Big Takeover 30th Anniversary Party

The Skint is giving away a free pair of tickets to the Big Takeover's amazing 30th anniversary party this weekend in Brooklyn, featuring loads of cool bands for Big Takeover founder Jack Rabid's soiree this weekend in Brooklyn, including...

Friday, July 30, doors 6pm

* The Avengers (reformed San Francisco ’70s punk legends, with two original members, singer Penelope Houston and guitar Greg Ingraham)

* Channel 3 (early ’80s L.A. punks!)

* Visqueen (female-led Seattle post-punk rockers’ first LP in 5 years)

* Springhouse (Jack's own late ’80s/early ’90s dreampop band, doing normal set)

* Libertines U.S. (reformed Cincinnati’s ’80s greats first ever ny show)

* Flower (New York postpunk band’s reunion gig, first show in 16 years! Later split into two bands, Versus and French !)

* EDP (New York’s hard-hitting, Jam-like, mod revival band)

Saturday July 31 (doors 4pm)

* Mark Burgess (England’s Chameleons star) acoustic and full band!

* For Against (Lincoln, NE post-punk legends’ first East Coast show in 15 years)

* Springhouse (playing 1993 second LP Postcards From the Arctic start to finish for the first time ever; first shows with original lineup in 8 years)

* The Sleepover Disaster (Fresno’s shoegaze wonders’ first ever east coast appearances)

* Don Mcglashan (New Zealand’s ex-*Mutton Birds* leader in his only U.S. appearance, part solo and part full band!)

* Jon Auer (Seattle’s Posies star and 17-year Big Star member)

* Steve Drewett of The (Newtown) Neurotics (first ever U.S. gig of any kind for the English original 1977-1988 punk rock era singer-songwriter extraordinaire, part solo, and part backing band!)

* The Sharp Things (New York’s orchestral poppers!)

* Paul Collins (of The Nerves of “Hanging on the Telephone” fame pre-Blondie’s cover, and of Paul Collins’ Beat)

* The Curtain Society (veteran Boston shoegazers, who recently backed Burgess last year for his own sets)

Click to Brooklyn Paper for another great article on Big Takeover and Jack Rabid.