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Sept 29th, 2005 - A short update this time as tons of things eating up time are invading the shed. First off...Thanks to Style E for putting on the first dance/hip hop at the hall in 3 years. Sikk Nikk proved he can get a crowd thumping, and Dig Dug tow-up Sirens in the 21 plus festivities. You can check out Dug tonight (Thursday) opening for Carl Cox at the Showbox. We have more announcements coming up for the Halloween shows. Check below to see who has already been announced ...but we have some cool things up our sleeve for the 2 nights of goulish fun. Even if you think you know what is up with the line-up....you don’t, so stay tuned! This weekend, you can participate in the favorite past time of the 21 plus crowd in PT and be mediocre as hell as the Kinetics’ ball comes to the Legion. They have had good bands play in the past, but have concentrated on decorations and the Krowning of the Kween thing of late. One thing is for sure...you can see a lot of the upstanding community sloshed to the point of stupider than normal at this function, which makes it worth the price alone. The Upside will be having about a show a week while it prepares for the release of it comp, then back to shows every weekend in the near future. No show this week that we know of...but if you look for rock, yee shall find. More over the weekend. Sept 21st, 2005 - This weeks update is all about thumpin your rump, as Style E brings an all ages rave to the Legion Hall this Friday, with one of the best Break-beat Dj’s in the world, DJ Dig-Dug. A 2nd 21+ show on the same night will happen at Sirens with slightly different openers. Think of the largest dance club on the peninsula for one night and you will get the idea. $5 at the door. Halloween is fast approaching. Time for the 5th annual Halloween Bash. Dan & Dakotah have announced the headliners for the 2 nights of scarry evil at the Legion Hall. Night one on Friday, October 28th will feature CO-headliners The Nihilists, and a band that played the 2001 Bash, Alien Crime Syndicate. The next night, the festivities will get way heavy with the duo of PA’s Dead Whore River (DWR), with new guitarist is tow, and the Trophy Wives. Opening bands will be announced in about a week (and even those will blow your mind)...so stay tuned all you scary children. How long does it take to boil water?...For those of you wondering what is up with the Boiler Room, it has been kind of hard to find out, since the Leader hasn’t really done a “what’sup” on them in a month or so, and the organizations web site is not really updated or done. Here is what we think we know (You never can tell). We heard that they got the dough together for the down payment. 50 K or something like that, and then the health department went “You can’t serve food here” denoting plumbing and other issues. The adults went back to the owners and said “Hey...you sold us a building that we can’t serve food in”. The outcome we hear was a severely reduced price, and a little wait while they get the space done and up to code, but they are getting closer to opening the new one each day. Slightly (an understatement) longer on the “wait” list has been the PT Skate Park. With a score of kids who started out being involved as freshmen and graduating 4 years later while the city studied the project to the point that the $300,000 grant for the thing was soon to expire if they didn’t build SOMETHING. Not quite on the scale of the tide-e-bowl (that concrete thing next to the pope marine building) on the level of incompetence, but still, many soon got frustrated with participating in a process that was full of bureaucratic BS to the point that we don’t know of a single kid that managed to torture themselves in front of the city long enough to see it to compleation...and we don’t blame them. We do congratulate those that through the years did participate in the process, especially OS (original shedboy) Jim for dealing with city hall and being one of a few helping get ANY park built before they lost the grant to build it. Ground has officially been broken for the park, which will be built by Dreamland Skateparks. We heard that the PT Kids were in full effect at the El Off-Rampo in Seattle for the Unseen show. 3 cheers for god...Saturday at Memorial Field sees a “Christian” rock show with Soul Deep, Future Glory and Out of Mouth. Show starts at 1PM. I was going to write a letter to the Leader, but thought, wait...I gotta web site....There has been talk about putting a 10-20 percent “Admissions Tax” on all entertainment events, including clubs and Legion Hall shows. There is a public comment in front of the city council next week, but rather than waste my time on those bozo’s, we will just offer up that the promoters of events and people who run the clubs in this town work very hard and spend a lot of money on making sure their in-house services are effective, with no complaints. If you truly want to detour the costs to the city for the events you are referring to, then you must look to the events that create the situation you speak of, and not lump everyone in the same category as needing any services from the city to run their shows. Outdoor events at Memorial Field, Parades, Centrum events and the Wooden boat festival take more resources up in a day than it takes in city effort to provide anything to independent promoters and nightclubs. Please...at least one of the creepy bastards in government get a clue. Last week, one of the cool sites we sent you all too was the talented Daryl (ReminiscentScreams). She was so siked that she has posted a place for her local band pictures that will be posted here. Now you really do have to update it :) You heard it here first. Severe slow downs at MySpace.com has the wheels in my head thinking that it’s time might be borrowed. In fact, success nearly toppled the company in 2001. Lets see...if everything goes as planned, they will start asking for $19.95 a year, we will all tell them to suck a duck, and thousands of band files will become unavailable. Our MySpace site of the week is K I Double P. Love fans of local music. The other, is our friend and Waiting for the Sun co-founder BO. He has some cool new material up from his semi-new digs in Santa Cruz. Heroes for this week - Patti LaBelle. Not only “the only” Diva talent-wise, but also is such a good soul that she makes all those lip-service do-gooders and “vibe” people look like the clowns they are. The (closing) Palindrome for providing a cool place for a certain segment of the music community. You will be missed. Dakotah for getting to hang with a smelly Duane Peters (Hunns, US Bombs) and the Hollowpoints at a show in San Francisco. Zeros this week (and forever in fact) include Exxon...the worlds richest company. Sept. 10th, 2005 - Once more...that was fun. Even though they had the smallest crowd watching them, The Last Goodbye’s set at the back to school show was something to talk about. First off, re-introductions. Drummer Neil was with Waiting for the Sun, Alan was with Visqueen, and Roisin toured the world with 7 Year Bitch. Alan apparently has little respect for vintage gear, and the “Best Ball” since the bowling alley closed, rolling himself into Roisin’s bass stack, and into The Inkreats backline. Made for good fun watching myself and Josh screech at the possibilities of more destroyed gear than our brains could deal with. I guess he figured that since she was leaving the band after this show anyhow, he would take out some gear :). All in fun, and Alan came away with more war wounds to add to the collection. Someone’s always getting hurt in that band anyway. The Inkreats headlined with a great set. Probably the best in their short existence. The same could be said for the Shotgun Kisses. The Guns pulled even more covers out of the closest than previous shows, throwing down Crue riffs, some Van Halen, and showcasing that yep...they do have one of the best young guitarists in the area. The show was opened by our favorite misfits from Hadlock in the form of the Dan DeMay side project, 5th of Hadlock. Pulling out material from Libido and some new tunes that showed the maturity in his songwriting, Dan lead his band through a great set of rock that was raw, and made up for any lack of tightness with some good ol fun. All in all...a great show, and we thank all of you for coming out. The next event at the Hall will be the Style E produced DUEL. He is going to deck the Legion Hall out with the coolest lights and sound that we have, and the headliner will be the much-traveled DJ DIG-DUG. Other artist’s appearing at this all ages Rave will be Style E, and the Return of Sic Nik for this all ages show. The same artist will appear the same night at Sirens in an over 21 show. We promise that the Legion Hall will look dope (is that still cool slang?) and that DIG-DUG will definitely throw down a party. If you want a preview of the upcoming Upside comp, The Nihilists have posted a song that Marty engineered at the venue a week back. Check it out here. A Sure sign that rock/pop music is OVER. Hamburger giant McDonald’s is hoping to name-drop the Big Mac brand into hip-hop and rock lyrics. The fast-food chain is offering rappers up to $5 every time a song mentioning its most famous product is played on the radio. The company, along with the Gap, Hot topic, and others have reportedly offered Green Day and several other artist six figures to insert a lyric into one of their songs. The lesson? Its not impossible, but getting harder and harder to find bands, record label’s, managers, promoters and others who have a clue about anything but marketing and money. Rock is truly dead, but while we wait for what is next from the basements of the world, the best way to find real music with real passion is in the smelly clubs and legion halls around the country. That said...the next person who e-mails me with a new band, ready to go without a name, I will post a free ad for you on eBay selling the opportunity for your band to be named whatever the highest bidder wants to name it. Don’t laugh. A lady from Tennessee just got $5000 when she sold the rights to changed her name to online casino GoldenPalace.com. We have been trying to find a way to give to the victims of the New Orleans tragedy in a little more personal way that watching BILLIONS of Government, FEMA and Red Cross money get wasted, and we think we found one. We have a friend in Texas named Erika Badu. She is a Grammy winning artist, and also owns a theater in Dallas. She is donating her theater and coordinating an effort that is worthy of your support. Beginning Saturday September 17th The Black Forest Theater will host ‘Scholastic Saturdays’ for 135 youths, ages 6 to 12, displaced by the devastation that struck the Gulf Coast region.. Children currently housed inside Reunion Arena and the Dallas Convention Center will receive tutoring, mentoring, counseling and educational guidance in what is a very turbulent time in these young lives. The program will run from 9am until 2pm, every Saturday, indefinitely. For more on how and what to donate, read this, and please help in a PERSONAL way. The MySpace site of the week goes to a pair of groups. PT Local Music run by Anti-Barney Superstar and PT Music Scene run by Matias. I have to also mention one of the Shedbord members site. All sorts of fun ramblings and great pictures from ReminiscentScreams in Ludlow. Great work on promoting the bands and shows in the area. Check them all out. Heroes for this week include Alan from the Last Goodbye for managing to toss his bass player/wife out of the band, screw up her amp, and still remain married. He must have a long weenie. Zero’s for this week include me for letting everyone out the wrong door to buy Underdogs. I will be kissing ass to the security team for a while.
Aug 29th, 2005 - I tried to count the number of times the Hollowpoints have played PT. Came up with 14 that I could think of, but this one might have been the best. The Trophy Wives have turned into a PT favorite, Agent Apathy proved that the wait for them to hit town was well worth it, with a fine set of Ska-Punk, and what can you say about Aiden other than they get a lot of our votes for band of the year honors. How a band can be so powerful, passionate and nice at the same time is a sight to behold, and they promise...they will be back. If you really want to say thank you and support um, they will hit the Showbox in Seattle on November 2nd opening the whole Hawthorne Heights tour. Must say...Victory Records has about the coolest roster of bands. If you are 21 plus, and anywhere near Seattle on Wednesday the 31st (Today), you should head to the legendary Funhouse near the needle to catch a great midweek show with The Hollowpoints, The Nihilists, and Axes of Evil, who will more than likely return to PT in October. DJ Style E is bringing a Rave into the Legion Hall for an all ages show AND Sirens on the same night with one of the coolest Seattle-based DJs, Dig Dug, on Saturday, September 24th. More info this weekend, but should be great. Speaking of this weekend... if you are in PT and 21+, the Legion is hosting a great Pop-rock band from Perth Australia, Dream Catcha. GREAT band and a cool free show. We have found a Kitsap show actually worthy of putting up with people from Kitsap County as the Trophy Wives Join the Schoolyard Heroes, Valley of the Dinosaur’s and the Joy Electric at the Roxy on Saturday. At The Upside this weekend Friday has Agent Apathy, The Untouchables and Autonomadic and Saturday sees The Inkreats and Glady's. The MySpace site of the week is Aiden’s. One of the better band ones out there. Drop by and tell them PT loves um. Heroes for this week are the door, stage and security people who ran the last show ...thank you! and those guys plucking people off the roofs in flooded New Orleans. Zero’s include all the people with cameras at the show who didn’t send me any pictures. Guess even free bumpershoot tickets can’t even do it. The Fake Band Crq Roq in the Burger King Commercials. Why not just get Slipknot? Aug. 20th, 2005 - As we await what will probably be one of the best shows of the year this Saturday, and a stellar lineup of shows out of town to check out on Friday, Parents and kids far and wide are driven to tears of joy/pain at the thought of school beginning. Lets rock! Dan/Spun Loud has announced a low dough back to school show on Sept 9th with The Shotgun Kisses, The Inkreats, The Last Goodbye, DJ Style E, and some old friends in a new package as former Libido members join up to perform as A 5th of Hadlock. Those cool pass/tickets that will save you a buck at the show this weekend are now at Quimper Sound and through a Spun Loud Rep for $5. A whole slew of things to do this Friday. If you are into a road trip, The Nihilists will play the Seattle Drum School with Agent Apathy. Sirens will be cool if your bad self is 21-plus as StyleE will throw a “Leo” party with special guests. The Upside on Friday has The Last Goodbye, Blackbelt, The Pharmacy and Valid Effort. Saturday brings in Siatic, Five Good Reasons, Prick And The Burn and the Redheaded Stepchildren. On Sunday the 28th, Orbit Audio/Joe/Alien Crime Syndicate will be throwing their 2nd annual BBQ at the El Corazon in Seattle with The Lonley H, ACS in their first show in about 6 months, and about a dozen other bands. Starts at 4pm in the afternoon, is all ages, and is $4. The Last Goodbye is recording some tunes while awaiting word on if drummer Neil will be hightailing it with the band to the “right” coast at the end of the year. It looks like the Nihilists have found a new home-base in Seattle. We would give you all the address, but we are sure that it has already replaced/complimented the “already solid” free/squater options at the Hollowpoints house. I got my toaster ready for the house-warming. The MySpace site of the week on the band side is Screw the Minisqkis . See if you can deal wit it playa...and turn on the sound. Heroes for this week are Agent Apathy and Aiden for coming to PT, and the folks who have all sent me messages that they will take some cool pictures for this show. DO IT! Send um on...and we will love you forever. Zeros for this week include...Nobody. Life is good. Enjoy it please, and we will see you Saturday. Aug. 18th, 2005 - Touring, Touring, Touring...A lot of us have always felt that if the Hollowpoints (the new site looks GREAT) ever get the chance to get on a good tour that they would show the world how good they REALLY are. Well it looks like the band has just signed up to open a tour of the US with The Huns. The tour starts on Sept. 2nd in San Francisco and winds it’s way over to Chicago and the midwest. The tour hits the El Corazon in Seattle on Sept 4th. We also heard that the band recently shot a video that wasn’t much more than a wicked fun party with about 50 punks pogoing in a living room. Dying to see that. Damm...Aiden playing the Showbox...Dakotah racking up frequent roadie miles with the Points...Pretty cool indeed. Some new features on the Boyz this week to go along with Heroes and Zeros (See below). One is our MySpace site of the week. The company just sold for $580 million dollars, just going to show that if you give real people the power to build something, they will build it for someone else. So...as we all wait for our check for the content, our first MSSotW is Agent Apathy’s. Awww Screw it. We have to throw in a cool fan site too, so make sure to check out Amy’s rants and raves. A good weekend of shows at The Upside with Contemplation, Before Nightfalls and Self Induced on Friday, and Saturday brings D.W.R., The Letters Organize (Nitro Records) and Blackgoat. Heroes’ for this week include the dude who thought up the Foot Ferry to Seattle during the bridge closure. Would be nice if we could have that thing running all the time. Zuck for getting my guitar done by the 27th (Or it’s zero time buddy :), and Johnny Depp for being so damm good at what he does. Zeros this week include Tommy Lee for trying to get a collage education (Some people should just remain stupid) and the Sun. Go away already...and yes, I will bitch about it till it happens. See ya next week. Aug. 14th, 2005 - For Budda’s sake...would the Aiden show hurry up and get here already. Just saw a short piece on the band in the latest Alternative Press, and they are in the middle of a tour with The Hurt Process from the UK, Junior Varsity and Chicago’s The Audition that is hitting clubs from Philadelphia to a stop this Wednesday (the 17th) at Hells Kitchen in Tacoma. Call in advance, as it will sell out. After the PT date, the band heads out on the road with Hawthorne Heights and Silverstein that will play mid-sized venues including the Showbox in Mid-October. Check these guys out on the 27th at the hall before you have to at the Key. Some news on the Halloween Bash front...It is all but confirmed that the Big HMW and Len will be back at this year’s 2-night bash with a fresh set of AK-47, and the possibly a tune or two from Len’s amazing Stardustsuperkill project. Speaking of that, Len is almost ready with a new site and a 32-page full-assed comic book that comes as a companion to the CD. More people moving to other pastures...A lot of you don’t know Brandy. She was one of the bartenders at the Legion, and has moved on to New Yawk. A hearty thanks for making sure the bands were as medicated as possible when needed and being a supporter of the rocks shows. Have fun in your new world. Aug. 6th, 2005 - What a great show. Port Townsend fans were up for this one, even for a summer show, the pit was fun, and The Briggs and Angel City Outcasts say “thank you PT!”. A few of the highlights included The Outcasts great version of Motley Crue’s “kickstart my heart”, DEK showing that their first great show last spring was no fluke, and The Nihilists showing us all that they indeed are a band that can hold their own onstage with national touring bands. In fact, their set kicked ass, and along with the Outcast coming out REALLY strong, this was probably the best “musical” show at the hall since the Aiden/Chinatown show earlier in the year. The only downside was the traditional 400 people in the winter turns into 200 in the summer. Damm those vacationing swine, and come back soon. Fall is kind of creeping up, and with it comes kind of an end, and a beginning. The “end” part is that quite a few people that have been part of almost every rock/punk show in the last year are moving on to other pastures. Members of Lunatic Fringe, The Nihilists, Chris Gunn and The Low Ones, Josh Rambo and other non-musical supporters like Nihilist CD and T-shirt artist Cougar are moving out of the area. Like the Hollowpoints, they will be back, but in the meantime, we wish them all well in their new spaces. With people and things moving on, the “beginning” part is that Dan and Dakotah from Spun Loud have some great shows planned through the rest of the year, including the first New Years rock/punk show that I can remember in PT. Talks with them, The Legion, DJ Style E, and other supporters of the scene have also commenced to possibly have regular weekend shows and DJ’s in the downstairs of the Legion. Nothing is set in stone, but stay tuned. Speaking of shows.... Saturday the 13th at Quimper sound and you can say aidios to Chris Gunn who will be around from noon to four with "stuff" to eat and drink. Also don't miss his last local gig with his band the Low Ones at Sirens on Friday the 12th at 9pm. The next Legion Hall show will be a the much anticipated return of Aiden, who since their last show here has been on 2 European tours and a couple of loops around North America for good measure. Be prepared to be blown away. If that’s not enough, The Hollowpoints, Agent Apathy, and the Trophy Wives will be joining them. September 9th will see another Legion Hall show, with the bill still being worked out. The 4th annual ElmoFest that lost it’s home when the Boiler Room lost theirs, makes an appearance at the Upside next Saturday with Boxcutter Hobo, Dhoom, The Gospel St. Sinners, and solo acts by: Josh Lake, Big Momo, Bee, and others. Seattle’s Common Heroes has broken up after 5 years of toil which lead us to....Heroes for this week include Zero the stage tech for busting ass, the Sequim crew for making it to the show and Althea for coming up with even more cheap summer food sources. Hollywood video’s hours (midnight! 365 a year). Zeros include the Sun (for the 2nd week in a row), Former Hollowpoint and current Dreadful Children member/PT resident Ronnie who we saw Saturday night about 1AM in Safeway and when asked what was up that night, responded “The Briggs were in town tonight”? :) Aug. 4th, 2005 - It’s show day! (Friday). Always a treat, and this one should be a doozzy. The Briggs Tour Manager told us that them and the Outcasts are indeed ready to rock PT, and their respective releases (the Briggs 3 song EP and The Angel City Outcasts super cool full CD) are really worth getting. Punk fun at it’s finest at the American Legion Hall tonight. Speaking of CD Releases. After much debate over weather train whistles sounded good on “The Game” or not, and the long court battle with Amtrak, The Nihilists CD “Sirens of Silence” is indeed done (I have actually seen one). Another good reason to bring some extra moola to the show. More, speaking of releases ...The Upside’s Comp will be VERY cool with The Schoolyard Heroes, The Nihilists, The Inkreats, The Trophy Wives, and other making for a much anticipated September release. The Upside also has a great show on Friday with the River City Rebels, Neutral Boy, Bad Otis and Oi Control for $10 and Saturday sees How The Mighty Have Fallen, Vole Mammoth and The Gelding for the traditional $5. Definitely one hell of a fat weekend for shows, so screw the sun...come out and play. The new Hot Dog cart that will be zooming around Water Street and Uptown for all your late night munchie needs has a new web site at www.PTUnderdog.com . Ummmm. Heroes for this week include The people of London, Little Steven Van Zant for trying to save the Legendary CBGB’s club in New York from losing it’s lease, My wife Katie (Happy 23rd birthday!), The Briggs in advance for not blowing up the PA. Zero’s include The Space Program, The Briggs in Advance if they blow up the PA. July 20th, 2005 - Happy summer...but damm it’s hot. Someone asked me a while back if I thought that people knew how cool the Briggs show was going to be. Well I guess we will spell it out a bit. The Briggs and Angel City Outcasts are both from LA and have shared the stage with dozens of cool bands, as well as being veterans of both Warp and Vans tours. It’s an amazing show for our little town to get. If you need any more convincing, you would have to be a green tree frog not to know somethings up when the Nihilists and DEK are opening the show. Get there early...and if you don’t love this one, we can’t help you. All went well on the Nihilist/DEK mini-tour. Starvation, Wet nights in the cold, nutty fans and all the other things a good tour should be. The Seattle Drum School show was especially fun we have heard, and a hearty Thanks to the PA crowd for showing on a Thursday to rock the show at the Upside. One of our favorite people, Chris Gunn is leaving for different pastures. He is taking his warm soul to the equally warm Tucson, AZ (105 today...Jesus. Think about this man). Chris is one of those unique people that make a scene happen. A long time employee of Quimper Sound, his own recordings and live shows have touched people for years. What makes him special though is his unique ability to show genuine excitement for music and people. When you talked to Chris, you could just see him beaming as he talked about his next show or CD, and he was always equally interested in what was up with you as well. A champion of EVERYONE’S thing, a hole will be left in Port Townsend without him. We wish you well bro. Chris’s final shows (we think) are on the 21st (TONIGHT) at Sirens with a short set w/Mark Matos of Campo Bravo and Tucson band Rise & Fall Of Amy Rude and a complete show at Sirens on the 12th of Aug. Tonight (the 21st) also sees a benefit for the Boiler Room at the Pope Marine with Kimya Dawson, Jeff Lewis, Chris Maher, The Solvents and The Pharmacy. New and cool sites for this week include, DJ Style E’s MySpace site (who plays Aug. 26th at Sirens), and DWR , An incredible PA band that we hope to see in PT soon. I guess when Aiden was in Italy on a European tour, they pulled up to the venue and it was “Legione Americana Corridoio” which stands for The American Legion Hall. Guess it was near a military installation of some sort at one time. They hit the real one on Aug. 27th with The Trophy Wives added to an already great show. Tooting... Someone mentioned that we have the most active and largest message board in Jefferson and Clallam counties. Don’t know if it true or not, but thanks to all those who make it a fun part of the site. Feel free to post any gigs or info I might be missing. Our buddy Scoey is opening a mobile hot dog cart that will be a fixture on sidewalks near clubs and Legion Hall shows soon. He is calling it Underdog, and will feature hand dipped corndogs and other tasties. How cool...finding something in downtown after 10PM, and someone who takes a cool idea and runs with it. We hear that a show will happen around the opening of the new PA Skate park built by Dreamland. Check back for more info. Zeros for this week include the Sun, Heat, Ticket Prices for big shows. Heroes include air conditioning, and Dakotah for going to Dakota. I wish I could Vay-Cay to a state called Kit. July 10th, 2005 - “Rock” to those who made it out for Hadlock Days. Can’t beat a flatbed truck in a parking lot and pissing off old people for a fun afternoon. Thanks to Toni C for letting loud music come to the festival for another year. Check out the pictures here. Shotgun Kisses even extended their habit for playing some covers with a version of The Cars “Just what I Needed” with guitarist Matt burning on the synth parts. DEK’s mini-tour with The Nihilists , Scatterbox and others in tow kicks off on Wednesday at the Seattle Drum School, on Thursday at a rare midweek show/CD release party at The Upside, and other shows. Of course, the bill hits the Legion Hall on Aug 5th with the Briggs and Angel City Outcasts. We heard that the caravan back from the Warped Tour was the real “zombie prom”. Heroes’ for this week include local poster artist Cougar, who is teaching English in Thailand for the summer, DEK for bringing a little bit of PT on tour with them, to other cool small town scenes like Arctic Zeros include for the 2nd week in a row... Alcohol. Yet another person that some of us know died over the weekend near 4 corners. Take a cab, get a sober friend, or don’t drive stupid. July 3rd, 2005 - SO, I guess lesson #1 is, when a musician (like a Common Heroes guitar player) decides to fall backward off the stage...you ARE supposed to catch him. The show this Saturday was cool, and a great review that sums it up nicely is on the ShedBoard at this link). More on the show below. Pictures anyone?, because I obviously suck at it. A cool free show in a punk-rock parking lot happens this Saturday the 9th at the Kivley Center in Port Hadlock. Shotgun Kisses and The Inkreats will be taking the stage at 3PM. There will be a few food booths, and the usual crazy “small fair” contests, and The Inkreats new CD and T-shirts might be available at the show as well. We take it that all the “pit kids” were on vacation in Baja or something, as this Saturday’s show was way too tame, even though about 175 of you showed up. This “sitting in the back of the hall” stuff has got to stop, so the cooks in the kitchen have brewed up 2 shows that should definitely tickle your toes and get you to the front of the stage. The first one features 2 of the most heralded punk bands in the nation, The Briggs and The Angel City Outcasts, and 2 of the best local favorites in DEK and The Nihilists. Will be a great one, and it happens on August 5th with a limited number (100) of advance tickets for $5 at Quimper Sound. Speaking of great shows, this Friday the Upside will be a packed joint as Zeke, The Nihilists and The Insurgence hit PA. $10 in advance, and we suggest you get um or you might be looking in from the outside. Last Saturday, over 90 of the “big bands” got together to help defeat would poverty through political means. They don’t want your money (They get enough of that...ticket prices for big shows suck!), they want your voice. Whatever your political bent, we encourage you to support this movement by artists who are thankful to have the chance to make a difference. Check out the site at http://live8list.com . DEK will be doing a series of CD Release shows, including one at the Upside. Click here for more info on the bands mini-tour with The Nihilists opening many dates. We have the posters up on the calendar section of the site for all these cool shows and more. Good Guy Turning, Vs. The World, and Self Induced play the Upside Saturday night. New links include the new Trophy Wives MySpace site, and something called www.rockposter.net . TONS of cool info on bands and venues. Also, Brett Pemberton from Hollowpoints/WFTS fame has a new project. Check it out here. Heroes for this installment include Neil from The Last Goodbye for playing with 6 stitches in his hand, Lori from the Legion Hall for putting up with more than humanly possible, Old Gretch Bass Amps, the whole crew and bands who worked the show. Zeros include me for my picture taking skills, everyone who gets to take a vacation, and alcohol ...The nastiest drug known to man.
June 24th, 2005 - A short update this week, but packed with 2 complete new shows. Beside the ever cool show next week (Watch as Common Heroes takes over that Bi-atch called the Legion) 2 more SERIOUS shows are booked with DEK, The Nihilists, The Briggs, and The Angel City Outcasts take over the Legion on August 5th and the much anticipated return of Aiden, with possibly Agent Apathy will happen on August 27th. Real life creeping in on my time this week, so sorry for the crappy update. You can visit the upside this weekend to brighten your day/weekend as Friday has June 17th, 2005 - This installment sees some cool new shows, another cool reason to hit up the Legion on July 4th weekend, and some 21plus fun. A lengthily lawsuit has once more delayed the release of the Nihilists release. Seems that AMTRAK has contacted the band with concerns about the train whistles on the recordings, claiming that the whistles are a “sample” and that AMTRAK would be owed royalties for said sound. However, a settlement has been reached, with the band agreeing to appear in a TV commercial for the passenger train service with the slogan “Go...Visit all your punk rock friends!”. Stay tuned, but the band promises to have not only the CD’s, but some awesome new T-shirts to gobble up by the time the band play’s a series of July shows with DEK and the Upside with Zeke. Check their site for more info...and wait until you die. We have decided to use our fat-assed music business pull to get some free CD’s for all the die-hards that attend the Spun Loud Legion Hall shows, starting with the show on July 2nd. The first 200 people in the door will get a CD comp from The Control Group featuring Schoolyard Heroes (Who’s new CD drops this week and can be had at Quimper) and Post Stardom Depression. We plan on doing this for every show at the Legion, with a different CD given out at each show. Other July 2nd news...The Last Goodbye features Neil Richter from Waiting for the Sun, Alan, who spent a brief period in Visqueen, and Rocin, who spent 4 years as the bass player in Punk-Gurls 7 Year Bitch. ...and some say the scene sucks. Humph. Some GREAT news! Aiden will indeed be coming back to town. August 27th is the date at the Legion Hall. A big show on the 21+ front happens on June 24th at the Water Street Brewing Company when the Fenbi International All-stars plays what might be it’s last show with the Low Ones planning on starting out the festivities with an electric set, follow by an acoustic one filled with Chris Gunn’s haunting songs. This upcoming weekends festivities (Unless you are making the road trip with the Nihilists to Olympia) takes us to PA and The Upside. Friday sees The Look, RedBand (ex-drummer from Nirvana), and Forget The Jones (from L.A.), and The Ten Thousand, Silvia, Steven Kattenbraker on Saturday. No doubt...they aint talking about current Foo Fighter Dave as the “X-Nirvana” member. Reminds me of when I saw Testament years back in Chicago and the only original member who took the stage was the X-guitar tech...but you never know. I do know that Forget the Jones are great and are tireless road dogs, having toured a bunch in their short history. Should be another fun weekend in PA. Thursday brings (If your 21+) the return of “the Gong Show” and Queen-Go on a roating basis to the Water Street Brewing Company. Till next week....If you promised pictures from last weeks show, your lame. June 12th, 2005 - While the Grad class of 05 took a $100 boat cruise, we figure about 250 of you enjoyed the Schoolyard Heroes and 7 other cool bands at the free show last week. The next one should be a goodie, with the first PT show in a while for The Lonely H and Seattle’s almighty Common Heroes joining The Last Goodbye (With X-Waiting for the Sun Neil Richter on drums ), and the always fun Inkreats opening the show. $6 at the door, but tickets that will save you $1 will be at Quimper Sound by the end of next week. The new Schoolyard Heroes release is due out in the next 2 weeks. After listening to an advance...you will be bummed if you don’t pick it up, especially the special dual CD/7Inch vinyl with the 3D glasses and a cut recorded at the old Graceland that captures the bands live energy pretty well. They will hate me for saying this, but definitely the first cut “They Live” is the most polished and mature Schoolyard release to date, and just might make this band huge. June 3rd, 2005 - A fun time at the Legion on Friday at the Innuendo-produced show...onward to River City Rebels, The Nihilists, Oi Control, and Poorsport tonight at The Upside. SO...the show on Friday featured a set from The Gelding (check out their myspace) that was mesmerizing, at least to me at times, and showed how good this band is. Lunatic Fringe also came out rocking with a great on stage sing-a-long with members of The Inkreats spiting backups. Innuendo followed with more mature songs than the last time I saw them. I missed The Nihilists set, but was told by many that they provided the crowd with their always energetic set, but the sound was kind of crazy, and the only annoying one light frankly gave me a headache the short time I was there. No worries though, as a good crowd attended. Someone post on the shedboard about how USS Horsewhip was please. The highlight of the show for me was seeing former Vigilance music writer Gillian back in town (Come write this crap please), and the ever supportive Efra who will be starting up his Queen-Go shows this Thursday at the Water St. Brewing Co with DJ Style E, who’s new CD is cool. This next weekend, the 10th and 11th looks to be insane for both PA and PT. Friday features “The Bands”, Dan DeMay and Brett Pemberton’s “Thank You” FREE PTJam. The bill is rad, and the Schoolyard Heroes, Shotgun Kisses as well as a stellar list of Kitsap heavy hitters are ready to entertain the young ones while the Grads go off on the water and have fun. Also for the 21+ crowd, the amazing Living Daylights are coming to the Water Street Brewing Co. A must see band if you like roots music on the bad-ass funky saxophone tip. PA Festivities include The Box Office Social at the Port Angeles High School Auditorium to benefit the Independent Film Festival. Movies & Music, on Friday the 10th at 6:30pm, with The Blakes, Audios Pantalones, Karol Karol & others. $5 ticket pre-sale at Anime House/The Upside or $7 at the door. Saturday sees Burke, Nuvaxx, Outside In at the Upside and Contemplation is throwing a zombie prom!. Need Directions? Check out the website Neutral Boy from Bremerton will also be there, making them the hardest working band not from here, at least this weekend. Remembers...if you are in a band, broke as hell, and want some dirt cheap recording on Wednesday or Thursday, Dan and Brett will be recording bands (It’s not a show) at the Legion Hall. Contact Dan at 531-1367 if you want one of the last slots for demo days. We have a MySpace Site, and thanks to all for the entries while I figure the damm thing out. Come and be our friend. Britney Spears only has 650 friends on hers...and I know we ain't gonna get punked out by her. See ya’all Friday at the Legion, unless you have something important to do like graduate. Seriously, CONGRATULATIONS to the 05 class! Pictures of BOTH nights from Rhody weekend, Courtesy of Kyle McCurdy are up CLICK HERE May 30th, 2005 - A new show, a few other great ones coming up, a different way to see a movie, a delayed but “worth the wait” CD Release, and a bunch of ways to record your own thang to a CD fill this installment of the noise. Looks like the Dower Cow set as the opener for Kane Hoddar will be the last for the band for a while, and they won’t be at the Legion Hall this Friday, but will return, tanned and ready to rock in the fall. Still doesn’t change the fact that the show this Friday at the Legion looks to be a great one. This Friday also sees Seattle’s Turn Offs hit The Upside with the Stickfigure Strippers and the Helen Killers for you PA rockers. More on shows below, but we interupt this broadcast to present, “Follow The Nihilists CD Release”. OK...here is the real news. The trains from the Seattle sessions mysteriously came back, requiring another mix session, but the artwork is being rocked, and the CD will roll out in a limited edition batch at the free Legion show on the 10th, and at the bands mini-show at PT’s graduation the same day. There won’t be many CD’s at those 2 events, and mabye even Saturday at the Upside show opening for the River City Rebels, but at the Upside opening for Zeke on July 8th the band will have new T-shirts, and the CD done. On the new show front, the much anticipated returns of both the Lonely H and Common Heroes is set for July 2nd at the Legion Hall. Joining them on the bill is former Waiting for the Sun drummer Neil’s band The Last Goodbye, and PT’s rocking stepchildren, The Inkreats. Don’t like Mondays? Well a good way to cure that if you are 21+ is to head on down to the Water Street Brewing Company for Movie Night. It makes Mondays tolerable with a movie, good beer and a rack of balls (pool gutterbrain). The Upside has a great new website, and a cool page for their recording studio. They also plan to release a compilation of bands that have played the venue soon, and YOUR band can be involved. That, and a whole bunch of new cool services for bands is in our SERVICES section. Bummed when 2 good shows in the area on the same day, but besides Dans Schoolyard Heroes show on the 10th, The Upside presents The Box Office Social at the Port Angeles High School Auditorium to benefit the Independent Film Festival. Movies & Music, 6:30pm, with The Blakes, Audios Pantalones, Karol Karol & others. $5 ticket pre-sale at Anime House/The Upside or $7 at the door. Dan DeMay is also working on cleaning up some of the Live Rhody sets that he recorded for an upcoming Spun Loud release to sell at his shows. Don’t forget...we have a myspace site. Come be our friend. May 25, 2005 - First off, thank you to Martha and the Leader for the cool pictures in the paper this week. The bands appreciate the support, and they even have a cool picture of the Dreadful Children on their site. It’s NOT FINALLY here. The Nihilists CD “Sirens of Silence” is done, but they will be putting in a little more mixing time. Look for it at the free June 10th PT RockJam, as ANY band is welcome to set up a merch table at the show, and keep all the proceeds. If you are a local band, bring your CD’s, T-Shirts, and other merch down to the Legion and we will set you up. Downer Cow will not be at the June 3rd show because of a scheduling conflict, but you can catch them this Friday along with Kane Hoddar at the Upside, in what will be their last show for a bit. They join Madness of the North and Dispatcher Cliff as bands that are taking a break/disappearing from the radar for a while. Now that school is out, we are distributing the concert calendar to the right at Strait Music in PA, and Crossroads and Quimper Sound in PT. It will come out about once a month, and if you have a Port Townsend show you want listed, just e-mail it to us. We figured we might as well get a myspace thang. Seems to be the way, so check out our new lame one at www.myspace.com/shedboyz and add us to your friends list or whatever voodoo that thing does. As mentioned, the big show this weekend is at The Upside with Kane Hodder, Downer Cow, Neutral Boy on Friday ( $10 pre-sale so get there early), and Saturday brings Thirteenth Floor, Coretta Scott, and Undead Eulogy for the traditional $5. The Upside will also host a pair of big shows with the Nihilists opening for the River City Rebels on June 4th, and with the super cool Zeke on July 8th. The migration to the Warped tour the next day should be funny. May 23, 2005 - Wow... again, this time 2 nights in a row. The crowds were great, the bands were great, and old and new friends had an awesome time at the Rhody shows. Thanks once more to the bands, fans, and people who helped make it happen. Pictures are coming, (or we will kill someone) by Tuesday, and thoughts/highlights (like Parkers "disco" dance with Len and the Big HMW) are detailed in several shedboard posts including this one. THERE IS A SHOW TONIGHT...Monday the 23rd. Just found out about this one. The Pope Marine Building TONIGHT with Dhoom, History of Punishment and Vole Mammoth. The Flyer says it's "Metal" and that it starts at 9PM and is FREE. Onward we rock to a Legion Hall that features the long-awaited CD release from The Nihilists on June 3rd with USS Horsewhip, Lunatic Fringe, Innuendo, and Downer Cow. Check the poster, and be there. Chalked full of cool bands that haven’t played in town in a while, and will be a great show. So how in the world did Dakotah make pet of the day?. The FREE PTRockJam show on June 10th looks like one not to miss. The with the Schoolyard Heroes playing a special set, that will be preceeded by short sets from The Trophy Wives, Wormwood, Valley of the Dinosaurs, Claymore, NeutralBoy, How the Mighty Have Fallen and Shotgun Kisses. all this action will be followed by a little Jam with a bunch of people from cool bands. More on Tuesday, and updates to the rest of the site. May 19, 2005 - $6 an hour temp jobs tearing apart/setting up huge metal contraptions full of grease hitting town along with the smells of cotton candy means one thing...Rhody’s here! Pretty simple plan for this week. A) Go to Legion. B) Rock. C) Recover. Should be great, and it will be especially cool to see former Hollowpoint Ronnie with the Dreadful Children. So after partaking in the “recover” phase of this weekends feast of rock and punk, get ready to nail some great shows in June. The 3rd sees the Innuendo produced Legion show with USS Horsewhip, The Nihilists, Lunatic Fringe, Innuendo, and Downer Cow., and June 10th the Legion hosts the first free PTRockJam with a hella show. the final confirmed bands for this casual little get together include The Schoolyard Heroes, The Trophy Wives, Shotgun Kisses, Wormwood, and Kitsap County bands, Claymore, Valley of the Dinosaurs, How the Mighty have Fallen, and NeutralBoy. Just to make sure it’s special...it’s on grad night. Hummm...Tea and crumpets with the grandparents after the cap and gown thing or the Pit at the Legion? Another June show of note hits the Upside in PA on June 3rd with The Turn-Ons from Seattle, Stickfigure Strippers, and The Helen Killers. The CD Release of the month is Libido’s “Wasted Youth”, the first official release on Dan DeMay’s Spun Loud Records. Look for a review soon, in the meantime, pick it up at the shows this weekend. It really does rock. New web site alert comes in the form of PA’s Dead Whore River. Nice site...so check it. We have posted a “services” section on the site for all you musicians to find cool services from cool people. FOR OLD INFO & THE POSTERS FROM RHODY WEEKEND 2005, CLICK HERE May 12, 2005 -HUGE news in the land of live shows for PT, and a nice pair of shows this weekend at the Upside dominate this update. A real ying-yang week that first saw the cancelation of the PT Rock Fest, but it has been replaced with a new set of shows that should tickle anyone’s paws. The first bit of good news is that the FREE PT RockJam on June 10th at the Legion Hall will feature a special (once more FREE) performance by The Schoolyard Heroes! Remember...this is a show to provide more opportunities for deserving bands and musicians to play a gig, so if you are one of um, click here to see how your band can rip it up with the Heroes. If you are a fan...This is a thank you from all of us, from all the bands and promoters for supporting us all year long. Just come down and have fun. This in combination with the Rhody shows and Legion Hall shows in June on the 3rd with USS Horsewhip, The Nihilists, Lunatic Fringe, Innuendo, and Downer Cow, and the 17th means that there is no excuse or wining that there isen’t any shows too go to. Check the calendar to keep it all straight. High level discussions are in the works for the Big HMW to be the host of some shows in in Port Angeles, and if you haven’t check out his “Words from the Warrior” Section, lately...go get the 411 in Warrior-land. Remember, the big shows this weekend are in Port Angeles with The Lonely H and Patterns at the Upside on Friday, and Saturday brings a cool show with Dispatcher Cliff, Contemplation, Starless Nights and Contra. If you have had a hard time signing up or being able to post on the Shedboard, that should all be fixed now. Till later... May 9, 2005 - We have not confirmed it yet, but we think that the Vigilance Magazine in PT is no more. More info as we know, but if it’s true, it will be missed. Now... who’s next brave soul to take a vow of poverty and endure endless deadlines and ridicule to give bands press? We will let you know, but looks like a miserable job in the making for some dedicated soul. The coupon to the right actually has a propose. After an epiphany (and serious beat down at Ty’s BBQ of the promoters) they have told me to put out the word that it will be $10 at the door for both shows with this coupon (or even a smile) at the door, and advance cool pass/tickets are available at Strait Music and Quimper Sound, and from some of the awesome street team folks out there. George has sold Crossroads Music to someone from LA (I think), but will continue to run his repair shop and recording studio. The Hollowpoints and Axes of Evil will immediately leave after playing the Rhody shows and play 7 more shows in a row taking them all the way through Montana to South Dakota (With the real Dakotah in toh.) and the Denver area, The run of shows also includes a show opening for Juliette Lewis and the Licks. All the more reason to kick this tour off with a bang on the 21st right here at the Legion. The big shows this weekend are in Port Angeles with The Lonely H and Patterns at the Upside on Friday, and Saturday brings a cool show with Dispatcher Cliff, Contemplation, Starless Nights and Contra.
May 2005 - Ahh...That’s Better. As you can see, we have a new look that is representative of our favorite color. It’s not just the look that has changed. We have gone to the archives and pulled out a TON of old and new pictures, we have posted new events and cool things. We have added a lot of musicians resources and fan links that will give you all sorts of cool info, including where to catch shows and upcoming CD’s from local bands, and we have generally tried to make the site a bit more organized for everyone. On to the real news. Somebody on the message board said that we (The Shedboyz) got 3 words of press in The Vigilance. I haven’t seen it yet, but I am sure we would have had more, but they probably thought the 300 kids hanging out at the Rec Center last weekend was just a pool tournament or something. The people who bring you many of the Rec Center and Legion Hall shows are ramping up their efforts for those of you sticking around this summer. The first item of note is to keep July 4th (It’s a Monday) open. The 2nd PT Rock Fest will happen at Memorial Field. Brett is still confirming the line -up, but you can expect 2 stages, more bands, both local and regional, and an even better show than last years. BIG thanks is due to the PT Parks and Rec Department, who has been AWESOME in supporting this show. More details in about 2 weeks. Another one of the cool things that Brett and Dan have planned is Demo Days in June. Click here for more information on how to record your band on the cheap at the Legion Hall. The Demo Days will be followed on June 10th with the PT Rock Jam. A little bit of a musical free-for -all, pot luck (Bring your favorite “Rock” food), and Jam. Anyone is welcome, and we especially want to put a shout out to the Sequiem and Port Angeles Bands to come jam with the PT Bands for a night. The Kids are allright...Just so you know, Bill Kush is running a great program for Kids through the Jefferson County YMCA and the Rec Center. Check out their site for things to do ranging from Fencing to a skateboard club. Sorry for the bogus info below about the Saturday Upside show. We will be getting it more right in the future. April 24th, 05 - Holy USS Horsewhip on a stick...that was fun. If you missed the Rock at the Rec, you missed the best show in a while. The Shotgun Kisses broke out the Motley Crue, the Inkreats rocked, Common Heroes RIPPED it up, The Blakes were the lovable and powerful “power trio” of the night, despite having transmission probs getting to the show, and The Nihilists proved why they are the best live band in town. Once more, thanks to everyone who worked hard to put it on, and the 269 people who paid to watch it. Your are the best. AWESOME pictures of the bands and fans on the Common Heroes site courtesy of Sidney Merrill. Onward... the cool show this weekend will be in PA. Friday at the Upside will be the Nihilists, Bad Otis and a preview of DEK before their Legion Hall show next month. Saturday brings The Blakes, Long Gone and Karol Karol to The Upside in another fine weekend of rock from Marty and crew. Don’t forget to mark your calendar’s for May 6th if your 21 Plus as DJ Style E will be funking up the Water Street Brewing Company for his CD Release party. No cover, and he will be joined by DJ’s Moody and Mission. Don’t forget to check out the Sammy Watson (Apex Theory) Artist profile and Style E’s CD review. The next big rock show in town is in May. April 19th, 05 - Everyone siked for the big show this Saturday at the Rec Center? Should be a great one, as we know the Heroes and Blakes are way excited to come play in PT. Hats off to the cool dude that tried to let us know The Hollowpoints canceled last weekends show at the Upside. With gas at $4 a gallon or some nonsense, we hope anyone didn’t make the drive. Last week was CD reviews with a few words about the cool DJ Style E release...this week it’s artist profiles. It’s hard for musicians growing up in a small town to find people they can look at for inspiration. The first artist profile we have is Sammy Watson, Drummer from The Apex Theory, Instructor at the Musicians Institute in LA, and Chimacum High School Grad. Click here to check out the story. The Vigilance Magazines annual fundraiser is this Saturday at the Legion Hall. A band of note that is playing is The Many Faces of Walter with former Waiting for the Sun Drummer, Neil. Bring your ducats, cuz it’s 10 bucks, but it sure is nice to see Neil and the ever lovable Walter playing around town. Tickets will be available for the 4th annual Rhody Shows in May at the Rec Center show this Friday, and at Quimper Sound. $10 in advance for BOTH shows. If you wait till the day of show, it’s $12 EACH show. I know I keep saying this, but this summer is shaping up to be MEGA fun. There are some great shows in the works, so hang on. Complete details on what everyone has up their sleeves soon. We have also updated the “WHO” section. At the bottom of it, you will find more in depth descriptions of the people who are putting on all these cool shows. Till next week, .and I will try to be quicker than the damm Leader... April 13th, 05 - Follow the bouncing musician is the theme this week. We got the call that Chinatown might be no more, but former frontman Chris will be playing one of the guitars in Common Heroes at the show on the 23rd. This after hearing that Libido will be losing guitarist Pete and Bassisit Adam after their performance at the Legion in May. Pete’s departure is is proverbial “musical differences” in nature, and we can expect him to be working on a bunch of new projects in the future. Adam Burns departs playing more Legion Hall shows than anyone between Libido and Circle of Fear. Time to tend to the nest with another little one on the way for the Burns clan, and real world things needing attention. We wish him well, and are stoked to see both of their final shows with Libido in May. This weekends live music offerings look good with The Hollowpoints, Last 1 Out, Bad Otis, and Agent Apathy at The Upside, and on Saturday Schoolyard Heroes will be counting the crowd closely, with Contemplation opening at The Upside. Saturday, April 16th also see’s the Boiler Room Benefit with a Great show planned. Show starts before some of us wake up at 3PM, but the headliners, Kimya Dawson, Artis, and The Gelding all come on starting after 8PM. Admission is a donation of $3 to $300. New links for your surfing pleasure. PT Rockers Innuendo has a site and some sounds at www.innuendomusic.tk . Dispatcher Cliff has a cool site at www.DispatcherCliff.com . Alien Crime Syndicate Drummer Nabil has been nominated for best Best Percussionist/drummer by Seattle Weakly Magazine. Vote for him and other cool people at http://www.seattleweekly.com/musicawards/ballot.php . We hate it when rock and roll becomes a compition...except when we win. You bitched about it...LOTS of shows happening, and coming up from a variety of sources. Now that there are all these shows and cool bands worthy of your support, all you have to do is the easy part. Come and Rock. Thanks to all those who are making the message boards rather fun. More updates, including the calendar soon. NOW... FINALLY. The Bill for the 5th annual Rock During Rhody shows. April 6th, 05. - I think we have the strait scoop on the doing’s at The Upside this weekend. On Friday, Sepsis, Contemplation, and Chet & the Penguins will be working it, and on Saturday, Libido and Lunatic Fringe are set to hit the stage. If you are going on a road trip...the Red Lion has fluffy towels, and they don’t count um. The Boiler Room has a shinny newly registered web site at www.ptboilerroom.com. They have several events coming up. On Friday, April 15th, they have a Fine Art Auction at the Legion Hall with free admission, and on April 16th they have a benefit concert at the Legion. The concert features the Boxcutter Hobos, The Gelding, the Moldy Peaches Kimya Dawson, and the only man I ever saw make 400 kids sit down on command at a PT show, Artis the Spoonman. Their are several other artists also appearing and it should be a great show. First band is at 8pm, and admission is free, but a donation is suggested to help the Boiler Room. April 2nd, 05 - A Rather lengthy update including the real bill for Rhody...so hang in there. here we go! The April fools Day Joke that we played on ya'all provided some fun postings on the board, but there actually was a point in all of it. Their is a group of a half a dozen people, including the amazing Parks & Rec Department, that are working hard to make the 2nd PT Rock Fest in August about as hot or hotter than our April Fools Bill. Nothing set in stone, but I can tell you that people ARE talking to bands like that, and bigger about headlining a packed all day “Endfest” type event. Details are at least a month away, but the joke was a creative way to tell all of you to hang onto your straps, and that we love every single one of you who support the shows by coming out. There are people around who have some cool things planed for the summer. More VERY cool news on the show front. Joining Common Heroes and The Blakes on the next Rock @ The Rec #3 bill (See the poster above) will be the The Inkreats and Shotgun Kisses, DJ Style E, and closing the show will be probably the only Spring PT performance from the Almighty Nihilists. That’s definitely the coolest Rec Show bill thanks to Dan from Spun Loud and The Nihilists for making it happen. More news about Style E’s CD Release Party, a new Spun Loud Web Site, and news on upcoming and newly released CD’s on Tuesday. “Political correctness is the true enemy of liberalism” Iggy Pop (I think) March 25th, 05 - Thought I would post an update while The Trophy Wives are still ringing in my head. Not one to get too deep into a bands sound on this site, but this band does curl my toes. I think they have one of the best frontman in the area, and are nice guys to boot. It made up for the fact that Chinatown broke up about a day before the show and didn’t play, and while there were a lot of people who were bummed that they weren’t there, Bad Otis, Dead Cobra, and the aforementioned Wives brought enough rock to last till April’s “Rock @ the Rec #3” on April 23rd. Confirmed are Seattle band Common Heroes (www.commonheroes.com) and The Blakes (www.theblakesband.com) who played the Upside on the 25th with Vendetta Red in what we are sure as a cool show. After several shows with bands like The Divorce and New American Standard, Common Heroes are ready make their debut in Port Townsend. The rest of the show should be announced here in the next week, and DJ Style E will be spinnin (litterally...spinning) as well. Speaking of show announcements, Check back here on April 1st for the big news on the lineup for the May Roady weekend shows. Everyone’s threatening to release some CD’s in the next 2 months with sounds from Sepsis, Style E, The Lonely H, Lunatic Fringe, Libido, and a live compilation from Legion Hall and Rec Center shows all “in the works”. Look for a big merch booth at the May shows. Till April 1st and the announcement of the bill... March, 21st, 05 - Haven’t heard a word on the Sir Mix A Lot Show...but then agian, I guess you have to leave the house to know anything. See you in the Pit this Friday as Spun Loud Records (Dan DeMay from Libido’s new thang) bring 4 cool bands to Rock the Rec Center in Uptown PT. Only $4, and the show will be recorded for Spun Loud’s release of live tracks, due out in May. The Hollowpoints show with Fat Mike and the Gimmie-Gimmies was A+. A sellout crowd, and we heard the band ripped. Lot’s of bands recording right now, and about 4 releases from local bands due out around the next Legion Hall show in May during Roady. CHECK BACK FOR BIG NEWS ON APRIL 1ST FOR THE LINEUP FOR 2 NIGHTS AT THE LEGION. Hummm...The Sun is out. March 13th, 05 - After a cool weekend of fun...ever forward with probably the coolest two weekends of shows of the early new year. First up, on Saturday, March 19th, The Hollowpoints will be opening for LEGENDS in the form of Me First & The Gimme Gimmes featuring Fat Mike (NOFX), Joey Cape & Dave Raun (LAGWAGON), Spike (SWINGIN’ UTTERS), and Brian Baker (BAD RELIGION) at the El Corazon (Graceland) in Seattle. This is a huge show and just a rippin line-up with the super cool Chixdiggit from Calgary, Canada playing as well. Pack a lunch, get together the road trip...this will be FUN. on Friday the 25th is the Rec Center show with the bands mentioned in the flyer above. VERY cool show for $4, and all 4 bands seriously rock. Gotta also mention for those even more geographically challenged than us (We love ya PA), the Upside has Slow Coming Day (Tooth & Nail Records), Catalina Tigershark, and Drip Dry on Friday and on Saturday they have How The Mighty Have Fallen. Also next Saturday we hear from the |
Sept 7th, 2005 - Ahaa.. School is starting, 
ollege in Oregon. Huge news on the shows front. Many have always wanted to have regular rave/dance nights to go to that had cool lights and sound in a big room. Well...
June 24th, 2005 - I will make up for the last measly little update with a full plate this time. The first bit of great news is not only is 
May 5, 2005 - First off...I guess