The Brass Rail – Fort Wayne Indiana – Rock Club dressed up as a dive bar

Lucky Ten Presents: Marah (South Philadelphia, PA), The Black Label Summer

Sunday June 20th, 2010
One Lucky Guitar Presents as part of their Lucky Ten series:
Marah
Black Label Summer
8PM
$7

Presale Tickets Available

In my short lived “pre-music” days I was a footballer. I played center for the Conshohocken Golden Bears. I weighed in at 68lbs and I sucked hard. Once we played “East Falls” on the frozen dirt field across the street from “Pat’s Steaks” in South Philadelphia. I’m guessing we lost. Mostly I remember “East Falls” hitting their thigh pads and clapping their hands to the Queen “We Will Rock You” beat and chanting “Put ‘em in the Graveyard ooh ah” over and over. It was terrifying.

In the past our band never played many new songs before records were “officially” released. We always felt new albums/new songs were best absorbed as complete thoughts…records had sequence and rhythm, each song made more sense propped up by its fellow jams, and as the final guitars or bagpipes rang out you could feel like you’d been on a kinda rock & roll journey. We still feel that way. But…

Considering it’s been such a long time since we shared a song and dance together we wanna put this out there for y’all…something new to enjoy and discuss while we wait for the other shoe to drop. We also promise that your $contribution will not be blown in some smoky pub but will aid us greatly in bringing a lot more “unreleased” Marah music into the world this year. Think of the mix tape possibilities.

“Put ‘em in the Graveyard” is not a “single” in the “Love is a Battlefield”, “Shock The Monkey” kinda way, but merely a new song we are quietly and independently “making available” now due to the timely Halloweenish connotation of its title. Get it?

In 2010 we are gonna play in Syracuse and Serbia. We will spill buckets of sweat on SXSW in Texas and The Basque Country and hopefully Green Bay too. We’re gonna need to work real hard but It’s exciting, we’re gonna do it. We’re still in.

So have fun everybody and please remember to sign up for our mailing list. Much album news and tour dates comin’ round the mountain.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Yours Truly, David Bielanko and MARAH