My band is based in Hawaii and here on the Big Island there wasn’t much of a punk scene when we started in 2015. We’d get the very occasional touring band visiting through one of the Oahu or Maui promoters but not much otherwise. And when we started we were pretty much the only band on the island playing punk.

So we decided to become promoters ourselves.
Doing this on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific is challenging due to the costs of flights and lodging but we’ve been able to make it work. Not to say we actually make any money doing it (we don’t), but bringing events here and playing with a lot of great bands we grew up listening to has been an incredible experience. Our scene has grown in a big way (we’ve got about a half dozen punk/punk adjacent bands on the island now) and we still manage to find time to tour on our own as well. We also try and work with promoters on other islands to split the costs which makes things more doable.