Awesome Fest 11 Saturday @ The Office, Bar Pink, Soda Bar, & Space Bar, San Diego

Paul Silver — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:03:05 +0000

The Awesome Fest daytime shows don’t start until mid-afternoon, but you still encounter many a bleary-eyed or hung-over punk wandering in after the first few bands have already played. The daytime shows were held at The Office, as usual, and Bar Pink, a new venue for this fest. Bar Pink is closer to The Office than previous venue U31, and is partly owned by John Reis of Rocket From The Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, and others. Anchoring the Saturday afternoon shows was Bad Cop/Bad Cop.

After an afternoon spent partying with bands and booze, many attendees took a power nap in order to re-energize for the night’s festivities, while others simply grabbed a quick dinner and headed back to Soda Bar and Space Bar. As always, the night started out lightly attended and ended packed. Tonight’s closers were Toys That Kill, but other highlights included Chicago’s Canadian Rifle and Los Angeles’ Dimber.

Awesome Fest 11 announces first batch of bands

Paul Silver — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 22:22:47 +0000

The six-member team that curates the annual Awesome Fest in San Diego, California has made its first announcement of bands that will perform at the eleventh iteration of the three-day festival, 16-18 February, 2018. This marks a change from the traditional Labour Day weekend, the first weekend in September, and attendees from around the mostly snow-covered USA will be able to enjoy a weekend of mild weather with great music.

Awesome Fest is of intentionally limited scale and is aimed at showcasing the diversity, intensity and beauty of DIY punk music. The organizers’ goal is to provide a safe, intimate venue to watch awesome bands, discover new music and to hang out with friends from all over the US and the world.

Bands announced today include Adult Magic, Allweather, The Bigger Empty, Chagrin, The Chill Dogs, The Chinchees, City Mouse, Civil War Rust, Dead Bars, Dimber, The Dodges, Form Rank, Fuck You Idiot, The Drowns, The Globs, Great Apes, The Hammerbombs, Horror Squad, Iron Chic, Kid Coast, Kira Jari, The Lucky Eejits, The Mission Creeps, Marriage Material, Muscle Dungeon, Needles//Pins, Night Dangers, Nothington, Odd Robot, The Pretty Flowers, Rad, Sciatic Nerve, Se Vende, Secondaries, Shallow Cuts, The Shell Corporation, Signalman, The Trashies, Tiltwheel, Toy Zoo, Tracy Soto, Turkish Techno, Typesetter, and Western Settings.

Tickets and more information can be found at http://awesomefest11.com/.

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Awesome Fest 11 Saturday @ The Office, Bar Pink, Soda Bar, & Space Bar, San Diego

Awesome Fest 11 announces first batch of bands