LAUNCHING your live career at London’s famous 100 Club is an honour not many bands can claim.

But for Huddersfield rockers, Marys Ruin, the Big Smoke performance will be their first official gig in front of a paying crowd.

The band has only been together a few months and yet they are already well on their way to recording a new album.

And members Jay and Slug told Wow they had not even played in Huddersfield when they were invited to play at the prestigious Oxford Street venue.

Milnsbridge-based guitarist Slug, said the band had formed after he and Jay left hard rock outfit, The Liberty Slaves, last April.

The Liberty Slaves enjoyed some high profile gigs, including supporting 80s Brit-rockers The Quireboys and American hard rockers LA Guns in Bradford, but Slug said they had realised it was time to move on.

He said: “We had different ideas of what we wanted to do personally and musically.

“After our last gig with Quireboys we just thought it was time for a clean break.”

“It was like we’d hit a brick wall,” said Jay.

“Going into practice, one half of the group would have certain ideas and the other would have different ones – it just wasn’t gelling.

“That connection as a band had gone.

“Now we’ve got a group of lads together and there’s that excitement.”

Added Slug: “For us it’s more about music and having fun, that’s why we got into it when we were 14.

“We’re not trying to be Guns ‘n’ Roses in two days.

“If this goes somewhere, then great, but if not, we’re just having fun.

“We like to put on a good show, I call it ‘Old School’, where instead of just looking at your shoes we move about.

“There’s people paying to come and see you, so make it worthwhile.”

The duo decided to form a new band and began to write new songs.

They advertised for new members and have now formed a new five piece, including Lindley-based drummer Robert Jackson.

The hard rockers now have a new bluesy edge and are already booked into Paddock’s GN Studios to record their debut album.

In the meantime they are furiously practising for their London bow on October 28.

The band also revealed they had been asked to play the 100 Club earlier this month but had taken the brave decision to turn it down.

Said Slug: “We put a shout out on Twitter and the promoters from the 100 Club heard a demo of our song Whisky Train and said they wanted to put us on the Homegrown Rock night.

“It’s quite nice to be asked to play there, the Rolling Stones have played there and two weeks ago Blur played there.”

“They wanted us to play in August,” said Jay.

“But we said ‘we’re not ready, we want our songs to be tight.’

“I suppose it was brave as they could have forgotten about us.”

“We don’t want to put anything out there unless we’re going to be good,” said Slug.

“They said, ‘Thanks for your honesty’, and we thought we’d blown it, but they got back to us and said, ‘What about this date?’.

“So I had a word with the band and said, ‘Let’s practice, let’s up our game’.

“If we’re going to do it let’s make sure we’re ready.

“We’ve gone in with that military attitude and by then we’ll be ready.”

Jay said: “There’s so much energy in these rehearsals, I can’t wait to get on stage and play.

“We’re focussed on getting the album done and going down and doing that gig.”

While they have bid goodbye to the Liberty Slaves’ brand of classic rock, Marys Ruin are not changing their musical ethos.

Slug said: “It’s the same hard rock with a softer blues edge.”

“We’re all capable of writing songs, said Jay, “everyone has an input.

“We’ve got them together and we enjoy playing them.

“The structure of the songs is good and they’re catchy.”

While the Liberty Slaves played London and Italy several times, Marys Ruin hope to focus more on their northern city heartlands.

Once their first official gig is out of the way they hope to play in Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield and Newcastle before heading back for some hometown gigs.

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