War Stories Strikes Again! October 7, Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles

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WAR STORIES: 

Tales of 70’s & 80’s Punk Mayhem Told By The Perpetrators Themselves

CHIP KINMAN (The Dils, Rank & File, Blackbird, Ford Maddox Ford)

DAVE CATCHING (Tex & Horseheads, The Modifiers, Eagles of Death Metal)

JENNIFER FINCH (L7)

KEITH MORRIS (Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Off!)

MIKE WATT (The Minutemen, Dos, Firehose)

PLEASANT GEHMAN (The Screaming Sirens, The Ringling Sisters)

THERESA KEREAKES (Lobotomy Magazine, Punk Turns 30)

DJ LINA LECARO

Sunday, October 7, 2018

The Roxy Theatre

9009 Sunset Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90069

7:30pm doors

8pm show

$40 adv & $45 dos

seated show - first come, first served

War Stories is a raucous evening of off-the cuff storytelling by some of the wildest, loudest and most influential punk rock, new wave and rock’n’roll icons. The line up is specially curated and presented by Pleasant Gehman and Theresa Kereakes -- the duo behind the '70s LA punk rock zine Lobotomy.

"Many of us have known each other for decades: we’ve hung out, played music and gotten drunk together; a few of us were longtime roommates. We’ve played shows with each other and have been on the road together (back in the day as well as more recently) bringing our “OG” punk essence to other cities, states and countries.  We’ve all set the bar for contemporary music, raised all kinds of hell, broken laws constantly and gleefully…. and we’ve lived to tell, in fact, many of us have also actually written books chronicling the wild times.

This show is about our insane stories…and YOU GET TO HEAR ALL ABOUT IT! "

So This Happened

On February 9, 2018 at UCLA's Punk Conference, "Curating Resistance," Pleasant and Theresa recounted the teenage historical record of 1970s Los Angeles punk by explaining why and how they published Lobotomy: The Brainless Magazine.

LA Taco reported on it: While the conference was educational in nature, there was a sense of merging the academic and the personal. The event’s speakers included author Stacy Russo, whose recent book We were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene, and Tanya Pearson from Women of Rock Oral History Project, both of whom have stressed the importance of women telling their own stories. On Friday, Pleasant Gehman and Theresa Kereakes recounted their days as young punks who documented the Hollywood scene as it unfolded in the zine Lobotomy. It’s punk as a means of making yourself heard and that also might be reflective of what is happening with the presence of this counterculture movement at major institutions.


UCLA's campus paper, The Daily Bruin previewed the conference.


The punk rock weekend ended with a sold-out spoken word show at Hollywood's El Cid, featuring storytelling from LA's original punk rockers, Exene Cervenka (X), Jane Wiedlin (The GoGo's), Iris Berry (The Ringling Sisters), Mike Martt (Tex & the Horseheads), and Bob Forrest (Thelonius Monster), with Pleasant and Theresa serving as emcees as well as storytellers.