Reviewed by Colin Hopkins

Siobhan Maher of the River City People has apparently said she likes this tape and that she feels it shows potential. I unfortunately can't agree, I really did want to like it, after all the band is fronted by my fellow Irish man Mark Houston, but no matter how hard I tried that recording did nothing for me whatsoever. A three track EP recorded in Mid-1990 "Break The Pain" ambles along at a slow pace always promising to move up and out of first gear but yet failing to ever achieve this apparently difficult task. A very sloppy production job doesn't help in the slightest and I can only assume that this has been produced on a very small shoe-string budget, hence the overall poor quality of the recording. In his own words Mark admits "the idea of the tape is not to sell a million copies but to get it listened to and to get reaction". Well at least he has now achieved that humble aim.

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