Plastic Toys are an English

England

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 electro-rock band, formed in late 2003 based in Southampton

Southampton

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, UK

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. The four piece group are made up of Jon Plastic (vocals/guitars), Alex Howe (bass), Si Jackson (guitars) and Ben Coley (drums). The band's debut single

Single (music)

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, "Let Me Feel The Love", was released in July 2007 by Pinnacle Distribution, and went straight into the UK Indie Chart

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 at number 30. Their debut album

Album

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, For Tonight Only was released on 4 February 2008. It went on to be given glowing reviews by Classic Rock

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, Metal Hammer

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, and many other smaller magazines.

The band have become well known for their electrifying and energetic live stage shows and their use of technology, particularly the use of social networking websites, vodcasts, video gaming, instant messaging

Instant messaging

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 and next-generation internet music websites to reach out to their audience.

Career

Formed from the remains of a UK metal

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 group Karmic Jera, and electro-glam rockers DNA Doll, Plastic Toys won ITV

ITV

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’s unsigned band competition by a landslide and were voted into the top 5 unsigned bands by Kerrang!

Kerrang!

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They held the Number 1 spot on BBC Radio 1

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's “One Music” chart for eight weeks.

They are odds-on favourites to win the Orange mobileAct competition to find the UK’s most exciting band, and have been invited to play at Germany’s PopKomm festival, Canadian Music Week

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 and as support to Shiny Toy Guns

Shiny Toy Guns

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Albums

For Tonight Only - released by Hill Valley Records (February 2008)

1. "Curtain Up" (0.56)
2. "Devil" (3.36)
3. "Let Me Feel The Love" (3.17)
4. "Still Alive" (4.05)
5. "Dirty" (2.49)
6. "The Tragedy" (4.41)
7. "Tonight Only" (3.12)
8. "Freak Among The Freaks" (3.34)
9. "Spaceman" (2.49)
10. "Miss You" (4.01)
11. "The World Goes Bang" (4.15)
12. "Goddamn You All" (5.20)
13. "Goodbye" (4.34)

Bonus Tracks: (Available with first 500 copies)

1. "Fever"
2. "Devil (Acoustic)"
3. "Tonight Only (Acoustic)"

Singles

• "Let Me Feel The Love" - released on Hill Valley Records (July 2007)

Described as "marking the moment electro pop became stadium rock with throbbing synths and beats, a hook that Marc Bolan

Marc Bolan

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 would be proud of and massive, fuzzy guitar riffs.". Entirely self-funded, self-recorded and self-produced, "Let Me Feel The Love" was mixed by Andy Gray, the co-writer of the Channel 4

Channel 4

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 Big Brother

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theme tune and mastered in Los Angeles

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 by Tom Baker (Nine Inch Nails

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, Marilyn Manson

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, My Chemical Romance

My Chemical Romance

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). The single was available at high-street stores HMV

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, Apple

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 iTunes

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 and Amazon

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B-sides and unreleased

• "Superfreak" (B-side of "Let Me Feel The Love")
• "Flesh"
• "Just Like You"
• "Fabulous"
• "Real Life"
• "Fever" (Bonus track on album)
• "Nowhere"
• "Plastic"
• "Come Home" (available on iTunes as a bonus track on the album)

External links

• http://www.plastictoys.co.uk
• http://www.myspace.com/plastictoys
• Hill Valley Records