Dave Hause at the 443 Social Club

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“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be in a rock and roll band.”

Dave Hause had an epiphany rewatching Goodfellas. “There's that scene in the beginning where Henry Hill says, ‘As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.’” The Philly-bred, California-based singer-songwriter always longed to be in a different kind of mob.

“This record is my realization that, as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be in a rock and roll band. This record is that rock and roll band distilled into 10 songs.”

“This is the first time I've taken that band into the studio and been like, ‘No matter what, damn the torpedoes, we are going to sound the way we sound. I'm not going to Nashville and getting the murderers row of players. This is our sound,’" says Hause of the mission statement for …And The Mermaid, which is being released on Hause’s Blood Harmony label.

“The band is called The Mermaid because being in a band has always felt like something I’ve had for a moment, and then the whole myth of it just swims away. If that keeps being the case, I want a musical document of the time we spent together.”

He hopes those fans have a similar epiphany when listening to…And The Mermaid that he had in making it: that being part of something larger than yourself can bring a different sense of meaning to your life.

“I hope people take away the belief that we can do things that are greater than ourselves when we decide to work together,” he says. “That's what a band promises. That's what a live music event promises. It's what a festival promises. It's what relationships promise. If you can work together, it's better than being isolated and living in fear. It's messy. It can be ugly. You're going to get into arguments. Somebody's going to get the last piece of cake and you're going to give that person shit but, hopefully, there's enough goodwill in the mission that you can forgive each other and know ‘This is greater than I could do on my own.’”

DOORS: 5:30PM SHOWTIME: 7:00PM