The BGN News Archive
July 17, 2005
…This Friday, July 22nd @ Dee Dee's Lounge (Quincy, MA) will be
DRAGO, The Dimwits, Nobodys
Heroes, The Leftovers (Maine),
Y69(Vermont) 9:00pm Cost: ONLY $5 - 21+
, also this Friday and next Monday… ROCK & ROLL ARTISTS
GET HANGED IN CAMBRIDGE AND MAKE AN EXHIBITION OF THEMSELVES IN A TWO-GALLERY
EXTRAVAGANZA WHERE: The Gallery of Club Passim and The Zeitgeist
Gallery WHEN: "HUNG" hangs at the gallery
of Club Passim from July 4 - September 24 with an opening reception
on Monday, July 25AT 4PM. "HANGED"
is hanging from July 19 - August 1 at The Zeitgeist Gallery with an opening
reception on Saturday, July 23. Hanging at the gallery of Club Passim
Gallery and The Zeitgeist Gallery beginning in July in two group exhibitions
called, respectively, "HUNG" and "HANGED" is artwork by a collection of artists
who share one thing in common above all else. They totally rock. One way or another.
The show includes work by Jayne County Dee
Dee Ramone, John Holmstrom, Niagara,
Arturo Vega, Jon
Langford, Jad and David Fair,
Godlis, and Knox…as well as John
Nokolai and Jon Strymish…so this
should be two awesome shows and opening receptions. As a matter of fact on the
Monday, July 25th at Passim's Unnatural
Axe play at the reception on July 25 and Arturo
Vega (the Ramones' artistic director) and legendary rock photographer
Godlis (www.Godlis.com) will each give a talk
and answer questions, so see ya there!! ......And WOW we have gotten a lot of
response to the tiny blurb in last week's news about the
Bunratty's reunion!!! Looks like it'll be: Sunday, November 6,
2005, tentatively scheduled at the Paradise, 2 - 8 PM. So, knock yourself
out folks, here's a site to go to for more info: http://www.bunrattys.com/
.......and now for another history lesson: here's a most awesome site to go to
regarding another important slice of Boston Alternative/punk history:
JEFF & JANE Hudson.com ......many of you out there reading this MUST remember
Jeff and Jane Hudson and The
Rentals with the super cool Psuedo Carol
and her classic, plastic fried egg. I was at their show at the Harvard Sq theatre
when they opened for the Clash…those brit boys acted like assholes that
night but the Rentals were GREAT(as was Bo Diddly)!!!!!!!!!
Jeff and Jane are still doing music and even releasing new versions of
some of their old stuff..there's cool photos and info……so check 'em out!!!........Also
another reminder that the Scene of the Crime THREE
will be getting recorded soon….bands on the previous Scene of The Crime CD's have
been the likes of The Jabbers, Darkbuster,
Downbeat 5, The
Queers (aka Black Fag), Partyfight,
Meat Depressed, The
Dents, The Jonee Earthquake Band,
Los Filthy's, Midnight
Creeps, The Marvels, The
Pug Uglies, Rat Fink, The
Gobshites and I KNOW if you got a band ya wanna be included in with
those names so if you have any questions or you're interested in submitting your
music for consideration on this very excellent project, please send a demo to
Peter Walsh - C/O Good Cop/Bad Cop Records - PO BOX 653 - Foxboro, MA 02035 USA…and
by the way, if you wanna purchase the previous SOTC cd's you can go to: Good
Cop Bad Cop Records......Here's some good shows comin' up: Saturday
July 30th: it's Holy Hell Hoedown night at The Lucky Dog Music Hall,
89 Green Street, Worcester MA, and from this EARLY time: 5pm on there will
be The Gobshites, Sasquatch
and the Sick-A-Billys, SPF4, and
more. Chili cookoff and BBQ! 21+....then here's a great show worthy of going out
on a Sunday night, July 31st : Red Invasion,
Shanghai Valentine, Riot
A-Go-Go, and Birth Rites…at The
Paradise in Boston, front room, and , as the bands are saying; it's an 18+
show, sorry!....Thursday August 4th: - play at Dee Dee's Lounge,
297 Newport Ave.,Quincy MA @ 9pm 21+ $5 - there's The
Gobshites, Salacious Crumb, Swaggerin'
Growlers and Flatfoot56 (from Chicago)....
Hey HEY! The Midnight Creeps with a buncha
other bands are out in Worcester on Saturday, August 6th it's EARLY,
at 6:00pm @ QVCC-Quinsigamond Village Community Center (at 16 greenwood
st. in Worcester, Ma.) CHEAP show for a bunch of great bands!! 5 bucks - AND it's
All Ages!!!!….and for a worthy cause, Sunday Aug. 7 at 8 pm, there's
a Benefit for IMA Rock 'n Roll Camp for Girls
at The Milky Way Lounge, 403 Center St Jamaica Plain 617-524-3740, $10
cover (all proceeds to go to the camp's scholarship fund) bands will be : Emergency
Music, The Graduals,
The Snowleopards, Guillermo Sexo
and The Vibration,,,,,9pm Thursday August
11th: at The Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass. Ave. 9pm 18+ $9, World's
Greatest Sinners, Sasquatch and the Sick-A-Billys
and The Gobshites.....see ya....Miss Lyn...write us….
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