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In Music We Trust - Interview with Manda And The Marbles

On the heels of re-releasing their fourth album Angels With Dirty Faces in 2005 with Addison Records, the band chatted with the website In Music We Trust. Here is part of that interview:

Looking to become more poppy, less pop-punk and more pop-new-wave, Manda and the band were excited about the creative choices having a full-time keyboard player in the band would allow them. So much so that the band tried a lot of different stuff on their third full-length, Angles with Dirty Faces. 

"We did a lot of different things," she says of the recording process. "On this new record, 'Seventeen' is a slower song that we normally would not have put on a record. Now we just don't care about what people think is different and put on the songs that we really like." 

With the new record done and ready to shop around, the band, anxious to get something out, asked their friends at local label Sick House Records to release the record. Soon after the album's release, their manager started up a label, Adison Records, and the record was re-released with wider distribution. 

"The first version of Angels With Dirty Faces was released on Sick House Records. But, it was recently re-released on Adison Records," Manda tells me. "We put out an early release on Sick House Records. They're friends of ours, we knew them, and they wanted to do it, so we put out the new one with them. Then our manager started a label, so it got re-released. Sick House was cool with it all. We're good friends." 

With the record now available in record stores, the band hopes to tour soon to support it.
"We're going to tour in late spring and summer, when it is easier to get away from work. And we won't have to deal with the ice and snow," she informs me.

New Additions: Seduction album by (Manda And) The Marbles

While I didn't get all their albums back in the day, I was a fan of Manda And The Marbles going back to when they were just called The Marbles (guess that makes me really old school). They were a breath of fresh air, playing straight-forward pop-punk that leaned more on the pop side. As the years have passed, I've been picking up their releases here and there, and recently acquired their second album Seduction, which is where the band really took off for me.

Know Yer Band: Manda And The Marbles

Band: Manda And The Marbles

Members
Manda Marble - Vocals/Bass
Joe "Damage" Mertz - Guitar
Mark Slak - Drums
Elias Dubok - Keyboards

Releases
1999 - Rock's Not Dead album (Break-Up! Records)
2000 - Seduction album (Break-Up! Records)
2002 - More Seduction album (Go-Kart Records)
2003 - Reputation 7" single (Sickhouse Records)
2004 - Angels With Dirty Faces album (Sickhouse Records)