Sunday, May 06, 2007

Dirk Fest

Umlaut's friend Peter Bilt will be playing a reunion set with his old band, New Wave legends Pearl Harbor & the Explosions, at next month's Dirk Dirksen memorial shows!

Dirk Fest: A Celebration of the Life of Dirk Dirksen (The Fab Mab Pope of Punk):

June 7th @ Slim's, S.F.
  • Toiling Midgets
  • The Lewd
  • Pearl Harbor & the Explosions
  • The Rubber City Rebels
  • The Symptoms
  • The Sea Hags
  • Ron Jones (spoken word poet)
  • DJ Denise Demise
June 8th @ Great American Music Hall, S.F.
  • Jello Biafra (M.C.)
  • The Avengers
  • SF Mutant All Stars (with Naomi Ruth Eisenberg)
  • The Contractions
  • The White Trash Debutantes (with Billy Gould from Faith No More & the fabulous Jon Gries "Uncle Rico" from Napoleon Dynamite)
  • No Alternative (with Chip Kinman from The Dils and Rank and File)
  • special guest Ness Aquino
  • Denise Demise DJ
  • Dana Alberts (musician/poet)
  • Dirk Dirksen / Fab Mab Films by Karl Hinz
Be there or be square!

1979... New Wave sure was angular and stripy...

Autographed 7" Single (From the Umlaut Archives)