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Well it's official, the Plastic Toys are finally coming of age.
With their recent tour in support of My Ruin they sounded good, and tonight, as they continue their current tour supporting My Passion, Southampton's finest sleazy electro rockers have pulled out all the stops, and now sound like so many people thought they one day would.
They're tight, loud, heavy, and slick. Don't get me wrong, they're still dirty and sleazy with it, but this is now a band that everyone should be sitting up and taking note of. The Plastic Toys have stepped up their game, they've taken it to the next level, and boy does it show.
Jon Plastic now controls the audience like a psychotic ringmaster, and he has them eating out of his hand. He controls them, uses them, abuses them, chews them up and spits them out to the sounds of dirty electro goodness.
You have to feel for My Passion who surely had no idea what they were taking out with them, and how nigh on impossible it was going to be to live up to what the Toys did on stage before them.
There's always a lot of bands that are said to be on the "You Must See Them This Year" list, but right now, there's no arguing that the Toys are firmly entrenched on any list that anyone should be putting together.