Mouse Fire is not a band. It’s the song in your head, the rhythm in your step, the taste in your mouth. It’s the energy of a new idea and the force of something beyond what you see. It’s beauty and it’s knowing you’re beautiful, even when you feel ugly as hell.
It’s ironic, sweet, and true. In a nutshell: it’s everything you hoped it would be.“We want to make ourselves and others feel something from the songs we write…we would love to travel the world and meet everyone and know how our songs make them feel,” says Shane Schuch (lead guitarist, keys/programming).
These songs began (as so many great things do) with two good friends. Joey Bruce (lead vox, guitar) and Shane met when they were 16 years old. Commonalities in the boys bred fast friends, who skateboarded constantly and played music on the side.
Joey was playing in a rock band called Sagoh, and Shane, Delivery Boy. Both bands were based out of Polk County, Florida.But what was once “on the side”, eventually turned into a deep love of music for both Joey and Shane.
The two friends in addition to two others: Justin (who would become the bassist of Mouse Fire), and Aaron Venrick (who would become the drummer), had all been playing in various bands in the area. All shared this deep love of music as well, and by way of fortune, the four friends began playing music together.
Just over a year ago, they made it official and gave shape to what we now know as Mouse Fire.It was the interlacing of friendship, talent, and fate that brought this band together, and it is these very same things that will carry them into the future.
“We hope to show people who we are on the inside. And we’d like to see the band take off and our records sell like hot cakes, but not for money or fame… for the feeling we will get from knowing people understand what it is we are doing, what we are saying with our music.
The songs on the record are moody and they should make you feel what we felt when we wrote them.”Said record will be out on Lujo Records in July 2007. Yet untitled, the project shows great promise. Vocals are velvety smooth, bass lines driving and crunchy, and guitar licks are as dark and rhythmic as the swelling night sea.
Brace yourself for what is sure to be one of the best records of the year. And remember, Mouse Fire is not a band–Mouse Fire is a small piece of the blue.
