About My Life Story
My Life Story are an English pop group formed in London, England, in 1984. The group's success peaked in the mid to late 1990s as part of the Britpop era. Fronted by singer/songwriter Jake Shillingford, the group inherited their name from an earlier group in which Shillingford had appeared. A cross between a pop group and a chamber orchestra, the band's sound was heavily oriented toward orchestral instruments.
My Life Story's fourth studio album World Citizen was released in September 2019.
In 2020 Shillingford and co-writer Nick Evans were signed to Mute Song in a worldwide publishing deal which included rights to World Citizen as well as much of the band's back catalogue from the Britpop era, formerly held by Universal Music Publishing.
At the time of their debut single, "Girl A, Girl B, Boy C" produced by Giles Martin, son of George, the group had a regular line-up of twelve members. Though the membership fluctuated continually, it rarely dipped into single figures until 1999, when their third album credited just four regular members, though most of the former line-up were still used as session musicians. Their orchestral sound led them to be compared to groups such as Tindersticks and especially The Divine Comedy. Their debut album, Mornington Crescent was released on 10 January 1995. My Life Story enjoyed the most success at the time of their second album The Golden Mile, which was released on 10 March 1997. It spawned five singles that entered the lower half of the UK Top 40, but the group finally disbanded after a series of farewell concerts in December 2000.
On 26 May 2006 the band reformed with the full line-up of thirteen members, to play at the Mean Fiddler on Charing Cross Road in London, in support of their forthcoming Best Of album. The gig got a review rating of 10/10 from Planet Sound. A second reunion show took place at the Astoria in London on 8 December 2006. Further reunions have taken place every two years on 13 December 2007 at the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, and Koko on 26 November 2009, where the band performed their debut album, Mornington Crescent, for the first time in its entirety. In 2009, it was announced that, to mark 15 years since their debut album, the group would reform and perform the album in full, together with later songs. This concert took place at KOKO which is next door to Mornington Crescent tube station.
My Life Story announced that they were to reunite again to perform The Golden Mile at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on 3 March 2012 to celebrate fifteen years since the album's release.
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