Whatever Happened To Your Sense of Humour?

by Milo McLaughlin

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	1.	Need to Know Basis 03:35
	2.	The Sickie Song 02:57
	3.	You Look Weird 03:15
	4.	The Chaos That I Cause 03:09
	5.	Whatever Happened To Your Sense of Humour? 03:49
	6.	The Sickie Song (reprise) 00:54

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“The spitting sound of early Arab Strap with an even darker sense of the bittersweet ridiculousness of life.”

Doug Johnstone, The List

After his first band Swivel Chair split up in 2004 after only 4 gigs, Milo McLaughlin rushed out his debut solo EP “Whatever Happened To Your Sense of Humour?” on a strictly ltd edition run of 30 copies (with handmade sleeves and a fanzine style lyrics booklet).

The EP received airplay on BBC Radio Ulster’s Across The Line despite the DJ remarking that it was “hilarious but very badly produced”.

It also received 3 stars out of 5 in Scottish magazines The List and Is This Music? both of whom compared it to early Arab Strap, and it’s opening track ‘Need to Know Basis’ reached no.6 in the Radio Magnetic/BT New Music Chart.

However the EPs 'unique' and heavily layered production meant that recreating the EP live was something of an impossibility given McLaughlin’s limited resources, guitar playing ability, and abject laziness.

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released June 1, 2004

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Milo McLaughlin Edinburgh

“The spitting sound of early Arab Strap with an even darker sense of the bittersweet ridiculousness of life.”
Doug Johnstone, The List

“hilarious but very badly produced”.
BBC Radio Ulster

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