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A joint Placebo and Set the Stage production! This show has a lot of great bands, so it’s starting extra early:

• Don the Reader
• Athens
• Black Sheep Wall
• Blues
• Tidal Decay
• and one more, TBA!

When: Sunday, June 29. Doors at 5:30pm, sound off at 10pm sharp!
Where: The Ink People, 411 12th St, Eureka
Cost: $7 (annual two-buck membership is required)

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Punk, Ska, and Psychobilly!

• The Sick Shooters (ukiah)
• The Fortyhands
• Vigilante Death Squad
• The Revocateurs

When: Friday, June 27th, doors at 6:30pm
Where: The Placebo, 411 12th St (in the Ink People, next to the Muni)
Cost: $5, two-dollar annual membership is required

All Placebo shows are ALL AGES and drug and alcohol free

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This intense metal show is a benefit to help pay McKinleyville show-goer Stuart Christopher’s medical bills.

• Antarctica
• Emilia’s Rose
• Tidal Decay
• Unmask

When: 5:30 pm, Friday May 30, 3008
Where: The Ink People, 411 12th St in Eureka (next to the Muni)
Cost: $5, annual membership is always required and can be purchased at the door for 2 bucks

All Placebo shows are ALL AGES and Drug and Alcohol Free

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• Fleas and Lice (netherlands) Crusty Hardcore Punk
• Mouth Sewn Shut (boston) Hardcore Punk / Reggae — with members of Toxic Narcotic
• Inhaste (seattle) — thrashy, heavy, brutalizing hardcore

When: Tuesday, May 13th, doors at 6:30pm
Where: The Ink People, 411 12th St
Cost: $7.00 (annual membership always required and available at the door)

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• The Martyr Index (calgary) - Politically-aware Canadian Rock They have a violin! But you could tell that from the album cover, right?
• Social Concern (chico) - Distillers meets Bad religion, meets the Ramones, meets your daddy! they were snowed-in last time, but come May the passes will be clear
• The Fortyhands - all polished up from playing Punk Prom

When: Wednesday, May 7. Doors at 6:30 / amps off at 10pm
Where: The Ink People 411 12th St, Eureka
Cost: $5, annual membership is required! Get one at the door for 2 bucks if you don’t have yours.

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Big thanks to everyone who came out for Punk Prom 2008. We’d like to especially thank all our volunteers: without you, the show(s) could not go on!

If you got your prom photo taken, you can see it at the
Invasion of the PromBots gallery.

Courtney and Gary of the Monster Women

And don’t forget to support those awesome Prom bands:

* Blancatron * The Fortyhands * The Monster Women * La Plebe * The Psycho Nubs * The Social Ills

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It’s PUNK PROM!
In alphabetical order:

• Blancatron/FemiNasti Productions - DJ Extraordinaire
• The Fortyhands Brand Spanking New, local punk
• The Monster Women Hip shakin’ electro girl group pop
• La Plebe (sf) Bilingual punk with horns n’ vomit - note: I’ve seen the horns but if there was vomit, they were awfully discreet about it
• The Psycho Nubs (indiana/nevada) - garage punk with a silly sense of humor
• The Social Ills - Straight-up Hardcore Punk

Costume Contest! Door Prizes! General Silliness!

When: Friday, April 25th, 7pm-midnight
Where: Bayside Grange, just outside of Arcata [map]
Cost: $5 if in costume (robot and/or prom drag) / $7 if you are boring. Two-buck annual membership always required

Leave yer Drugs/Alcohol at home

When we say ALL AGES we mean it: Everybody Welcome!

Thank you to all the local businesses and organizations who have generously provided prizes, including:

• Booklegger
• The Coffee Break
• DUHC
• Fabric Temptations
• Figueiredos Video Movies
• The Ink People
• NorthCoast RolePlaying
• Northtown Books
• Smug’s Pizza
• Sushi A Go Go
• Wildwood Music
• The Works

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Confirmed Events for April and May. Details are on the calendar, as we get them

• April 20th: Volunteers Meeting, Arcata, 5:30 @ the Jacoby Storehouse
• April 25: PUNK PROM, 7pm @ the Bayside Grange
• May 4th: Volunteers Meeting, Eureka, 5:30 @ The Ink People
• May 7th: Martyr Index, Social Concern, The Fortyhands, and TBA
• May 9th: Discussion with Irish anarchist Andrew Flood, 5:30 @ The Ink People
• May 13th: Fleas & Lice, Mouth Sewn Shut, Inhaste, 6:30 @ The Ink People
• POSTPONED May 24th: CopWatch benefit w. Kill the Switch and more, 6:30 at The Ink People
• May 30th: Benefit for Stuart Christopher w. Antarctia, Emilia’s Rose, Tidal Decay and Unmask

MORE TO COME

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A night of excellent female-fronted local rock

• Steel Toed Slippers — danceable funk-rock
• This Dying Wish — post-punk rock
• Kill the Switch — feminist punk
• Palo Verde (portland) — metal improv

When: Saturday, March 22nd, doors at 6:30, amps off at 10pm
Where: The Ink People, 411 12th St, Eureka (next to the Muni)
Cost: $5 (annual membership required)

Placebo shows are always ALL AGES and DRUG AND ALCOHOL FREE

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Four female-fronted and all-female bands

All Ages, Of Course

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You like those METAL shows, don’t ya?

• Slaughterbox (red bluff)
• Antarctica
• Noctocide
• Emilia’s Rose

When: Friday, March 7th. Doors at 6:30, amps off at 10pm
Where: The Ink People, 411 12th St, next to the Eureka Muni
Cost: $5 (two dollar annual membership is required)

All Placebo shows are ALL-AGES and DRUG AND ALCOHOL FREE
~~ breaking the rulez gets venues shut down ~~

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• Social Concern (chico) - sound like the Distillers meets Bad Religion, meets the Ramones, meets your daddy. Female-fronted.
  
• The Radical Devil - Oldskool Punk - the acoustic way
• The Floating Corpses (san francisco)- Experimental Performance Transgender Punk

When: Saturday, February 23rd. Doors at 6:30, amps off at 10pm sharp!
Where: The Ink People, 411 12th St., Eureka (Next to the Muni)
Cost: $5 (two dollar annual membership required)

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They’re Coming! :D

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Our 2008 comeback has reached the dizzying height of two shows a month! We’re looking to graduate to four shows, but can only do it if you (and your friends) help out. Show up early and volunteer at shows. Stay late and help clean up. Flyer your school. Come to the meetings.

OK, now for the good stuff:

• Feb 23rd: PUNK - Social Concern (chico), The Floating Corpses (SF) and The Radical Devil
• March 1st: ALL AGES ALLIANCE presents a kickass all-day show at the Fortuna Vets Center. You should help them out, too!
• March 7th: METAL - Slaughterbox (red bluff), Antarctica, Tidal Decay and Emilia’s Rose
• March 22nd: ROCK - Steel Toed Slippers, Kill the Switch, This Dying Wish and TBA
• Early April: Super Sekrit Show, details forthcoming
• April 25th: The ROBOTICK PUNK PROM ($5 with costume / $7 without) - The Social Ills, The Psycho Nubs and many more TBA

All Placebo shows are $5 and at the Ink People [map] unless otherwise mentioned. Annual two-dollar membership is always required.
Always ALL-AGES and DRUG AND ALCOHOL FREE

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Five bands for Three Bucks (membership free for this show only)

Saturday, January 26th at The Ink People. Doors at 6:30; show must end by 10pm.
More details here

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Yes, The Placebo is indeed hosting a show this month. It’s Dungeon Master’s farewell/CD-release party and it will, needless to say, RAWK. DM and their fellow bands, the sweeties that they are, are also donating all of the door money to the Placebo. In return, we are going to waive the membership cost for this show and this show only. So come on out and see Five Bands for Three Dollars:

• Dungeon Master Dungeon-Core Nerd Violence
• Emilia’s Rose metal hardcore (or is that hardcore metal?)
• The Social Ills NorCal Punk Rock and Hardcore
• Antarctica
• Tidal Decay

When: Saturday, January 26 (doors at 6:30)
Where: The Ink People, 411 12th St. Eureka (next to the Muni)
Cost: $3! (bring some extra cash for the Dungeon Master CD)

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Everyone! Doesn’t this sound good?

An all ages – costume event with out-of-town bands, live art, interactive art, multidimensional film projection, wine and beer available [with ID], actors playing rock icons, cool lighting, multiple stages all happening at the Accident Gallery this Friday night.

Not only does it sound good, it’s true and the profits go straight to Synapsis, Placebo and E2. These are all ages, alcohol and drug free venues that support independent bands and art workshops.

That’s this Friday night, the 16th, at The Accident Gallery on C St. in Old Town Eureka from 8:pm to midnight. $8 at the door. The event is called The Warhol Warehouse Benefit and is based on Andy Warhol’s late 60’s “art factory” multimedia event, The Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Please come dressed in beatnik or mod; wear a tight turtleneck, tight jeans and boots. If all else fails, just dress like you would normally, er, wear black. See you Friday!

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Nerdapalooza is still on, but it’s been moved to June 2008 to make it BETTER and NERDIER!

The Placebo presents the first ever

September 22nd and 23rd, 2007

Nerdcore superstars from around the country coming straight to you in a two-day festival

Check out Nerdapalooza.org or the Nerdapalooza MySpace site for more details.

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Humboldt Free Radio presents Squalora

When: Tuesday, July 31
Where: The Firehouse, 9th and F in Arcata

Note: This is not a Placebo show, but it is All-Ages!