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Punk Rock Rodeo to unfold across five OB venues
“People can dress up in cowboy hats if they want”
Big Attitude will be kicking off the Rodeo pre-party show Friday, March 21.
Gainesville, Florida has The Fest. Birmingham, Alabama lays claim to Furnace Fest. Vegas holds down Punk Rock Bowling. Now, with the Punk Rock Rodeo, San Diego is getting its own larger-scale punk rock festival. Although it’s still in the embryonic stage, hopes are that it will match the intensity of the aforementioned festivals and perform on a comparable level.
Zak Prescott is no stranger to organizing local music events; he was the man behind the curtain for the recent My Town festivals. After this past year’s My Town, a vision for something more bubbled up, and he got right back to work, cooking up the upcoming Punk Rock Rodeo. And while My Town involves strictly local San Diego bands, the Rodeo will be open to groups from anywhere — though it’s true that a lot of this year’s lineup is California-based. “Financially, we couldn’t fly people in,” Prescott admits.
As his ambitions for the festival’s growth get realized, he intends to get groups from UK and other parts of Europe to come. “I found myself wanting to include other bands outside of San Diego, but it didn’t really fit well with the My Town theme. The Punk Rock Rodeo gives us the opportunity to have bands from all over the world play, and still have the same kind of energy of different generations of punk. With the rodeo aspect, it makes it more of an event versus a regular show, and gives it a theme. People can dress up in cowboy hats if they want.” The one-day festival will be held mostly on March 22 at five different venues on Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach.
“It works out that there’s multiple venues on one street,” says Prescott. “It’s essentially a block party. The street isn’t closed off, but it’s a block party because all the clubs are involved.” Host venues include The Holding Company, Winstons, The Harp, Humble Heart, and Hodad’s. “We have the Hodad’s parking lot as well. So we’ll have an outdoor stage, a food truck, a mechanical bull, and a bunch of vendors set up. That will serve as the hub for the event.” The outdoor Hodad’s stage will be both free and all-ages. (Humble Heart will be the other site open to all ages.)
Boasting some 30 bands on the bill, the event will kick off at noon and bang away until midnight. Early shows will be at Winstons and The Holding Company. Set times will be organized so concert-goers can have tickets to multiple shows and bounce back and forth. “I went down there and walked from venue to venue timing how long everything took,” says Prescott. “From The Holding Company to Winstons is less than a minute. So, if one band finishes, you can walk a minute and be checking out the next band.” (He does note that “there is some overlap. There has to be for it to work.”) Later shows will be held at The Harp and Humble Heart before the night eventually concludes back at The Holding Company.
Notable groups in the lineup include Spray Allen and Change Today, with Joe Wood doing a set from his ten years with TSOL. “It’s a good mix if you have a wide taste in music and want to check out all the bands.” But if you “just want to see a few, we’ve made it an option to have individual club tickets.”
The involved venues are getting a unique chance to create something together. “All the venues are pretty stoked,” Prescott says. “It’s been a good opportunity for them to connect with each other. Everyone’s promoting each other’s clubs and events through the Rodeo. It’s a new idea, so I had to sell it to them. I helped them envision what I envisioned. Everyone’s been super supportive. The response has been great.”
The Punk Rock Rodeo’s pre-party will get things underway on March 21 at The Holding Company. The bands helping to fire up the festival that night will be Chaser, Urethane, Jon Cougar Concentration Camp, TiltWheel, Beta7, Reckless Disregard, and the group Prescott fronts, Big Attitude. “It came together really smoothly,” he says. “When you have something in your mind and see it coming together, it’s fulfilling and exciting. I’m happy where we’re at, and looking forward to the day of the event, being able to walk around with a hoodie on, nobody knowing who I am, just enjoying the shows.”
Here's something you might be interested in.
Punk Rock Rodeo to unfold across five OB venues
“People can dress up in cowboy hats if they want”
Punk Rock Rodeo to unfold across five OB venues
“People can dress up in cowboy hats if they want”
Big Attitude will be kicking off the Rodeo pre-party show Friday, March 21.
Gainesville, Florida has The Fest. Birmingham, Alabama lays claim to Furnace Fest. Vegas holds down Punk Rock Bowling. Now, with the Punk Rock Rodeo, San Diego is getting its own larger-scale punk rock festival. Although it’s still in the embryonic stage, hopes are that it will match the intensity of the aforementioned festivals and perform on a comparable level.
Zak Prescott is no stranger to organizing local music events; he was the man behind the curtain for the recent My Town festivals. After this past year’s My Town, a vision for something more bubbled up, and he got right back to work, cooking up the upcoming Punk Rock Rodeo. And while My Town involves strictly local San Diego bands, the Rodeo will be open to groups from anywhere — though it’s true that a lot of this year’s lineup is California-based. “Financially, we couldn’t fly people in,” Prescott admits.
As his ambitions for the festival’s growth get realized, he intends to get groups from UK and other parts of Europe to come. “I found myself wanting to include other bands outside of San Diego, but it didn’t really fit well with the My Town theme. The Punk Rock Rodeo gives us the opportunity to have bands from all over the world play, and still have the same kind of energy of different generations of punk. With the rodeo aspect, it makes it more of an event versus a regular show, and gives it a theme. People can dress up in cowboy hats if they want.” The one-day festival will be held mostly on March 22 at five different venues on Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach.
“It works out that there’s multiple venues on one street,” says Prescott. “It’s essentially a block party. The street isn’t closed off, but it’s a block party because all the clubs are involved.” Host venues include The Holding Company, Winstons, The Harp, Humble Heart, and Hodad’s. “We have the Hodad’s parking lot as well. So we’ll have an outdoor stage, a food truck, a mechanical bull, and a bunch of vendors set up. That will serve as the hub for the event.” The outdoor Hodad’s stage will be both free and all-ages. (Humble Heart will be the other site open to all ages.)
Boasting some 30 bands on the bill, the event will kick off at noon and bang away until midnight. Early shows will be at Winstons and The Holding Company. Set times will be organized so concert-goers can have tickets to multiple shows and bounce back and forth. “I went down there and walked from venue to venue timing how long everything took,” says Prescott. “From The Holding Company to Winstons is less than a minute. So, if one band finishes, you can walk a minute and be checking out the next band.” (He does note that “there is some overlap. There has to be for it to work.”) Later shows will be held at The Harp and Humble Heart before the night eventually concludes back at The Holding Company.
Notable groups in the lineup include Spray Allen and Change Today, with Joe Wood doing a set from his ten years with TSOL. “It’s a good mix if you have a wide taste in music and want to check out all the bands.” But if you “just want to see a few, we’ve made it an option to have individual club tickets.”
The involved venues are getting a unique chance to create something together. “All the venues are pretty stoked,” Prescott says. “It’s been a good opportunity for them to connect with each other. Everyone’s promoting each other’s clubs and events through the Rodeo. It’s a new idea, so I had to sell it to them. I helped them envision what I envisioned. Everyone’s been super supportive. The response has been great.”
The Punk Rock Rodeo’s pre-party will get things underway on March 21 at The Holding Company. The bands helping to fire up the festival that night will be Chaser, Urethane, Jon Cougar Concentration Camp, TiltWheel, Beta7, Reckless Disregard, and the group Prescott fronts, Big Attitude. “It came together really smoothly,” he says. “When you have something in your mind and see it coming together, it’s fulfilling and exciting. I’m happy where we’re at, and looking forward to the day of the event, being able to walk around with a hoodie on, nobody knowing who I am, just enjoying the shows.”
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