Catherine McCarthy [bass and vocals];
Elizabeth McCarthy (aka Lady In A Hurry) [drums et percussion];
Tania Moloney [guitar]
Influences
Dolly Parton, Captain Beefheart, Sonic Youth, Diamanda Galas, Babes In Toyland, Pretenders, Johnny Cash, Janet Jackson, Led Zeppelin, Motorhead, Dead Moon, Clare Moore, The Slits, Adam Green, The Moldy Peaches, Sobsister, Air, Christina Amphlett, Missy Elliott, The Carter Family, Neneh Cherry's Raw Like Sushi, Stevie and Lindsay, Kate Bush, The Screaming Trees, The Fiery Furnaces, The Rolling Stones, Cindy Sherman, Naomi Wolf, Beasts Of Bourbon, Martin Amis...
The Muddy Spurs were a Melbourne-based female rock group that existed between the years 2002-2007. They released 2 EPs, one self-titled and the other entitled "Cheap Shots", and an album called "Love In The Gutter".
During their tenure, The Muddy Spurs played shows with other artists such as The Moodists, The Lurid Yellow Mist, The Brunettes, Tim Rogers, Dan Kelly And The Alpha Males, The Darling Downs, The Sailors, Young Professionals, Wagons, Sand Pebbles, Gentle Ben And His Sensitive Side, Six Ft Hick, Tri-State Lovers, Baseball, The Dacios, Hugo Race And The True Spirit, New Estate, HTRK, Jonathan Michell, Panel Of Judges, Royalchord, Telecom, Penny Ikinger, John Schooley, The Spoils, and many others.
Here's a brief background as to how the band got started:
Our story begins in the second year of the third millennium, the Year Of Maniacs. Deep in the enigmatic entrails of an inner city postcode, two young women stood at a pub and watched a band play. It was a cold night, the middle of an unforgiving Melbourne winter, but our heroines were burning. Infected by some kind of post-millennium hangover fever, some kind of unleashing of previously-only-dreamed-of voltaic bravado, one heroine said to the other, ‘I simply cannot watch bands anymore. I must be in a band myself!’ The response was swift and assenting, and a brand new band was born. It was some kind of night, yeah.
In various share house bedrooms, T.J. Moloney had been playing high voltage electric guitar for some years. She decided she would be this brand new band's chief axe grinder. As for the position of vocalist, Catherine McCarthy had been talking in an unusually loud voice since birth and decided she would transfer this sonorous capacity for volume to the lead vox spot. Also, she decided to play bass because she had recently "borrowed" a bass from a dude to whom she "promised" it back. As for the position of drummer, applications were open but it would be twelve months before Lady In A Hurry dropped into a rehearsal session. Sure, they’d known Lady In A Hurry for years, had witnessed her keen sense of rhythm on some of Melbourne’s dodgiest dancefloors. But did she know how to drum? No. Did this matter? You bet. But she was eager, she was easy to push around, and she had a car. So one day she got herself a set of skins. She started banging, and never looked back. They decided to call themselves The Muddy Spurs.
The Muddy Spurs write rock that is guttural, pesky, morose. Their music sounds like the eye of an oracular storm, and feels like the world is either gonna end, or gonna keep on keepin' on. The lyrics concern underworld shootings, bar brawls, nightclub liaisons, and love nest paranoia. Sometimes they play heavy, sometimes they play soft. But they always play with one itchy finger on the trigger, and all eager eyes on the rider. Woah, yeah...
This Saturday, February 9, The Selfish Gene play their debut gig at the Idgaff, 160 Hoddle Street Abbotsford.
Starring James McCann, John Fenton, Nick Hurle, Andrew McGee, Rui Pereira and Jim Selene, The Selfish Gene are the product of a week in the bush and a lifetime in our heads. Also playing on the night are Liam Linley, Deserters, and the Palenecks. The Selfish Gene at 9.15pm.
Thank you SO much for all your help on Sat night. Couldn't have got through the night without you. Girl, you rock it on-air. Slanting and enchanting is definitely the biz! So is red wine after a Radiothon show...
Thirty years ago would I have found all this charming? Probably. I’ve always been easily amused. Why I do not wish to denigrate your neighbouring cat. Perhaps he/she is dyslexic? Hates keyboards? Is repulsed by your human wish for this animal to do tricks. Sometimes buses come; sometimes they don’t. Are you with me? I’m talking in metaphors here. Get the cat in; it will understand and the feline can explain it to you. Metta. Stephen, Freddie & Dash (the cats). They’ve become Buddhists and are trying to make me join their cult.
I don't know but i'm pretty sure I didn't write these. I don't have any sunglasses, that's why I have many wrinkles etc. I did give advise on foundation, but recent two. No way. It may have been one of my cats? They might have wanted someone to talk with about there personal problems and I wouldn't listen. I just don't get it. Most sorry. I'm not qualified to give advise to cats. All that aside - good luck with Jane Dust.
GET ON THE PROGRAM YOU GALS!!!!!! I avoid confrontation. You should know this. I avoid any sort of personal interaction with people. You have talent. Whatever that means? I await some explanation . . . or not. S.
Do you gals ever reply? Thank God I'm too old to go out with any of you. I dig george Jones, circa 1950. I am sure your records are very relaxing. I find your graffix relaxing. I have amassed a huge collection of sunglasses. I thought you girls might be impressed by that? S.
