Blue Ruin | |
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| Also known as | Scrap Museum |
| Origin | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Genres | Blues rock |
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Blue Ruin were an Australian blues rock band, which started as Scrap Museum in 1984. Their third studio album, I'm Gonna Smile (December 1990), was nominated for Best Independent Release at the ARIA Music Awards of 1991. The group had released three other studio albums, Such Sweet Thunder (January 1986), Flame (May 1987) and Tattoo Tears (1993), before disbanding in 1995. Mainstay members were Ian "Quincy" McLean on lead vocals and Mulaim Vela on lead guitar.