Just want to confirm that you can organize a punk show without mentioning it on instagram or facebook and 600 people will show up
Internationally celebrated oldhead
Doesn’t even play in local bands
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There’s a specific kind of awful gut feeling when you start to see posts that someone has passed in the international punk community but their name isn’t mentioned yet, and you have to wonder if you knew them or not — you have to decide if you’d rather find out now or wait til you come across it again. Once you know, you again have to decide whether you want to start saying their name and being the person who brings that news to people who might be hit really hard. It feels especially strange if you didn’t know that person very well, yet you are still affected by their passing for reasons beyond your own understanding, and you know that you have to stop trying to make sense of it and just feel it instead, but no matter how many times you’ve been through that it never gets any easier
I really hate how often DIY shows are basically online presale tickets only now. I get that it makes being a promoter a lot easier but it also encourages a cashless society and that is fascism-adjacent at best. Bring back physical tickets sold at record stores / at the door of your other shows. Or I dunno, come up with some kind of membership system where one can pay cash money into an “account” that can be used for show entry, or something. Be creative. Yes that’s more work for you but when convenience plays into the devils hand, you have to remember why DIY punk exists in the first place
I have free stuff to give away! Ask for pics or more info if interested. Pickup in mile end
Painting easel
Quadlock case for iPhone 14+ (brand new, works on any Quadlock mount)
Gianella carbon fibre bike frame (black/ gold)
54 cm x 52 cm
Three-tier hanging fruit basket (steel wire baskets)
Two tape decks that don’t work but maybe you know how to fix them (Technics RS-TR180 and JVC TD-W201)
Two panel screen divider (black wood frames with paisley black/ purple fabric)
What is the best way to transfer 60GB of files over the internet these days?
Obviously Google is evil for many reasons, but it seems that for this purpose Google Drive is maybe the lesser evil for “merely” scanning your files with AI whereas WeTransfer and similar companies have all adopted “we can do whatever we want with your files” policies.
I’m likely wrong and Google is probably the worst option, please educate me before I upload my life’s work to the devil
A notable database addition is Lockin Out issue 2 which features what I consider the most historically important representation of Quebec in Hardcore: the infamous “The World Embarked”. It is a review of two Mental shows written in French/ Joual by a young Louie P (currently of One Track Mind) which the zine translated to English using babelfish. The results are legendary sentences such as “there was not badly jokes this evening as me which will shit in a park” or “all the world moshait into insane”.
If you need a palate cleanser after a filthy weekend of crust (and you don’t mind using google drive) consider the freshly updated Hardcore Fanzine Database from Shining Life! It has pdf files from 80s, 90s and 00s hardcore zines of a mostly youth crew/ NYHC/ actual hardcore variety:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1A-beb9L-hud3XJBAs_yuvYARQAynOmKu
Is Varning running on schedule?
Scenes of a Merch Table
~ Band finishes a great set, people start lining up at the table, merch guy can’t find something while the line is getting longer, band member steps in ~
Guy in front of me: That set was so sick!
Band guy: Thanks man I really appreciate it
Guy in front of me: Can I get an LP
(Money and record exchange hands, I am next)
Me: Hey can I get an LP
Band guy: Thanks man I really appreciate it
Me: …
~ brain frantically flips through the Merch Table Scripts database seeking a solution to this unexpected error and prompts the best available option ~
Me: Great set man
Long shot but any old media heads on here have a ZIP 100 drive? Or know a local business that handles this stuff?
It seems these two disks are the only surviving archives of some very early hardcore drawings I did and want to include in my upcoming book