Culture 3 min read By Trevor Kendall
My Vitriol announce 25th anniversary ‘Finelines’ show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire
My Vitriol will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their debut album ‘Finelines’ with a headline show at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire on December 10, with InMe and Yourcodenameis:milo as support.
My Vitriol have announced a headline show at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire to mark the 25th anniversary of their debut album ‘Finelines’. The gig, set for Thursday December 10, will be the band’s biggest performance in over two decades, following their headline set at the London Astoria in 2005.
The band will be joined by InMe and Yourcodenameis:milo as support acts. Tickets go on sale Monday August 24. The album, which earned a three-star review from NME at the time of release, has been hailed by readers as “an album perfect from start to finish”. It has also been credited as the first Nugaze album, a term originally coined jokingly by frontman Som Wardner.
My Vitriol went on hiatus in 2002, a year after the album’s release, before briefly reuniting in 2005 for a show at the O2 Academy Islington. A recording of that gig was self-released as the 2006 live album ‘Cast In Amber’. The band later shared the EPs ‘A Pyrrhic Victory’ and ‘War of the Worlds’ in 2007, and returned again in 2017 for a UK tour.
The support slot from Yourcodenameis:milo also signals a potential reunion for the Sunderland band, who went on hiatus in 2007 and announced a return for charity concerts in 2020. Those gigs were postponed until April 2023 due to the pandemic. At the time, the band hinted to NME that they would be keen to record another full album.
“I’ve got a whole folder on my hard drive of possible Milo songs from over the years,” frontman Paul Mullen said back then. “It’s just full of riffs. Fuck it, why not? Let’s get these shows out of the way and then we’ll see. It just fills me with joy.”
Guitarist Justin Lockey added that the band would need to meet their own high standards for new material. “We’ve got to do something in a way that would honour what we did before – which is just don’t fucking care about anything else and make the heaviest thing we can,” he said. “I’ve got a studio and work in there all the time and now that everyone would be keen. It would have to better than the last thing we did because that’s all we ever tried to do. I totally want to make another album.”
He also noted there is an extensive amount of unreleased tracks the band worked on, and expressed interest in putting out the original Albini version of ‘All Roads To Fault’. “I’d also like to put the original Albini version of ‘All Roads To Fault’ out because I’ve got that whole record,” he said.
