Punk Rock Bowling is the 2nd largest meet-up for Turbojugend, the massive and rather strange organization that grew out of a Turbonegra fan club. If you don’t know them, this fascinating article from Kerrang! from 2018 explain quite well how they came about. or the last 11 or 12 years, the Las Vegas chapter has organized a parallel festival of Turbojuend-related bands at a downtown Las Vegas location.
Your correspondent spoke to the Rev. Dave, founder and organizer of the festival. (pictured with unknown friend) He told me that he gets applications to play from bands all over the world, from many of Turnojugend’s 2300 chapters.
Here we have a sample of the Turbojugend attendees, a fine bunch of individuals.
I photographed a sample of the bands, as PRB weekend is simply crazy and there are too many places to be. Here are San Francisco’s The Creepy Crawlies.
I can’t find this band. Billed on the schedule as ‘Saturday Night Wrist’. If you know them or have any info, please contact the author. They were some excellent, noisy punk.
Fuzz Attack play hard garage punk, and have playing the Bay Area for the last decade.
Flexx Bronco have close ties to the Turbojugend community and play the festival pretty much every year
Twin sisters Béah and Cecilia Romero front Flames of Durga. Their self-titles debut album has been released this year.
We attended the main festival, pool parties and club shows over the next three days, so look for much more content from the official Punk Rock Bowling festivities to come.