THE PUNC REPORT - ISSUE 2 (JULY - IÚIL)
THE PUNC REPORT
As you probably know, the PUNC Report is a radio programme (Thursdays at 6pm on Near FM) as well as an occasional fanzine. There’s also a website (punc.neocities.org), a Mastodon account (https://mastodon.ie/@punc) and an Instagram account.
📻 SHOW NOTES | AN CHLÁR SEO CHUGAINN
I’ve been given the very nice opportunity to broadcast on DDR - - that’s right folks, Raidio Digiteach Dubh Linn have seen fit to let me take part in their Pride broadcasting block. “Queering the Air” is meant to celebrate 50 years of community protest in Ireland. I’ll be playing queer punk from Ireland and around the word for a programme called “Aiteach Aerach Puncach” on Thursday at 7pm. So tune in !!!!
At the time of writing, I still don’t know what songs I’m playing. Please e-mail me suggestions at punc@tuta.io.
Now, due to the above, this week’s episode of the PUNC Report is a pre-record. No guests - just me, a microphone and the Punk News. Lots of songs and lots of bands, including Problem Patterns, The Blades, The Undertones, Surge, Special Branch & Extravision. You can hear it all on Near FM at 6pm on Thursday…
As for next week? It’s a mystery to me… but soon I’ll be speaking to Rita Hynes (Drogheda Zine Fair, Underground Zine Archive) about an extremely exciting film screening taking place in Drogheda. Scroll down to find out more…
📡 PUNC NEWS | NUACHT PHUNCACH
💃 Gigeanna:
JUNE
Jun 27th: The last ever Dance to the Underground :(( Drag by Coco Rí, Dr Count Evil, Shadow Frost, Cheri Mander, De Vil Bava, Dirty Snowflake, Transcat-woman and Gin Tonica. Live music by the blistering loud queer hardcore band SURGE. DJing by Tibia, Rob Fibula & DJ Nollipop. It’s the end of an era…Fibber’s Basement, 10 euro on the door.
Jun 27th: Green Day play in Marlay Park, Dublin. Nothing But Thieves & Maid of Ace are on support.
Jun 27th-28th: Patti Smith Quartet plays in Vicar Street, Dublin. Sold out, but give it a go.
Jun 28th: Angel Du$t, Gouge Away, Teenage Wrist play Opium in Dublin. Tickets from 25 euro.
Jun 28th: Jane’s Addiction play in Trinity College. Tickets were from 59.90.
June 29th: Julia Louise Knifefist, Polyp, Vsevelod Plotkin, Marrowbone & Pangur Breac play the Tunnel. Where is the Tunnel? I can disclose that the Tunnel is in Santry but that’s all the detail I can give you, because the Tunnel is not the name of a hip underground bar, it is a literal tunnel.
June 29th: Western Girls Pride Party w/ Big Tears in Sin É in Dublin.
Jun 29th: Tender pride block party in the Complex in Dublin. One of Bean Sí (RIP) shall be DJing, if that means anything to you.
JULY
July 1st: Dublin Sticker Expo submissions deadline. Send yr stickers to DSE 72 Alymer Rd. Newcastle D22DP02, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
Jul 1st: Peer Pleasure, A Dead Human, No Hassle, Fly Parts, Ether and Alphi Demp play Fibber’s basement in Dublin. Tickets ten euro – that’s 1.66 per band.
Jul 2nd: Punks 4 Pride: Survival Horror, All Girls Piss and Touch Excellent play Fibber’s basement (still in Dublin). All proceeds go to Trans Harm Reduction. Tickets 8 euro.
Jul 3rd: Spit, Nailbreaker, Scrum play Watchtower, McHugh’s, Drogheda. Entry fee is one non-perishable food item. “No New Wavers”, they say.
Jul 4th-7th: Bród na Gaeltachta (that’s “Pride of the Gaeltacht”) in Dún na nGall.
Jul 4th: Public Serpents play Pharmacia in Limerick w/ RPC, Jobseekers, some images of paradise & 50 Foot Woman on support. Tickets a tenner.
Jul 4th: Spit, Nailbreaker & Headmelt play Bennigans in Derry.
Jul 4th: Screening of “The Rent Strike: The Story of Ireland’s Housing Revolution” in Drogheda’s Droichead arts centre.
Jul 5th: Public Serpents play the Thomas House in Dublin w/ RPC on support. Tickets a tenner.
Jul 5th: Music for Palestine in Pharmacia, LK. Post Punk Podge, The Technohippies, TA Narrative, Jack Brolly & PVP play. Tickets are 15 euro, all proceeds to Palestine Red Crescent Society.
Jul 5th: Spit, Nailbreaker, Slightly Dishevelled, play Anseo in Dublin.
Jul 6th: Public Serpents play the Deer’s Head in Belfast, w/ Jobseekers, RPC & Frayed Ends on support. Tickets £15, doors at 8.
Jul 6th: The Nilz & Hey Arnold Schwarzenegger play Sally Long’s in Galway.
Jul 6th: Uragh & Blackneverleft play the Presentation Arts Centre in Enniscorthy, Wexford.
Jul 6th: Spit, Nailbreaker play a mystery Dublin gig. “Ask a punk”, they say ! Someone told me it was on at “someone’s house”, but the PUNC Report has not been able to confirm this. After this gig they venture abroad (Nottingham, Northampton, then London).
Jul 8th-12th: Limerick Alternative Pride – theme is “aontacht”, unity.
Jul 12th: Lord Jane play the Watchtower in Drogheda with Mopehead & Snafu.
Jul 18th: Summer of Soul ‘24: An anti-racist, anti-fascist celebration in Crowbar, Temple Bar. This is organized by ROSA, YARI and Trans & Inersex Pride Ireland – all affiliated to the Socialist Party. Performers TBA. Tickets on a sliding scale from 10 euro to 15 euro.
Jul 27th: Sweets launch their album in Dolan’s Warehouse, Limerick City. Tickets 15 euro.
📨 Zines:
July 7th is the deadline to submit your zines to the Glasgow Music Zine Fair, which takes place on the 27th of July. They say “this music zine fair is a way for the local music scene to reconnect with the time-proven practice of zine making.”. In Glasgow? Going on holiday to Glasgow? Mates in Glasgow? Find out more via linktr.ee/glasgowzinelib or visit their website.
Out Now: City of Culture #3 (“the biggest issue yet” - Emmy City and Niamh Culture)!
In Cinemas Soon: Swarm #7 (ft. Henry Rollins)! Out on July 20th.
💿 New Releases
Problem Patterns wrote a song about County Aintrim for RTÉ (google “The County Measure” to find out why). It’s called I Think You Should Leave and it can be downloaded from Bandcamp.
Drogheda neo-no wavers Spit release their new tape on the 28th of June. It’ll be called Suffocate Yrself and you can pre-order it on Bandcamp.
The first (and last) Plasterpig album will be released on July 15th. Format and contents are as yet a mystery.
🎊 Forthcoming Fests:
July 13th-14th: Filth and the Floodlights celebrates 20 years of DIY punk at Bohemians FC in Phibsboro(ugh). Lineup includes: Surge, Okus, Hands Up Who Wants To Die, Yop, Genuflection, Special Branch, Nichts, Mana, Fizzy Spinsters, Hunger Pains, Wild Rocket, Yurt, Bar Tape, Chrononaut, 50 Foot Woman, Big Tears, Marrowbone, Hectic Bins and A Dead Human.
Jul 13th-14th: Dublin Comic Arts Festival, a not-for-profit free festival of artists and publishers. There will be punks and there will be zines. Richmond Barracks, Inchicore – and wear a mask.
Jul 19th-21st: Forest Fest in Laois w/ (among others) Dexy’s, The Undertones, Bad Manners, The Wedding Present, Ham Sandwich, Aoife Destruction & The Trouble Pilgrims. So patch up your relationship with your dad and go with him.
Jul 20th: GUTTERSNIPE! GUTTERSNIPE! GUTTERSNIPE! An all-dayer in Drogheda as the Drogheda Zine Fair (Hi Rita!) & the Spiral Night Market (Hi Jaz!) team up. First there’s a screening of Guttersnipe, the 1980 documentary about a small-town punk fanzine! Then there’s the launch of issue 7 of Swarm! Then there’s music from Jake Under My Skin and Nerves, and DJing by DJ Kwoovoid! Film screening is free (with a reservation), gig is a tenner.
Jul 20th-21st: The Quarter block party in Cork. Acts appearing include Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies, Laurie Shaw - who is “presenting Felted Fruit” (???), Search Results, Crying Loser, Jean Pack, Rita Lynn, Jack Brolly (any relation?), Pôt-Pôt & Messyng.
Jul 26-28: Faoin Tuath, a festival for queer people who want to go to the country (or already live there). There will be workshops, talks, live music, DJing and film screenings. Musicians include the fabulous 7of9. All happening at Common Knowledge in Clare. Tickets are limited !
August 1st-5th: GAZE, the Irish International LGBTQIA Film Festival.
FACT: According to festival director Greg Thorpe, this year’s festival features two intersex films but “just missed out” on an asexual drama.
CONGRATULATIONS: to local punk Eli Borelli, whose short animated film “there’s a light” was selected by GAZE for this year’s festival.
🪧 Notes
Congratulations are also due to Bands Boycott Barclays, who have successfully forced 4 major music festivals to refuse Barclays’ sponsorship. Download, Latitude, Bestival & the Isle of Wight festival have all ditched Barclays. Credit is due to all of the bands that boycotted the targeted festivals, including a number of Irish acts. For further information & updates, see @bandsboycottbarclays on Instagram or email them via bandsboycottbarclays@gmail.com.
Trans & Intersex Pride takes place in Dublin on July the 13th, organized by members of Socialist Feminist group ROSA. The march begins at 2pm from the Garden of Remembrance. The Dublin Union of Punks will be marching - look for the banner and join the punk bloc.
📝 Dates For Your Diary:
June 25th : RIP Patrick Coultry, stabbed to death at the Belfield Is Burning punk festival in Dublin, 1977. Also: Happy Birthday, George Michael, born this day 1963!
June 28th : Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots!
JULY
July is Internatonal Zine Month and Disability Pride Month. And the Month of the Most Precious Blood of the Heart of Jesus. Apparently.
July 1st: Happy Birthday, Act Up Dublin - founded on this day in 2016!
Jul 2nd: Happy World UFO Day. Keep your eyes on the skies…
Jul 4th: Smash Your TV day. Also Freedom From America day.
Jul 3rd: Happy Birthday, Poly Styrene, born this day in 1957!
Jul 6th: Happy International Co-operative Day, a 101 year old festivity celebrating the co-op movement. This year’s theme is “Build a Better Future For All”.
Jul 7th: Happy World Chocolate Day!
Jul 9th: Happy Birthday, Marc Almond, born this day in 1958!
Jul 14th: Mad Pride day. Also: anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in 1789, freeing mentally ill/”mad” inmates.
ACTIVITY SUGGESTION: Take part in or organize a Mad Pride “bed push”, pushing a gurney along a protest route to startle the public and draw attention to the abuse and neglect of mentally ill people and psychiatric patients.
Jul 20th: RIP Carlo Giuliani, shot to death and run over by police at the G8 demonstrations in Italy in 2001.
Jul 22nd: International Zine Library Day & DJ MAL’s birthday!
Jul 26th: RIP Sinéad O’Connor, who died on this day in 2023. Laoch ar lár.
Jul 28th: World Hepatitis Day.
Jul 29th: International Tiger Day.
…That about wraps it up for this month, folks. Thanks for reading. For more Irish punk news, views & nonsense, visit punc.neocities.org.