Sun. Aug. 29

Jerry’s Kids, Gang Green (in photo), Antidote, DYS and the FUs are playing an all-ages show at Club Lido in Revere Sunday Aug. 29. No, this is not an item that magically time-traveled from 1982 to today. It's true. Some of the seminal bands from Boston's hardcore punk era - remember the album, "This Is Boston, Not L.A," our local response to the much trumpeted L.A. scene? - are reuniting.  This is not just a gig. It's a film shoot. The film is called "xxx All Ages xxx," and it's being made by Gallery East founder and owner Duane Lucia, in association with Stone Films NYC and the Boston Punk Rock Oral History Project (BPROHP). The film is not just this concert shoot. It will explore the origins and lasting cultural impact of Boston hardcore.
    "The Gallery East Reunion is an opportunity for the tribe to reconvene and reconnect,” said Drew Stone, the film’s director and singer of Antidote. “The concert will bridge the past and the present for those who were there back in the day and an introduction to hardcore for a new generation.”
   “The music was a lot more linear than punk, faster, with a lot less humor, a lot less sexuality,” says the F.U.’s signer John Sox. He says said the Boston hardcore scene satisfied, “a primordial urge to leave the nest. You feel this impatience. You get angry for no reason, You don’t understand yourself. You’re being socialized and it’s confusing you and marginalizing you. You look for this positive outlet, that’s what hardcore was – a creative and get out this misdirected anger and impatience."

  “Of all the reunion offers we've received over the years, the chance to do it in our home city, in support of old friends, and have it all filmed as a climax to the Boston Hardcore movie was the one we had to say yes to,” says Jonathan Anastas, DYS cofounder-singer Dave Smalley: “Duane and Gallery East were very important to our growth as a band. We look forward to bringing it back to Boston.”
Founded in Boston in 1979 by Duane Lucia and Al Ford, Gallery East showcased young artists and musicians, including original hardcore punks. The Gallery closed its doors in 1983 but re-emerged in 2006 as a drivingforce that continues to support and organize community events and local artists.

 Recently we had an e-mail chat with Lucia.

JSInk: Why do this?
Lucia: The film grew out of a conversation I had at the Radio Silence Show (Jan 29, 2009) with Katie 'the kleening lady' Goldman. I was working on a number of oral history projects at Suffolk Universities Hi-Def TV stidio. She stated she wanted to to a Boston Punk Rock Oral Histories Project (BPROHP). I said I have resources, so we started to collaborate and use Suffolks studio to document interviews. We had also planned to do a Phil in Phlash photography exhibition in conjunction with showings. In June of 2009, Drew Stone of Stone Films NYC was interviewed. He's a filmmaker who was around from 1981-1984 and he suggested narrowing the scope of the project to "Hardcore 1981-84" and turning it into a 90-minute documentary. That's when the beast was let loose!
 
JSink: What do you expect from this?
Lucia: I think it's pretty cool to have a documentary of Boston's involvement in the American Hardcore Culture and Gallery East was a big part Boston's alt-culture, so it's a good partnership. I mostly expect it to get finished!
 
JSInk: Any contradictions about hardcore punk and aging?
Lucia: I personally left the notion of hardcore back in 1983 when I was over the hill at 28; for some people like Al Quint (Suburban Punk/Noise) who's 50 and still goes to underground hardcore shows, he still revels in the whole ordeal. But your question is central to the film: Is Hardcore dead? We'll let the viewer decide!
 
JSInk: What it all means years down the line?
Lucia: The film will get made. Hopefully, we will do what went on back then justice. It will tour the film festival circuit and we'll market some aspect of it. Personally, I have as many artists and performers involved in the Gallery East experience now as I had back then, so for me it's another project. However, that does not undermine my enthusiasm, because when the music starts, I may just jump in the pit as I've always done, even at 56.

Ticket price: $15. Showtime: 2 p.m. (There's a separate piece I did up at www.bostonherald.com, too.)

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