SaidMike - 'Stop The Clocks'

It’s hard to believe that these clean-cut Emo-poppers are from Pontypridd and not some synthetic and symmetrical suburb of middleclass America. (Tom Jones was born nearby in the village of Trefforest, but he still sang with his heredity at heart!)
The equation is simple: short, sharp verses breaking into tumultuously juggernauting choruses backed by shrill, faux-American vocals. What has been produced is a very zealous, tight, and teenage angst-ridden EP; but what it lacks is genuine originality.

They are not the only band to be condemned from the South Wales post-innovative hardcore scene, but where as the likes of Lost Prophets and Funeral For A Friend have contrived a career out the lost and found youth of today, SaidMike will struggle.
We can all sit comfortably on our high horses these days, hastily jumping to the gun in blaming peers and parents; but one may be forgiven for passing such judgement when it is known that drummer, Dane, is the son of Motorhead’s Phil Campbell. Like father, like son.

Released 14/01/08 on Xtra Mile Recordings.