The Marshals

Alternative / Blues / Garage

Dublin, Ireland

Banda formada por:
Micheal - Guitar/Vocals,
Barry - Drums,
James - Bass / Vocals

Sobre la banda (info de su web):

And so it was that, in a Dublin rehearsal studio in 2003, three young musicians gathered in answer to an advert. One, drummer Barry Dillon with lengthy spells of stir in a local blues band on his record. One, bassist James O'Brien, was fresh to town having deserted previous band. And one, singer Michael John, was a Beatles-loving impresario, scraping a living giving guitar lessons and despairing of the then stagnant local scene.

A motley bunch, Michael thought, and this being the first audition he'd held since his ad had run, he could expect to spend months auditioning every hair rocker, cybergoth and experimental ferret strangler of Dublin before he found the right band-mates to complement his vision. But he was about to find he was at the helm of a somewhat, charmed band.

"What we do isn't rocket science... We wanted to make simple, fun, upbeat music with a slightly bluesy feel to it. We played 'Under The Great Stars' once together for the first time and we were sat there thinking 'that was easy!'."

He didn't know the half of it. With the birth of The Marshals the constellations shifted and they were about to lead the reinvention of the entire Irish scene with their ragged, hypercharged rabble rock.

Not that it seemed that way over the cold winter of 2003 as they gigged two or three times a week around Dublin and Cork and anywhere they could wangle a show along the road inbetween, or scraped together enough cash through their day jobs to fund demo sessions in which they'd have to lay down four tracks in a single day.

Their third and best demo was recorded in Dublin's Guinea Pig Studios, a converted garden shed. Weeks of intensive gigging culminated with a show in West Cork in front of a grand total of ten punters, where they were also offered a deal by UK label Vertigo on the spot.

"The gig we played before showcasing was in a proper locals pub in Cork" says Michael. "We were supposed to play a gig at the college but they cancelled it, last second, and put us in this other place and we almost got boo'd out of there. We played six songs and nobody in the place listened. At the end one guy came up, grabbed the mike and started singing Andy Williams' 'I Love You Baby'. That was a bit of a low-point. Then at the next gig we got offered a deal."

Meanwhile, back in Dublin, nights like Noise Party and Faction and other multi-band shows around Temple Bar started to throw up Dublin's grittier rock edge, "We were there when it started to change," nods Barry. "We were among the first breaking the mould and the first to be signed. It was all singer-songwriters, loads of them, and acoustic type acts. There was no fun, dirty, in-your-face music."

And while Dublin was learning that harmonicas were actually for chewing into bloody splinters and acoustic guitars were only fit for firewood, The Marshals set to recording their debut album, for which the word 'blistering' should officially be released from its Press Release Cliché ban. Here are Jack White-on-angel-dust rabble-blues songs like 'For You', 'Under The Great Stars' and 'My Girl And I' - fiery pop Good Vibes and fantasist imagery!

The Marshals are a ticking rock grimebomb waiting to explode under the haircut's' drug bands of the current UK scene. The devil-possessed poise of The White Stripes, the melodic clout of pixies and the heart-strung passion of every lost romantic who ever struck a guitar in anger, The Marshals are holding a one-way ticket to God knows where, but - they're not coming back. You'll love them. It's scorched on the stars...

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