January 8, 2010 – 2:00 pm
By Jon Dunbar
This weekend, the big show in Hongdae is the Open Your Eyes Festival, featuring 14 mainly Korean hardcore bands for a mere 15 000 won, which is a little over 1000 won per band. Better yet, the proceeds are being donated to Shimteo Women’s Shelter and Seoul Women’s Hotline.
It’s a great chance to see a bunch of great Korean bands, including:
No Excuse (old school metallic hardcore)
Things We Say (youthcrew)
The Geeks (xyouthcrewx)
…Whatever That Means (melodic punk)
Vicious Nerds (reunion after 2+ years of old-school hardcore with short, fast songs… kinda like the NYHC band GO!)
Chadburger (Seoul city thrash punx)
Find The Spot (old-school hardcore, like a blend of ’80s DCHC and ’80s NYHC)
Sssighborggg (experimental electronics, from ambience to IDM)
The Strikers (pop-punk)
Join The Circle (fast, pissed-off political hardcore)
Unleashed Anger (metallic hardcore)
Through By Us (metalcore similar to Walls Of Jericho)
Seoul City Suicides (”Ramones vs. Kyuss maybe?”)
Same Old Story (melodic metalcore / screamo)
Great bands, great cause.
RSVP over here
One Response to “Open Your Eyes Festival”
With those band names I am expecting to hear a lot of quality English songs
By Otto Silver on Jan 12, 2010