enjoy! help us out by joining the pre-order gang please!!! xx

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our new record, Westerner, is now complete and mastered. With out a doubt the best thing we've ever done. Hard master copies to us tomorrow. Watch this space for shows and release news.

by the way, whats with not being able to have capital lettered words in a title! its 2009 ilike!

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Caberet Voltaire doors at 7pm, Marshals on stage 9pm. Tix a fiver in advance, seven quid on the door.

YOUR LOCAL MARSHALS NEED YOU!!

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We are delighted to say that the legendary Bob Harris played the Wynntown Marshals' version of "Ballad of Jayne" on his BBC Radio 2 show this morning (Saturday 7th February 2009)

You can hear the whole show on the BBC i-Player by following this link...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hbz6m/Bob_Harris_07_02_2009/

If you are too impatient to wait for the Marshals' track, skip to 2:38:59 where we directly follow The Byrds' "Renaissance Fair" and precede Woody Guthrie's "Pretty Boy Floyd".

Not a bad sandwich in which to be the filling methinks...

Bob's full playlist can be found at http://www.bobharris.info/pages/playlist.asp?progcode=s07022009

Great stuff, huh? Thanks to Bob for playing the track and especially to Karen Miller for forwarding our CD on to the man himself.
 

SlowKnee..

grab yourself a big ol' pint of cider and black, crank it up loud, turn your head upside down and start that backcombing! Its the record they'll all be talking about - well in certain circles anyhoo!

Hair Apparent:  The Main Man Records Tribute to the Hair Bands is out on Tuesday, September 9.  It will be available at www.mainmanrecords.com and at Vintage Vinyl.  Coming to iTunes in October.  Here is the awesome line up...

1. Heavy Metal Love - LaBooze
Originally recorded by Helix
2. Cum On Feel The Noize - Bob "Derwood" Andrews
Originally recorded by Slade... and then again by Quiet Riot
3. Malibu Beach Nightmare - Mutant Monster Beach Party
Originally recorded by Hanoi Rocks
4. She's Tight - Frankenstein 3000
Originally recorded by Cheap Trick
5. I Wanna Rock - Christian Beach
Originally recorded by Twisted Sister
6. Ballad of Jayne - Wynntown Marshals
Originally recorded by L.A. Guns
7. Chatterbox - K Roth
Originally recorded by The New York Dolls
8. Big Bottom - The Dennis Dunaway Project
Originally recorded by Spinal Tap
9. Babylon - Bad Biscuit
Originally recorded by Faster Pussycat
10. It's So Easy - Pillow Theory
Originally recorded by Guns 'N' Roses
11. Another Piece of Meat - FourYearBeard
Originally recorded by The Scorpions
12. Shoot 'Em Down - AB
Originally recorded by Twisted Sister
13. Public Enemy 1 - Mars Needs Women
Originally recorded by Motley Crue
14. 18 & Life - Johnny Dey
Originally recorded by Skid Row
15. Little Fighter - AB
Originally recorded by White Lion
16. Final Countdown - Killing Phantom
Originally recorded by Europe
17. After The Rain - Days Before Tomorrow
Originally recorded by Nelson
18. Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You - Frankenstein 3000
Originally recorded by Spinal Tap
19. Here I Go Again - Dan Maxwell & His Band
Originally recorded by Whitesnake
20. Wanted Dead Or Alive - Early Times
Originally recorded by Bon Jovi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GGTAM5HySw

cheers to Rob Ellen for posting it.

The Wynntown Marshals - The Wynntown Marshals/Ballad of Jayne

By Duke Dali on May 15th, 2008

Rising phoenix like from the ashes of The Sundowns, The Marshals retain Keith Benzie on guitar and vocals , Keith Jones (Fife's answer to John Bonham) on drums, Simon Ritson on bass duties with the addition of Iain Barbour on guitar and Iain Sloan on pedal steel.

As evidenced on this mini album (six songs) there is no radical departure from the sound of the Sundowns, and essentially that means that for your money you get a high class slice of home grown Americana that begs to be heard.

From the opening guitar strums and Benzie's plaintive vocals on After All These Years the band are in full control, slipping into a song that sounds as if its been around forever to be played on jukeboxes in honky tonks for beer sozzled Romeo's bewildered by the lack of romance in their lives. Barbour's solo in this is a joy and he continues to delight in the following song, Different Drug, another wearied tale of ennui. More follows in the same vein but the centrepiece and highlight of the disc is the epic 11:15. A retelling of "The Muckle Spate" of 1829 when the north east of Scotland suffered the greatest flood of recent modern history. Very much in the vein of the Drive By Truckers' eulogising Alabama's past, The Marshals' take a piece of history and marry it to an exhilarating ride. Apocalyptic in its telling ("the lightning looked like liquid fire in the skies…. foot by foot the mighty lakes and angry rivers rose….. there were drowning animals as far as the eye could see") it also tells the individual tale of Charles Cruickshank, an Innkeeper, killed by the deluge whose watch stopped at the time of his death, 11:15. Around this the band play furiously, whipping up a veritable storm as the song progresses through its six minutes of Homeric rhetoric. A showstopper when played live I'm sure. I Should've Guessed closes the show, another romp through familiar Americana territory and mention should be made of Leigh Benzie who adds vocals to several of the songs complementing those of Keith.

After their support slot with Jason and the Scorchers last week Keith the drummer pressed a copy of their new single into my hands. A cover of Los Angeles big haired metallers LA Guns' big hit Ballad of Jayne (see it on youtube…. and weep ), the Marshals turn it into a pedal steel fuelled country lament that is very reminiscent of early Wilco. A rare example of a cover version being much much better than the original. Coupled with (or as those with any memory of vinyl would say, the B side) The Burning Blue, another Wilcoesque romp with rippling guitar, pedal steel and vocals from the Benzies I would urge you to support your local Marshals and buy this.

on a bank holiday-with too much sun, not enough food and too much beer - in Kilkenny...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2ctqXy0ekM

Many thanks to the poster for this. We'll get you later!!