Dudefest, Day 1: The evening started off fairly sparse with a few crowding to the front to watch the bands and the occasional minipit. The hall packed densely with merch booths and the bathroom supplying the Emerson Theater classic carnival game, piss on the cockroach in the urinal until he drowns in urine. The crowd seemed to pick up by the time Landmine Marathon took stage. But it was the full force rage of Municipal Waste that really brought things into a fury. The crowd still remained relatively slow for Dudefest until mid-set when the crowd was instructed to bring more to the table.
Day 2: Much irony in the second day that took place at the ES Jungle. For those that don’t know its a church and one can merely chuckle when bands like Black Arrows of Filth and Impurity are on the bill and your staring down a line of people wearing tshirts depicting bloodied carcasses atop a pentagram. This day was a bit more rough and more along the lines of what I was expecting at Dudefest. By the end of the night it turned into a photography war zone, just replace bombs with people, feet, and elbows. I feel sympathy for the man to my left that ate the butt end of my camera lens as it flung wildly into the air after receiving a nice hard jar from someone on my right. After receiving a more painful hit in the jaw I had to seek cover.
Full set of photos are available at Brooklyn Vegan
