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August 3, 2006

Hi All,

This heat is amazing! Not exactly the way I wanted to lose weight, but it'll do. Hopefully it'll be over by the weekend.

Last Friday nite out at CHA-CHA's in CONEY ISLAND we had a serious punk rock show. Starting off with the boys from North Carolina - SHILOH! These boys won over fans quickly with their enthusiasm and professionalism. YO! SCUNT was next and they were their raucous selves. LAST CALL BRAWN swam their way thru a beer-fueled set and CAUGHT IN A TRAP were up to the task as we closed out a WILD nite!

On Saturday at OTTO's the A/C was cranking until a fuse blew around 1am and tempers flared. Luckily I knew where an all night hardware store was in Manhattan and we were able to get one of those big 3" fuses at 1 in the morning. Well, we still couldn't figure how to get the shit working so I made a phone call and presto! we had an electrician at OTTO's by 2:15 am and full electric power back by 3am. Only in the city that never sleeps!

Sunday nite at OTTO's was different. There were two parties in the front room. One, where the person paid to DJ 50's music all night long for her birthday party and the other was a lesbian wedding party. (Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink!) Everyone got along with everyone else and the nite turned out quite interesting with SHOWIN TELL a rock band from Philly starting off the nite and leading into their friends FLACK BLAMINGO. Lisa is a lot more harder of a rocker when she's backed up by Mr. Wolf and Billy Ficca (TELEVISION). Then UZUHI did their unplugged version of Japanese punk rock which is alot better than most regular Japanese punk rock. Then it was time for a double dose of PANG-IN-THE-ASS as THE VON DELLS took the stage for their premier performance. Made up of former CARVELS - LYNNE VON & STEVE PANG and a new bass player, they rocked! It was good hearing LYNNE sing again, now we just have to wait another 3 or 4 months til they play again. GIRL TO GORILLA finished off their month long residency and they kicked ass. Hopefully we'll see more of them soon. The boys from SHILOH did another rock hard set followed by SNATCH CASKET. This band was made up of former members of THE DISRUPTORS along with a few new guys. Then we had ACID RAYZ do a tight set followed by ROB HANEY and ending with KENN ROWELL (BAGHDADDIOS).

This Friday we return to BOOGALOO. An art-deco style room right off the bridge on MARCY AVE. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. HOME TO HENRY will open the night followed by the funk of DA PHAT FUNK CLIQUE. Then former members of GOD-the BAND, BEN WARREN & HIS FLESHLIGHTS will take the stage, and winding up the live portion of the evening THE BAGHDADDIOS. DJ ROB NITRO will fill in the blanks and rock us til closing!

Sunday at OTTO's wiil have a new band-in-residence for the month of August - FRANKIE & HIS FINGERS. These two kids can really rock and the drummer is the best the NYC rock scene has seen in awhile. You should not miss these guys. They'll be joined this week by DIATHOREN. M. DAVID HORNBUCKLE, THE NURBS (Baltimore), NY STORY, F.P. TOZ, BLONDE & BLUE and ACID RAYZ. It'll be a perfect way to wind down from a rough weekend and prepare for another week in HELL!

Hope to see ya soon.

Take care,

WOOD
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