the martinets will be chiming in with this year's howl festival as part
of a stellar lineup at the knitting factory tap bar. this week's time
out says "this is one show not to miss" and who are we to argue.

the line up (see press release below)
8:00 glenn mercer and vinnie denunzio (ex-feelies)
9:00 ruby on the vine (ex-human switchboard)
10:00 antietam
11:00 martinets

THE MARTINETS AT KNITTING FACTORY TAP BAR
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23 AT 11:00
74 LEONARD STREET, BTWEEN BWAY AND CHURCH

the martinets ("they represent, to quote the shangri-la's, the past, the
present and the future of rock and roll." - village voice) are:
daniel rey, guitar
dave rick, bass
eamonn bowles, vocals, guitar
roger murdock, drums
www.myspace.com/themartinets
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Myrna Macarian:

Knitting Factory Line-up Reunites Veterans of Indy Pop Scene A musical
celebration of the old and the new, the great and the eclectic will take
place at the Knitting Factory on Tuesday, August 23. The four superb
bands will be Tara Key and her rousing Antietam, The Martinets, Ruby on
the Vine, featuring Myrna Marcarian from the Human Switchboard, and
Glenn Mercer and Vinnie DeNunzio. Mercer and DeNunzio represent one-half
of The Feelies, a group that reinvigorated, if not re-invented, the
spirit of American independent popular music. Indeed, the entire line-up
features musicians, who in the aggregate have two dozen or so superior
albums to their names, and helped to forge idiosyncratic, powerful and
moving testaments to the spirit of indy pop.

Key remembered meeting Marcarian at Trax on the Upper West Side in 1981
when Key's Babylon Dance Band was on a double bill with Human
Switchboard. Marcarian, who at that point was longer in the music scene
than Key, counseled, "If I was your mother, I'd tell you to quit this
business!"

Twenty-four years later, Key said she's glad neither of them took
Marcarian's advice. "The feeling of August 23 is less like a reunion,"

she said, "and more like running into each other at a way station,
catching up and wishing each other well on continued travels."

The concert is scheduled in conjunction with HOWL! Festival. Produced by
the Federation of East Village Artists, the annual arts festival is a
week-long celebration of the neighborhood as the cradle of
counterculture.

The Knitting Factory is located at 74 Leonard Street, phone:

212-219-3132. Tickets to the concert are $12 and doors open at 7 p.m.




eamonn bowles
magnolia pictures
49 w. 27th st. - 7th floor
nyc 10001
212-924-6701 x205
212-924-6742 fax





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