![]() ![]() Fantastic show! Side note, Mary Timony underwear is the most interesting tour merch I’ve ever bought! Never got the chance to see Bikini Kill live but a few years later one of these friends and I went to Boston to see Le Tigre w/Mary Timony opening. After that I wasn’t much into folk music anymore! Version of the First Two Records was one of those. ![]() It was something I’d do once a month to try to discover new stuff. Used to do this thing where I’d go into a record store and buy cds solely on the cover art. They encouraged me to broaden my music horizons. I was really into folk music at the time but my friends were all into punk and if I wanted to hang with them I had to listen to all these guy bands, Dead Kennedys and the like, although they were really into PJ Harvey as well. I was peripherally aware of Bikini Kill as a teenager but didn’t really get into them until my last year of high school, ’99/’00. Redeeming the download somehow brought me here. Just bought the pink vinyl Newbury Comics exclusive of Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah. Thx 4 the support and inspiration i’ll try to keep it going, much luv ![]() i feel like i have to prove every aspect of my being to them in order for them to be valid and sometimes it feels like they interprete my opinions as a personal attack, so for me, riot grrrl is like this awesome movement and set of ideals that’s just like “we hear u, u have a right to be mad and we’ll be mad along side you” growing up as a grrrl is just something u have 2 experience in order to understand and i don’t blame the guys in my life for not understanding my experiences but it is tiring. listening to the music makes me feel a sense of validation that i was kind of missing before, i know i’m not suppose to need validation but no matter how much of a cliche it is, being a teenager, especially a teenage grrrl is really hard, riot grrrl and grrrls like kathleen hanna inspired me to be me and for the first time i felt this sense of constructive anger, and anger that fueled me instead of setting me back. I feel that it is important to preserve the history of our city and our community, and I hope you will join me.I found bikini kill and riot grrrl this summer, it played a big role in me finding myself and i’m still trying. I have now lived right next to Fireside for over two years and it is mind-blowing how much the neighborhood has changed. This blog will serve as a basis for that community compiling archival materials and personal stories of individual adventures at the Fireside Bowl. My goal is to create an online community of people like myself who attended punk shows at Fireside back when it was a dirty, loud, disgusting venue filled with hundreds of teens, completely shattering the legal capacity of 140 patrons. ![]() The ultimate goal, however, is not to just make a documentary. This blog is dedicated to a film I am currently developing about the famous Chicago punk-rock venue, The Fireside Bowl.Īs of right now I am putting together a demo/trailer for the film which will include music, photos, videos, and fliers. My name is Nick Arvanitis and I am a documentary filmmaker from Chicago. ![]()
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