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winner of a us national battle of the bands organised by little steven van zandt, muck and the mires' latest release is their debut full-length album in the uk, and was produced by the legendary kim fowley. the boston group are flying to the uk, after what will be a successful third apeparance at sxsw in austin, texas, to support the release with a few select gigs around the country, including the dirty water club in london on thursday 9 april, the pre-party for the annual le beat bespoke music festival. after beating more than 10,000 other groups in the epic battle of the bands - organised by the guitarist for bruce springsteen's e street band and acclaimed actor, who plays silvio dante in 'the sopranos' - they got to play at van zandt's underground garage festival on new york's randall's island, alongside such names as iggy & the stooges, the new york dolls, the strokes, bo diddley, nancy sinatra, the electric prunes and british sixties pop-art group, the creation. a band in the classic rock'n'roll tradition, muck & the mires hold the beatles in high esteem whilst at the same time having funny stories about seeing the ramones. yes, they write catchy tunes with hooks galore (like the beatles) and play them in a straight-ahead rock'n'roll style (like the ramones) but the band says that its musical model is tottenham's own dave clark five.....release date: 14/04/2009
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