Fort Reno
The Fort Reno Free Summer Concert Series slipped my mind this year
Fort Reno 2008 | Schedule. I didn't even think of it until just last week. Looking at the schedule I have to admit, I don't know any of these bands. This is my fault not theirs. Well - the Boom Oranutangs who have already played this year and played last year as well. They I know are Wilson High people and schoolmates of my niece Nicole C. The tag line at the bottom of the pages "Mostly Arsenic-free since 2008". This is reference to an improbable story from earlier in the year that Fort Reno and the adjoining Wilson High and Deal Jr. high fields where soggy with arsenic. It was going to eat through your shoes up into your body and kill you dead
New Soil Tests Show Safe Arsenic Levels. Apparently; though, all a false alarm caused by new high tech surveillance methods
Norton's Fort Reno Park Community Meeting.
The Fort Reno concerts were recalled to me by my co-worker Jeremy who posited Fort Reno as a pastoral version of Baltimore's Whartscape during a discussion of that. In passing he mentioned The Apes as only non Dischord DC area band he could recall by name. It turned out they were on the bill for that same night. WhartScape which took place last weekend
Whartscape 2008: The Aftermath - Information Leafblower I had never heard of before. What it seems to be is 3 days, a couple of alleys and nearly every indie band between Severna Park and Coney island
WHAM CITY: WHARTSCAPE 2008. But not for some reason the Wilderness or even Lord Dog Bird. Whartscape is the Alternative communities answer (counterpart) to Baltimore's more mainstream ArtScape. This is at least its second year
Whartscape Music Festival | Pitchfork (last years in Pitchfork).
Looking over the remainder of the Fort Reno Schedule. One act catches my eye: Kid Congo Powers . The Kid Congo Powers, from the Cramps, Nick Cave, and also from one of my very favorite bands, the Gun Club? It seems to be. This could interesting.
Under the theory that you've got to name your poison if you want it (arsenic?). I leave you with a link to the Sonics (the Sonics) doing their song Strychnine:
The Sonics - Strychnine. Some folks like water,
Some folks like wine,
But I like a taste,
Of straight strychnine
-- Sonics. Strychnine, 1965
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