Marcy Mays also appeared as lead singer on 'My Curse' from the album Gentlemen by The Afghan Whigs and performed live with them at the Reading Festival 1994. The band was then signed their first major label deal, to Elektra, for whom they released two albums, Travel On, Rider, and Nature Film. It was engineered by Steve Albini (around the time he produced Nirvana), and released on the Simple Machines label. They recorded their next album, Velvet Hammer, in 1993. Their next release, a seven-track EP called Bloodsucker, was released on the Chicago-based Feel Good All Over label (then reissued on Simple Machines Records).ĭrummer O'Leary left the group in May 1992, and was replaced by Dana Marshall.

filed for bankruptcy in 1990, the band was forced to bid for their master recordings at auction during the label's Chapter 11 proceedings. Their raw, somewhat primitive sound is influenced by the UK post-punk scene of the late 1970s (e.g., The Raincoats, The Slits, The Mekons), but their American inflection greatly influenced the Riot Grrrl sound of the 1990s. The following year the band was signed to the ill-fated Rough Trade Records U.S., for whom they released two albums, He's Drunk (produced by Jim Rondinelli) and Smallmouth (produced by Gary Smith). Their first album, Plus, Also, Too, was self-produced (with Andy Izold) and released in 1987 on the local label No Other Records. Their first show, in the summer of 1985, was a 20-minute opening spot for the Meat Puppets. The founding members are Marcy Mays (lead vocals, guitar, songwriting), Sue Harshe (bass guitar, backing vocals, songwriting), and Carolyn O'Leary (drums). Scrawl is a musical trio based in Columbus, Ohio. The three of them ransacked the room, but no small, round box with the Campion name scrawled on it in elegant pink script could be found.Scrawl in a promotional shot from the mid 1990s. Sincerely, Leslie Slote William Tuttle could readily see in the enclosed memorandum, scrawled on legal-length yellow sheets, the exasperated outpouring of a subordinate quitting his job in anger. The only exception is a portrait of one of the Scarrognini family which is seen on the right-hand wall above the door, the fact of the portraiture being attested by a barbarous scrawl upon the fresco itself. Van Patten asks, absently studying the question scrawled on his napkin. He read scrawled, blotty penmanship: Dear Tretter: This is my last warning. I made it a rule to read everything that has been written respecting Napoleon, and I have had to decipher many of his autograph documents, though no longer so familiar with his scrawl as formerly. He had looked out at the quizzical faces, listened to the frantic scrawling of the panicking students, and realized that with a mind that ran and tripped and hurled itself down the corridors of theory in anarchic fashion, he could learn himself, in haphazard lurches, but he could not impart the understanding he so loved. To The Shadow, the mental rightening of that scrawl was not too difficult a task.ĭimly, Suttle was beginning to put it all together: the newly scrawled name on the speakerphone downstairs, the open door, the carefully recreated tableau in the bedroom, the hostage offered up and waiting, the shiny blades beside the bed, the open invitation to a spot of help-yourself revenge.

She finished scrawling on the notepaper and tore the top sheet off from the soccer-patterned pada Christmas gift from one of her pupils. I opened it, but finding it covered with an illegible scrawl I gave it him back, telling him to read it himself.Īnd winter was defeated, and the snowmelt roared down the valleys, and the Kneck scrawled its random wiggles across the flat silt of the valley.

Monte Cristo two weeks later, Verne sulked in the carriage, staring at the piles of paper on which Dumas had scrawled his comments. His amanuensis found it impossible to keep up with him, and therefore profited by a hint from one of us, and instead of writing, merely moved his pen rapidly over the paper, scrawling all sorts of ragged lines and figures to resemble writing!Īs far as the eye could reach the bushveld rolled its scrub like the scrawled foliage a child draws on a slate, with here and there a baobab swimming unsteadily in the glare.

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