Robin Merritt

ArtFRONT Presentations

www.ArtFRONT.com 

www.myspace.com/robin_at_artfront 

(423) 756-4827

 

 

Polly Panic

www.myspace.com/pollypanicyahoocom

www.pollypanic.com

 Tuesday Mar. 13th 9:00pm @  JJ’s Bohemia on M.L.K. Blvd

With  local bands,  "Moscow Theater Siege” & “Dead Hot Blonde"

www.myspace.com/moscowtheatresiege    www.myspace.com/deadhotblonde

 

 

            Jenette Mackie built Polly Panic on the back of an electrified and often distorted cello married with bombastic drums & Sylvia Plath like lyrics. Hardly delicate, the music of Polly Panic delivers intense range of emotion and flirts with anger and sarcasm through grinding cello strings. Compared to the vocal stylings of PJ Harvey & Tori Amos, Mackie wails out powerfully in charismatic tones. Bow in hand, she attacks each verse of song with rabid symphony, leaping anxiously up the scales & then plunging back down to the resonating sound of the cello’s bottom lows. The result is a sound truly beautiful, dark and unforgettable.

 

Jenette Mackie was trained classically at Crane School Of Music in Potsdam NY but chose to end her curriculum early to pursue her own independent study with a private tutor. Soon after she began building on her life-long vision of twisting the classical cello to the dark side of music. After 2-years of struggles and searching, she got the lead on a drummer from Dansville NY who had played in the legendary underground group Poor Old Lu of Seattle Washington. Jenette met Jesse Sprinkle in the fall of 2005 and within the same week they were in The Wavestation Studio in Geneseo NY recording a 3 song demo CD. Their first full-length album “Painkiller” is now available .

 

 

            Suggested tracks  for radio play

1.      Mother

2.      Royal

3.      Paint

Also check their myspace page for their popular song with explosive vocals “Soft Witness.”