DC Punk Show Flyers
This is the first flyer I ever made (not counting ones for my high school band. I think I used Pagemaker or some other program I had never seen before. It's not pretty, but I wanted to show it so you could see some of the bands who played the Happy Hardcore House. I lived there along with two of the other members of Midvale, the first singer from Lucid, and a number of other people.
It's hard to read, but these are the bands listed:
Gus, Autumn, Syrup, Darkest Hour, Ethel Meserve, Endeavor, Farside, Walleye, Prema, Deadguy, Faultline, Candyland Car Crash, Cycle, Marble, Vest Pocket Psalm, Backlash, Anasarca, Split Lip (later became Chamberlain), Samuel, Cast Iron Hike, Catharsis, Lucid, The Crown Hate Ruin, Bloodlet, Torn Apart, Anonymous, Seraphim, Texas Is the Reason, Revolution 9, Clairmel, The Slackers, I Am Heaven, Stillsuit, The Preschoolers, The Skunks, Even Tide, Bikini Kill, Bound, Americar Underworld, Brother's Keeper, Shades Apart, Brody, Midvale, Union, Arcane, Shift, Hedge, Serenity Fall, Team Dresch, The Cold Cold Hearts, Midcarson July, Inkwell, Astoria and Jasta 14.
It's a good bunch of bands, but not even close to all of them that played, either in our basement or at The George Washington University. We booked lots and lots of shows. DC owes us a (very small) debt of gratitude.
Unfortunately, I never once took a picture of any of these bands, but I know someone who did. Maybe this will convince her to start let me scanning. What do you say, Lizard?
Some of these bands are pretty obscure, others are huge. Leave a comment below and let me know who you saw and where you saw them, if you still remember. Us old folks might be starting to lose it. We must preserve our harDCore history!
It's hard to read, but these are the bands listed:
Gus, Autumn, Syrup, Darkest Hour, Ethel Meserve, Endeavor, Farside, Walleye, Prema, Deadguy, Faultline, Candyland Car Crash, Cycle, Marble, Vest Pocket Psalm, Backlash, Anasarca, Split Lip (later became Chamberlain), Samuel, Cast Iron Hike, Catharsis, Lucid, The Crown Hate Ruin, Bloodlet, Torn Apart, Anonymous, Seraphim, Texas Is the Reason, Revolution 9, Clairmel, The Slackers, I Am Heaven, Stillsuit, The Preschoolers, The Skunks, Even Tide, Bikini Kill, Bound, Americar Underworld, Brother's Keeper, Shades Apart, Brody, Midvale, Union, Arcane, Shift, Hedge, Serenity Fall, Team Dresch, The Cold Cold Hearts, Midcarson July, Inkwell, Astoria and Jasta 14.
It's a good bunch of bands, but not even close to all of them that played, either in our basement or at The George Washington University. We booked lots and lots of shows. DC owes us a (very small) debt of gratitude.
Unfortunately, I never once took a picture of any of these bands, but I know someone who did. Maybe this will convince her to start let me scanning. What do you say, Lizard?
Some of these bands are pretty obscure, others are huge. Leave a comment below and let me know who you saw and where you saw them, if you still remember. Us old folks might be starting to lose it. We must preserve our harDCore history!
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Saturday, June 2, 2007.
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June 3, 2007 at 9:00 PM
anytime you want to look through the archives for pictures, let me know... also, I have the complete flyer book ready for scanning too so that we can put a happy hardcore house retrospective together:)
January 12, 2008 at 4:31 PM
What an awesome list.
April 20, 2009 at 3:31 PM
man i played at that house...even our last show, well we were kinda asses about it, but i do miss those days!
September 21, 2009 at 9:31 AM
i really love those days when we used to play this music aloud, retro feeling, good to see ur blog
November 19, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Could not find a suitable section so I written here, how to become a moderator for your forum, that need for this?
March 7, 2010 at 1:24 AM
I was just trying to reassemble a mixtape from the summer of 96 and I figured finding a happy hardcore house flyer would fill in some blanks. An Anasarca show and a Shift show(played upstairs) stick out in my mind mostly. Sometimes I figure if you reconnected all the people who have been there you'd have really strange and amazing connections. Also - you should try to put midvale stuff up on Lala.com the name is pretty much taken over by something strange.