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Cynical Smile
12+ albums
rapcoremetalcoreUKrockSouthend
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The original Southend metalcore band.. Everyone has been in The Smile at some point, bands like Understand, Above All, Pepperman - they've all evolved out of Cynical Smile. In fact, no one in Southend can remember who started the Cynics; Frontman Ed remembers being the drummer in the early days but then he left the band and the area, came back a couple of years later, found the band still going (with different personnel) and rejoined as singer... It's a complicated story that started to come to life when the band decided they were going to tour with CIV: they did this by turning up in their van at the airport and greeted the Americans with "Hi, we're your support band and we're here to drive you around, you're staying at our place." They blagged the whole tour - confused promoters swore they couldn't remember booking The Smile.. they got away with it every night and gave out a sack load of demo tapes to enthusiastic crowds, got themselves on a couple of underground compilation albums and then got invited to tour with Shelter (word got around about the hospitality and downright good attitude of this band of Essex wide-boy geezers). The first serious recordings emerged on the Organ Radio 2 compilation CD (along with Medulla Nocte, Assert, FLS and more....), the reaction was good and the band called us to tell us they were going to release an album with ORG (they never have managed to grasp the right way of doing things, isn't the record label supposed to ask the band?) - the
