The Venetia Fair

The Venetia Fair was an American rock band from Marblehead, Massachusetts. Formed in 2006, the band's final line-up was lead vocalist Benny Santoro, guitarist Mike Abiuso, bassist Charles "Mr. Chark" King, keyboardist Joseph Occhiuti and drummer Austin Ferrante. The band signed with Red Blue Records in 2009 to release their first album, The Circus and was featured in the Alternative Press 2013 edition of 100 Bands You Need to Know. On December 22, 2015, the band announced that they are breaking up on their Facebook.

Background

Inception (2006-2009)

The Venetia Fair was formed by Benny Santoro and Charles "Mr. Chark" King in 2006 after they graduated from Marblehead High School in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The two of them had been in previous bands prior such as Sally Boy (which featured Benny on drums), Sprained Personality and most notably their black metal/glam rock fusion band entitled Bottom of the Blood Well. The band's name came after Pluto became a dwarf planet and originates from a girl named Venetia Phair, who was the first to propose the name for Pluto. They recruited Samuel Parsons on bass (who was also a former member of Sprained Personality and Bottom of the Blood Well), Jake Weinreb on drums and Jessica Homan on keys to record some demos. These demos amongst others were uploaded to the band's Last.fm page.

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Bohemian Rhapsody

"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 studio album A Night at the Opera. It is a six-minute suite, consisting of several sections without a chorus: an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda. The song is a more accessible take on the 1970s progressive rock genre. It was the most expensive single ever made at the time of its release.

When it was released as a single, "Bohemian Rhapsody" became a commercial success, staying at the top of the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks and selling more than a million copies by the end of January 1976. It reached number one again in 1991 for another five weeks when the same version was re-released, eventually becoming the UK's third best-selling single of all time. It topped the charts in several other markets as well, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and The Netherlands, later becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time. In the United States the song originally peaked at number nine in 1976. It returned to the chart at number two in 1992 following its appearance in the film Wayne's World, which revived its American popularity.

Dexys Midnight Runners

Dexys Midnight Runners (currently called Dexys) are an English pop band with soul influences, who achieved their major success in the early to mid-1980s. They are best known for their songs "Come On Eileen" and "Geno", both of which peaked at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as six other top-20 singles. However, in the U.S., due to lacklustre promotion, Dexys' only hit was "Come On Eileen", which gave the band an undeserved image as "one-hit wonders".

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dexys went through numerous personnel changes over the course of three albums and thirteen singles, with only singer/songwriter/co-founder Kevin Rowland remaining in the band through all of the transitions and only Rowland and "Big" Jim Paterson (trombone) appearing on all of the albums. The band broke up in 1987, with Rowland becoming a solo artist. Dexys was reformed by Rowland in the 2000s, with a few members from the band's original lineups re-joining, including Paterson. In 2012 the band released their fourth album.

Fair

A fair (archaic: faire or fayre) is a gathering of people for a variety of entertainment or commercial activities. It is normally of the essence of a fair that it is temporary with scheduled times lasting from an afternoon to several weeks.

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