www.lufbra.net (Lboro SU - Lboro 9/12/04)
The brilliant Love Ends Disaster! are up second on this fine night, and, deservedly, steal the show. Nonchalance and charm, humour and dedication, passion and that vacant look pulled off so brilliantly by Pete Doherty.

Love Ends Disaster!’s fantastic John Major’s Megadrive pummels the crowd with a spiky guitar line and a kicking ska-style beat. This song is a beautiful love-child of Madness and The Ordinary Boys, but don’t let that fool you, limited this band ain’t. They have epic-style intros and ear-bending synth backing tracks that firmly lodge themselves inside your skull – more than just a nod to Radiohead’s experimental side. You can’t help but listen and watch Love Ends Disaster!, with so many personalities shining through, your attention never wavers. Even with their diverse influences, Love Ends Disaster! have found their common direction, and are heading towards it full pelt, engines steaming.

They may well get there very soon indeed with the release of their debut EP, “Stories for the Dislocated”, that follows on from their highly promising demo “Vol II” including the irresistible “This New Wave” whose chorus welds itself into your head for at least the next 3 days. They know how to do the bant too. Maybe their dedicated band of mates heckling all the way through encouraged them to interact, but consummate performers they even incorporate the inspired gimmick of free harmonicas
ANON

www.drownedinsound.com (The Attik - Leicester 19/2/04)
Lesson One. Put all your favourite CDs in a hat. Jumble them about a bit. Pick them out again one by one. Play them in exactly the same order. Phone your friends. Invite them round for tea and biscuits. Impress them with your no holds barred eclecticism. Suggest forming a rock'n'roll band. Lesson Two. Write a bunch of songs with amusing titles, turn your amps up to 12 and then prepare to confuse a whole new generation of kids with your multi-dimensional sound. I know what you're thinking. "Yeah right, that'll never work. Everything has to fall into a category, surely...?" Wrong.

Take Love Ends Disaster for example. Having survived the initiation from student band hell they've steadily made the transition to serious contenders thanks in no small part to having possibly the most varied range of influences known to man. 'The Smallest Girl In The World' takes the Braithwaite blueprint of primitive post-rock and spits out a frenzied excursion along the darkest, dankest plasma coated elevator. Despite not quite hitting the heights of The Mars Volta, maybe Love Ends Disaster have found a niche worthy of their eclectic talents?

Until they deliver the awesome 'Sendai' that is, with its chiming guitars and discordant "harmonies" between front man Oakes and guitarist Rob sounding like a midnight lecture from David Byrne to Peter Perrett on the horrors of intravenous narcotic abuse and voila! Love Ends Disaster are partying like it's 1979. With the scene set so admirably by the "guess what's coming next?" paroxysm of L.E.D, Lyca Sleep could be forgiven for just going through the motions before taking the money and heading for the hills... 4/5
DOM GORLAY

www.rock-city.co.uk (Cabaret - Nottingham 27/1/06)
Love Ends Disaster! meanwhile go from strength to strength with every show. Despite the Bloc Party endorsements and rave reviews picked up by last year’s ‘Stories For The Dislocated EP’, it’s fair to say neither of these do the band justice compared to their captivating live show. Singer Matthew Oakes stares at the front row like a man possessed, pounding to and fro across the stage while his band’s incendiary mash up of angular, punk-pop, jangly ska tunes create a mangle on and off the stage. ‘Ginko Disco’ is a melange of disco punk that recalls Devo at their most eclectic while ‘Warning Robots’, complete with it’s ‘Red Dwarf’ signature tune middle eight rips through the floor like a jet powered buzzsaw. If this isn’t their year then I’m a Chinaman…
By Mark Moore

www.splintermag.com (The Metro - London 23/4/05)
With a clarion call of a band name, Love Ends Disaster! are B-movie rock, horrorshow disco, slow-mo new wave - sometimes all in the same song. Live, they are an attention-span defying, guise-swapping proposition. They wreak havoc with all notions of the standard rock song structure: sometimes they whack in five choruses, sometimes five verses; they are never formulaic.

None of the songs they play sound as though they are being sung and played by the same band. Indeed, even within the space of one song, LED playfully swiftly switch speed, sound, and structure - you're just getting into one groove when it's replaced by another. You never ever get bored, because LED have not the patience to maintain the same idea long enough for you to get restless. It's all about variety and verve.
By Miss Fliss

www.drownedinsound.com
(Bardens Boudior - London 25/5/05)
When Nottingham's Love Ends Disaster hit their stride, they're bang on. Imagine guitars elasticating into infinity and twanging in every direction around your head. It's Interpol sans the bored indifference, sliced across the gullet by six shuddering, electrified strands of metal. They have their peaks and troughs - there are patches of otherness dotted around the likes of 'TV''s fluid melodies and 'Sentai''s lyrical "I thought I'd killed you in my sleep" crescendo, and DiS can't recall much about them. Nevertheless, Love Ends Disaster have enormous potential.

www.leicestermusicscene.co.uk (Doghouse - Lboro 29/3/03)
It must be said that I think that they were my favorite band of the night, thanks to a good mix of atmosphere and alcohol. Oh, and the music was good too.. And not that I'm insulting anyone else's performance as (let's admit it) the line up couldn't have been much better. LED, if you haven't heard them yet, really are amazing, with a great mix of techno sounds, decent effects and excellent playing (if slightly drunken by the time we got this far into the night) along with an excellent amount of variation in their music. Look out for any gigs they play, if they don't change their name in the meantime, as they really are worth it, but they need to get their vocalist screaming a little louder next time as I couldn't hear a word he was screeching (or is that how it's supposed to be? You decide and keep an eye out) Again I'm lost for words, though if I want a job at doing this really I should be in a state of mind where I can think, but if you don't believe me then you'll have to go and see them, no matter what they're worth the money (and this was only their third gig) As the only real band responses I got was from LED all I can really say is that they kick most famous "rock star" bottoms!!
F LAKMONKEY