Blue Flamingo Tribute Shows - "Special Guest" revealed, set times, etc...

The cat is out of the bag: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead is the "Special Guest" headlining the Blue Flamingo Tribute Thursday April 29th, at Plush (formerly The Blue Flamingo). For this show, they'll be playing as their original two-piece lineup! Their shows from back then have grown to be legendary - chaos ensued in one form or another at all of them. Although this was recorded a little later (not as a 2-piece), check out this video of them playing at the Blue Flamingo back in 1997:

The set times for the Blue Flamingo shows are as follows:

Thursday April 29th @ PLUSH (formerly Blue Flamingo)

7th and Red River, Austin TX:

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (1:35am - 2am)

FuckEmos (12:45pm - 1:20am)

Lower Class Brats (12am - 12:30am)

Chumps (11:15pm - 11:45pm)

Down Syndrome Army (9:50pm - 10:15pm)

Saturday May 1st @ EMO'S (inside stage)

603 Red River st, Austin TX:

The Johnny Motard Experience (playing MOTARDS songs!) (1am - 1:45am)

G.O.M.E.Z. (playing Gomez(TX) songs!) (12am - 12:45am)

The Crack Pipes (11:15pm - 11:45pm)

The Paranoids (10:35pm - 11pm)

Dead End Cruisers (9:55pm - 10:20pm)

The Shindigs (9:15pm - 9:40pm)

Charlie's Angels (8:45pm - 9pm)

Shit's gonna be fun! Cover is cheap and all the money is going to be donated to the SIMS Foundation. See you there!

Blue Flamingo Reunion: Update!

Here's an update to the line-up for the Blue Flamingo reunion shows!

The shows are just about a month away, and the final lineups look solid:

Day One:

Thursday April 29th, 2010

"Special Guest"

FuckEmo's

Lower Class Brats

The Chumps

The Bulemics

Down Symdrome Army

@ Plush (formerly The Blue Flamingo)

7th & Red River. $5 at the door.

Day Two:

Saturday May 1st, 2010

The Johnny Motard Experience (playing Motards songs!)

G.O.M.E.Z. (playing Gomez songs!)

The Crack Pipes

The Paranoids

Dead End Cruisers

Shindigs

Charlie's Angels

@ Emo's (inside)

603 Red River. $6 advance ($8 at the door)

We'll be featuring many of these bands here on the blog in the next couple weeks leading up to the show! See you there!

FuckEmos - "Can Kill You" CD

FuckEmos "Can Kill You" CD was originally released in 1994 on Rise Records, and then reissued (with the inferior cover image above) in 1998 on Man's Ruin Records. Originally named Warthog 2001, the band's frontman Russell would change the name to FuckEmos after a late night altercation with Emo's security. This release was their first full-length, a mess of Butthole Surfers influenced weirdness mixed with standard noiserock tunes. Later records would become cleaner sounding and lose some charm, but this record is considered a classic. After their demise, members were in a number of bands including USS Friendship and Babydick, among many others.

FuckEmo's will be part of the upcoming BLUE FLAMINGO REUNION, and will be playing a reunion show on Thursday April 29th @ Plush (aka the former location of the Blue Flamingo!!) More info about the Blue Flamingo Reunion/Tribute shows can be found HERE.

1994 Rise Records

1998 Man's Ruin Records

1. The Screams Of Wild Women

2. Do You Wanna Dance?

3. I Can't Smell Joseppi

4. 2 Punk 2 Fuck

5. Work

6. 80 Gay Sailors

7. Berlin '45

8. Your Lies

9. Fuckemos

10. Putrid Human Waste

11. Pedophile

12. Opus Russ

13. Fuckemos Play At Parties

DL: FuckEmos - "Can Kill You" CD

The Blue Flamingo Tribute/Reunion Shows Announced!

Remember the Blue Flamingo? The tiny Austin punk/tranny bar on the corner of 7th and Red River that many of the bands posted and/or talked about on this blog played at? Well, the fine folks running The Blue Flamingo Facebook Page have organized a Blue Flamingo Tribute/Reunion show, with many of the local bands from the Blue Flamingo era reuniting for this special occasion. Lineup for the two-night event is below:

Day One:

Thursday April 29th, 2010

"Special Guest"

FuckEmo's

The Chumps

Lower Class Brats

The Bulemics

Down Symdrome Army

@ Plush (formerly The Blue Flamingo)

7th & Red River. $5 at the door.

Day Two:

Saturday May 1st, 2010

The Johnny Motard Experience (playing Motards songs!)

G.O.M.E.Z. (playing Gomez songs!)

The Crack Pipes

The Paranoids

Dead End Cruisers

Stretford Tribute Band (feat. members of Stretford & Yuppie Pricks)

Shindigs

Charlie's Angels

27 Devils Joking

@ Emo's (inside)

603 Red River. $6 advance ($8 at the door)

Both shows are benefits for the SIMS Foundation which is a really great cause, so don't be worried that someone is using this to bankroll their personal savings account. Look for many more of the records by these bands to be posted on the Texas Punk Treasure Chest in the upcoming weeks (in addition to the ones which already have), and see you at the shows.

v/a: "Live At Emo's" compilation CD

This compilation is comprised of mostly Texas bands with a few high profile non-Texas bands thrown in (most likely to entice non-Austinites to buy it), all recorded live at Emo's Austin to glorious ADAT. Why do I know it was recorded to ADAT? Because a band that I used to be in played one of the nights that some of these recordings were made (Nov 12th, 1993, the same night the Seaweed & Glorium tracks were recorded), and our entire set was recorded that night. We had hopes that we would be included on this comp, but didn't make the cut for obvious reasons. I still have one of the ADAT tapes from that show in a box buried in my closet somewhere.

That being said, this brings me to my next question: Did all the bands keep tapes of their shows, and do these exist somewhere? Is there an entire unreleased live Cherubs recording (or Gut? or American Psycho Band? or ANY of these bands?) out there somewhere, waiting to make it's way to the internet for all to enjoy? If so, i'd like to know.

1994 Rise Records

1. The Didjits - "Captain Ahab"

2. FuckEmo's - "Your Lies"

3. Gut - "Fresh Fish Surprise"

4. Ed Hall - "Bullshit"

5. Cows - "Plowed"

6. Cherubs - "All Chickened Out"

7. Noodle - "Crack Baby"

8. Seaweed - "Baggage"

9. Glorium - "Mother Machine"

10. Sockeye - "Slicin' Technique Off The Top"

11. Chaindrive - "Sad Sack"

12. American Psycho Band - "Ice Queen"

DL: v/a: "Live At Emo's" compilation CD