SQUEAKEASY
: MICE, Juilanne Regan's new band, have shrugged
off the past and belong to the Nineties, reckon
The Stud Brothers.
As
comebacks go, this one's pretty startling. Mice, the band formed by All
About Eve's Julianne Regan with bassist Tim McTighe (only briefly of Powder,
sensible boy) sprang up last year with Mat's Prozac" - half crystal
rush, half killer distortion, intermittently interrupted by vicious slahes
of metal. A gig in King's Cross, with Bic Levitation on guitar, was a
bigger surprise still. Regan, it seems, is back with a vengance, nailing
scuffed up late-Nineties pop to the kind of twisted noise All About Eve
were approaching with their swan song, the idiotically ignored "Ultraviolet".
Mice's new single, "The Milkman", sees a burst of staccato
sarcasm - Regan clearly being well aware of her past - driven on by oblique
guitars then slipping into the purest of melodies. The B-side, a cover
of Lynsey De Paul's "Martian Man", features a murderous
Seventies synth riff direct from "Assault On Precinct 13" and
leads into a basic and evidently less than serious take on Front Line
Assembly called "Die Ubermaus". Regan is obviously enjoying
the freedom of a state of independance.
"I don't think I suffer any more from the inanne, psychopathic niceness
I used to," she says. Nuff said (for now).
The Milkman is out next week on Permanent. Mice are on tour throughout
April
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Stud
Bothers review The Milkman
As
comebacks go, this one's pretty startling. Mice, the band formed by All
About Eve's Julianne Regan with bassist Tim McTighe (only briefly of Powder,
sensible boy) sprang up last year with Mat's Prozac" - half crystal
rush, half killer distortion, intermittently interrupted by vicious slahes
of metal. A gig in King's Cross, with Bic Levitation on guitar, was a
bigger surprise still. Regan, it seems, is back with a vengance, nailing
scuffed up late-Nineties pop to the kind of twisted noise All About Eve
were approaching with their swan song, the idiotically ignored "Ultraviolet".
murderous
Seventies synth riff direct from "Assault On Precinct 13" and
leads into a basic and evidently less than serious take on Front Line
Assembly called "Die Ubermaus". Regan is obviously enjoying
the freedom of a state of independance.
