It’s been a week now since the beginning of this year’s SMMR BMMR, the appropriate time needed to wind down from such an exhausting event. Most of us probably didn’t catch the show from start to finish each day (yours truly included), but even in drifting in and out of the 40+bands playing, one is bound to become overwhelmed. There’s a certain lack of variety from band to band which can cripple those hoping to see it all, but I suspect that to those interested solely in punk rock and its subgenres, this last weekend was absolute paradise. There wasn’t a truly bad band to speak of, and even going into SMMR BMMR with no education on the bands themselves, you were bound to find a few to fall in love with.
For me these bands were Sic Alps, Eat Skull, Ganglians, Gestapo Khazi, Fergus & Geronimo, Christmas Island, White Fang and Personal and the Pizzas. I suspect had I made it to the early shows, and all of the evening shows, my list would be extensively larger. Thanks to those involved for an amazing weekend. We’ll spend the rest of the summer trying to match that intensity.
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Posted By David Hutchinson
