Marah in the Mainsail – CRAZY TOUR STORIES

In this Crazy Tour Stories segment, the cinematic folk band, Marah in the Mainsail, talk about some of their crazy moments from touring. You can check out the feature, after the break.

I’m not sure how crazy our stories are, but we’ve got a few. Back when the band was just getting started, we were limited to one of our member’s mom’s bright purple minivan. To top it off she ran a daycare and had a cutesy kid friendly name plastered on the side. We’d roll into a tough looking bar or something and all have to muster all of our manliness to be taken seriously. I remember we once played the main stage of a major festival and had to convince the security guy that we were actually the band. After we got in we had a good laugh as we parked alongside two MASSIVE tour vans, both for the headliner. Eventually, we got a real van, but we’ll always think fondly of the “Periwinkle Princess.”

Our old bass player once said on stage that one of our other members was a young Dutch boy, who knew zero English. Obviously, it was a lie, but a lot of people didn’t catch the joke. They continued the ruse the rest of the night. He’d say some nonsense, and she’d “translate” as they talked with people. Then like a year later after a show this random guy comes up and talks to us and says “Wow, your English has gotten so good! I don’t even hear an accent anymore.” and we had all long forgotten about that joke. It took us a second, but eventually we caught on and kept it going. I don’t know if the other guy ever caught on.

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