This episode of Queen City Sounds Podcast is a kind of reverse interview or rather an interview Eddie Durkin of DIY Venues Incorporated conducted with me, Tom Murphy, about how I got into the DIY music world and ideas, issues, concepts around DIY as well as some of the most memorable shows I’ve seen at DIY spaces. My own involvement in DIY music and art as most people know it began when I was in my late 20s and going to see a bunch of bands I had gotten into after most of a lifetime of not going to see live music and when you’re not just into mainstream music that leads you at some point into seeing bands that are part of the real underground. And so in October 1998 I went to go see Sleater-Kinney for their first tour through Colorado and my first time seeing a show in Boulder at the Fox Theatre. Opening were two bands comprised of mostly or entirely of women. One was The Pauline Heresy (two members of which went on to be in the great post-punk/post-hardcore band Sin Desires Marie) and Rainbow Sugar, a hip-hop/alternative rock band who I would go on to see often for a few years leading me to my first experiences with DIY adjacent spaces, dive bars for shows and of course the first DIY space I would visit in Monkey Mania Vol. 2 located in the now more upscale Baker neighborhood. This interview goes into some detail about that story and others. Durkin is a member of the rock band Lazarus Horse and has a long running history with the DIY music and art world himself going back to his teenage years and he started the DIY Venues Incorporated blog to document the experiences of members of his community. Portions of this interview and a second part will appear at a later date on the DIY Venues Incorporated blog.
Listen to the interview on Bandcamp and follow DIY Venues Incorporated at the links below.
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