Old Bones, New Fire

Miraculous Mule were formed rather inadvertently in late 2010, yet have regularly sent audiences into ecstasy. The band features former Dream City Film Club frontman and critically acclaimed solo artist Michael J. Sheehy, who describes Miraculous Mule as "a group of Anglo-Irish honkies into African-American gospel, prison/work songs and hillbilly music."

The Mule is a four-piece beast with no less than three lead singers, Sheehy, Alex Louise Petty and Patrick McCarthy, who also plays bass and spurs the beast along with drummer Ian Burns. Sheehy continues, "Although we are apostate Catholics, agnostics and non-believers who stumbled and fell into the depths of hell many moons ago, we sincerely believe in the power of this music and how it makes us and our audience feel."

Now the Londoners announce their first album since 2017's critically acclaimed Two Ton Testimony. While its predecessor was a heavy, politically and socially engaged garage rock album, Old Bones, New Fire goes back to the band's origin story, indeed to the roots of rock itself. Arriving back at their love of early blues, gospel and folk, the band has made a raw, stripped back and passionate record that pays tribute to the many artists and songs that have inspired them over the years.