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Marianas Trench
Rock / Pop Punk / Other

		"Fix Me now available online everywhere!" Vancouver, British Columbia Canada Profile Views: 611093 Last Login: 5/12/2008
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Member Since	1/28/2005
Band Website	marianastrench.net
Band Members	Josh Ramsay - Guitar and Vocals Ian Casselman - Drums and Vocals Matt Webb - Guitar and Vocals Michael Ayley - Bass and Vocals
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Record Label	604 Records
Type of Label	Indie

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About Marianas Trench

Drinking deep from what front man and founder Josh Ramsay jokingly refers to as the goblet of rock Marianas Trench delivers guitar anthems that kick loud and hard. Soaring in and around the guitar/bass/drum fury are four highly trained singers with the skill to break into a cappella flights of harmony. The result: A novel mix of brash and innocent, yearning melodicism and over-the-top rock dynamics.

Fix Me, Marianas Trenchs full-length 604 Records debut, documents a hugely ambitious Vancouver quartet that has been relentlessly writing, fine-tuning and performing since the turn of the decade. We are ready to take over the world and save the universe from evil, says, Ramsay only half kidding. We are persistent little bastards. We want to be doing 250 shows a year. We will eat Kraft Dinner every night. We are prepared to do whatever it takes.

The albums 11 songs cram in more hooks and ideas than the pop medium can typically absorb. The Dave Genn (MGB, 54.40) produced sound is raw and alive, marked by Ramsays wounded howl, the rhythm sections lockstep surge and one flaming guitar riff after the next. As for the tightly arranged tag-team vocals, theyre the real deal, free from any post-production tweaking and a highlight of the live show.

Marianas Trench comes by its hybrid rock/vocal sound honestly. There was never a point where I thought, Okay, lets stick this together with that, explains Ramsay. I grew up amidst a crazy amount of music. Most people are influenced by their favorites, and mine just happen to be from radically different sides of the spectrum.

Ramsays dad, Miles, once owned Little Mountain Sound, the Vancouver recording studio that in its 1980s prime hosted Aerosmith, Bon Jovi and AC/DC. (I can remember guys like Steven Tyler and Tommy Lee walking around, but I was a little young to be telling Tyler, Dude, that was a wicked vocal.) His mother, Corlynn Hanney, is a vocal teacher whose career was highlighted by two years of touring and recording with Leonard Cohen. My parents were into the Beach Boys and anything else that had a lot of singing. Eventually I discovered Green Day, Foo Fighters, shit like that. But I never lost interest in all those cool vocal bands like Jellyfish.

Ramsay racked up his first solo gig in a coffeehouse at 14. Seated beside him in the high school band was Matt Webb, a multi-instrumentalist who switched to guitar when he joined Marianas Trench in 2001. Both were also tenors in the school choir. Back home, Ramsay was learning to engineer his own songs, building teenage symphonies with the same 16-track Neve console Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance had used to write Kids Wanna Rock and Summer of 69.

Over the years Ramsay has reigned in his hyperactive creative imagination. The learning curve was mastered with input from a string of producers. John Webster (Tom Cochrane) handled early demos. And once Marianas Trench was signed to 604, Warne Livesey (Matthew Good Band, Midnight Oil), Brad McGivern (Bif Naked, Lillix) and the Nickelback combo of Chad Kroeger and Joey Moi helped refine the material further.

It was Dave Genn, however, who got the call to co-produce Fix Me with the band. Genn was awesome, says Webb of the Vancouver-based musician and producer. Ive respected and looked up to that guy for a lot of reasons. And he just came in and did his magic.

Live, Ramsay and Webb trade guitar leads while the rhythm section of Ian Casselman and Mike Ayley keeps the sound powering forward. The gig is youve got to be able to play, says Webb, but youve also got to sing. For a lark during concerts, theyve been known to croon a cappella versions of Good Vibrations and Billy Joels And So It Goes.

Cocky and confident in the knowledge that Marianas Trench has worked supremely hard to get to this point, Ramsay says the band intends to break fast from the starting gate once Fix Me hits the street. Weve been waiting a long time for this moment, and we intend to bust our balls to make it happen. What can I say, 100 million fans won't be wrong.

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shannon	May 12 2008 7:21 PM Hey i love the album...when is the next one coming out?
Suicide;ATTEMPTS	May 12 2008 7:19 PM I Think uu guys are a-maz-ing. srsly.GRR i missed uu live when u came to edmonton which was a yr ago and im still upset about it . soo yea come to dmonton soon.. and ill definetly go and hopefully meet and awesome band rofl
So Wrong, Its Danielle	May 12 2008 5:27 PM Hey boys How are you? Can't wait to hear some new songs! I know they'll be great :) Any tour plans yet? You need to come back to Halifax...we miss you out here. Danielle
•Kël§é¥•	May 12 2008 1:46 PM hey hey. i think you guys should come to kingston ontario!!
Gor[jess]™	May 12 2008 1:07 PM Hey! thanks for the add! you guyz are such an awesome band!! you need to come to Columbus, Ohio! Josh ur truley amazing. im in love with you voice! lol. -Gor[jess]
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amanda	May 11 2008 7:01 PM Just wanted to say hi and see whats been happenen.
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Cassie[McFLy,MTrench,Heldey & Faber]	May 11 2008 5:48 AM Happy Mothers day guys even though i dont think any of you guys are mothers...hmm.... Maybe Ian is though lol Happy mothers day 10 days till my b'day 32 till Josh's! Yay!
* Alana Banana Pajama *	May 10 2008 9:36 PM Can you beat my score on the "Walt Disney Animated Classics (Name them)" quiz? ------------------------------- This comment was sent by your friend via the Movies application. To block comments sent via Apps. click here.
TUM tumm	May 10 2008 8:57 PM Plz come play in thompson!! ...we never get good concerts here =( anyway <3 ur album, can't wait 4 the next one (=
Melky :)	May 10 2008 5:56 PM hey, i miss you guys so much can't wait for a new album. i'll be sure not to miss you guys the next time you come around Winnipeg. xxmel
HAÐ£N,that one chick.	May 10 2008 3:34 PM Hey Marianas Trench, I just bought you as my PET! Click here to find out how much I think you're worth! ------------------------------- This comment was sent by your friend via the Own Your Friends! application. To block comments sent via Apps. click here.
~haleyyy!	May 10 2008 9:32 AM you have to come back to halifax! it's been farrr too long. :(
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Cécile	May 10 2008 12:49 AM thanx for the add
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Poetic Tragedy♥	May 9 2008 12:17 PM Marianas Trench is AMAZING. I love all of your songs, especially Sicker Things, Skin and Bones, and Say Anything ♥ I Love ya SOOO MUCH. and cant wait to see you on tour someday. KISSES Love, Katie
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jeStiZian	May 9 2008 8:15 AM
Denni	May 8 2008 11:23 PM Aren't you guys done that album yet? Just, you know, getting a bit curious what with lack of news and all. Last I heard it was going to be entirely tapdancing and silence, and I figure it can't take all THAT long to record then, eh? Anyhow, can't wait to go see you guys live again, great shows. Oh yeah, new music would be cool also, although I suppose I'll settle with tapdancing if that's what y'all are going with. Cheers, Me. P.S. Just realised that the forums deleted my username due to lack of use. Fiber Optic Camel was maybe a lame username anway.
andreaxx	May 8 2008 5:39 PM
♥Rock Goddess♥	May 8 2008 5:12 PM heyy you guys are awsome come back down to St.Kitts eh:) -shannon
GEMINEYE	May 8 2008 4:53 PM 'ello mates! whens the next tour comin? huh? huh? ...wait im not american, that shoulda been eh? eh? anyways! oh yeah how are yas? haha ♥amy
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