My friend Rob who sings and plays with THE TAXPAYERS is helping to put together THE GATHERING OF THE GOOF PUNKS, and they could use our help. They put this whole thing together themselves & you know how we feel about the D.I.Y. spirit.
Check out the video above & donate if you can.
Their KICKSTARTER is HERE.
Here’s what they wrote up on their Kickstarter:
The Gathering of the Goof Punx is a music and culture festival taking place April 5th-8th or 2012 in Portland, Oregon. There’s gonna be a shit ton of bands! There’s gonna be a parade! There’s gonna be a punk rock carnival! There’s gonna be a punk rock spelling bee! There’s gonna be the world’s biggest game of Knockout! Midnight Soccer! Shoe Game! A late night screening of Weird Al’s classic “UHF”! Old friends! New friends! AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF FUN!
But we need YOUR HELP TO MAKE IT HAPPEN! This is a not-for-profit fest, but we still need to pay the venues and give the out of town bands some gas money. The calculated cost for this is around 3,000 dollars, which the fest organizers are willing to pay out of their own pockets, but they could use a little help, ya know?
List of bands:
Absent Minds (PDX)
Andrew Link & Metallica (PDX)
Angries (Corvallis, OR)
Atomic Butter Babes (PDX)
Big Eyes (Seattle, WA)
Bobby Joe Ebola & the Children Macnuggits (Berkeley, CA)
Company (PDX)
Destroy Nate Allen (PDX)
Di Nigunim (San Diego, CA)
Divers (PDX)
Fools Rush (PDX)
Grandma Kelsey (Boise, ID)
Foot Ox (PDX)
The Fuzzlers (Athens, GA)
Hail Seizures (Olympia, WA)
Hunger Moon (Boise, ID)
King Elephant (Missoula, MT)
Lee Corey Oswald (PDX)
Living Rheum (PDX)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Los Angeles, CA)
Nymphobraniacs (Brooklyn, NY)
Party Bomb (Oakland, CA)
Potsie (PDX)
Ramshackle Glory (Tucson, AZ)
Sword Of A Bad Speller (PDX)
The Scribblers (Missoula, MT)
The Taxpayers (PDX / New Orleans, LA)
Tim Blood & The Gut-Panthers (Moscow, ID)
Tiny Knives (PDX)
Tyson Ballew (Missoula, MT)
Walter Mitty & His Makeshift Orchestra (PDX)
Zebu (nowhere and everywhere)
And MORE TBA!!!
Here’s a goof punx manifesto, which attempts to explain what our movement is: http://thetaxpayers.net/post/3947436561/a-goof-punk-manifesto
THANKS FOR CHECKING THIS OUT.
Support independent music. Peace.
