Talk About A Hardcore Celebration …
Posted by: Shawn ˑ April 3, 2009 – 9:38 amBy Shawn Despres
On Saturday April 4, Seoul hardcore label Townhall Records will celebrate their 5th anniversary at Club Spot with a night of fast-paced, cake smashing anthems. Scheduled to appear are The Geeks (whose 2004 From The Start disc was the imprint’s first release), Things We Say, Join The Circle, Burn My Bridges, No Excuse, Chad Burger, Find The Spot, Sink To Rise, Johnny Royal, To My Last Breath, and Today x Spot . The show starts at 6 p.m. and costs 10,000 won.
The gig will double as the release party for Burn My Bridges’ new seven song EP, Die Hard. The album is the 15th recording to be issued by Townhall. In March, the imprint released a split CD from Chadburger and Find The Spot. Gig Guide contributor Jon Dunbar took photos at the split CD release concert for his web site, Daehanmindecline.com
Townhall founder Hwang Kyusuck plans to release three more discs this year between summer and autumn including a split between No Excuse (Hwang is the vocalist in No Excuse) and Vengeance (USA), Flame Still Burns’ (USA) Point Across EP, and a compilation CD featuring 7 different Korean hardcore acts.
In other Townhall-related news, The Geeks will be touring in Malayasia on May 16th and 17th with American hardcore band Have Heart. Have Heart played in Seoul and Cheongju last September.
Hwang jokes that he’d love to see 1,000 people ram themselves into Spot for Townhall’s anniversary. Now that would definitely be hard core!
Happy birthday, Townhall Records.
