Hi guys!
This is Akira Ogiso. I’m an officer of JSA Career Team.
Today I’d like to show you guys one of the hottest clubs in Bay Area. For those of you who are native English speaker, club is a place where it serves drinks and snacks with playing different kinds of music, and the bands can play a gig as well. For those of you who are native Japanese speaker, club means a nightclub where people dance while DJs are playing Hip Hop and R&B. So, do NOT consider me as a nightclubbing guy!! I am a PUNK rocker!!
Well first of all, I have one question. How come people today don’t know how to listen to the rock music?! Whenever I go to a music concert, I see many people are just standing and watching the bands. Of course it depends on what kind of music they play, but if you go to a punk rock show, there is no reason not to be calm. Wanna mosh, stage dive, and stage surf? Come to the 924 Gilman Street right now!!!
924 Gilman Street is an all-age, not for profit, collectively organized legendary music club which is located in the West Berkeley area of Berkeley, CA about a mile and a half west of the North Berkeley BART station.
Well first of all, I have one question. How come people today don’t know how to listen to the rock music?! Whenever I go to a music concert, I see many people are just standing and watching the bands. Of course it depends on what kind of music they play, but if you go to a punk rock show, there is no reason not to be calm. Wanna mosh, stage dive, and stage surf? Come to the 924 Gilman Street right now!!!
924 Gilman Street is an all-age, not for profit, collectively organized legendary music club which is located in the West Berkeley area of Berkeley, CA about a mile and a half west of the North Berkeley BART station.
There are four main rules for patrons:
1) No Drugs 2) No Alcohol 3) No Violence 4) No Racism
1) No Drugs 2) No Alcohol 3) No Violence 4) No Racism
There is a gig at least once in a week usually on Friday night or weekend. Most of the bands are independent and underground. So, if you are really sick of those commercialized MTV sellout rock bands, Gilman is the place where you can find the real punk bands. I mean ‘‘REAL’’ punk spirit bands!!!
I usually go there once in two weeks to check some hot, local indie bands. You might be scare of these spiky hair punks wearing a crazy leather jacket if you come to Gilman. I also dress like them to go to the show.
But they are all nice and kind, so do not hesitate to talk to them! LOL
Gilman has a lot of awesome graphics everywhere on the wall.
Gilman has a lot of awesome graphics everywhere on the wall.
This is the hottest bathroom I’ve ever seen in my life!
These cool flyers inform you what bands are coming. I always collect them to decorate my room like Gilman.
Honestly, my primary reason to study abroad to the US is to see the Gilman punk scene. When I was in high school, I was crazy about Green Day and Rancid (Of course I still love them, and finally I was able to go to Rancid show in SF!). They inspired me to be punk, and I really wanted to visit their hometown, which is Barkley CA. They were used to play at Gilman around 90’s when they were still unknown. NOFX, Bad Religion, The Offspring, AFI, and many famous punk bands today were used to have a gig at Gilman as well.
So why not coming to Gilman? The pit might be little bit dangerous for the punk beginner. You will be sweat a lot, get injure, and sometimes bleed. However, you can get rid of tons of stress from busy school days for sure!!!!!
