Get Into The Scene
Korea can be a tough place to get a handle on a local music scene. Adam Hogue gives us a scoop on some local bands.
Korea can be a tough place to get a handle on a local music scene. Adam Hogue gives us a scoop on some local bands.
Club Nevermind, save the giant poll in the middle of the club, is a place you’ve got to check out a show at. Recently it played host to the 4th Gwangju Punk Day, an event that Adam started to look forward to each month, almost as much as his sweet, sweet pay check.
What Punk Day does right is that it keeps things concise. Punk rock is not the most diverse music, so putting five bands on the bill may seem like a daunting number, but Punk Day consistently keeps the sets short and sweet leaving the crowd more anxious than burnt out for each new band.
Punk rock is a very nostalgic thing for me. It was the first music I really claimed as my own. First Green Day, then Less Than Jake, then Epitaph Records, then Asian Man Records; one by one all these bands started to give definition to my music. It’s music of the people for the people; true and liberating.
Gwangju is home to a large variety of bands, from shoegaze to electroclash, and punk is not excluded from the mix.