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Mission of Burma was an American post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts. The group formed in 1979 with Roger Miller on guitar, Clint Conley on bass, Peter Prescott on drums, and Martin Swope contributing audiotape manipulation and acting as the band’s sound engineer. [2] In this initial lineup, Miller, Conley, and Prescott all shared ...
- Overview
- Formation, Early Appearances
- Ace of Hearts Signing, Signals, Calls and Marches, Debut Album
- Disbanding, The Horrible Truth About Burma, Mission of Burma
- Expanding Fanbase
- Reunion, Later Albums, Second Disbanding
- Documentary, Remasters, “Mission of Burma Day”
- Conley’s Reflections
Unpretentiously avant-garde, MoB is widely cited as the most influential post-punk band to come out of Boston, credited for galvanizing the nascent alt-rock movement and establishing the gold standard for that genre in terms of all-around artistic audacity and fist-in-your-face ferocity. Using a blend of looped sonic texturing, brain-rattling volum...
MoB formed in 1979 following the break-up of the Boston-based rock-synthpop group Moving Parts when that band’s guitarist Roger Miller – who moved to Boston from Michigan and also played piano and trumpet at some MoB gigs – and bassist Clint Conley, a Connecticut native, added drummer Peter Prescott, a Boston native who’d played with local punk ban...
By the end of 1980, MoB had also played shows at CBGB and Max’s Kansas City in New York, and in mid-1981 they signed with the Boston-based record label Ace of Hearts. In June, they recorded Conley’s “Academy Fighting Song” as a single with Miller’s “Max Ernst” as the B-side and, though the band initially thought Rick Harte’s production didn’t refle...
In early 1983, MoB announced that they were disbanding, largely because Miller had a developed a serious case of tinnitus, which causes a constant ringing in the ears and was diagnosed as being the result of band’s often excruciatingly loud live shows. At their final gigs in March that year, Miller wore foam earplugs and rifle-range headphones onst...
Ironically, MoB’s fanbase expanded dramatically after the band split as Taang! and Rykodisc reissued the band’s Ace of Hearts catalogue and previously unreleased material. In 1991, the band achieved almost instant legend status when their story was featured in the book Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-19...
In December 2001, MoB’s reunion was set in motion when Miller and Conley sat in with Prescott’s band Peer Group at the Knitting Factory in New York City. The night inspired the trio to plan two MoB shows, one in New York and one in Boston, and when Swoop declined to join they replaced him with Bob Weston – who had played bass in Boston-based Volcan...
In 2006, the 70-minute documentary Not a Photograph: The Mission of Burma Story premiered at the Independent Film Festival Boston, and in 2008 Matador Records released remastered versions of Signals, Calls, and Marches, Vs. and The Horrible Truth About Burma. In 2009, at an official ceremony on the MIT campus, the Boston City Council declared Octob...
Asked in 2015 why the band became so influential, Conley explained the late-1970s context. “I hear that a lot, and take it as a compliment,” he said. “But I don’t really hear any bands that sound like us. When we formed in ‘79, the punk explosion had happened, but punk vocabulary was primitive. We were part of the expansion of that, using different...
Mission of Burma was a post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts that formed in 1979. The band consists of Roger Miller (guitar), Clint Conley (bass), and Peter Prescott (drums
The Horrible Truth About Burma. (1985) Vs. is the debut studio album by American post-punk band Mission of Burma, following their 1981 EP, Signals, Calls, and Marches. It was released in October 1982 by record label Ace of Hearts. It is the only full-length studio album the band released during the 1980s – and until 2004, as soon afterward ...
Jun 19, 2020 · Mission of Burma existed in two phases, 1979-1983 and 2002-2016, or Mach I and Mach II, as Miller puts it. “We’re definitely one of the weirdest rock bands in the history of rock music ...
Mission Of Burma. Group from Boston, Massachusetts formed in February 1979 with guitarist/vocalist Roger Miller, bassist/vocalist Clint Conley, drummer/vocalist Peter Prescott and Martin Swope (sonic manipulations). The band split up in 1983. 2004 they recorded a new album OnOffOn with Bob Weston from Shellac who took over the part of Martin ...
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Let There Be Burma (Emergo/Taang!, 1990) Accomplished: The Best of Mission of Burma (Rykodisc, 2004) A Gun to the Head: A Selection from the Ace of Hearts Era (Rykodisc, 2004)
