HAMELL ON TRIAL(Righteous Babe Records) SUNDAY

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PJC Presents,

Hamell on Trial – aka one-man folk-punk-poet-rock’n’roll protest singer

Sunday, November 20th 8pm, $8

Pepper Jack Cafe, 38 King William St.

Here's a link to his live show http://universalbuzz.com/streams/fullshow/335.ram Have a listen.

www.hamellontrial.com

www.pepperjackcafe.com

Bad ass 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 “homicidal 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.†For years the garrulous and witty Hamell tried to carve out a niche for his artistic vision in a blue-collar Upstate New York town, playing guitar and fronting an all-original band, before going solo. After a brief stint with Blue Wave Records in Syracuse, New York, Hamell decided to take his one-man show elsewhere. As music critic Don Mcleese explains, Hamell needed to move away before “audiences [could] respond to the material as art rather than gossip.â€

[Hal Johnson]

Saw him open for Ani, and was pretty fun. Id see him again for 8 bucks. Thats pretty cool.