Prohibition III performance sometime around 1995 at the
Macondo in Los Angeles. Set includes covers from
Project X,
Full On Straight,
Wide Awake,
Mouthpiece, and more. Looks for guest sing alongs from members of
Undertow,
Strife, and more!
This line up included:
Sweet Pete (In My Eyes) - Vocals
Andrew (Strife) - Drums
Sid (Strife) - Bass
Todd (Strife) - guitar
Thanks to
Tradition for posting this! Go!
New Day at Macondo, ca. 1995
These are the last batch of flyers from hardcore shows at
Macondo. Our last show was in 1996, but you never know, don't call it a comeback...
January 1, 1995
Avail | Jara | Embassy | Pawn
(I can't believe we had a show on New Year's Day -then again, I guess I can!)
January 7, 1995
Iceburn | State of the Nation | Whirlpool
(Bubblegum Crisis image downloaded from an anime BBS, old school style!)
(Teaser flyer for our March 1995 shows. xThe Beatlesx !!!)
March 5, 1995
Still Life | Jara | Pawn | Crack
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March 10, 1995
Lois | Tummy Ache | Go Kart | Connect 4
+
March 11, 1995
Sensefield | Cult Of Eugene | Lidsville | Smile
March 5, 1995
Still Life | Jara | Pawn | Crack
(Very 'shopped image of Jordy from Star Trek... I don't know why I used it since I've never liked that series...)
March 10, 1995
Lois | Tummy Ache | Go Kart | Connect 4
(Alita Battle Angel is the rippin'est grrrl!!!)
March 11, 1995
Sensefield | Cult Of Eugene | Lidsville | Smile
(More Star Trek? I may have used Jordy 'cuz I liked Reading Rainbow...)
May 6, 1995
Evergreen | Seesaw | Los Cincos | Crown For Athena
(I believe that image is Priss from Bubblegum Crisis.)
May 13, 1995
Bloodlet | Focused | Frown | Refuge | Excessive Force
(Juggernaut from the X-Men likes to mosh it up.)
June + July 1995 mini-zine
(This zine featured characters from DarkStalkers a.k.a Vampire Warriors, a list of all the bands that had played at Macondo, an attempt at a statement of purpose, and some show listings. And nonsensical Japanese writing, i'm embarassed to admit...)
June 18, 1995
Still Life | Roaring Judies | Far | Casperspook | Soonest Mended
+
June 23, 1995
Still Life | Palefire | Daredevil | Contagen | Nuclear Winter
(2-up flyer featuring Bishamon from DarkStalkers.)
July 11, 1995
Los Crudos | Turnedown | Galaxy Bee
(All I remember is that I had lots o' fun at this show.)
July 28, 1995
Lois | Phranc | Tummy Ache | 151 | Misery | Sleater-Kinney | + more!
(All the dudes at Macondo got sent outside while the womyn got their self-defense demo on during this show. Felicia from DarkStalkers kicks a$$.)
July 29, 1995
4 Walls Falling | Eyelid | The Q Factor | 1134 | Palefire
(Demitri from DarkStalkers up top, Hobbes' true self on bottom. Time changed for this show, hence the two flyers. We also added more bands.)
August 18, 1995
Shades Apart | Sensefield | Casperspook | Whirlpool
(I made a two-up flyer and 4-up postcards for this show.)
October 7, 1995
Nuzzle | Emery | Strictly Ballroom | Surface
(I resorted to Halloween clip-art for this flyer. 'Tis the season...)
October 28, 1995
Strife | Eyelid | Far | 1134
(More Halloween clip-art, this time featuring Charlie Brown and punkin.)
November 12, 1995
Farside | Game Face | Texas Is The Reason | Shift
(Amazing show, as a dancing Snoopy can attest.)
March 2, 1996
Suppression Swing | Eyelid | Stickfigure Carousel | Frown
(The last hardcore show at Macondo, a means to an end.)
More
Macondo flyers
here (1992),
here (1993) , and
here (1994.)
Strife at Macondo, ca. 1994
These flyers are from some of the hardcore shows that took place at
Macondo in 1994. (I think I may be missing a few. I'll update this post if I find 'em.)
January 14, 1994
Process | Outright | Change for the Better | Center Point
(Two-up flyer not by me. I dig the 'P' for Process.)
February 5, 1994
Sensefield | Still Life | Evergreen
(I think Oscar Macondo made this one, featuring perennial fave Morrissey.)
March 13, 1994
Undertow | Strife | New Day
(Jacked me some
Dragonball Z characters for this flyer...)
May 7, 1994
Still Life | Evergreen | Casperspook | Fondles | Seesaw | Tummy Ache
(This one was a homeless benefit show put together by Revolution Rising.)
May 21, 1994
Strife | Mean Season | Remain | Entity
(Collabo flyer with Oscar Macondo and a mysterious Calvin...)
May 28, 1994
Spitboy | Shroom Union | Jara | Angel Hair
(I tried some two-up madness on this one too, using my fave one-panel
Mafalda strips by Quino.)
June 16, 1994
Farside | State of the Nation | Cult of Eugene | Lunkhead
(This flyer is by Rafael Navarro of
Sonámbulo comic fame.)
July 1994
Front, back, and inside covers for our July 1994 calendar slash
zine.
(On the cover is a picture of Popeye from Farside)
July 10, 1994
Bouncing Souls | Gameface | Casperspook | Pawn
(This flyer featured Cheech Wizard and Lizard parlayin'.
Please please please let me get what I want this time Smiths reference on the bottom. Clever.)
July 15, 1994
Endpoint | Farside | Split Lip | Ellis | Stregth 6.91
(
Girlfriend in a coma, i know, i know, it's serious...)
+
July 17, 1994
Sensefield | Ashes | Dayspring | Pawn | Enswell
(
The devil will find work for idle hands to do.)
July 22, 1994
Slant 6 | Undertow | Unbroken | Clikatat Ikatowi
(More Bodé fun. Show was amazing, and that's an understatement. Smiths quote along bottom:
I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.)
+
July 10, 1994
Bouncing Souls | Gameface | Casperspook | Pawn | Enswell
(
Please please please let me get what I want this time.)
July 26, 1994
Heavens to Betsy | Tummy Ache | Excuse 17 | Switched At Birth
(
Mafalda's Libertad gives her fellow grrrls a scolding on this one...)
August 11, 1994
Snapcase | Lifetime | Remain
+
August 13, 1994
Evergreen | Enswell | Cult of Eugene | Fucking Angels | Nuzzle
+
August 19, 1994
Sparkmarker | Casperspook | Pawn | New Day
(Flyer for three shows with an appropriated Sebastiao Salgado photo. Smiths quote:
I can't help the way I feel.)
August 13, 1994
Evergreen | Enswell | Cult of Eugene | Fucking Angels | Nuzzle
(I think Enswell might have dropped of this bill, see previous flyer.)
+
August 19, 1994
Casperspook | Pawn | New Day | Emery
(Ditto for Sparkmarker, check above)
+
August 20, 1994
Mouthpiece | Undertow
(I'm sure we added like 8 more bands for this one...)
August 13, 1994
Evergreen | Enswell | Cult of Eugene | Fucking Angels | Nuzzle
(This one is an alternate flyer by
Sonámbulo's Rafael Navarro.)
August 20, 1994
Mouthpiece | Undertow | Entity | Dead Wait
(Alternate flyer for this Mouthpiece/Undertow show, along with two other shows not at Macondo. Not sure who made the flyer, but I like the sans-graphics look.)
October 29, 1994
Sensefield | Evergreen | Triggerman | Cult of Eugene
(The Hulk was mad stoked!)
December 3, 1994
Still Life | Casperspook | Pawn | Julia | Embassy
(We jumped to quoting Cure songs on our flyers at this point.)
December 9, 1994
Jara | Tummy Ache | Crown For Athena | Crash & Brittany | Amber Inn
(That's a photo of Subcomandante Marcos taken by my Pops.)
December 16, 1994
Unbroken | Mean Season | Process | I Wish I
(
Dark Knight by Frank Miller, natch. This is the first time I used an image on a flyer that I straight downloaded from some weird thing called The Internet. Also, note the random connection to Dim Mak via I Wish I... How early adopting of us.)
December 30, 1994
Farside | Triggerman | Casperspook | Malfunction
(Rounding out 1994 with a banger, and an appropriate Cure quote to boot:
Friday I'm in love with you.)
You can check out more Macondo flyers here and here.
Some back-in-the-day, mosh-pit-proven old hardcore t-shirts somehow still in one piece-ish...
Top to bottom:
1.
Hardcore 1990 (ca. 1990, duh!)
2.
House of Suffering (ca. 1995)
3.
Eleven Thirty Four (ca. 1995)
4.
Strife (ca. 1996)
5.
Lifetime (ca. 1993)
6.
Endpoint (ca. 1995)
Eyelid at Macondo, date unknown.
I (finally) found the 1993 set of my Macondo flyers. Here they go:
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January 7, 1993
Unwound | Still Life | Diesel | Kerosene 454
(That's Josh Quagmire's QT Bunny dressed as Storm...)
January 13, 1993
Atoxxxico | Consequence | Diesel | + more!
(Flyer by Heric Patchwork, Atoxxxico ripped sh*t up!)
January 14, 1993
Hell No! | Merel | Man Is The Bastard | Diesel | Honeywell
(...Felipe from Mafalda by Quino...)
January 15, 1993
Strife | Focused | Ice | Function | Consequence | Casperspook
(...and Calvin and Mom by Bill Watterson. This show was supposed to take place at Pasadena Ciy College but did not due to some mix-up. Oscar Macondo made this flyer if I recall correctly...)
January 22, 1993
Still Life | Driftwood | Missing Honey | Evergreen | Casperspook
(This one was part of our series organized at USC.)
January 29, 1993
Focused | Casperspook | Consequence | Remain | + more!
(Another one at USC. I recycled this Doraemon concept from an older flyer I made.)
February 7, 1993
The Mr. T Experience | Sensefield | Soulfire | Horace Pinker | Pocket
(That's Libertad from Mafalda by Quino...)
February 12, 1993 & February 28, 1993
Born Against | Heroin | Diesel | Brookhurst
+
Spitboy | J Church | Rain Like The Sound Of Trains | Beekeeper | Driftwood
(Two-show flyer made by Unfucked/West Coast Drag.)
February 26, 1993
Blackspot | Strife | Function | Remain
(Flyer by Heric Patchwork.)
February 28, 1993
Spitboy | J Church | Rain Like The Sound Of Trains | Beekeeper | Driftwood
(Made by me with some photo I found and Keroppi's friend snail.)
March 12, 1993
Sensefield | Gameface | Evergreen | Remain
(Show at USC. They made this flyer, I think...)
April 04, 1993
Jawbreaker | Still Life | Evergreen | Casperspook | Manumission | Lumps
(Pre-major label Jawbreaker was fun... Top flyer by Mark Unfucked.)
April 10, 1993
Supertouch | Farside | Strife | Stagger
(I didn't make this flyer, but I dig the Kathe Köllwitz image.)
April 18, 1993
Down By Law | Holy Water | Distorted Pony | Bobsled
(Flyer by Patchwork Fanzine's Heric. On a related note, I was kinda bummed to find out yesterday that Down By Law's frontman Dave Smalley was a columnist for the Conservative Punk blog. Go figure...)
April 25, 1993
Bikini Kill | Not For The Lack Of Trying | Lather | Canopy
(Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna pulled an un-cool act of violence against one of Macondo's friends at this show. If you know the scoop, you know. If not, ask me, I won't say 'no', how could I...)
May 23, 1993
Avail | Campaign | Not For The Lack Of Trying | Antioch Arrow
(2-up flyer by me, photo lifted from who-knows-where...)
June 13, 1993
Worlds Collide | Strife | Downset | Consequence | Remain | FYP
(Macondo One Year of Hardcore flyers: top by Oscar Macondo, featuring hardcore flyer mainstay Calvin by Bill Watterson; middle by Shot UTI featuring 'invites to L.A.'s dopest hip hop soldiers'; and bottom one by me, before I knew Social Justice had become Downset.)
June 26, 1993
Into Another | Railhead | Ashes Dust | Smile
(I can't remember who made this flyer... Maybe someone from Jade Tree Records? In any case, the "Support Independent Music" statement is
still relevant.)
July 16, 1993
Game Face | Casperspook | Saltlick
(Rini Templeton drawing on this flyer. I remember this show being exceedingly fun.)
July 20, 1993
Lifetime | Chorus Of Disapproval | Bouncing Souls | Neck Deep | Cereal
(Didn't make the flyer, but the show was epic! I guess you just had to be there...)
August 1, 1993
Sparkmarker | Undertow | Strife | Remain | Unbroken
(We were on a roll with the groundbreaking shows! I think Sparkmarker or Undertow flipped the image from the Jacob's Ladder movie poster...)
August 10, 1993
Blackspot | Drift Again | Ashes | Entity | Darkroom
(I have no idea who made this one, but I dig the no-graphics look.)
October 11, 1993
Phleg Camp | Casperspook
(Once again, I appropriated a Josh Quagmire character and Keroppi's snail homie...)
October 16, 1993
Spitboy | Still Life | Manumission
(I didn't make a flyer for this show 'cuz I dug this Raging Bull one...)
November 13, 1993
Game Face | Bouncing Souls | Remain | New Day
(I made this flyer during a ditching mission from school and no computer access.)
December 11, 1993
Sensefield | Kerosene 454 | Shroom Union | Clikatat Ikatowi
(Another legendary show, photo "borrowed" from Sebastião Salgado...)
Typical scene at Macondo, circa 1996.
I finally found a bunch of old Macondo hardcore flyers I thought I had lost when my old blog expired. I'll be organizing them by year, annotating them as much as possible, and reposting them here.
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May 31, 1992
Social Justice | Strife | Bottom Line | Knowledge Threat
(If I recall correctly, this show actually got cancelled.)
June 13, 1992
Social Justice | Strife | Interlocked | Outright
(This the first hardcore show at Macondo. Top flyer by me, bottom flyer by Heric Patchwork.)
July 12, 1992
Downcast | One Step Ahead | Strife | Diesel | Interlocked
(We raised the price from $3 to the less-punk $5 as of this show.)
July 26, 1992
Ressurection | Lifetime | Strife | Unbroken
(Fucked up and spelled Ressurection's name incorrectly on this one.)
August 15, 1992
One Step Ahead | Social Justice | Gameface | Ice | Knowledge Threat
(I jacked this image of Mafalda from a book I had as a kid.)
August 23, 1992
Outspoken | Face Value | Pitbull | Unbroken | Interlocked
(If my memory serves me well, Face Value's singer began their set by declaring that the mayhem was about to be brung a year before the Wu brought the ruckus... )
September 13, 1992
Still Life | Diesel | Honeywell | Evergeen | Driftwood | Casperspook
(I dig Doraemon the robot cat so much I recycled this idea later on!)
October 4, 1992
Sparkmarker | Diesel | Honeywell | Interlocked | Bikini Kill
(Bikini Kill ranked it on this one and didn't show up.)
October 11, 1992
Samiam | Sensefield | Still Life | One Step Ahead
(Three different flyers for the same show!)
October 18, 1992
Green Day | Beekeeper | Canopy | Driftwood | Rugburn
(Green Day's drummer broke his foot that weekend and they cancelled. They coincidentally signed to the big leagues that same weekend.)
November 1, 1992
Chorus of Disapproval | Strife | Social Justice | Mean Season | Ice
(It had become
de rigeur to feature Calvin on hardcore flyers; Oscar Macondo flipped it and used Calvin's nemesis on this flyer.)
November 18, 1992
Sensefield | Evergreen | Driftwood
(The first flyer I designed using a computer. Im not proud of that fact...)
December 4, 1992
Consequence
(This was the first in a series of shows we put together at USC. Flyer not by me.)
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A BIT OF BACKGROUND
What was
Macondo Espacio Cultural, you ask? Here's a brief introduction from an archived page on
Work is a Four-letter Word webzine:
"Macondo Espacio Cultural was a non-profit, volunteer-run, community-based cultural organization dedicated to providing a space for art forms that are often overlooked and ignored [by mainstream institutions and media.]
Over the course of Macondo's existence, it presented a kaleidoscope of events such as performances by musicians from the Latin American new song movement; traditional and experimental musicians from diverse cultures; independent films; hardcore, punk, and rock shows; arts and crafts workshops; readings; photography and painting exhibitions; graffiti exhibitions and workshops; political and social conferences; and open discussions.
In 1992, Macondo expanded its activities to include hardcore music, as it was an independent and positive force in the lives of those involved."
(And yes, we were located in the now-renown neighborhood known as Hel-Mel or the Bike District in East Hollywood
slash Los Angeles. I'll post flicks from the walls I've painted there in the post-cool years soon. Go figure...)
