MICKEY IS SICKEY

A blog dedicated to the best band in Chicago!  -- Next Show: ???????? -- MICKEY is a band with: Mac Blackout- vox -- Dirty D- rhythm guitar -- T.C. Starrchild- lead guitar [Previously Mick Swagger] -- Christmas Woods - road warrior -- Nova- bass || Previous Members: Brian - First bass playa, Brent - Second bassist|| ----THIS PAGE IS UNOFFICIAL ---- For official information, please see the band's fb.

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Recently unearthed clip from the Cobra Lounge Sailor Jerry show. No sound from Mickey but they have some fun footage if you were missing the energy of those live shows from over a decade ago 😱😭🌹 MICKEY4EVER

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Mickey – Rock ‘N Roll Dreamer This is another gem that probably got written off for being derivative (which, sure it is) but its also one of the most fun glam punk records of the last few years. I actually had a hard time choosing between this and Giuda’s Racey Roller, but that one’s a little too devoted to the straight glam formula, though still a fun ride all the same. I always thought that the cover of this record was its ultimate downfall. Their 7″ and 12″s leading up to the release of Rock ‘n Roll Dreamer had these great pictures of roses that were a better fit for the classic sound than the schlocky comic art here, but inside the sleeve the band knows that sometimes you need big dumb riffs and a truckload of swagger, even if you’re not cool. And trust me, they aren’t cool. This one got chewed up by too many lo-fi punk records flanking its release but now’s a clear headed time to pick up a copy and just dance away to some silly punk songs. Sometimes that’s all you need.

http://www.ravensingstheblues.com/rstb-most-overlooked/

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Art by Alex Palmer

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BEEN A LONG TIME. SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT YOU.

I couldn't even remember the password to this!!!! Anyway, all info is up to date as of today, 11/19/2014. This includes updated pages (shows, discography, links), new background collage, and finally the news that MICKEY has a different bassist (WHAT UP!). Really hoping I have to get back in the habit of updating this. MICKEY FOREVER xoxoxox 

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Chicago Label Showcase @ Volcano Rum Room: August 22-23, 2014

Chicago's trash-rock underbelly rose from the gutter to asert itself at the Chicago Label Showcase fest last weekend in the Windy City.

Photos from the show - Rob Karlic posted about twenty from the MICKEY set!!

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"I'm so sick of gosh-wow happy-fun 'party' bands that I could vomit enough pizza to flood a house show up to everbody's leg tattoos," writes Brian Costello. "Their soulless, heartless ersatz rock 'n' roll is for latent Republican honkies too chickenshit to take risks with their music, lyrics, or performances. That said, the nauseating proliferation of these phony-baloney bands makes now the perfect time for a Mickey reunion show. Easily the best act in town during their heyday (roughly 2009 till 2011), Mickey played beautifully savage gutter glam whose glorious mix of cocky chaos and alien power pop was so immediate, catchy, dangerous, and fun that sometimes I wonder if they were real or just a figment of my imagination. It was magic to see front man Mac Blackout—fueled by equal parts Sparks Plus, cheap whiskey, and urban alienation—attack the stage and the audience, backed by four dudes possessed by their own special versions of nucking futziness." Mickey performs during the second night of Victim of Time's Chitcago Fest.

Chicago Reader

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After 2 months on the road soul searching i have come full circle back to the loves i thought were destroying me......a child of light i am not afraid of the darkness anymore, and i feel immortal again. I want to thank everyone who in my absence kept my wife feeling strong........i am looking forward to the road ahead, and know that my spirit is more powerful than i ever could imagine.......Thank you all

Xmas Woods

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It's almost March.

No SXSW this year, in case you were wondering.

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Last few minutes of MICKEY playing "JAIL BREAK" on NYE.

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OOPS - HERE'S A FLASHBACK OF 2K11

THINGS YOU WISH DIDN'T HAPPEN

Dirty D breaking his arm and bailing on SXSW

Christmas not being able to make it on the mini tour

T.C. Starrchild's car accident

THINGS YOU ARE STOKED ABOUT

Rock N Roll Dreamer and everything surrounding it

Make-up at the Double Door

Covers - Ghost Rider, Jailbreak, Strutter

Terror on Tour

Toast of the Town Tour

SOME PICTURES TO PROVE IT ALL HAPPENED

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Take one part Rock ‘N’ Roll High School, one part Thin Lizzy, one part Cheap Trick and one part T.Rex. Mix in a shot of the youthful exuberance of The Exploding Hearts. Add a dash, now just a dash, of cheese-metal guitar riffs. We don’t want too much cheese metal. And we’re close to all the ground the Chicago band Mickey covers in their debut album, Rock ‘N’ Roll Dreamer, an album of teenage party-rock that stubbornly refuses to conform to three chords, three kegs, and three days with the parents away. Songs like, “Dance,” and “My Lady” take the sexy swagger of a Marc Bolan boogie and inject it with the speed and enthusiasm of punk rock. While numbers like “She’s So Crazy” and “For You” are their inverse — Starting with a framework of The Ramones and filling in the details with glam’s big guitar lines and seductive shimmy. As long as Mickey keep things relatively simple Rock ‘N’ Roll Dreamer is thoroughly entertaining. It’s when they try to cram too many of their Rock ‘N’ Roll heroes into too tight of a space that they begin trip themselves up. “Kids Crazy in Love” suffers an identity crisis when a perfectly fine take on the trash-rock of the New York Dolls gets interrupted with power guitars, a disjointed chorus, and pounding instrumental passages from who knows where that fit neither the verse nor the chorus. “For You,” has a similar penchant for quick changes and could use similar streamlining. While “Scream With Me” never quite makes up its mind between pop-metal, proto-punk, or proto-metal. Once Mickey learn the fine art of keeping all those influences in check, there’s no doubt they’ll be the stylish, Rock ‘N’ Roll animals of their album cover. Until that time, we’re left with a record that knows it wants to rock, but doesn’t always know when, where, or how. 6 out of 10 on The Rockometer.

IROCKCLEVELAND

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Garage rock was hot in 2011, especially in Chicago, where the HoZac record label is the center of an exciting scene. One of the bands in this scene, Mickey, plays fun but frequently sloppy live shows, filled with drunken energy. The band tamed that rambunctious recklessness just enough to let the strength of its songs shine through on this debut studio album, which sounds like a lost classic of the ’70s era of proto-punk and glam. Long live rock ’n’ roll dreamers!

Best of Albums of 2011

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What’s not to love about scuzzy glam garage from Chicago? Replace a few ‘s’s with ‘z’s, a few ‘y’s with ‘ee’s, in titles like Bright Lights Big City, Kids in Love, and Baby We’re Gold, and this album could sit proudly next to the likes of Sweet and Slade.

CHIRP Radio Best of 2011

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HoZac’s latest compilations are a necessary reminder, of the Chicago label’s most promising acts (Davila 666, Wax Idols, Mickey) and the fact that trashy punk isn’t always scuzzy punk.

MTV's Hive Five: Soundtracking Your New Years Eve

BASICALLY THIS MEANS MTV SAYS MICKEY IS ONE OF HOZAC'S MOST PROMISING ACTS. COOL.

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Mickey Rock 'n' Roll Dreamer (HoZac) It seems that the hope shared by a number of people in the local garage rock scene—namely that Rock 'n' Roll Dreamer would catapult local scuzz-glam band Mickey into rock superstardom—have been dashed. As of this writing they aren't causing any teenage riots in London or booking shows at the Budokan. I'm not sure where to place the blame, but it definitely doesn't go to the album, which sounds every bit like something you'd hear blasted over an arena-size PA.

This Year In Music: Best Chicago Albums by Miles Raymer

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The Spits — What costumes will this wild and comic Seattle punk band wear for their Chicago NYE gig? The mind reels. Mickey and TV Ghost open at 9 p.m. at the Cobra Lounge, 235 N. Ashland. Tickets: $20 at the door. Call [phone]; cobralounge.com.

BARELY A MENTION... BUT IN THE SUN TIMES NO LESS!!