I started My Ruin initially as a solo project after leaving my former band Tura Satana which I originally founded in 1993 under the name Manhole. After releasing two albums and touring the world with Tura Satana, I felt it was time to move onto something else in my life musically and see where a new path would take me.
In 1999, I created [Speak and Destroy] which I released through Snapper Music UK. These recordings were a unique collaboration with various musicians who joined me in writing and producing what many would consider to be the first official My Ruin album. For me, it was more like my experimental / transitional album. I hired a band to tour [S&D] which also featured a few of the musicians who worked with me on the album but it wasn’t until 2000 that My Ruin really took shape and form. I met Mick Murphy through a mutual friend on February 5th at a party in the Hollywood Hills and the rest is history. Mick and I recorded our first album together a few months later at Grandmaster Recorders with producer and friend Nick Raskulinecz. What I have always felt was the first true My Ruin album [A Prayer Under Pressure of Violent Anguish] was released in 2000 on Snapper Music UK and soon to follow was our live session album [To Britain with Love and Bruises] which was recorded on November 29, 2000 at Stanbridge Farms Studios in Sussex, England on the eve of our [Prayer Under Pressure] UK tour.
In 2003 My Ruin signed with Century Media Records worldwide and released the EP [The Shape of Things To Come]. The EP included a 13 minute film-noir style movie and quickly set the tone for our 3rd full length album [The Horror of Beauty] which included the video for the anthemic and empowering single [Made to Measure] and the ‘making of the video’ short movie. [The Horror of Beauty] was recorded @ Sound City & Deadzone Studios and co produced by Nick Raskulinecz, Mick Murphy & Todd Osenbaugh. In 2005 Mick and I started our own imprint label Rovena Recordings and released our 4th full length album [The Brutal Language] which was produced by Mick and mixed by Mick & Nick Raskulinecz @ Dave Grohls - Studio 606 West. [The Brutal Language] was our first album played entirely by Mick and was distributed via Undergroove Records in the UK and Bayside/33rd Street Records in the states.
In 2007, Rovena Recordings signed a distribution deal with Cargo Records UK and released our 5th full length studio album [Throat Full of Heart] in January 2008. Co-produced by Mick Murphy & Duane Burda and [Throat Full of Heart] was recorded at The Hobby Shop, in Highland Park, Ca. and included our first DVD [Tell Your God to Ready For Blood] featuring behind the scenes footage of the making of our album, music videos and the mini movie [Through the Wound] which documents my injury into recovery from the car accident that I was involved in the night before My Ruin was scheduled to begin recordings in October 2006. In late 2008, we released our first live album & DVD [Alive on the Other Side] which was recorded earlier in the year @ Rios in Leeds, England while on our [Tell Your God UK Tour]. The live album includes a raw bootleg style documentary tour DVD of My Ruin and an enhanced CD with music videos.
Over the years, My Ruin has had a revolving rhythm section and an interesting cast of characters both live and in the studio, including 4 bass players and 6 drummers. While some were with us longer than others becoming a real part of our lives, most did not play on our albums and were just hired to tour with us. The idea of My Ruin began as a project in which I planned to work with various musicians in the studio and on the stage, something that would always be changing. That is how it has been on every album with the exception of Mick who has been a constant as my guitarist, co-writer, producer and partner for the last 9 1/2 years. Mick also became my husband last year when we tied the knot and made it official on Christmas Eve 2008 in Knoxville, Tennessee.
This brings us to 2009 and where we are today. It seems that My Ruin has come full circle and with this, we have decided to keep it just the two of us for all intents and purposes. We have just inked a new deal with Tiefdruck-Musik and we are set to begin recording our 6th full length studio album [Ghosts and Good Stories] during the months of October & November in Los Angeles. Everything has come together naturally and we’re excited about this next chapter of My Ruin. We’re a DIY band and always will be but were looking forward to working with our new label manager Daniel Heerdmann and Tiefdruck-Musik in 2010 as well as Sharon Richardson and Factory Music Management and Agency LTD in the UK who have also become a part of our new team.
Our new album will be a testament to our strength as a band and the devotion we share to the music we have continued to create together against all odds and outside forces. We all have regrets and mistakes we have made trusting and believing in something or someone and ghosts of our past that haunt us but we also have passion for what we love and love lasts. Ironically, at this same time last October I could never have imagined we would write this album which is by far, the most honest and heartfelt album of our career. I definitely have some good stories to tell and some serious heavy metal rock & roll thunder underneath them as well. For those of you who have been with us on our journey we hope you will continue to enjoy the music we make and follow us into the next chapter of our band. See you again in 2010!
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A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store, but couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked the stock boy, 'Do these turkeys get any bigger?'
Well, I'll tell you what - I've learned strength from the strong, passion and focus from the passionate and focused, perseverance and dignity from the perseverant and dignified ones. Thank you for standing at my back in the time it means the most, it shows you two mean what you say and say what you mean, and apparently that is next to impossible to come by. I appreciate you both for being the most real people in my life, you give me the truth even when it hurts to hear it, and lift me up when I most need it. That, to me, is what true friends do. And the rest - fuck 'em. xoxox
Thanks very much Mr. Mick Murphy & Ms. Tairrie Murphy!!! I received my www.merchchurch.bigcartel.com order today. It's MORE than what I expected!!! VERY COOL!!! I can't wait to hear the new TUNES.
I had a really cool dream that I got to see you in concert front row. It was awesome! For some reason your the only band I ever dream about! You rock!!! Love you tarrie!!!
If you don't turn back and become like a child, And change your life for the better, You will not be able to enter, blessed, the Kingdom of God. To death we are hastening, let us refrain from sinning.
