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"Plastic Toys Rock Southampton"

“Everyone knows it – electro rock is the new non electro rock. Plastic Toys are tight and fast, imbued with an effortlessly cool mix of testicle contracting metal licks, grooves and disco sleaze. Recorded, they’re exactly the kind of band you want to see live. Live, they’re exactly the kind of band you want to keep playing until your legs give way, and then some”. - The Fly magazine uk.


"UK live review"

“Jon Plastic led his team of glam, goth rockers through their electro-clash set with bags of style and charisma. The Toys made full use of the Jongleurs speakers creating an incredibly crisp, near-perfect sound as they blasted out songs such as potential floor-filler Let Me Feel the Love and a deliciously sleazy version of Peggy Lee's Fever. It's surely only a matter of time before these guys are snapped up and on the road.” - BBC Music website


"Plastic toys live at The Joiners"

“Plastic Toys are something special, oozing confidence and charisma they deliver a dynamic, hook laden set somewhere between Nine Inch Nails and T-Rex that is just not the kind of thing you see in small ‘unsigned band’ venues. They have all the ingredients of a great rock band, energy, attitude, pin-up looks and catchy songs which explains their devoted following… you just know this band are destined for a big future”. - Southscene uk


"Plastic Toys live in Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms"

“For those of us out there who occasionally like nothing more than a rock and roll band built for pure escapism and fun, then Plastic Toys are a MUST. I love this band. Big, arena-sized, booty shaking glam rock infused industrial songs are guaranteed to have even the most hardened snobs tapping their foot. They have more than enough catchy choruses designed so that the audience knows every word before the song has finished. They look good, they sound massive and they even have the good-looking frontman for your girlfriend to drool over and the beautiful Kitty on bass for all the boys to get excited about! “ - Southscene.net


"Let Me Feel The Love single review"

Gloriously or tragically retro-glam funk that's as black as Michael Jackson. We love it. Plastic Toys are great, as a product, group or as a band. This track kicks arse, and it's licking, not ticking all the boxes. There really is nothing other to say than buy it, buy it, buy i again and hope that they get to eat Simon Cowell's liver live on primetime - Unpeeled website


"Let Me Feel The Love sigle review2"

8 out of 10

Plastic Toys are a band that aren't afraid of a bit of hard work. Whether they're touring Britain's edu­cational establishments or setting up their own record label, they seem to draw from an admirable reservoir of energy.

‘Let Me Feel the Love’ is a sleaze-fest of electro glam-rock with really fuzzy bass, a pumping drum beat and a fist-shaking ‘shout it back’ chorus. It's the kind of song that fits into that industrial-disco that only exists in The Crow or Blade (we only seem to have sticky-floored shite-disco in my neck of the woods!)

‘Superfreak’ has just enough time to slip in an excellent and haunting breakdown amidst the floor-filling drive and the persuasive call to dance should reap results at any alternative disco.

Plastic Toys have proved live that they deserve an audience. Now they've done it on record too.
- The Mag


"Let Me Feel The Love single review 3"

Southampton's Plas­tic Toys reek of sleezy, drunken rock and roll. This is what Nine Inch Nails would have been had Trent Reznor not been so pissed off and had rocked out on the Strip with Motley Crue, swaggering along with a bottle of Jack Daniels in one hand.

With their latest single, the Toys wanna feel the Love, and after you've heard this, you'll wanna feel it too. We can feel the love of the twisted industrial glam maniacs talking of lesbians, being abused in the name of love, and loving every minute. With industrial esque synths firing off in the background, huge guitars, and a frontman in Jon Plastic who can actually pull of the sleazyness that the band desire.

The Toys are building up a damn fine live following, and with the release of “Let Me Feel The Love” they have the chance to catapult themselves into the hearts and dirty thoughts of rock fans everywhere, and with a video included as well, you can rock out in your bedroom, complete with scantily clad ladies!
- Komodo Rock


"Let Me Feel The Love single review 4"

Plastic Toys "Let me feel the love" (Hill Valley). You can call and accuse of us most things (and people do believe you me and not all nice I can tell you – in fact some words casually flung in our direction have us digging out the dictionary and blushing in embarrassment at their meaning and quite frankly some are physically impossible) – however never let it be said that we ever forget a corking slice beastly boogie........

... "Let me feel the love" oozes more sex, sleaze and sassiness than a basement bar in a 70's era Soho. Desirably decadent and dirty with it, this fuzzed out grinding funk laden horny mother salaciously struts, swaggers and pouts like a cat walk Queen, packed to the hilt with wah wahs and housed in an buzz sawing electro clash meets industrial face off this dirty little mother slinkily files itself alongside those equally super charged slabs of sleazy sexual tension crafted out by the White Rose Movement. Flip side features 'Superfreak' sadly not the x – rated funked up floor trasher by the late Rick James but a super charged hot 'n horny blood rushing roller coaster hip grinding bastard of some measure which we still maintain sounds like classic Jesus Jones running on empty and at the edge of their tether. Recommended without question. - Losingtoday.com


"Plastic Toys Live review"

The Joiners – Southampton – 23rd June 2007

By the time the other local band hit the stage, the Joiners is rammed to the rafters. The Plastic Toys have built a huge local following and as they launch into their set, it's no wonder. They're tight, they look great, move like rockstars on stage, and know how to work the crowd, and you know what, their songs aren't bad either!

From their new single ‘Let Me Feel The Love’ to fist fucking anthem ‘Dirty’, the Toys have the crowd going crazy, arms in the air, screaming back at Jon Plastic, and the he loves it, revels in it, and it feeds the live performance. By the time the sets winding down with the majestic cover of ‘Fever’ you know you've witnessed a band that are about to be huge, and their fan base in Southampton are right there to help propell them there
- Komodo Rock


Discography

Let Me Feel The Love - single - 23rd July 2007
Still Alive - Single - Date to be sonfired
For Tonight Only - Album - Date to be confirmed
Past releases have been non official demo cd sales. About 3,000 copies over 18 months.

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“I’m thinking big. I want to play two hour sets in the world’s biggest stadiums, I want to take over where my heroes have left off, I want big life-size Plastic Toys dolls that you can fuck, so I can have sex with myself”

Meet Jon, self-confessed ‘control freak’, band dictator and one-time roadie for Status Quo, Human League and a very demanding David Essex. We’ll say no more, but it involved several rolls of strong white gaffer tape.

Meet also Transformer-tattooed danger-freak guitarist Si, who “developed a taste for being electrocuted” during his time as a bowling machine mechanic: (“I’ve nearly killed myself three times, been crushed by machinery, fallen off stage, and split my head open.”) Finally meet the mysterious Kitty on bass and Agoraphobic Nosebleed obsessive and drum teacher dread-headed maniac Ben.

With such an unusual cast of players, it’s no wonder Plastic Toys exist far from the realm of the conventional. Take everything you know about normal bands, and the Southampton four subvert it: Gigs? Chaos reigns, from plummeting down dry ski slopes on dog shit bins with Sikth, to unplanned psychedelic jams at sunrise complete with politic rants that continue until the power’s turned off (as at the recent Rootsville festival in Birmingham). Interests? Fishing and fucking. Influences? Grindcore, U2 and Van Halen – all at once.

Weirdly though, this fucked up mix of music can be picked out of every Plastic Toys tune, although their closest reference point (and the one they all agree on) is Nine Inch Nails. NIN’s producer John Fryer even helped produce their early material, but he didn’t last long.

“I found him weird and pushy”, Jon admits, and was soon to dump the legendary know-twiddler. In fact, most people who enter the realm of Plastic Toys don’t last long. The Dreamcatcher label was the first casualty. They’d picked up an earlier incarnation of the band, Karmic Jera, after they won Kerrang’s international Battle Of The Bands competition in 2000 and released an album. “They knew nothing” says Jon “we were a White Zombie-esque band, so they made us do photoshoots in graveyards like we were fucking Cradle Of Filth or something. We recorded an album we hated, all the kids preferred our self-produced demo and we lost our hardcore fanbase.” The band fell apart.

Now Plastic Toys, the four turned their noses up at countless deals, and decided to go it alone, funded by a mysterious ‘financial backer’. Recording in his bedroom, Jon forged almost all of debut ‘For Tonight Only’ alone, spurning producers to keep it “sonically perfect”. Andy Gray (Gary Numan / U2) heard their stuff and asked to mix a track (new single and industro-pop anthem-to-be ‘Let Me Feel The Love’). “We let him, but we kept an eye on him. We’re control freaks” Jon admits. The track rocketed straight to the top of the One Music listeners chart and is now spreading across US radio like syphilis.

The rest of the album is an intravenous shot into the corpse of electro-metal, a relentless collision of seemingly disparate noise. Take the opening salvo for example, as the plinky plonk piano intro of ‘Curtain Up’ collides with headfuck confessions of “Last night I fucked your girlfriend” on ‘Devil’’s evil racket. Or ‘Tonight Only’ which sees diseased synths locking horns with scuzz guitars as stadium drums creep in through the backdoor.

It’s a dark peaen to debauchery that lyrically epitomises Plastic Toys’ manifesto: “It’s about getting wasted, going out and picking up a girl and being so completely brutally honest that people don’t believe you.,” Jon admits, “taken to the extreme you could have sex with someone by saying ‘I’m going to use you’, and they think you’re joking and love you anyway, but you don’t”. Nice. But redemption arrives with the meltdown despair of ‘I Miss You’ and ‘Goodbye’’s robotic finale. “‘Goodbye’ deals with perfect love – and that when you die you know you haven’t been a perfect arsehole” Jon explains.

This dichotomy pierces the heart of Plastic Toys – they’re uncompromising rage shot through with pop sensibilities (how many other industrial-metal groups do you see covering Peggy Lee’s ‘Fever’?), evil and sensitive simultaneously, insular obsessives with one common goal. “I want to live my life like a fucking messiah” Jon screams relentlessly as ‘Tonight Only’ prolapses into silence, awaiting the devoted faithful. We doubt they’ll be long.