isn't really very good, to be perfectly honest), but they're brilliant at pushing their audiences' buttons for sure.
They regularly pack out the Green Room in Welwyn Garden City on the kids' nights. Those 12-16 year olds (mostly) teenagers just can't get enough of the incredibly over the top vocals and silly haircuts (which is the only Horrors-related point in the review, if you re-read it).
My Passion are tight live for sure, but that's got something to do with goodness-knows how many years of gigging as Shard before the name change.
I think they could well make the break through into the mainstream, but I don't know if they'll be there long...
Haha...
They used to be Shard? Oh dear
actually
you can judge a band well before then. They probably lost me when they described themselves as "ArtrockElectroShockEmo-ElectrogothDiscoMetalNewWaveRockRave". Actually, scratch that. They cemented their Smithee judgment when they called themselves MY MOTHERCUNTING PASSION. This book's cover is particularly revealing
Shard
they were still gash when they were called shard.
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