Counting heartbeats with My Life Story

FOLLOWING the release of their first album in five years, entitled Loving You Is Killing Me, My Life Story will be stopping in at the West End Centre, Aldershot, for a headline slot, where you can also hear their new single Running Out Of Heartbeats.

Mixed by Ben Hillier, who has notably produced a number of Depeche Mode albums, this exhilarating, electronica-skewered anthem pulses and whirrs with a kindred mechanised groove and futuristic sheen.

Inspired by a quote from astronaut Neil Armstrong, Running Out Of Heartbeats finds chief songwriter Jake Shillingford in a philosophical mood, theorising on how love and life could be playing with our human hearts and our overall longevity.

As Shillingford explains of the track: “On returning from the moon and on his withdrawal from public life, Neil Armstrong allegedly said: ‘I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.’

“Finite Heartbeat Theory suggests we get roughly 2.5 billion beats throughout our lives.

“I wanted to explore if we can put a value on each heartbeat. Do we lose more through the palpitations of love, or leading a dynamic life? Or are we wasting our heartbeats by taking the easy life?”

Pairing lyrics laced with an ebullient, uncontainable sense of discovery, and arrangements that glisten with a fresh feeling of unlimited possibility; Running Out Of Heartbeats is evidence of a band who five albums and over three decades into their career still believe the sky’s the limit.

Originally founded in 1984 by charismatic frontman Jake Shillingford, My Life Story, rose to fame as a pioneering force of the Britpop movement.

Working with the legendary Giles Martin (The Beatles) on their debut album ‘Mornington Crescent,’ the band would go on to score six UK top 40 singles and a top 40 album.

Across their career the band have worked with the likes of Morrissey to The Pogues, Marc Almond to Andrew Lloyd Webber and more.

Performing on the Glastonbury Pyramid stage and at Reading four times, they notably supported Blur and Pulp and are one of the only bands to headline over Oasis.

Taking an extended hiatus from recorded music in 2001, My Life Story returned with the critically acclaimed, fan-funded album World Citizen in 2019.

For more information and to book tickets for the Aldershot date, go to www.mylifestory.band/tours/.