| Title : | Old Man Markley: “We’re punk rockers playing bluegrass!" |
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| Article Text : On July 2nd I had the pleasure to interview Old Man Markley on tour with NOFX, & Teenage Bottle Rocket. With their hard work ethics they deserve every opportunity that comes their way. With their high-energy stage presence they give you a taste of raw country with that punk sound. This band is non-stop! AU: Who are you and what do you do in the band? OMM: My name is Annie I play auto harp and I sing in OMM; I am Johnny and I sing and play guitar. AU: OMM formed in 2007 and signed to Fat Wreck Records in 2010 was this first label you signed to and what has life been like since you signed? OMM: It is the first label we signed with and life has been busy. We’ve been on the road almost none stop since we put out our first album in January. AU: What has touring with NOFX been like? OMM: It has been the biggest shows we ever played. I think it’s cool with NOFX their a musical band and their fans are such fans of good music. NOFX they cover a different lot of sounds in their music and I think we just sort of support that. AU: It seems the band has moved along in its success pretty steadily since 2007; describe how the band has worked together to keep that goal and move forward? OMM: We’re constantly trying to figure out better ways to get it done. We have a lot of members. We had even more when we started. It’s about being efficient and trying to be smart in just about everything. Being on the road is kind of a full time job. We’ve been trying to have fun but also treat it like a job. AU: Where did the name Old Man Markley comes from? OMM: Sweet Ryan who is our washboard player is not by any means old but his name is Ryan Markley and he suffers from bad back and acts quite old. Sometimes he’ll drink too much and stumble around and act the part as a little bit of the nickname. It just has a good ring to it. I liked it when I heard it when we were thinking of names of the band. AU: How did the band form? OMM: We are all from L.A. Area County. OMM was like a party band we’d always get together and hang out we were just friends and we started out pouring the acoustic instruments. It started as a party and then we had a band practice and narrowed it down to something that hey wow this really works cuz we were just a bunch of punk kids and we started figuring out how far we could take punk rock. AU: Is it ever hard to try to coordinate so many members ever? OMM: We currently have eight and four of us lived together for a long time so half the band was always together in some capacity and everybody else lived so close by we were always pretty much at the same house every week we have band practice no matter what. It’s kind of like our rule. AU: How has the response been of your new album “Guts N’ Teeth”? Amazing. Were not quite your normal country or bluegrass band, were punk rockers playing bluegrass that’s why were going over so well with punk rock. That’s why I think punks can relate when they see other punks doing it. Taking a traditional bluegrass band and putting them in an opening slot for NOFX I don’t think the kids would be able to relate so much but they see us up there and they see the punk side of it. AU: What are the bands musical influences? The Beatles to NOFX. Our banjo player is defiantly coming from the traditional bluegrass scene where this whole punk world is sort of new for him. Our fiddler Katie is way more into classic rock and southern rock. Annie loves everything from disco to pop and punk. We have a big age range from mid twenty’s to early thirty’s and forty’s. AU: What has been your favorite show, venue or festival to perform at? OMM: Within the last year our biggest show was at Gross Rock, which is in Belgium. Gross Rock is one of the biggest festivals of the independent punk scene out in Europe. This tour through Canada, Edmonton killed it for us, huge fans of us and I guess they have a big country music community in Edmonton, which I wasn’t even aware of. Kids were moshing before we even started playing they were so amped and ready to see what we were all about. AU: Is this the bands first time to Canada? What do you think of Canada? OMM: We love Canada. Canada has been so good. I think we have been doing better in Canada then we did in Europe. Especially the western side of Canada we definitely want to come back to Canada within a year maybe. AU: You played twice at last year’s punk rock bowling how was that? Punk Rock Bowling is a special place in our heart. It’s like a tradition for us. Our manger Mark Stern of BYO records puts on the whole festival. This year the special thing that we did we played at a pool party and it was the highlight of people’s weekend. AU: Any last words, shameless self-promotion, what the future holds? OMM: We have a lot of cool things coming up this year like what I was saying the touring of our new album. We're also working with Fat Mike on a musical that he’s doing. We’ve actually been included in it and were doing a song for it. We love to stay in touch with our fans we love feedback. Follow us on twitter, Facebook. We have a friend trying to set up a street team for us. I think you can set up a pretty rad street team with just the Internet. If anyone’s interested send a message at [email protected] By Heather Furneaux © 2011 Clove & Anchor Entertainment Contact | |
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