Led by "hyper-active farm wench" Stevie Guy, Preston-based Y'r Impossible have been described as "frenetic art-house punkers" and "electro mannequins" and exude more energy (both on-stage and off) than a nuclear power plant run by electric eels during a lightning storm. Quite simply, Y'r Impossible are dirty sex-noiseniks hell bent on creating the dirtiest, spikiest music around.
After forming in Aug 2005 Y'r Impossible have gone from strength to strength supporting such acts as Operator Please, Help She Can't Swim, The KBC, The Sunshine Underground and at 53 Degrees in Preston as part of the Radio 1 Big Weekend Fringe event.
New Review of 04/04/08 gig from Ed Martland on Prestone
Closing the night, a band who probably won't change the world either but one imagines they'll give it a damn good try. Y'r Impossible are... ...ever sartorial in sharp black and white and with singer Stevie Guy striding around the stage as if she owned it. Their music is razor sharp, post-punk discipline topped with glam rock sass courtesy of Stevie's wilfully disinterested delivery. It's a slap in the face to everything ever written about “authenticity” in rock music
Between songs Stevie banters with the crowd, revelling in being foulmouthed and abusive to them in marked contrast to the band's musical rigour. It keeps the more austere songs from getting too artfully distanced, though it's hard to imagine anyone feeling too artfully distanced from songs that include the lyric “I got arrested for bumming a fag,” or the manic “Bubblegum Pop”. Which would be as good a time as any to stress the killer pop hooks that underpin almost every song. Oh, and the sex of course, no 'Sexual Healing', just straight into work
The final trio of songs really ram home the band's spirit, beginning with “Art Machine”, the band's ruthless anthem describing a hipster automaton, bored and blank and which gives Fil the chance to play guitar hero, followed by the acidic thrash-pop of “Everything About Him” and finally the swaggering finale of “Lothario”. It's here that the night finally comes to a close, with Stevie ranting about Radio 1 never listening to them and giving them the chance to play big expensive venues as the rest of the band departs the stage. Egotistical perhaps, but in Y'r Impossible's case probably justified
Preston-based 80s electro mannequins Y'r Impossible are refreshingly entertaining. With ironic yet sophisticated style, they create poseable poppy numbers which surely warrant a reinstatement of some kind of national dance routine invention craze (or was that just me at age 11?) Fronted by the gorgeously kooky Stevie Guy, this little-known gem of a band deserve to put bubblegum pink pouts on faces the nation over.
"its just a song, its just a song, just a song about ping pong." i think Fil really should right a lyric sillier than Operator Please's lyric about ping pong + get it into 1 of the songs.
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NEW!!! Check out the Reload Charts on my last bulletin. It's just a bit of fun, but if you want to make it to no.1 then get your fans to listen to your tune on the player on my page. You currently stand at no.5. come on Preston, get Y'r finger out!
