MY RUIN Announces Special London Show

Los Angeles-based hard rock band MY RUIN, featuring the husband-and-wife team of Mick Murphy (guitar) and Tairrie B. (vocals),will play a special show at the Islington 02 Academy in the U.K. on September 24 to celebrate the release of the group's sixth full-length studio album, "Ghosts And Good Stories", coming on August 21 via Tiefdruck-Musik. This "evening with MY RUIN" performance will include support from Birmingham thrashers BEHOLDER.

Commented MY RUIN: "This show will be a celebration of the release of our new album on Tiefdruck-Musik with an evening of 'Ghosts And Good Stories', with many special surprises thrown into our 90-minute set! We will be joined on this night by special guests BEHOLDER from Birmingham, U.K. and there will also be an after-show party to get your albums signed and hang with the band, which we will tell you more about as we get closer to the date.

"This is the one and only show we will be playing in the U.K. this year! This means if you want to see MY RUIN before 2011, then you must buy your ticket quick and possibly book a hotel in or around Londontown and hop a train to the venue so we can spend a long dark night of rock together.

"It will be close to two years since we last played the U.K. and we want to make this show a sellout and an event to remember so spread the news and tell all your friends who love MY RUIN too!

"Tickets are £12.00 and doors open at 6 p.m. so get there early."

Tairrie B recently stated about "Ghosts And Good Stories", "We went about making this album in a different way. We decided not to rush things but rather take our time and enjoy ourselves. Not only did Mick write the music and play all the instruments on the new album but he also co-produced and mixed it with longtime friend Josh Lynch at Entourage Studios in North Hollywood and Weapons of Mass Productions in Santa Monica, California.

"Our recording sessions were very organic and was nice to have the freedom to create and produce the album we wanted to make with no heavy-handed pressure or deadlines from the label but instead lots of support. Tiefdruck Musik owner Daniel Heerdman really loves and understands our music and band as does everyone at the label which is something we have not felt from a label in a long time and it's a welcome surprise.

"While I was creating the album artwork, I wanted the feeling to be otherworldly and dark, unlike anything we have done in the past and to set the mood for the music, which I think it does.

"The new cover art is actually a vintage portrait from my family album. It is a photo of my great grandparents in front of their home taken sometime in the early 1900s which has been slightly altered.

"I came across the image last year as we were recording our new album and it just sort of spoke to me in a very haunting way. I was drawn to it over and over again while coming up with the album's title, which is taken from the lead track 'Diggin' for Ghosts'.

"The album starts off very doomy and ends with a slow, spoken-word dirge over a musical soundscape that ties it all in from beginning to end but the record as a whole is definitely very brutal and up tempo with lots of rock riffs and my trademark scream vocals."

When asked about the theme of the new album in a recent interview for Devolution magazine in the U.K., Tairrie said, "I would say that 'Ghosts and Good Stories' is definitely a concept album and one which is quite reflective and apocalyptic on many levels. It didn't necessarily start off that way but it eventually began to write itself into a bit of an intimate portrait of our life as a band in and around the city of Los Angeles.

"Over the years religious imagery has played a huge part in my lyrical content and I have often left things open to interpretation but with this record it has gone from being more of a cryptically metaphorical aesthetic to highly confrontational in some instances."