MIRACULOUS MULE
“Deep Fried”
Rock'n'Roll-infused spirituals and dangerous blues. From London.
London trio Miraculous Mule deliver a slick and seemingly effortless, hard and blue rock'n'roll, but it's knifeedge stuff.
We can explain. The slick and effortless part comes from the fact that these boys have been cutting their teeth
and earned their stripes over the years with a devout immersion in gothic American roots music, before that
particular bandwagon arrived in town again, and again after it left. If that wagon is back, they don't really care,
and neither should you.
Brothers Michael and Pat were born into a rock'n'roll- home, with Elvis and Tammy as surrogate parents.
Michael J Sheehy has fronted Dream City Film Club, Michael J Sheehy and the Hired Mourners and Saint Silas
Intercession, with his brother Patrick at his side for the most part. Witnesses to these outings of theirs will
know that the soul and the confrontation they sweated was, and is, real. They can play and they can sing.
There is no fucking about. The edge that they skirt comes in part from their school of hard knocks, central
London council-estate, Irish Catholic upbringing. All three from the same estate (Saint Silas in Kentish Town),
and all three lifelong companions.
Michael is a well-traversed talent with several albums under his belt - but he can't remember much of it, even
if his well-earned following can. His recent moment of salvation came when he was rescued from his burning
Russell Square flat, asleep, alone and shit-faced, a midnight fry-up gone wrong. Having spent years in a boozy
London wilderness, there is now a cool and steady focus here which brings their nihilistic history in line with a
resolute future.
The eponymous 10” (released last year on Glitterhouse Records) was just a taster of what you have here. Live
and on record, Miraculous Mule do indeed kick like their namesake.
Taking old spirituals and mangling them, they make them their own and flick them back to the heavens with a
calm and collected fuck you.
For dancing, praying, loving and fighting.