The Misers - Amplified Life Stories

"Let's bring this fighting to a close", pleads Neil Ivison, guitarist and singer-song writer with The Misers. "I don't want to end up dead before my time", "Spinning around I was lost, now I'm found", these are the kind of heart-felt emotions expressed on the band's first album, Amplified Life Stories.

But it's not all doom and gloom. For Amplified Life Stories is a balanced mixture of slow, mournful ballads sung to simple guitar or piano, with upbeat rockers in a style that owes much to the influence of bygone bands like Mott The Hoople and The Small Faces.

The Misers are a duo from Herefordshire. Their other half is Adam Barry on keyboards and support vocals. For the album, they've drafted in drummer Clive Jenner, another local lad whose previous bands include Groove Armada, and Ian Morgan on bass who also produced the album with Tom Oliver at nearby Monmouth's Rockford Studios. With the gentle Shoot The Breeze as a single taken from it, Amplified Life Stories should amplify The Misers' popularity beyond its west-country locale.