![]() Marcy Mays is still active with music in the Columbus area, where she owns a bar and nightclub. Scrawl went on to release a couple more LP’s, this time for major label Elektra Records, and toured extensively, but became inactive, for the most part, at the turn of the twentieth-first century after years of mistreatment and neglect by the music industry. Not a record suitable for a Saturday morning stroll, but it has its place as a lost classic. Its unflinching honesty burrows deep into the listener. The unadorned production suits the dark mood of the music. Its songs speak of both familial and inner turmoil, alcohol-fueled rants and abuses (both physical and mental), and romantic relationships teetering on the brink of extinction. The founding members were Marcy Mays (vocals and. because Marcy (Mays) and I cut our teeth in that band, together. For the DJ, see DJ Scrawl.)Scrawl were a band from Columbus, Ohio. ![]() on the former), but Mays' minimalist style is tremendously effective for me. Musically it can get a little monochromatic (esp. I've got Travel On, Rider and Nature Film and really dig them both. Produced by Steve Albini, Velvet Hammer contains some of the rawest, bleakest, bitterest emotion set to record. Sue Harshe is a founding member of the post-punk band Scrawl, who released seven albums. Marcy Mays is quickly becoming one of my favorite lyricists of all time. It was in this setting that their fourth LP, Velvet Hammer was released. Guitarist and principal singer Marcy Mays, bass (and later piano) player Sue Harshe, and their drummers (first Carolyn OLeary, then Dana Marshall) used simple. After suffering this indignity, they signed with Simple Machines, an independent label based in Arlington, Virginia, and run by Jenny Toomey and Kristin Thomson. Marcy was attending school at Ohio University in Athens and her band played a show in Columbus with Sue Harshe’s band. As with their label mates, they were suddenly without a label and without access to back royalties. Shortly thereafter, the group signed to Rough Trade and released two LP’s before the label declared bankruptcy in the early ’90s. In 1987, they recorded their first LP, Plus, Also, Too on tiny independent label No Other. Their first performance was opening for the Meat Puppets in 1985. ![]() Scrawl trace their midwestern roots to the offshoots of punk rock as it trickled through the United States and created a network of local independent scenes of record labels, zines, and clubs during the early to mid ’80s. Scrawl hail from Columbus, Ohio and comprise of vocalist/guitarist Marcy Mays, bassist Sue Harshe, and drummer Dana Marshall, who replaced original drummer Carolyn O’Leary after the latter left in 1992. Scrawl from left to right: Marcy Mays, Sue Harshe, Dana Marshall But six weeks after Nature Film came out Elektra, too, dropped Scrawl then singer and guitarist Marcy Mays broke her collarbone in a bike accident and the band had to cancel a summer tour.
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