"The music-obsessed, drinking man's songwriter of choice" LOUDER THAN WAR

Tenderness and melancholia
Darkness and light
Body and spirit
Flesh and electricity

(photo - Nicko Straniero)

The Miller Test are quickly gaining notoriety for their outlaw art rock and strong pop sensibility. 

Their distinct blend of noise electronica, post-rock funk guitars, gospel harmonies and some of the loudest beats in London makes a perfect foil for songwriting that combines soulful Americana, English irony and a moody rebel lyricism. 

“Terrifying but at the same time utterly beguiling” according to Other Side Reviews, which sounds about right.

The band’s first album, This Funk Is Political, was released in 2020, and their second, Dead Blue, in 2021. 

Their new album Double Country is out now.

After the break up of his band The Birthday Party in 1982, Nick Cave formed Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds who released their debut album From Her To Eternity in 1984. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have since released fourteen studio albums; and the band's current output remains as vital and explorative as those early pioneering sessions recorded at Hansa Studios in Berlin.

One of the most critically acclaimed acts working today, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ influence has been profound and far-reaching: artists as diverse as Johnny Cash, Metallica and The Arctic Monkeys have all covered their work.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -- Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, Jim Sclavunos, Thomas Wydler and Conway Savage -- have been working together for nearly two decades. Push The Sky Away, the band’s fifteenth studio album, was released in 2013.

Lesley Rankine is Ruby.  She began her career as the lead singer of noise band Silverfish in London, leaving after the release of the album Organ Fan (1993, Creation Records).  She was involved in Pigface, the loose knit industrial noise collaboration of Trent Reznor and Martin Atkins of PIL. She subsequently moved to Seattle and joined producer Mark Walk, a former bandmate in Pigface, to create her solo project, Ruby.  They decided on the name Ruby, as it was shared by both of their grandmothers.

Ruby’s first release was the acclaimed electronic-downtempo-trip hop album Salt Peter (1995, Sony/Work).  The collection was recorded entirely digitally, which was still quite ground-breaking at that time, employing computers without a band, though she did perform with a band in concert. The single “Tiny Meat” was a Modern Rock hit, with heavy support from major market alternative radio stations.  The remix album, Revenge, The Sweetest Fruit followed in (1996). Ruby's second and last album was Short-staffed at the GenePool (2001), followed by Altered and Proud, the Short Staffed Remixes (2001).

Lesley’s other notable projects include an appearance on Monster Voodoo Machine's Suffersystem (1994, Chicago Trax), which won a Juno Award; a duet with Tom Jones on a cover of the “Kung Fu Fighting” for the Jackie Chan movie, Supercop, and a Mountain Dew commercial appearance singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls", directed by Samuel Bayer.

2013 marked a renaissance for Ruby, taking touches from the past to emerge anew in the present.  Always progressive with the use of technology in music, Lesley has more ways to play than ever.  Her process has revealed regular audio and visual releases, collaborations, and connections with new fans and longtime followers.


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