The Marked Men taking a break for at least two years; last shows this weekend

Contributed by avodrocyelir. Posted by justin on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 7:15 PM (EDT)

The Marked Men have announced that this weekend's pair of shows in Texas will be their last for at least two years. According to a MySpace blog:

Jeff is moving to Japan next week and everybody else has a lot going on in their lives, we are all sad but we will have another record coming out and a few 7"s coming out over the next decade or so. We are not going to be playing for a long time and it is not us breaking up, but if we do play it will be rare and hopefully we get a trip to Japan out of it. I like to think we have done a whole lot of cool stuff and we have met some of the best people I have ever met in my life, and I have even met some of my "idols" through this band. We took control of our band and have done things our way and I am so proud of that. I hope people and other bands take note that you CAN do things your way! It also pays off to be good people, at least that is what I think, if that matters....

The shows are tomorrow, July 18th in Austin at Emo's and the 19th at Rubber Gloves in Denton. The band released Fix My Brain in 2006 and, as the blog says, are planning on releasing another LP and a few more 7"'s.

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scientistrock (July 17, 2008)

I am not stoked.

Banal242 (July 17, 2008)

Mitch Clem is on suicide watch.

lawn (July 20, 2008)

The whole town of Denton is on suicide watch.

el_matt (July 17, 2008)

Damn, i was listening to On the Outside this morning. Such a great album.

ArtieFufkin (July 17, 2008)

Noooooo! not the Marked Men!

baldsteve (July 17, 2008)

I just ate a sandwich, but I don't really feel good about it.

ArtieFufkin (July 17, 2008)

its like eating a PBJ on rye!

just got into them about year ago and never had a chance to see them. sux

baldsteve (July 17, 2008)

...or pumpernickle.

That bread is the punch in the face of the carb-family

MattRamone (July 17, 2008)

The Watchmen trailer gave me a big boner.

baldsteve (July 17, 2008)

Ahhhh, FINALLY somebody else that saw it. It's pretty fucking dead on... except for that shit ass song for the trailer. Watching Nite-Owl scream at the end... I can't wait to see how they do the end.

MattRamone (July 17, 2008)

Billy Corgan is wack, but Dr. Manhatten looked GREAT. So did Rorshach, my favorite of the bunch - Batman if he had no money. If they soften the ending because of how "wahh wahh people are still sensitive about you-know-what, the American moviegoer is a giant pussy" I am going to set fire to the Warner Brothers lot.

baldsteve (July 17, 2008)

All the movie sites are saying that the ending stays. Which means this will be the biggest downer of a movie ending (for the better) since 'Seven' came out.

Rorshach is my fave too, natually. His line at the end of the trailer was soooo good. All the characters look great.

Can't wait to see this on a screen in front of me.

MattRamone (July 17, 2008)

It's a date.

baldsteve (July 17, 2008)

A bunch of 'extras' were talking shit about the end saying that the set was still standing so there was 'no way' the ending stays...but in todays time with computer graphics, wouldn't it make sense to not destroy a free standing set but to destroy it hardcore digitally?

MattRamone (July 17, 2008)

Totally. I mean, if they need to do reshoots, it makes sense to keep the set around.

Wentz_Equals_Death (July 17, 2008)

more fitting to crash a plane into it, ya?

baldsteve (July 17, 2008)

Or an intergalactic octopus.

MattRamone (July 17, 2008)

OMG SPOILERS fail

baldsteve (July 17, 2008)

If you never read it, that wouldn't mean anything to anybody.

Even sitting in the theatre saying 'I hear there is an intergalactic octopus, baldsteve on the internetz machine said so'. When it happens/ IF it happens you are just as blindsided by it in SCOPE. Just seeing it means fucking nothing... you know this nerdy.

MattRamone (July 17, 2008)

Sorry, thought I was on the imdb boards for a minute. I can't imagine a worse board on the entire internet, except maybe one for self-delclared thugs.

baldsteve (July 17, 2008)

Read the morons that post on USATODAY's articles

MattRamone (July 17, 2008)

When you've got an internet site for a fairly niche audience (like this), most people posting are fairly sane or at least have enough in common to have fairly civil debates.

When you blow it up to something as general, like "movies," that's when you have the loons crawl out from under their rock to write 3,000 word diatribes about how Wall-E is nothing but evil libhrul propaganda.

baldsteve (July 17, 2008)

I know, I've had idiots here at wacko-central saying they thought Wall-E was one of the worst things they ever saw. So, I simply asked, 'What did you think of 'I Am Legend'. He thought that was the greatest thing ever.

I won the arguement without ever raising my voice or insulting the guy... he did just fine by himself.

MattRamone (July 17, 2008)

Man, even if you disagreed with the central premise, how you could you view it as anything but a georgeous work of - let's say it - art. Blows my mind.

Speaking nerd stuff, did you want me to bring my Y: The Last Man stuff this weekend? I'll be out of time for a while afterwards and won't be needing them any time soon. Trust me, you won't be able to put it down if you liked Vol. 1.

baldsteve (July 17, 2008)

Leave em behind, once August and September come, I'm going to be so damn busy I won't know what to do with myself.

Did you see the Justice League 'new frontier' movie they put out a few months back. Its great

MattRamone (July 17, 2008)

I think it's on Netflix's Watch it Now. Worth checking out?

baldsteve (July 17, 2008)

God yes, go watch it now!

el_matt (July 17, 2008)

When did it hit the internets, today?

MattRamone (July 17, 2008)

Yeah. It's up on the official site - I think Sony keeps bringing the banhammer on people putting it on other sites.

baldsteve (July 17, 2008)

It's currently in HD on the apple site.

MattRamone (July 17, 2008)

I say we make kneel show it to us on his fancy schmancy TV - motherfucker has his computer hooked up to his entertainment center. It's pretty badass.

baldsteve (July 17, 2008)

I can't wait to see it in IMAX

scientistrock (July 17, 2008)

I'll have seen it come saturday, so don't worry your pretty little bald head.

scientistrock (July 17, 2008)

Holy shit, yes. It looks like it's going to be pretty close to spot on. You were totally right about Rorschach too. I am stoked.

baldsteve (July 17, 2008)

If you have any interest, I think you'll be excited.

Bryne (July 17, 2008)

Bummer. Their set at The Fest last year was epic.

Bakla (July 17, 2008)

it sure was....

Bigwig1022 (July 17, 2008)

it was the highlight of my weekend... this really really sucks

Bakla (July 17, 2008)

I was hoping they would play the FEST again this year since they were sooo good last year

parkerposey92 (July 17, 2008)

Hey hey, Rubber Gloves.

dougie (July 17, 2008)

this band rules

istapledmyfoot (July 18, 2008)

this makes me a sad panda. great, great, great band.

LORD-OF-THE-GAYS (July 18, 2008)

Fucking awesome band, their record on dirtnap is one of the best punk/garage records of the decade. Damn shame.

gregsolo (July 26, 2008)

Noooooooo!!! I just got into this band a few months ago. Two years is a long time to make promised. Probably a 50/50 chance they do anything else. Such a good band.

mastertherion (October 12, 2011)

seriously... i just moved to texas like the week of their last shows. and i was so fucking stoked. and then i realize OH i missed chaos in tejas annnnnd the marked men's last shows. and i am PRETTY damn sure that i was in denton on the 19th.

garbage. absolutely not crucial.

can anyone recommend any good local texas punk or hardcore bands?
i'm in dallas now