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Margate turns the ripe ole' age of 10 this year! Remembering our humble start from the Margate Street Condo we all lived and hung out in, hence the photo of the condo's pool area. We dug up the old songs from our first 2003 demo recordings Titled: Up Up, Down Down, Left Right, Left Right, BA, BA, Start. The demo was named after a code for the Nintendo game Contra. Can't even remember the name of the dingy Reseda Calif. studio where these were recorded but here is a favorite from that time when there were 5 members in Margate including a DJ and a Rhythm guitar player! Hey, It was 2003 so why not try something that we hadn't heard before and play some Punk rock with some amazing scratching by a DJ?!
In 2006, Margate as a power trio released a new version of "Rising" for Margate's first full length album "Songs In The Key Of Awesome" on the bands own Dogfight Records. That 2006 version gave Margate its radio debut.
Thanks Leo, Brandon and DJ 160!

"Rising" - 2003 Demo Version
Lyrics By Alex Helbig
Music by Margate

I've been waiting so long
Just to be in line again
watching the story unravel
Watching it all unravel as if its been predestined
I've been waiting here for so long
And I'd do it all again

Only one thing presides
The faith that keeps forward movement
probabilities gambled
Rising up from the shambles as if its been predestined
I've been waiting here for so long
And I'd do it all again
I've been waiting here for so long
And I'd do it all again

And I'd do it all again
Rising from the shambles
Watching it unravel