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May 20 2006 Korea/Japan Punk Festival 2005 For our final gallery, witness Royal Shamrock's set, and all the group photos we took afterward. |
May 20 2006 Korea/Japan Punk Festival 2005 For the next gallery, here's Pogo Machine, Captain Bootbois, and Samchung. |
May 20 2006 Korea/Japan Punk Festival 2005 Now here's Shorty Cat, DST (which turned out to stand for Dirty Small Town), and Tabloid Play. As you can see, the photos started to get pretty wild. My inhibitions about going on stage while bands played basically vanished. |
May 20 2006 Korea/Japan Punk Festival 2005 Today's gallery includes Cock Rasher, Couch, and Benkei, a Japanese skinhead/ska/reggae band. They were obviously my favourite band of the night, and I got some pretty good pictures of them, considering I was kept busy the whole set dancing at the very front (and drinking the beer kindly handed out by the lead singer. Also I got some good pictures of Seunghan from Cock Rasher in front of the strobe light and some decent crowd-surfing pictures during Couch. Before my old site went offline, someone had registered a Korean domain name that went to my site. Now that things are back to normal on the new server, so is the mysterious Korean address. |
May 20 2006 Korea/Japan Punk Festival 2005 Today's gallery includes Rux and 4-Spikes. There were four Japanese bands playing so I might try to divide all the galleries up according to Japanese bands. That means tomorrow you'll see Cock Rasher, Couch, and Benkei. Incidentally, I got some crazy pictures of Cock Rasher. No Zombie Seunghan this time around. |
May 20 2006 Korea/Japan Punk Festival 2005 Yeah, that's right...2005. I said it. Anyway, I have a lot of pictures to get through, so for today all you'll get to see are the images outside the venue that I took before the show started. |
May 18 2006No pictures today; I'm fresh out. Lately it seems like Youtube has been a pretty useful site. There's all sorts of Korean punk stuff if you search.Jonghee threw together a quick music video to the Suck Stuff song Your Life Here featuring footage from our trips to Japan and down to Busan/Daegu. You can see me at the beginning opening up my first beer in Japan at the airport. Also, Joey found the entire video clip to the Music Camp incident. I've only ever seen the short one so it put a bit more perspective on the whole thing. You can see Urchin and Changrae in the crowd before they take off their clothes. I didn't know before but it looked like Never Daniel was just about performing side-by-side with Jonghee. And they showed very little of Joey of course. And just for the fuck of it, here's an instructional video from the Trailer Park Boys on how to steal furniture. |
May 14 2006 Goodbye to Mark By now Mark should be in an undisclosed location waiting to return to Afghanistan in a couple days. I just realised I never got a copy of all his Afghanistan pictures. Dammit, I was going to host them on this site. I can't say he had the best time here. On the weekdays he had almost nobody to talk to, and there was nobody to show him around. It was tough getting a good deal on a hotel, and he never mastered the subway system. I also didn't see enough of him online, which is odd in a country where you can't throw a stone without it hitting the Internet. Early on in his trip he was hit by a car, and the car came out the loser. But anyway, we had good times on the weekends. We'll always have Quads to Busan: The Search for Hitler. Hopefully we'll see each other again in Edmonton. |
May 14 2006 Skunk Sunday Night... I showed up a little late for the Sunday show, in time for the last few bands. The drummer from Suck Stuff showed up with a kitten he found in the wheel well of his car. As you can see it's very tiny, probably no more than a couple weeks old. He gave the kitten a Korean name but Paul named it Lucky. |
May 7 2006 Piercing These are the highlights of last weekend. I'm a week behind. I showed up on Sunday and dragged Mark out. Anne-Marie gave him the nickname "Hungovery" but it's got too much of an "ovary" sound in it. We went to a piercing shop so Anne-Marie could get her ear pierced. It was a little over a year ago that I went with another Anne-Marie to a piering shop in Hongdae so she could get her ear pierced. Odd. I left the show very early and only got pictures of one band. Here's something worth looking at: pictures of 1950s teddy girls in England. I found it online and there are some interesting photos. Their fashion is basically proto-mod, with a severe emphasis on looking tomboyish. I can only hope someone looks back on my photos 50 years from now. |
May 5 2006 The Next One Voted Off Survivor: Korea... Now that Rene is back on Canadian soil, it's Jay's turn to leave. I couldn't make it out this weekend, but last weekend I was able to spend some time with Jay, as well as Rene. That way I could get all my goodbyes out of the way in one go. Jay doesn't have a story about getting attacked by Koreans before his departure, but that's a good thing considering he's been living near Daechuri. He's still high up on the list of people I've met here who I'll miss. |
May 4 2006 Farewell to Rene I just got word that my friend Rene is leaving Korea. He's been here almost as long as I have, ever since he contacted me over Indecline to ask about getting hired with my old company...which turned out to be a piece of shit. Recently he's been racking up IOUs from friends and business ventures so he decided it's time to leave before more people owe him money. His departure was a bit messed up because of an encounter in Hongdae. He was walking with a friend when a mid-30s Korean man started harassing him. Just shouting in his face and pushing him. He tried to get away, but the guy came after him. So he beat the guy up. Not something I recommend doing here, but the guy was seriously asking for it and it was basically self defence. When the police turned up, eyewitnesses reported that Rene had beaten the guy up unprovoked, so he was arrested. Rene's a small guy so his friend was arrested too, although he didn't have a serious part in this. It took Rene a while before he met a sympathetic cop willing to listen to his side of the story. His departure was delayed while this whole mess was cleared. In the end both he and his friend paid 500 000 won, which sucks, but he says the cops probably figured out they weren't really legal here. And probably their attacker got off without punishment. Anyway, I'll miss Rene, and I'm glad I had some time to hang out with him last weekend. Here are some pictures of our first meeting in months, at Castle Praha in Gangnam. Tomorrow I'll show you pictures from our journey to the War Memorial. |
May 1 2006 May Day I parted from the Skunk tour around 6:00pm on Sunday and caught a train back with Jay. I arrived in Seoul around 3:30am. Everyone who stayed for the show got back around 5:00am. But it was good having a train where I could freely urinate whenever I chose. On Monday, which is a national holiday in Korea, I met up with Mark and Verv in order to find Mark a hotel and a place to use his bank card. There was considerable difficulty. Also, check out this crazy photo I found in Itaewon. It looks old, and I'm curious who these people are. They look much older than any actual Korean punks have any business being. |
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