Two Day Rule
When You're Ready
As The Strokes and White Stripes begin their 2002 on the crest of a media wave, the music people are already looking for their next piece of fresh musical meat. Which may or may not be where Two Day Rule come in. It's near impossible to predict which band will 'make it', when fickleness is the name of the media game. But with recommendations from Rock Sound and Metal Hammer, Two Day Rule are on their way. With a dodgy name inspired by the film Swingers (when you get a girls number, you wait two days before calling her) and comparisons to No Doubt, Blink 182 and NOFX, perhaps the warning lights should be flashing. What may seem like another new band gimmick, but which works quite well, is the duel vocal talents of Neil Murray and Andrea Kenny. They are less a Christina and Ricky and more like a twisted Sonny and Cher. The twin lyrics 
are infused with a heavy dose of humour and suggest an interesting live performance if Two Day Rule brave these shores. Sounding as American as anything that has crossed the Atlantic recently, it is hard to believe that Two Day Rule come from the same part of England as Massive Attack. Two 
Day Rule are very different from their chilling neighbours with words like power punk, edgy and rip-roaring being shouted in their direction. When You're Ready is a pleasant surprise for anyone wary of this type of band, with enough packed into its thirty-seven minutes to break any kind of rule. 
Paul Staunton, The Voice 8/10

Two Day Rule
When You're Ready
Debut album from Bristol pop punkers
Two Day Rule's debut album is energetic throughout and the male and female lead vocals mark them out as slightly different from a standard pop punk band. The style reminds me a bit of 'Saw Red' by Sublime and Gwen Stefani. 'When You're Ready' kicks off with a trio of highly impressive songs but the rest of the album suffers from a lack of variety in the music. However, 
the songs are well written and have strong melodies, especially when you consider the age and relative inexperience of the band. It seems bands such as Two Day Rule and Grebo are spear heading British Teenage pop punk at the moment.
The Big Cheese 3/5

Two Day Rule
When You're Ready
Two Day Rule are a feisty Bristolian boy-girl punk combo. Comprising of Neil Murray (lead vocals/guitar), Andrea Kenny, who vies with him for top billing, Craig Smith (bass) and Matt Woolman (drums), they've built up a small racket of enthusiasm for their accomplished punk sensibilities and crazy live sets.
Their debut album, released on Sugar Shack Records, begins on what seems to be a whimpered note. The likeable 'Odds and Ends' and 'No Doubt', which have me merely nodding with appreciation, do not bode extremely handsomely for the rest of the songs. Eager anticipation leads me to recent single, 'Had a Good Thing', which like what I've heard before is indescribable, but likeable, it's acerbic lyrics, about 'I want to get into your pants' being the only standout from the wall of sound. Flipside of the single, 'Space', is more reflective, with a thrashier sound and the tinny ring of the drum cymbal and maracas provide an interesting background to the centre piece - Andreas vocals.
The Ska-Punk, Bluesey Jazz-fusion of 'Johnny and Loretta' provide the first sign of originality to lift this band out of mediocre punk. This is the clear winner on an album packed with smoothed out peaks and troughs. 'Better Off Now' is a 60-esque number with more of the jazz and less of the funk. The juxtaposition of this with the trashier 'I'll be Just Fine', reminiscent of Bis at their heyday, works well. Reggae beats also make an appearance. Highlight number two is 'Sympathetic', full of guitar noodling and the vocal spirit of Blink 182's Tom de Longe - pop punk at it's very best. Part Two, ending with the excellent 80's pastiche 'Too Good to be True', rounds off a real game of two halves...the second far outshining the first.
Sajini Wijetilleka, Drowned in Sound 3/5

Two Day Rule
The Barfly @ The Monarch, London, Monday, Oct 15th
Two Day Rule vocalist Neil Murray is wearing a T-Shirt tonight that bears the slogan 'No K Rule' in honour of Kerrang's recent slaughtering of his band's new single. It's a very funny touch but one that goes largely unnoticed due the fact that all of the support bands fans have cleared off to the bar, leaving just 25 people watching the Bristol pop-punkers, including the barmaid, the bands press officer and myself. Two Day Rule are not a dreadful band, in fact they're fun and bouncy and have some great tunes. The single in question though, 'Had A Good Thing', isn't their best song, sounding like Aqua with guitars. But tunes like 'End Of The Summer' and 'Odds and Ends' show just what this lot are capable of, and proves that the people in the bar were wrong to leave so early. Oh well, their loss.
KKK (Brett Callwood)
KERRANG

Two Day Rule
Had a Good Thing
Supercharged punk from the Bristol band that joyfully jabs a finger in the eye of sickly love songs courtesy of a vicious duel-pronged vocal attack. The double A-side, Space, is even louder and faster-and that's quite a feat.
(The Huddersfield Daily Examiner ) 10/10/2001

Rock Sound
October 2001
Had A Good Thing
4/5
Sounding for all the world like an American power punk band, Bristol's Two Day Rule offer an interesting spin on the chatting-up routine. Twin vocalists and guitarists Neil Murray and Andrea Kenny trade witty banter and repartee, and put a few cliches to rest. I wonder what they'll do next.