EXCLAIM! Review
Dave Marsh The True Love Rules
By Vish Khanna

Dave Marsh is a gifted songwriter and his fixation on edgy pop rock has yielded the best record from Halifax’s over-30 set in years. Sitting behind the Super Friendz and the Joel Plaskett Emergency as a solidly inventive drummer, Marsh is more than an unsung sideman and, on rare occasions, his distinctive compositions have snuck onto records by these aforementioned bands. The True Love Rules is Marsh’s first opportunity to stretch out and explore a crossroads that finds punk, glam rock, new wave and folk colliding beautifully. He invites past and present collaborators to help his shape infectious compositions, many of which celebrate Halifax. The big rock of “Backstreets Thread” is a fun roll call for local cronies, while traces of ’70s era Bowie are all over “Darling You, Nothing Else Matters” and “Move You Around.” There’s a cool kind of passion on The True Love Rules, a thoughtfully layered bit of cocky rock’n’roll by Dave Marsh. (New Scotland)http://www.reverbnation.com/davemarsh

A gig ; this sunday evening , at Tribeca , Halifax ; with The True Love Rules , Realiser and the fabulous Skank Williams .

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The True Love Rules and Yellow Jacket Avenger gigs this weekend ;

...congrats to everyone at the fundraiser . Great performances by the superfantastics , windom earle , Doug Mason , rad Rat etc... Also congrats to Mr Mullane and Just Barelys for the not at all dubious ' victory ' on the ice .

2008-09-19 20:00 Dave Marsh and The True Love Rules
The Seahorse Tavern , Halifax, NS, CA
With Yellow Jacket AvengerAge Limit: 19+ $8 about 10;30 pm

2008-09-20 17:00 Dave Marsh and the True Love Rules
Mayflower Curling Club ,Halifax, NS, CA
With Mitchell Wiebe , superfantastics, Windom Earle, Doug Mason &more
Age Limit: All ages Tickets: $9 from 6pm 'til 12 am
Details: Fundraiser for CKDU .3000 Monaghan Drive , Halifax

Gig in PEI ; Satyrday , Sept. 13th , Vista Bay , Summerset Music Festival , with Headliner , Allow Us More Request , or I'll Land This Moving Chest , or A Less is More Is Best , ... I mean , of course , the lovely Alanis Morrisette . Somewhere near Charlottetown . The Joel Plaskett Emergency will be on early , as in 3 ish , so set yr alarm clocks ..... because we're coming in sans rehearsing .......and get set to rock the afternoon more than Dr. Fill and a family of smoking chimps .

You can stick around for the corporate gas guzzlers after that .

Speaking of disgust with the way we live today , check out the righteous Bob Lefsetz on the horror show called the VMA's ; http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2008/09/08/the-vmas/

Jerry Reed , and Mr. Chet Atkins .......... alright .

I'll Let them Know You Were Here ..........Dave Marsh and The True Love Rules

Donstock III photos Jennifer Mackay