hey thanks for this email i had no idea! holy cow 10 yrs On 9/13/07, WWWhatsup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://punkcast.com/10years.html > > PUNKCAST 10 YEARS ANNIVERSARY > PARTY AND SCREENING > FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14 2007 8-12pm > > Secret Project Robot > 210 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn > (& Metropolitan) > (entrance on River St) > > In September 1997, UK punk band One Way System came to play NYC. > Their manager John B was a friend, and had run Jettisoundz - a UK > punk video label. I was working on internet stuff and suggested > the event be webcast. He was keen to do it live, but I explained > the merits economical and reachwise of making the meat available > on-demand with as little fluff as possible - thus punkcast.com > was born. I myself was inspired by the fan-run ftp sites for both > Bjork and Prodigy, which way outstripped all other internet music > efforts of the day. We hired a cameraman to come and shoot video > and put up some pix, the entire audio from three shows, plus a > postage stamp size mpeg clip. John B, inspired, went back to the > UK and on his own next shoots - Hawkwind (taken down, > regretfully, earlier in 2007), and Goldblade - made audio > punkcasts. He returned to the USA in Jan 98 to shoot Jane Couch - > a Women's Boxing Champion who is the sister of One Way System's > drummer, and later in the year posyted audio of the UK Subs > playing in his local in Lancashire. The arrival in NYC of Peter & > The Test Tube Babies in Sep 1998 was sufficient impetus for me to > buy a camera for punkcast, and over the next year I shot about > half a dozen more old school bands I knew, including a quartet of > NYC hard core favourites - Bad Brains, Agnostic Front, Murphys > Law, and Leeway. In 1999 when Ari-Up re-appeared on the scene for > her first shows in over 25 years I was there. She's a compelling > subject and I shot her several times, plus some of the local > reggae scene, which brought the punkcast count up to around 20. > In late 2000 I started paying Sean P. Murphy to shoot local punk > & hardcore, mainly at CBGB, and over the next year he shot about > 70 odd shows, only a couple of which I actually got round to > posting. During this time punkcast also got it's first taste of > the NYC indie scene when Leesaw Andaloro contributed a Touchdown > clip for #50. The count was just #100, in September 2001, as > Punkcast entered its 5th year. I'd found I enjoyed shooting so, > with the well burst internet bubble giving me more time, I > decided to do more. Two local bands interested me in particular - > anti- folk heroes the Moldy Peaches and hot hipster outfit the > Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I shot & posted both in short order, and also > discovered that both bands were the tips of the iceberg of > extensive associated scenes that would provide grist for years to > follow. Shooting old pal Joe Strummer in April 2002 for 4 nights > in a row allowed me to experiment and is when I really > established the style I maintain to this day. By September 2002 > the count was up to #200. It was then that I seriously started to > shoot in Brooklyn, discovering Mighty Robot and Todd P. After > clandestinely shooting some great shows such as The Gossip in Jun > 2003, I was fortunate to gain a carte blanche to shoot in the > Knitting Factory, greatly expanding the possibilities. This was > an exciting period as the YYY's, Liars etc broke out > internationally, while new and interesting bands such as TV On > The Radio were appearing. I embarked on shooting a series of > avant showcases - titled 'Mutiny' - put on by The Social > Registry. The city had started it's own TV station NYCtv and, > after being approached by producer Shirley Braha, I supplied the > bulk of the content for it's nascent new music show NY Noise. In > September 2003, after 6 years, the count was #320. A year later, > in September 2004, the count was #540. Doubling the shoot rate, > however, meant that fewer shows got posted. I had moved the > studio to close to the Knit, to better take advantage of the > opportunies it presented. One shoot #431 - The Fall - was so > successful the band released it on DVD. Apart from frequent > Mighty Robots I was also regularly shooting at Pianos, Sin-é, > Southpaw, Trash Bar, and a new warehouse space in Brooklyn called > Volume. I was also VJ-ing weekly at BP Fallon's Death Disco at > The Delancey. The summer saw the first series of East River Park > shows. The Cake Shop opened. 280 shoots in the year pushed the > count to #820 by September 2005. Even less got posted but those > that did, like The Long Blondes, Oneida, and Todd P's first > acoustic BBQ, were spectacular. With the advent of the video iPod > came the Punkcast Podcast - the first posted was #840 The Gossip > blockbuster 'Standing In The Way of Control', also Punkcast's > first ever YouTube clip, currently closing in on 80,000 views. In > March 2006 the Knit withdrew my privileges. I was just able to > get in there for one last shoot - of my old pal Nikki Sudden, who > sadly died the following morning. The favorite punkcast venues > became The Cake Shop & Tonic. Bands posted included Oakley Hall, > Gang Gang Dance, and Awesome Color. In the summer I shot nearly > all the free McCarren Park Pool shows. In September 2006 I was in > CBGB for the last days, as the count reached #1020, down to 200 > shoots in the year. This last year has seen the annual rate drop > even further to 180, as we've seen the closures of Sin-é, Tonic, > and North Six, and right now I'm just on #1202. The flipside has > been, of course, that I've had more time to edit, and it's been a > record year for output with 74 posted. This last year has seen > the first official public screenings with exhibits at Secret > Project Robot in Brooklyn and Point Ephemère in Paris. > > It's a lot easier to shoot than to process. A few years back I > reckoned it out that, if I stopped shooting right then, it would > still take me, at the rate of 4/5 bands a week, around 5 years to > catch up. God knows what that figure is now. I trust that I will > live long enough to get around doing it all justice. Probably out > of the 1200 shoots 700 or so merit the effort - the others likely > don't have good enough audio. There are something like 270 > punkcasts there right now, with around 700 individual clips. > > In 4 hours at Secret Project Robot I'll be able to show, maybe, > around 50 clips. > > Flier: http://punkcast.com/punkcast10years.jpg > > Video of Paris exhibit: http://punkcast.com/filmerlamusique.mov > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > WWWhatsup NYC > http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > >
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