"Live" "At" "The" "BBC": 12" Vinyl EP

Pre-Order Item. Release Date Subject to Change.
Label: Sea Note
Release Date: 30th January 2026

You didn't ask but as a self-proclaimed SegallHead 'The Muggers' era is one of the greatest of the Ty Segall eras. An absolute dreamteam of a psychedelic garage rock band including Mikal Cronin, Cory Hanson, Evan Burrows, Emmett Kelly of Cairo Gang and King Tuff - elite musicians and songwriters in their own field, forming a kind super group lead by King Ty. Pure, fire and thunder, properly weird and unhinged but full of fire and fuzz.

Flash back, to a time of big men and big-
ger babies! A time not unlike today
—
but
what, simpler-like? Shit. January, 2016.
The times: scary. Tomorrow: kiss it good-
bye. This was the headspace for Emotional
Mugger’s necksnapping sketch when it
dropped that very month those ten fateful
years ago. Off the back of 2014’s expan-
sive Manipulator and the months of tour-
ing that followed, Ty was down to party
with whatever extreme, flipped-script
scene came welling up through him. Emo-
tional Mugger, its forked tongue stuffed in
deep cheek, landed the jump, putting the
‘sick’ back into ‘satiric’ and the ‘the fuh!?!”
back into ‘FUN!’, featuring eleven of the
most rancid & monstrous cuts in the Segall
catalog EVEN AS OF TODAY
—
sequenced,
as ever, with an almost mystic third eye/
ear predilection for the immaculate distri-
bution of album gravity.
The fun didn’t stop there. Ty’d played most of the parts on the album, excepting
some key drop-ins from close associates, including Wand’s Cory Hanson and
Evan Burrows, The Cairo Gang’s Emmett Kelly, Mikal Cronin and King Tuff
himself, Kyle Thomas. The vibes were so right with this crew, he dubbed them
The Muggers, stretched a rubber baby mask over his head (with extra space
sliced out for his mouth to scream through), and they all hit the road a few
weeks in front of the album, rolling over the US through the end of March, then
heading to Europe for some more.
That’s when "LIVE" "AT" "THE" "BBC" happened.
They were cutting thru the UK, four shows in five days
—
just enough time for
a Mark Riley session for the BBC! It would be child’s play, in more ways than
one. Fifty shows into it, The Muggers were in full-on road mode, their five-
headed monstrosity fully backing Ty
—
who for perhaps the only time in all his
years of touring
—
carried only a mic, to focus all his energy on singing. Here, he
leads the charge, his pipes deeply tanned, but otherwise unfettered from their
nightly regimen. Hammering out a nineteen minute slice of their regular show,
he & The Muggers’ free spirits can be heard in EVERY SINGLE MOMENT, with
special weirdness coming whenever Cory, Emmett, Mikal and Kyle all chip in
on backing vocals. The room feels like barely enough to contain all their shit
as they smash through four choice Emotional Mugger cuts and one ostensible
finger-in-the-eye, their telescoped take-out of The Doors’ “L.A. Woman.” Blues,
yeah! It sounds, a decade hence, like the Black Flag version that never was.
Now it’s The Muggers’ version that will ALWAYS be.
Yup
—
undeniably hot stuff. What took us so long to get this out? Who knows,
maybe the etching? That’s right, one side has all the music, the other side’s got
a rendering of the babyman mask that’s haunted so many punters over long
nights of the soul since then. Relive the trauma, and yer sure to dig "LIVE" "AT"
"THE" "BBC".
What else is there to say? Other than, all-together-now, “John Wayne was a
bad, bad man!”

Squealer
Breakfast Eggs
Emotional Mugger
Candy Sam
L.A. Woman
+ etched side two