Man, good question! Anyone know how easy it will be to navigate from one venue to the other? Will there be long lines for each all night? I'd just hate to leave one venue, expecting to go see another band at one of the others, only to get stuck in line and miss half the set. Know what I'm sayin'? So it'd be cool to hear from anyone who saw last year's fest in Portland to get an idea of how to attempt this without missing too much action.

What will be your picks?

LIBERTY HALL
(644 Massachusetts St., All Ages)
4:00 - 4:40pm Rooftop Vigilantes
5:00 - 5:40pm Gentleman Jesse and His Men
6:00 - 6:45pm Times New Viking
7:15 - 8:00pm Best Coast
8:30 - 9:15pm The Ponys
9:45 - 10:30pm The Greenhornes
11:00 - 12:00pm The Raveonettes

GRANADA THEATRE
(1020 Massachusetts St., All Ages)
4:40 - 5:10pm Natural Child
5:30 - 6:00pm Garotas Suecas
6:20 - 7:00pm Cloud Nothings
7:30 - 8:10pm Digital Leather
8:40 - 9:25pm Hunx and His Punx
9:55 - 10:50pm The Clean
11:30 - 12:30pm The Oblivians

THE BOTTLENECK
(737 New Hampshire St., All Ages)
4:30 - 5:00pm Bad Sports
5:20 - 5:50pm Nodzzz
6:10 - 6:40pm Gaye Blades
7:00 - 7:40pm The Lamps
8:00 - 8:45pm Tyvek
9:15 - 10:00pm Thee Oh Sees
10:30 - 11:30pm King Khan & The Shrines (featuring Gino Washington)

JACKPOT MUSIC HALL
(943 Massachusetts St., 18+)
4:20 - 4:50pm Sex Beet
5:10 - 5:40pm White Wires
6:00 - 6:30pm Teenanger
6:50 - 7:30pm Cola Freaks
7:50 - 8:30pm Human Eye
9:00 - 9:30pm Happy Birthday
10:00 - 11:00pm The Gories

It doesn't matter, basically ABC can inspect bars at any time so it's no big thing for a bar to have 18 and over shows one night and be 21 and over on another. They will check your id at the door and if you're not 21 then they will put an additional bracelet on you so that the bartenders and wait staff won't serve you. Jackpot is a hole in the wall, but I love it anyway, tin ceiling, velvet wall paper and all. So, be sure to stop by, the bar keeps are awesome, especially if you tip high on the first round. Recordgrooves said:

Scion website now says that the Jackpot is all ages, didn't it use to state that it was 18+up before?
http://www.scion.com/garagefest/index.html Anyone know whats up with that?

Scion website now says that the Jackpot is all ages, didn't it use to state that it was 18+up before? http://www.scion.com/garagefest/index.html Anyone know whats up with that?

Hey everyone, just picked up my wristbands, and the schedule, which should be updated on the website by now. FYI when driving into Lawrence on I70 please be aware that the Lawrence east exit is closed from both the east and the west. Use the Lawrence west exit, or the Lawrence/Lecompton exit. I recommend using the west exit. If you are driving in on I70 from the west and you miss the Lawrence west exit then hello Kansas City!
For those of you driving in on I70 from the east: due to construction I70 goes down to one lane each way shortly after Bonner Springs in addition to the east exit being closed.
Well, this will probably mean nothing to everyone save Kopper, but at least I tried. Most important thing: if your directions have you getting off at the east exit get new directions from I70 getting off at the Lawrence west exit instead.

Not to be too hard on the interviewer but his questions remind me of the Chris Farley interview sketches. "Remember when you did that thing? It was awesome." Great point, too - Heavens To...is the best place to start

Doc Sanchez said:

SCxMS said:

You should track down the interview with Phoning It In. It is awkward and brilliant equally.

Yeah, indeed the Phoning it in session is great. I like how the interviewer seems to drift off all the time, and Billy asking "Are you still there?" Here's the link: http://phoningitin.net/shows/73-Billy-Childish What do you guys think about the Vermin Poets, Childish's new band? And John, if you like Billy Childish, you definitely should check out Armitage Shanks!

SCxMS said:

You should track down the interview with Phoning It In. It is awkward and brilliant equally.

Also, Thee Headcoates "Heavens to Murgatroyd" LP is pretty awesome. Alex said:

You pretty much can't go wrong with any Childish record. I love every record I have so far, and definitely need more. I have:

Thee Headcoats- Beach Bums Must Die
Thee Headcoats- Earls of Suavedom
Thee Mighty Caesars- Thusly, Thee Might Caesars
Wild Billy Childish and the MBE's- Thatcher's Children
Wild Billy Childish and the MBE's- It Should Be Me b/w Loray Head 7"
Wild Billy Childish and the MBE's- Daddy Rolling Stone 12"
The Pop Rivets- Fun in the UK

The Chatham singers and The Singing Loins- At The Bridge.

You should track down the interview with Phoning It In. It is awkward and brilliant equally.

Shirts Off with Armitage Shanks beautifully captures to demeanour of the average resident of the medway towns, they remain basically as thuggish as that to this day.

my favorite tune is probably The Chatham Singers - the man with the gallows eyes

YES!!! Michael Kaiser said:

Gadzooks, all of them!

One of my best long time friends, being a big fan, introduced me to the music of Billy Childish many years ago. We have been in several bands together and covered several BC songs that I think are outstanding. In "Hippie Repellent" we have played "The Man With Eyes Like Little Fishes" and "Want Me - Win Me" both from Thee Headcoats - In Tweed We Trust, The Spoken Voice (Pop Rivets), Pussy Whipped (Thee Mighty Caesars - Caesars Remains) and probably a few others that I've forgotten about.

I'm also lucky enough to be playing rhythm guitar for the Armitage Shanks (all good friends of Billy) on their upcoming brief American tour. They have a few of Billy's classics in their set list to rotate: Kray Twins (Pop Rivets), It's You (Milkshakes), and Every Day (Thee Headcoats - Beached Earls).

The Milkshakes - 19th Nervous Shakedown is a good primer.

Real fun to listen to is "Wild Billy Childish and the Blackhands play: Capt. Calypsos Hoodoo Party". Great Versions of "Rum 'n Coca Cola" and "Anarchy in the UK"!

And another question: Does anyone know where to get a book of his woodcuts (or his art in whole) for a reasonable price? On amazon I can only find his novels or books where the woodcuts seem to be not that important.

LOL! Ruby Soleil said:

ahhh, but the conspiracy theorist in me was just begging to rear its paranoid visage!

ahhh, but the conspiracy theorist in me was just begging to rear its paranoid visage!

Here's a picture of me and Michael Kastelic, whom I'll assume has some degree of clout around here. Yes, before you say anything, I know I'm not much to look at.

http://twitter.com/eddiesmith1960 ifs the link kopper, i believe i'm already following you

follow us! http://twitter.com/SlovenlyRecs

I've been using it for about 6 months and it is slowly growing on me. It's a good way to follow current news events without having to go through an entire newspaper. I find it saves me time checking in with all the blogs I like because if someone has something new up you are notified. Don't have it on my phone yet. Will cross that bridge later I guess. For the moment I give Twitter a thumbs up.

Gadzooks! All the links I posted on the 1st page are out o' date. I'll post some again since this thread has gotten some renewed life: twitter.com/MichaelKaiser twitter.com/RadiOblivion twitter.com/MojoWorkout

What about bands? Follow us! http://twitter.com/thenevermores Some other bands to follow: http://twitter.com/JacuzziBoys http://twitter.com/TheDictators http://twitter.com/piercedarrows http://twitter.com/BARRERACUDA http://twitter.com/NOBUNNYLOVESYOU http://twitter.com/viviangirls http://twitter.com/NikkiCorvette http://twitter.com/theblackhollies http://twitter.com/thebonnevilles http://twitter.com/vonghouls http://twitter.com/TheBlackLips http://twitter.com/MarkLindsay http://twitter.com/theHydes http://twitter.com/the_woggles http://twitter.com/mondotopless http://twitter.com/Davie_Allan http://twitter.com/woollybandits http://twitter.com/youngwerewolves http://twitter.com/theekonks http://twitter.com/thesafesmusic http://twitter.com/TheCYNICS http://twitter.com/LosHories http://twitter.com/Beatkillers http://twitter.com/Launderettes Any others?

By the way, I have a couple more Twitter accounts... there's one for my new podcast: http://twitter.com/noise_annoys And one for my record label: http://twitter.com/TIRCrecords I also set one up for a favorite local recreational mini-baseball game that's popular in St. Louis, corkball! http://twitter.com/corkball

Hey amigo, what's your handle? fast eddie said:

i started using it at nxne this year to track secret shows etc and have sort of stuck with it, i'll look for you

Like i said in the original post...i'm from Canada..and had never seen an ish up to that point. Since then, i've mailordered some back ishes and they are a GREAT read!!! Gonna order some more real soon! Mongrel Zine said:

Dave, you've never read Roctober! How's that possible!?

whatwave dave said:

This may be a dumb question, but i live in Canada and have NEVER seen an ish of Roctober...checked out their website and couldn't see any way of ordering or subscribing...how does one get Roctober???.

And yeh, shameless self-promotion: check out my zine! www.mongrelzine.ca Roctober just gave us an awesome review ("But thank god (or Link or Lux, or whomever you worship) for Mongrel! We are grateful that a zine like this comes along and shows us how it’s done, not only tracking down all the stellar new jack garage combos but also delivering the goods with great interviews, zine-esque layouts, and lotsa goofs and giggles. They even cover garage rock visual artists (like our own Johnny Sampson) and include killer CDs of mongrel music makers making messes of the masses. We’re not jealous, just glad Mongrel sets new standards and does the dirty work so we don’t have to…")

Adding to the list:
Digging for Gold
Boulders
Trans-World Punk
Rubble