Turn back the clocks and drag yourself out of bed at 2PM for live music at Trailer Box Gallery at 12 Francis J. Clarke Circle in Bethel, Connecticut. See concert photos from a professional concert photographer taken from the front and from a drummer taken from on stage!
Live music by local queer bands Refractory Period and Mickey Blurr and the Plurals.
Listen to them on Bandcamp before the show:
Refractory Period
Mickey Blurr
This is an outdoor event, so dress appropriately for the weather, whatever it is that day. We suggest registering for the event (its free) so if we DO have weather concerns, you'll get an email update ahead of the show!
I wanted to dip into patch making, and I had a messenger bag with a decal I didn't like, so I figured that it would become my marvellous test subject. I finished it last night and I am so happy with it!
it's definitely a step away from the inspiration (battle jackets) in the fact that there is only one punk band on there - in future, I would like to make an actual battle jacket with punk bands on there but I need to expand my listening first! right now it's a fair few bands, but I need enough to cover a JACKET so. in time.
but yeah!! I hand painted all the patches myself with acrylic paint. since the fabric isn't moving around all.obee the place I don't need to worry about cracking.
I also painted a couple of the pins, including the crass pin, the pink triangle, and my bird nerd pin!
so yeah!!! I'm so incredibly happy with it and it's definitely now my favourite bag!!!
yo have y’all heard this band yet??? i don’t tiktok so maybe i’m late but they don’t have massive followings on YT or IG yet so idk, but either way they are something HUGE i’m telling you 🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩
There's no one form of commitment / Each situation's different / As the people in our lives / Some things just cannot be defined / So let's go by what we want / Instead of what we're told we're meant to
thought i’d share a really underrated queercore band rec! powderpaint - made up of two trans artists who make awesome retro disco / dancepop music! shonalika, one half of the band, also makes banger youtube video essays which you should definitely check out!
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another great and most recent song by them! a satire about transphobic fearmongering
ARTIO (OPENING FOR HONEY REVENGE'S EUROBEEAN TOUR)
22.05.2024 @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester (250 Capacity)
Written June 2024
Artio is a band that has been on my radar for a while now , having seen them for South Arcade back in September. They released their debut album, Babyface, earlier this year, and it’s definitely one of my favourites this year, so far. I was first introduced to Artio via @artbyamixx around this time last year when they released their ‘Pyrokid’ EP, and although I don’t actively listen to them as much, they’re without a doubt, some of the most talented people I’ve ever met. They’re based in the north of England, which is refreshing nowadays with a lot of successful artists moving down to London for their career.
For their set, they played a few songs from their album, as well as a few from the ‘Pyrokid’ EP, which I really enjoyed as ‘Hush Money’ is one of my absolute favourites of theirs and seeing it live for the second time was unreal [clip in above video]. Rae’s vocals blow me out of my mind every time I hear them, their vocal capacity is so crazy and I’m in constant awe of them. I had already heard all of the other songs before when they opened for South Arcade but hearing ‘Head In The Sand, Finger On The Trigger’ live was unbelievable. It’s so fun to see bands on stage actually enjoying themselves and with such high-energy stage presence, it’s clear that this band loves what they do.
After Honey Revenge’s set, Jai & Ieuan were hanging around and selling merch, so we went to talk to them, before meeting Devin & Donny. @artbyamixx had bought her empty box of sertraline medication and asked for the entire band to sign it, which they did happily [3:11 in this youtube tour diary video], as it is also a song title of theirs. During which, I was also able to chat to Ieuan a little about music production as he is the main producer on the Babyface record. The album is one of my favourites music production-wise. I absolutely love how most of the songs flow into one another and keep themes - it’s hard to tell where some songs cut off!!
The band have plans to open for American artist, Mothica, when she comes across the pond for her headline tour in the autumn. I should probably try and go to see Artio at a headline show sometime soon, I’ve seen them twice now, both times opening for another of my favourite bands. They’re all extremely talented and I’m sure that there’s great success in the future for this band.
Currently we're working on covers of songs we like but we will work up to making our own music I've got some lyrics written already:)
Our Instagram is WORK-IN-PROGRESSband the same as here and we'll be posting on there soon.
Asks are welcome so long as they're appropriate (but they can be a bit weird)
DNI: tories, terfs, racists, homophobes, nonces, transphobes, etc just dont be a shitty person
We'll be releasing things on here that we wont in insta for example song lyrics, chords etc although we do plan on doing tutorials for guitar and bass on insta if we make our own music.
Did you know if you pissed while listening to inquisitivefaggotries (the most amazing band ever), u get infinite rizz!? That's right! If you listen to them every day while you pee, you will be the most alpha sigma male out there!