Date: July 9, 2012
Venue: Brooklyn Bowl (NY, Brooklyn)
Concert review by Jim Hoey
While the first ever CBGB Festival was raging all over town this week and bands were playing in the hot sun defying expectations, some of the older bands on these round-town bills were trying to bring back the magic of ’02, ’92, or ’82. This is the agenda of the CBGB Fest: present emerging and established artists in the spirit of early NYC punk and Hilly Kristal (CBGB’s owner).
When Fishbone took the stage this Sunday at Brooklyn Bowl for the final performance of the festival, they did just that, playing a raucous, hard hitting set that dwarfed the efforts of the opening act, Paranoid Social Club, and probably most of the other bands playing on bills across town at venues like Central Park Summer Stage and Times Square. Groups like Agnostic Front, Guided By Voices, the So So Glos, Superchunk, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, and the Hold Steady all fanned out across the city and presented a battering array of sounds for curious fans to attempt to experience. Fishbone was the one act I was able to catch.
