Next week see's My Ruin once against return to the shores
of Britain, and as a country we've had a long love affair
with Tairrie B, stretching back to the late 90's when
she first came over with her bands Manhole & Tura
Satana. So here at The Metalheadz we thought we'd talk
to Tairrie and get the low down on the upcoming tour.
Citizen X: At this point My Ruin is just
Mick and yourself, who have you got filling out the rest
of the line up for this tour? Tairrie B: We've got Luciano Ferrea formerly of
Beggars Ball on bass and Matt "Frenchie"
LeChevalier formerly of My Ruin circa 2005-2007
back on the drums. Matt has toured with us in the UK in
the past, is in our video "Ready For Blood"
and also recorded drums on our 2008 album "Throat
full of Heart". Luciano is new to the My Ruin
family but he feels like he's been with us the whole time.
The 4 of us have a terrific chemistry together.
C.X: How have rehearsals with Luciano and Matt
been going? T.B: They've been killer. The band is tight and
sounding like a brick wall at the moment. We're excited
about the tour and our appearance at Hammerfest III on
Friday, the 18th of March! Should be good fun and another
great memory made.
C.X: Can you tell us about the bands you've got
supporting you? T.B: We're got our old friends Headcharger
who are a French rock/metal band we know from our "Summer
of Hell" Tour in 2006 when we played a few dates
together in France. They're great guys and a terrific
band that we're looking forward to introducing to the
UK. Our drummer Matt is from the same town as they are
in France and has also toured with them in the past. Sanctorum
we met in 2008 when they supported us on our ReligiosiTour
of the UK. They're a killer British metal band that I
think more people need to see because they deserve some
serious attention. We've become very good friends with
them over the past couple of years and vocalist Aaron
Sly will also be joining me on stage for one of our songs
each night which I'm looking forward to once again. Their
manager Terry Sly is tour managing My Ruin this
time out and we couldn't have done it without him. He's
really been my right hand man in helping to organize everything
for the tour and look after us. It's going to be nice
sharing the stage with both bands and making some new
great memories together with all our friends & fans
with our brutal blend of American, French and British
rock & roll metal!
C.X: Being that you've toured with both Headcharger
and Sanctorum before, is it good to have familiar
faces out with you on the road? T.B: It's great. We're all travelling together
and staying in the same hotels every night so it's going
to be one big happy rock family. We've also got an amazing
photographer by the name of Don Jackson Wyatt joining
us on the tour from Circle Pit who will be documenting
everything we do before, during and after our shows for
a unique end of tour book he is planning to make with
me as well as a few people documenting with things with
video. March 11th we're playing The Underworld in Camden
which also happens to be my 11 year Anniversary in My
Ruin with my husband/guitarist Mick [11:11] so we're
having an after show party / meet & greet where all
the fans can some hang with the bands for a few hours
at a nearby club on a more personal level to help us celebrate
our special night.
C.X:The Ghosts and Good Stories UK Tour
is going to be pretty intense, as you're playing ten shows
in ten days. Is that going to help increase the level
of intensity in the shows? T.B: Knowing how cold the UK is whenever we arrive
and how hot we plan to get the stage every night and how
much work we've put into this tour behind the scenes this
time, our 10 shows in 10 days will most likely be some
of the most intense ones of our life. We have a renewed
passion at the moment in our band and it's come from having
a new album and rhythm section that we're really happy
about at the moment. It's nice to feel that fire again
and I hope our fans will be feeling it with us once the
tour begins.
C.X: You've always had a big fan base here in the
UK, going all the way back to the Manhole/Tura
Satana days, does that give you more of an incentive
to tour here more often? Is playing in the UK something
you always look forward to? T.B: I have always loved the UK. While I've had
a sort of love/hate relationship with the press side of
things over the years, we've had a very loyal fan base
on many levels that have always supported what we do.
The press on our new album has been amazing and all the
fans seem super excited we are coming back to debut it
live for the first time. It's gotten a lot of love. It's
a shame we never seem to have a decent label behind us
to support and promote our band and albums properly however.
We signed to Tiefdruck Musik hoping they would do right
by our band and record but they dropped the ball before
it even came out and just left us for dead to fend for
ourselves basically so we had to sadly cut all ties and
continue on our path without them. My Ruin is and will
probably always be a DIY underground band. We've been
doing it for ourselves for years and we're blessed that
we can return to tour the UK with our 6th album and have
the opportunity to play in front of so many people after
so many years of highs, lows and everything in between.
Luciano has never been to Britain so this will be his
first time experiencing so many of the cool things we
are looking forward to sharing with him and Matt once
again.
C.X: Can you give us a few hints as to what the
set list will include this time around? Any chance you
might throw an old Tura Satana song in to the set? T.B: In 2008 we had my former band mate Marcelo
Palomino from Manhole/Tura Satana on drums
with us [we also recorded a live album/DVD on this tour]
so we threw a Manhole song into the set for fun but My
Ruin has so many songs of our own now after 6 albums,
we really do not have the room. My Ruin is about
Mick & I and since he did not write those songs, it's
really not that interesting for him to play them live
as opposed to the ones we have created together. We're
doing a few songs off G&GS, a few old favourites,
our cover of "Have A Drink On Me" which we recorded
for the Metal Hammer AC/DC Tribute CD last year and a
couple other surprises. I think people will be very pleased
with our set list. It's a barn burner.
My Ruin Studio Rehearsal Videos:
"These are 3 behind the scenes teaser videos and
a sneak peek of My Ruin rehearsing for our upcoming "Ghosts
and Good Stories" March UK tour & Hammerfest
III appearance for your viewing pleasure. Nothing fancy,
just the rock. Enjoy!" - TB
