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  • From: Kim Gray <kim AT 307knoxrecords.com>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: The Great Band Swap- Benefit for BCHQ
  • Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:49:19 -0500

Benefit for BCHQ

December 1, 2007 at Duke Coffeehouse

$5

Performing will be Megafaun, Future Kings of Nowhere, Midtown Dickens, Beloved Binge, Wigg Report and Eberhardt.

per the Indy weekly

http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A164705

NOVEMBER 28, 2007
The Great Band Swap
Extended family started a scene; now, swapping songs

BY KATHY JUSTICE
According to Rebekah Meek, one half of Durham duo Eberhardt, the six bands that will share songs at the Great Band Swap Saturday met mostly at Joe & Jo's, a long-gone downtown Durham bar on Main Street. Funny thing is, most of them don't agree, at least at first. Rather, those bands recall front porches and water towers and record stores. We polled every band playing the Band Swap—where each band will cover one song by every other band on the bill—and asked them how they met the other bands. Not surprisingly, most of the bands don't have the same memory of meeting: Beloved Binge watched Megafaun play at Chaz's Bull City Records, but Phil Cook from Megafaun only remembers Beloved Binge from the first time he ate at a vegan potluck on the band's front porch months later.

That's a symptom of a small, healthy, vibrant, homegrown scene, where creative people collide so often they sometimes forget it. But they're in circles small enough that they eventually end up singing each other's tunes. These six bands have been instrumental in fostering such a scene in Durham, moving between rooms like Joe & Jo's, 305 South, Chaz's and now Bull City Headquarters, a nexus for their own community.

That's the charm, of course: These friendships create a web that's more like a family, the sorts of bonds that make you "...want to cut Thanksgiving short with your family to go spend it with your other family [in Durham]," says Midtown Dickens' Kym Register.

The proceeds, then, go to the family's home, Bull City Headquarters, a community center that members of three of the bands started and they've all played. Swap funds will provide rent money, heaters and utilities. It's a fundraiser and a family affair, plus a cap on a strong year for Durham music.


  • The Great Band Swap- Benefit for BCHQ, Kim Gray, 11/29/2007

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