A calendar of shows and other upcoming events. Updated 06/15/00
Dash (-): It's a show. Tilde (~): It's something else. If no state is mentioned, it's in Illinois, my home state. If it is a show and no time is mentioned, it is a 6:00 or 7:00 show. You've got shows? Other important going-ons? Birthday coming up? Drop us a line.
June:
23 ~ (through 25th) Custer's Last Stand Reenactment - Hardin, MT
~ (through 25th) Heritage Fest - Downers Grove
28 - (10 p.m.) Jets to Brazil, The Rapture, Explosion - Fireside Bowl
30 - Haymarket Riot, Motion City Soundtrack, the Super 18, the Pattersons, Slackjaw - Scrap Skate Park
July:
~ Roswell UFO Encounter Festival - Roswell, NM
~ Beer Can Regatta : Main event, race between boats made entirely out of beer cans - Mindil Beach, Darwin, Australia
~ Lumberjack World Championships - Hayward, WI
03 ~ Wife Carrying World Championships: The length of the track is 2535 meters, and the surface of the track is sand, grass and asphalt with two dry obstacles and one water obstacle. "The wife to be carried can be your own, the neighbor's or you may have found her farther afield; she must, however, be over 17 years of age." - Sonkaj�rvi, Finland
04 ~ Fourth of July: Get your patriotism on
06 - Dillinger Four, Ambition Mission, Panic, The Flux - Fireside Bowl
07 - Engine Down, Uniform Pants, Naginata, TR - 111 E. Division St. #1, Bloomington (John)
- (benefit for cystic fibrosis) Haymarket Riot, Sweep the Leg Johnny, American Heritage, The Glass Family - Fireside Bowl
08 - Engine Down, The Hidden Chord, Last Ditch Effort - Fireside Bowl
10 - Party of Helicopters, Atom Bomb Pocket Knife - Fireside Bowl
14 - First Grade Crush, Motion City Soundtrack (x-Animal Chin), Face First - Scrap Skate Park
- (10 p.m.) The Motion, Lupine, The Album Leaf, Slotcar - Fireside Bowl
15 - (9 p.m.) Don Caballero, Dianogah, Cap Au Gris - Fireside Bowl
- (5 p.m.) Hot Stove Jimmy, Horace Pinker, Wafflehouse, Spare Change 00 - Fireside Bowl
20 - (10 p.m.) Mens Recovery Project, Oxes, Har Mar Superstar - Fireside Bowl
28 - Lynyrd's Innards, The Jagoffs - Fireside Bowl
29 - (9 p.m.) Sidekick Kato, Hertzsprung Gap, Abeline - Fireside Bowl
August:
~ Annual World Bog Snorkeling Championships - Waen Rhydd Bog, Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys, Wales, U.K.
~ Festival of Hungry Ghosts - Hong Kong, China
03 - Milemarker, Aloha, Lovesick, Naginata - 111 E. Division St. #1, Bloomington (John)
- The Faint, Camera Obscura, The Vue, Q and Not U - Fireside Bowl
07 ~ (through 16th) Elvis Week - Memphis, TN
15 ~ Tenative, flexible deadline for Issue #5 - contribute?
- At the Drive-In, Rythym of Black Lines, Hacksaw - Fireside Bowl
25 - Avail, Leatherface - Fireside Bowl
26 - Hey Mercedes, Camden, Mt. St. Helens
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I just noticed that there is an eerie simularity between the beginning of Versus' "Underground" and the beginning of Jets to Brazil's "Chinatown." Coincidence?
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