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)