June 19th was the date of the fourth annual Punk Island festival, a free concert arranged in conjunction with Make Music NYC. For the fourth year in a row music fans crammed onto a ferry in lower Manhattan, trying to smuggle beer and pot past security guards for the five minute boat ride across the water to Governors Island, a former military installation now made into park land to watch various acts, local and otherwise, play on the makeshift dirt stages.
Organizationally things were handled by ABC No Rio this year and they did manage to more or less keep things on schedule and running moderately smoothly. The power outages that plagued the main stage at the 2010 festival didn't seem to be a problem this year. Attendance wise, there weren't as many people as there were twelve months back, likely due to the fact that there weren't as many 'name bands' as there were in 2010 where D.O.A., Blanks 77, Star Fucking Hipsters and Negative Approach all played.
The focus this time around was definitely on NYC based indy/underground punk bands, though a few acts from outside of the Tri-State area made appearances. Due to the fact that the MTA had some train scheduling issues going on Sunday I didn't arrive in time to see as many of the acts as I wanted to, but what can you do.
Some photos from the sets I was in attendance for…
I caught only the last bit of the Blackout Shoppers' set but it was cool to hear them do a cover of Youth Brigade's Violence and they had a lot of enthusiasm. Would have liked to have seen more from them but the train gods weren't cooperating:
Wombat in Combat have a pretty solid following in the area and while it took them a little while to get the crowd going, once they did they had the rowdiest show of the afternoon:
The Homewreckers were a four piece openly lesbian queercore-pop-punk outfit who didn't get to play as long as they should have. Fast, upbeat, catchy as hell, they were a lot of fun:
Yula And The Extended Family had a crazy mix of Jewish folk music, cabaret, ska and punk going on and featured a foxy goth chick playing a saw that wasn't micced well enough to really be heard over the rest of the band. Lots of energy from the front woman and they stood out as the most musically original band of the day:
Daycare Swindlers were billed as DC Swindlers for some reason, but whatever. They had a lot of good energy and just delivered a really solid, enthusiastic set of guitar driven up tempo punk:
STZA (aka Sturg aka Scott Sturgeon aka STZA CRACK, aka the guy from Leftover Crack aka the guy from Choking Victim aka the guy from Star Fucking Hipsters aka the guy who got arrested for throwing donuts at the NYPD) played a pretty solid acoustic set, meowing where he forgot the words or had to fill in some instrumental bits. It was interesting hearing crust punk songs done on an acoustic but he made it work and the crowd sang along to pretty much every one of the songs (except for the one new Star Fucking Hipsters track he played, because obviously nobody knew the words to that one). He complained about not being able to drink and some kind girl offered him a flask. The cops standing nearby looked a bit uncomfortable when he sang 'One Dead Cop' but didn't cause any problems:
Zounds, anarchist punks from England who have been around since 1977, played a rare American appearance to close out the day. They sounded excellent, well polished and very intense, but didn't have a ton of energy. It was still pretty cool to see them and they closed out the day well:
And to finish, a few random pictures of a bouncy guy in mid-air, some fat cops, a chick with a neat Mohawk, and last but not least, a guy encouraging a girl to hammer a nail into his peehole.
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#4Mark TolchSenior MemberFind all postsView Profile06-21-2011, 07:11 PMEditing a commentYeah. I could do without that last photo...but cool pictures otherwise.
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#5Paul CaseyFrito BanditoFind all postsView Profile06-22-2011, 07:08 AMEditing a commentThe chick on the saw has some rad ropes. I'd climb the shit outta those.
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#6Alyss N.Junior MemberFind all postsView Profile06-23-2011, 05:48 PMEditing a commentGreat penis.
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