BAND PROFILE - MY PASSION

(Disorder Magazine, 2007)

Out in the sticks in October 2006, a rusty old minibus careers out of a concrete nowhere-town in England’s green and not-so-pleasant Commuter Belt. Inside, amongst the discarded fast-food wrappers, torn-up road maps, vast quantities of Boots cosmetics and Rage Against The Machine CD’s, are five rake-thin, photogenic young men intent on wreaking havoc in venues as far-flung as Barcelona, Paris and, er, Welwyn Garden City, as well as attracting a few hostile reactions in late-night service stations along the way. Deciding to name it ‘The Fabulous Blood Disco Tour’, it was set to become a sort-of touring version of their well-established Style Suicide club. An irregular night based in their Hitchin local, it’s a safe-haven for the beautiful and disaffected misfits that desperately try to wash away the grey of the car parks, pylons and dead-eyed pram-pushers and suits that keep them captive in London’s suburban playground. It’s also where, on the decks at least, AFI and Thrice rub up against Justin Timberlake.


Laurence Rene (mad-eyed frontman with a tendency to swing from sprinkler pipes and kick his way off table tops), Jonathan Gaskin (drummer, also responsible for “hooligan vocals”), Simon Rolands (armed with a bass so powerful he can detonate nearby car alarms), Harry Wade (the ‘mad scientist’ who’s usually hunched over a bank of electronics) and John Be (who’d “rather lose his limbs than indulge in guitar solos”) sound like Lostprophets if they’d grown up in the Blitz club, or The Human League with infectious, emo-sized choruses. Intent on attaining global domination on their own terms (or, at the very least, releasing their album ‘Hot In The Dollshouse’ on their own label this year), Disorder reckons My Passion might just be a band worth obsessing over.



Tracks; ‘Make Me Butterfly’, ‘Bitter Too’, ‘Tomorrow Girls’



MySpace URL: http://www.myspace.com/mypassionmusic