NYC, CBGB Festival returns on Saturday, September 26th, Under The K Bridge.🤘 From Alphabet City to Brooklyn, punk is alive. Pre-sale begins Thursday April 23rd at 10am ET at cbgbfest.com 💥
You wanted more CBGB history, you got it 🤘 We’re taking the same energy from CBGB in the 80’s and bringing it to CBGB Fest this September, Under the K. ⛓️
Tickets are available at cbgbfest.com 🖤 What should we cover next?
Sources:
CBGB in the early 1980’s:
Credit: @23punk
/23punk/posts/punks-outside-cbgb-sunday-matinee-in-the-80s-doug-humiski/849778093847469/
Hilly Kristal in the 1980’s:
Credit: @matineephotobook
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Sunday Matinees Advertisements from the 1980’s
@TheNyhcChronicles19792015
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Cro-Mags Drummer at the club at 12 years old
Credit: @harleyfflanagan
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Agnostic Front (in the 80’s)
Credit: @TheNyhcChronicles19792015
/TheNyhcChronicles19792015/posts/agnostic-front-1985photo-randall-underwood/735466911941888/
Murphy’s Law (in the 80’s)
Credit: No Echo
/interviews/joe-bruno-og-nyhc-roadie
Beastie Boys (in the 80’s)
Credit: @glenefriedman
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Mosh Pit photos at CBGB
Credit: leslie_fratkin
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Slam dancing image
Credit: samutaro
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CBGB Stage Dive Photo
Credit: @walkonthewildsidenyc
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Bad Brains:
Credit: badbrainsofficial
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JUST ANNOUNCED! For the first time in 17 years, THE PRODIGY return to New York City.
A historic night kicks off CBGB Festival weekend at Under the K Bridge Park with Brutalismus 3000, Sextile, and Lip Critic on Friday, September 25.
This one’s going to be absolute mayhem. Register for presale access at cbgbfest.com/the-prodigy
Class is in session 🤓 A little history about the beginning of CBGB🤘What should we cover next?
Sources:
Image 2: Hilly Krystal, newnoadeptness on reddit
Image 3: Hilly’s Piano Bar, print magazine, “Before CBGB and OMFUG”, Steven Heller
Image 4: Greenwich Village, The Village Sun, “14th St. flashback circa 70’s”.
Image 5: Lower East Side from “Lower East Side Back in the Days” on Facebook
Image 6: Lower East Side History Project, “A Look Back at the Bowery “Blue Book””. Eric Ferra, April 2013.
Image 7: r/OldSchool on Reddit, CBGB’s 1983.
Image 8: Photo of Television, Bob Gruen.
Image 9: Streets You Crossed, “1974 Ads”.
