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Badass singer/songwriter, joke-telling HAMELL ON TRIAL defies all musical categories. “Punk acoustic” and “anti-folk” come close. Warbling, super-sensitive folk singer he definitely is not. If you’re looking for cum-bye-yah by some soft-strumming, tearful folkie, HAMELL ON TRIAL is going to offend you. On stage his raw, bold energy has Rolling Stone magazine calling him a “homocidal Otto Preminger.” On more than one occasion, opening act HAMELL ON TRIAL sent the headliner band, with all its Marshall amplifiers and Les Paul guitars, running for cover. “I’m a rock and roll show. Period,” HAMELL says. “I love Iggy and the Stooges, Lou Reed, the MC5. Folk singers bore me. Insincerity incites me.” |
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