Fin-A-Billy Part 5: Mary Celeste

 

This Neo-Rockabilly Trio from Rauma, named after the legendary ghost ship and the great Polecats song, was around in the 90s(1993 - 1999) and released a 7" single, a CD single and a CD Mini album. For most of their existence they played as Marie but changed that to Mary on their last release. Their records are hard to get these days, even in Finland, and again this is a band the Japanese like to pay a lot of money for. But this time it's fine with me as the band plays decent Neo-Rockabilly, very pop-sounding(not unusual for Finnish bands, think Death Row or Nine Lives) heavily inspired by the Blue Cats(rather Fight Back than the first album and rather The Tunnel than Fight Back). You just have to get used to the singer's heavy Finnish accent. After the split of the band said singer Kristian Juva founded Pop/Rock outfit K.Juva & Haavekuva who released an album 2001. And that was it it seems. No other releases by any of the bands, no shows, no nothing. Let's hope the boys will come back to play some shows, like so many bands. In the meantime listen to Mary Celeste here: Rockin' and Rollin'