June 4, 2005 @ 7:13 pm
Manda and the Marbles Supplement
Axes & Alleys : Half an Issue is Better than None!
Axes & Alleys : Half an Issue is Better than None!
The official Manda and the Marbles UnAuthorized Biography Supplement
From the sandy shores of Ohio, there has, over the past few years, come a resounding cry of freedom, desperation and hunger (hunger for emotional comfort, not hunger for food). That cry is straight from the diaphram and vocal chords of one Manda Marble and her rag-tag group of misfits, vagabonds, and sound-pirates known by the simple yet powerful nomenclature of “The Marbles”

The Marble family traces its history back to Heptfordshire, in England’s fabled Middle Country; a land of gently rolling green hills, comfortable little villages and thick old-wood forests. As far as the historical record describes, the first mention of the Marble family is in the Heptfordshire County Register in the year 1558 AD. Upon these yellowing and aged pages, one finds the simple, yet elegant, name John Marble, a quarry owner whose cottage was just a few furlongs outside the ancient walls of Sanding on the Bun, the old county seat of Heptfordshire.

No band would be complete without the guitar, and for Manda and the Marbles it is Joe A. Damage who provides that rich, bar-chordy goodness that makes their music such a revolution….

Of all the forms of musical expression, none is more primal than drumming.
The very act itself contains a sort of violent, animalistic savagery; a strike, an
attack, an assault. And no person captures this primitive pugilism better
than the visionary known as Mark Slak…