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...