Attention New Yorkers and beyond! This is going to be a great weekend of music! I'm very excited about many of the bands especially Mark Burgess of the Chameleons, For Against (first NY show in 15 years!) and the Libertines (from Ohio, not the tarts from the UK). Also, Jon Auer of the Posies and Big Star and Sleepover Disaster from Fresno. Plus, Jack Rabid's band Springhouse on both nights!
@ The Bell House in Brooklyn.
Buy tickets here for either day or a two day pass.
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FRI 7/30
6:00pm
18+
$25 per night
$40 for 2 day pass
THE BIG TAKEOVER 30TH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL
THE AVENGERS - reformed S.F. '70s punk legends, with original members, singer Penelope Houston and guitar Greg Ingraham
CHANNEL 3 - early '80s L.A. punks!
VISQUEEN - female-led Seattle post-punk rockers' first east coast shows in 5 years
SPRINGHOUSE - first show with original lineup in 8 years, doing normal set
LIBERTINES (U.S.) - reformed Cincinnati's '80s greats first ever NYC show
FLOWER - New York postpunk band's reunion gig, first show in 16 years! Later split into two bands, Versus and French!
plus special guests EDP (New York's hard-hitting, Jam-like, mod revival band).
SAT 7/31
4pm
18+
$25 per night
$40 for 2 day pass
THE BIG TAKEOVER 30TH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL
MARK BURGESS - England's Chameleons star
FOR AGAINST - Lincoln, NE post-punk legends' first east coast show in 15 years
SPRINGHOUSE - playing second LP Postcards From the Arctic start to finish for the first time ever; first shows with original lineup in 8 years
SLEEPOVER DISASTER - Fresno's shoegaze wonders' first ever east coast appearances
DON MCGLASHAN - New Zealand's ex-Mutton Birds leader, in his only U.S. appearance
JON AUER - Seattle's Posies star and Big Star member
plus very special guests
Steve Drewett of The (Newtown) Neurotics (England singer-songwriter extraordinaire, part solo, and part backing band!)
THE SHARP THINGS (New York's orchestral poppers!)
PAUL COLLINS (of The Nerves of "Hanging on the Telephone" fame pre-Blondie's cover, and of Paul Collins' Beat)
THE CURTAIN SOCIETY (veteran Boston shoegazers, also backing Burgess for part of his set).