My Life Story joins Mute Song

09 September 2020 - Press release

 

Epic pop pioneers My Life Story have inked a worldwide publishing agreement with Mute Song. 

The agreement includes last year’s critically acclaimed album World Citizen, their first for 19 years, as well as the rights to much of the band’s back catalogue from the Britpop era formerly held by Universal Music Publishing, including top 40 singles 12 Reasons Why I Love Her and Sparkle. 

Founder and frontman Jake Shillingford and co-writer Nick Evans have also signed with Mute Song under the name Chøppersaurus – a moniker the duo has used for the last nine years for sync and composition work.  The agreement will see Jake and Nick working closely alongside Mute Song’s Pepe Janz, co-writing with other artists and providing topline and production work from their Brighton studio.

Chøppersaurus has won multiple industry awards for production music and scored cult US horror movie Bloodfest for Rooster Teeth.  Their syncs have appeared worldwide across multiple platforms, including the recent UK no2 most watched Netflix original, Dangerous Lies, and tracks for prime time shows across networks such as BBC, HBO, Sky, Amazon Prime and more.

Jake commented: “Signing with David McGinnis and the team feels like the most natural fit in our career.  In the last few years Nick and I have developed into composers as well as songwriters and Mute Song’s multi-faceted roster is a mirror to our ambitions.  Their sharp focus on sync and now songwriting collaboration is the perfect recipe for us. 

“Mute has been part of my DNA since my formative years, growing up in Essex, with many legendary acts from the label congregating around Southend Art College where both my parents taught.

“My father still insists that Alison Moyet babysat for me while he was giving printmaking evening classes, the kind of breezy hearsay that still needs to be properly fact checked.”

David McGinnis of Mute Song said: “In the great barnyard of music Jake Shillingford is a strutting golden rooster and Nick Evans is a powerful silver goat.  We will cherish and nurture these majestic beasts and treasure their sparkling musical droppings.”

 

For more information see: mylifestory.band or choppersaurus.com.