Houston Punk Archives

NEXT GIGS
FRI Apr 24
HOUSTON, TX
Walter’s On Washington
4215 Washington Ave
All Ages / $12 advance / $? at door
doors 8pm / bands 8:30pm?

Angry Samoans / Molotov Compromise / Rats In The Attic / X-Pats

TONS OF good 5 DOLLAR T-SHIRTS at these gigs, mens/girls/boys/wimmens/toddlers, you know the drill. get there early and you can hog the best ones. walk right in the back door or load-in earlier and you can superhog the best ones right after they get unloaded.

SAT Apr 25
AUSTIN, TX
Red 7
611 E.
7th
ALL AGES / $10
doors 9pm / band 9:30pm?

Angry Samoans / the Applicators / more bands not on the listing yet

< < THERE WILL BE A BAR-B-QUE***
(see below)
sat aft, sun aft, sat late night danceoffs until dawn etc since Poison wouldn't loan us their portable hot tub w/druggs dispensers >>

SUN Apr 26
SAN ANTONIO, TX
Rock Bottom
1033 Ave.
B
ALL AGES / $8
doors 8pm / bands 8:30pm?

Angry Samoans / Snowbyrd / Nuklear Fishsticks / USSR / Blood-N-Beer

AUSTIN SAT/SUN:
THERE WILL BE A BAR-B-QUE or whatever, probably mid-late afternoon SAT (before the gig) and continuing SUN like noontime-late afternoon (we don’t leave for San Antonio until like 4pm, 70 highway miles and a 8pm door time at the gig)
annd for sure a “after-gig dance heat party” for ONLY DANCERS (and their associates or personal assistants) wherever there’s a no-curfew full-volume full-sized living room w/full stereo (turntable duh, although we let the 8-track player requirement slide usually) to run “danceoff” heats etc FOR $$ MONEY $$.

and oh yeah, NOONTIME SUNDAY will very possibly be a “ANGRY SAMOANS ANTI-TALENT CONTEST” with a giant 10 or 20 dollar bill for the winner. 8 brackets (teams/acts) minimum, 12 max (w/first round bye for the the top 4 seeds). we had a full 8-team bracket in both Orlando (2005) and Redlands (2006) sooo whatever. you know. like this.

he worse you are, the better the chance the 3 judges at the table will grade you equal to “really good, i love those Mahuvishnu acapella guitar solo scales duude, can you play Eruption again?”

MERCH HELP FAQ INFO
houston/austin/san antonio

there’s usually 2 orr 3 crew slots open on the guest list in swap for merch table help, plus my share of any free food/drink (which i never use). i get there earlier (me, aka mike) to do the load in and set up work way before door time.
being on crew/merch help also means you get first look at claiming all/any shirts you like at just the $2/ea cost (2.50 actually).
when there’s big conference hall type folding tables available (most gigs have them), we will have our usual over 100 diff $5 t-shirts/tops piled up by the dozens filling up an entire table…any fool can have $10 “tour t-shirts” but only cool people get to live in the same town as cheap huge thrift stores. East Bayyyyyyyy right on right on.