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443 Social Club is proud to present, in association with Such A Punch Media, Hamell on Trial’s ‘THE SYRACUSE STORIES’

(Our May 6 presentation sold out in just 12 hours, so we added a second date on May 17)

Take a jaunt down memory lane if you will, which in this context extends from James Street at Thompson to Butternut Circle, and hear the actual stories that started a man’s musical journey in Syracuse NY. The bands! The bars! The booze! The drugs! The sex! The hair!  Ah…to be young again. You’ll get the dirt and guaranteed hilarity will ensue.

Did we say “GUARANTEED?” We did.

Like Damon Runyon’s Broadway characters, like Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, Hamell escorts you into darker alleys and shares some insight into the joy and laughter that a disenfranchised gang of n’er do wells can create. Winner of the Herald Angel Award from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the artist Rolling Stone magazine called “Bald, Bold and Super bad!” Mr. Hamell brings his unique perspective and abilities for an intimate entertaining evening of humorous and poignant subterranean tales from the mean streets of Syracuse NY.

Q and A to follow.

“He plays a 1937 Gibson guitar with a jackhammer force that makes you wonder how it doesn’t fall apart. The powerful, profane, hilarious, one-man wrecking crew known as Hamell On Trial.” – Brian Cornish

Hamell on Trial is the musical alias of New York-based folk punk hero Ed Hamell. A one-man explosion, he is loud-as-war one minute, stepping off the microphone to whisper to an enthralled audience the next. This is a dynamic performance informed by politics, passion, intelligence and the all-important sense of humor. His caustic wit and devil-may-care attitude has long been a favorite of anti-establishment icons Aesop Rock, Kimya Dawson, Ani DiFranco and the critical elite. Henry Rollins says “Hamell is a one man rock show!” He has been described as “Bill Hicks, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joe Strummer all rolled into one” by Philadelphia Weekly and a “one-man Tarantino flick: loud, vicious, luridly hilarious, gleefully and deeply offensive” by the Village Voice.