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Dead End Armory
Dead End Armory is an indie rock band based in Portland, Maine.. Dead End Armory (known to fans simply as "DEA") started in 2005 as a collective of musicians who met at the now defunct but legendary Portland cafe/club Acoustic Coffee, for the most part playing the music of Wesley Hartley. Hartley, a transplanted Texan, had become known very quickly around town as a talented songwriter with a compelling, wavery, tenor vocal style some compare to Willie Nelson, Neil Young,or the Pixies' Frank Black.. In the early days the group was a loose collective of as many as 7 performers but by the fall of 2005 had settled on a 5 member lineup of Hartley, guitarists Mike O'Connor and Daniel Jacobs, drummer Chris DiBiasio, and bassist Leslie Deane. The band originally played under the name "The Easterly" and is perhaps unique in having played its first big show at Portland's venerable (and huge) State Theatre (for a Hurricane Katrina benefit) a mere month after having formed. After discovering the existence of another band named "The Easterly" the band changed its name to Dead End Armory, after a street sign near their South Portland rehearsal space....
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