Muck and the Mires

Muck and the Mires
Origin	Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Genres	Rock and Roll, Garage Rock
Years active	2000-Present
Labels	Dirty Water Records, Dionysus Records, Soundflat Records, AMP Records
Members
Evan "Muck" Shore Brian Mire John Quincy Mire Jessie Best

Muck and the Mires are an American rock and roll band. Their music is a cross between the 1964 British Invasion and American garage rock of the 1960s.

Bio

Muck and the Mires began as a studio project by Evan Shore, otherwise known as "Muck". Following the release of his demos in 2001 under the title All Mucked Up on Canadian label AMP Records, a band was assembled with each member stepping into the fictitious pseudonyms listed on the original record jacket.

One of the band's early Boston-area shows was opening for a rare live appearance by Mike Smith of The Dave Clark Five.

In 2004, the group released its first proper album, Beginner's Muck, once again on the AMP label. That same year, the group was featured on MTV when they became the co-winners of Little Steven's Underground Garage Battle of the Bands.^[1] Other 2004 highlights include an appearance at the Las Vegas Rockaround (North America's largest garage rock event) and their first European tour.

In 2006, Dionysus Records (Hollywood, CA) and Soundflat Records (Cologne, Germany) released the album 1-2-3-4. The CD reached the Number One one position on WMBR in Cambridge, MA. The group soon embarked on a 7-country tour to support the album. While in Liverpool, England for a show at the legendary Cavern Club, the group arranged a meeting with former Beatles manager Allan Williams, also known as "the man who gave The Beatles away". Mr. Williams declined the band's offer of a management position.

In late 2007, the band began recording an album with rock legend Kim Fowley and Maria Baglien at Lo Fi Studios in Loma Linda, CA. These recording sessions were originally supposed to take place in Scotland, but heavy rain destroyed the recording studio where the sessions were booked. In 2008, London-based label Dirty Water Records released the four song EP Doreen featuring four of the tracks from the Kim Fowley recordings. In 2009, Dirty Water Records released the Kim Fowley sessions in their entirety as Hypnotic. The band wrapped up 2009 sharing a New Year's Eve show with Roky Erickson at the famed Maxwell's in Hoboken, New Jersey.

In 2011, Dirty Water Records, distributed by Cargo in Europe and Red Eye in the US will release A Cellarful of Muck produced by Jim Diamond of White Stripes fame.

The band has played shows in Austria, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Holland, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and the United States. They have shared billing with MC5, The New York Dolls, The Bay City Rollers, Ray Davies of The Kinks, The Kaiser Chiefs, The Strokes, Mooney Suzuki, Dick Dale, Pete Best of The Beatles, The Detroit Cobras, and many more.

Discography

All Mucked Up (2001, AMP Records)
Beginner's Muck (2004, AMP Records)
1-2-3-4 (2006, Dionysus Records)
I'm Down With That (2007, Dirty Water Records, London)
Doreen (2008, Dirty Water Records, London)
Hypnotic (2009, Dirty Water Records, London)
A Cellarful of Muck (2011, Dirty Water Records, London)

External links

• Official site

References

1. ^ The New York Times, August 11, 2004