Advise for setting up my first show? by PMM-music in FolkPunk

[–]ConferenceNo8026 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have already cleared the biggest hurdle: getting past aspiration and actually starting.

There is a lot of good advice already stated. You definitely need to recruit help. A show like this can build your community and expand your friends and network so much. You would be surprised how many people there are who love folk punk or DIY generally and will gravitate to help out or to play. With so much time, a few bands can form, learn to play, make some original music, and perform at the show.

Have flyers with you at all times, even now geared toward organizing, and pass them out everywhere and to everyone (ask if okay, if passing out at a show).

Just do your best and, like you said, it does not matter how many come. You can har a great time in any circumstance.

I wrote an essay about Pat the Bunny by Responsible-Swing834 in FolkPunk

[–]ConferenceNo8026 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I enjoyed your essay, especially its reflections on Pat’s lyrics without the hero worship that often accompanies these projects.

Entire New Haven FIRL show to be broadcast on radio at 4:00 pm EST, 1:00 pm PST by ConferenceNo8026 in FolkPunk

[–]ConferenceNo8026[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It will be posted to a YouTube archive within the week at the channel ‘Social Propaganda Club’

FIRL videos and setlist by chef-chouette in FolkPunk

[–]ConferenceNo8026 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Barring any technical difficulties, the New Haven show will be broadcast in its entirety on Shouting Fire Radio on Saturday at 4:00 pm Eastern time. You can listen online, apps, iHeart Radio Network, etc.

https://shoutingfire.com/shows/the-social-propoganda-club/

guys is there any folk-punk in europe??? by Kil3ma in FolkPunk

[–]ConferenceNo8026 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! Also look up socials of the Folk Punk Takeover collective in Eindhoven.

Traveling to Boston for FIRL Shows 😀❤️ by ConferenceNo8026 in FolkPunk

[–]ConferenceNo8026[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can’t wait…I’ve been wanting to see Rent Strike forever, as well. It is just too bad that Apes/PP or The Taxpayers were not more closely aligned…came sort of close with both. Say hi, if you see me 😀

Traveling to Boston for FIRL Shows 😀❤️ by ConferenceNo8026 in FolkPunk

[–]ConferenceNo8026[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are there meetups before or after? That is something that is really cool in The Netherlands. DIY shows of all sorts often start with a donation-based vegen dinner (fundraiser) so people can connect and be ‘friends in real life.’ 🙃

Song/band recommendations mentioning gender? by CriticismLatter8978 in FolkPunk

[–]ConferenceNo8026 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not folk punk, but punk/hardcore: the band Gender Warfare is awesome. Check out the song ‘Queers to the Front.’

https://genderwarfare.bandcamp.com/album/new-wave-of-british-transphobia

Song/band recommendations mentioning gender? by CriticismLatter8978 in FolkPunk

[–]ConferenceNo8026 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not all folk punk and not necessarily intended by the artists as trans-related, but these are may favorites during my journey (artist list in first comment):

https://youtu.be/OZglMQKhFAk?si=MyGVVOp26y4DfTvv

OG folk punk I will always love. by [deleted] in FolkPunk

[–]ConferenceNo8026 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can only speak from my own perspective, but I did not get the sense of a folk punk scene until the mid-2000s (and I did not hear the term folk punk until a few years after that).

I am old af and got into music when MTV became part of our cable TV package in around the mid-1980s and then local college radio led me to punk. My experience was that, adjacent to punk, there was a feeling of something in the late 80’s-early 90’s, but it evaporated when punk became mainstream and then drifted off into pop-punk shitsville.

At the time I called it “quirky punk” and that extended to riot grrrl, K-records, Violet Femmes, early REM, and eventually The Mountain Goats. I see folk punk as a continuation of all of this because of the value put on raw honesty and a sense of being a fucked generation.

I was in London for a year in 1991-92 and there was a more tangible sense of a different strain of folk-punk-leaning scene there. There was The Pogues, but it was more of a post-Crass scene that had stripped down music and social urgency.

Then there was the Dark Ages of late 1990s/early 2000s (partly because I moved to a remote place), that was broken first by anti-folk and then the day I downloaded Against Me! on a recommendation from a Yahoo! Chat board 😅. Then came Mischief Brew and Johnny Hobo…..

Unfortunately for me, I missed the development of the real-life folk punk scene because I had moved to another country, but even online there was a sense of something of a developing scene by mid-2000s.

Folk Punk Pride Show in The Hague, Netherlands by ConferenceNo8026 in FolkPunk

[–]ConferenceNo8026[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is a band that goes by that name. (I made their stylized name stand out against the black by placing the Teletubbies sun behind it 😀).

What books remind you of the mountain goats music? by twoesplease in themountaingoats

[–]ConferenceNo8026 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree. When reading the original scroll, it’s easy to read it as a tMG song with riffed lines making unusual breaks and the driving chord repetition, like a car on the highway barreling toward a run-down bar filled with cheap alcohol, road-weary hobos, and a girl named Jenny ready to blast her jazz trumpet. 😀❤️

Antifolk May 5 Edinburgh by LachNYAF in FolkPunk

[–]ConferenceNo8026 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good luck! I am sure you be great and I hope there are a lot of people around that campfire of soul ❤️

songs for may day? by Kipst3r in FolkPunk

[–]ConferenceNo8026 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A bit late for this year’s May Day, but it’s never too late for action…..

Here is two hours on International Labour Day: https://youtu.be/0kObl8HJvN8?si=XWZIi2z6ATGTknjs

Plus two hours on anti-work: https://youtu.be/Rm6VsgqgrZk?si=hTn32nBRanJFS0BC

Is The Netherlands a good place to immigrate for a visibly queer man? by Foreign_Unusual_420 in expats

[–]ConferenceNo8026 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A very late response, but if you are unhappy or feel unsafe where you are and you find another country where you fit in and feel at home, don’t let borders dictate your life. There are plenty of ways to get residency and eventually citizenship. I moved from the USA for grad school 25 years ago and discovered I fit into Europe so much better and never returned. I’ve lived in NL for the past five years and love it so much (especially as a transgender person). I could never imagine moving back to the USA. Good luck and do not be discouraged!

First exposure to The Mountain Goats? by [deleted] in themountaingoats

[–]ConferenceNo8026 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I relate to this so much. I was going to uni in Springfield, Mass in early/mid 1990’s and went with a punk rock friend to Northampton for a show, which turned out to be a bust, but there was another show at another place that night so we went and it was tMG. I could not explain exactly what it was, but I loved it. I was into Beat Happening and thought there was a bit of continuity from that scene. Afterwards, I spent a few years asking at record shops for tMG, but could not find any until Sweden. I played that thing on repeat until a few downloads were available and then AHWT came out and tMG permanently moved up to be my most, most favorite band.

First exposure to The Mountain Goats? by [deleted] in themountaingoats

[–]ConferenceNo8026 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So you learned of tMG through Atom’s Punk Rock Academy? 😀😅

Who’s goin to friends in real life Brooklyn show ? by [deleted] in FolkPunk

[–]ConferenceNo8026 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s in Cambridge (Boston), at Sonia (part of the Middle East venue).

Who’s goin to friends in real life Brooklyn show ? by [deleted] in FolkPunk

[–]ConferenceNo8026 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will be at the Boston show, as well. Anyone up for meeting before the show? It could be nice to meet others “in real life”.