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Death Rehearsal

Toy Love , Music Video – 1980

from the album Cuts (2005)

After kicking off with the opening bars of Chopin's 'Funeral March', this live rendition of 'Death Rehearsal' invites the audience into a cartoonish, Halloween world before Toy Love members Alec Bathgate, Paul Kean, Jane Walker and Chris Knox take their foot off the brake and let rip. Music journalist Graham Reid described this song (taken from their self-titled first album) as 'kitsch-gloom' and an example of the band branching out from straight ahead punk. Knox juggles delivering witty lyrics with finishing his ciggie, while Bathgate burns up his guitar.

Sex and drugs and rock'n'roll are harder to get in a bottomless hole...
– Singer Chris Knox brings gloom glam to the masses

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