“Black Thoughts” and “Panic Attack” by OFF! Descendents’ “Suburban Home.” Bad Religion’s Suffer- the whole record! WG: Maggie and Kathy’s track listings are really good already. Of course, X’s “Nausea,” “The World’s A Mess…” Suburban Lawns songs that Su sings: “Janitor,” “Unable,” “Green Eyes.” Agent Orange’s “Bloodstains,” “The Last Goodbye,” and the rest of Living In Darkness. Black Flag with Keith doing “Nervous Breakdown” and “Wasted.” (I also love OFF!) Gun Club’s “Sex Beat” and all of Fire Of Love. KF: I don’t really have much to add, but here is some of my fave L.A. Other faves: “Kids of the Black Hole” by Adolescents, the Stiff single version of “How Much More” by The Go-Go’s, “Manimal” by Germs… I even played it the first time I deejayed records in New York last May at a Bash & Pop show (I couldn’t help myself). MW: Well, I am always fond of “Let’s Get Rid of New York” by Randoms. Since our benefit is going to be in Chinatown right by the old Hong Kong Cafe and Madame Wong’s, I’m wondering if you can share fave bands and cuts from L.A.’s first wave of punk?
MW: Your deejay project Strange Babes has rad taste in punk, power pop, and rock, too. When Kathy and Westin returned from tour, we had our first practice and wrote at least four of the songs on our first record.
We started talking about how we wanted to start a hardcore band because we were always seen as the “nice” ones and wanted an outlet for our darker sides. I was working at Kill Rock Stars at the time and flew out for their Now We Can See show. MV: We started backstage at a Thermals show at Irving Plaza in New York City. MW: Can you remind us how you three got together? This is by far the easiest band I’ve ever been in–whether that’s writing songs together, recording, playing shows, or touring. MV: It’ll be eight years in November, which is insane! Our secret is we are doing it purely out of love for each other and our music. MW: Hurry Up has been around for eight years! What is the secret to lasting that long? Hurry Up will be up to their armpits in punk legends on the trip, and I understand no less than the man, the myth, the legend O helped them set up a great show in his home town of San Diego, too. Guess what? Over the next week or two, we planned an incredible weekend tour so around our matinee fundraiser date. I really dug Maggie Vail’s old band, The Bangs, and how cool is it that she is now in a possibly even more raging punk trio with Kathy Foster and Westin Glass from The Thermals? I sent Maggie a message via Instagram on a whim, and the stars must have been aligned because the three of them had just been talking about a West Coast tour. I’ve been stalking Hurry Up for a long time now. These are punk rock lifers who don’t play for fame but love and the scene. But I loved them and want people to check out the current music, too. Most of it is newer bands with members of older groups that never got very big or popular back in their days. Our fifteenth show is the most shamelessly selfish lineup yet. Adolescents, Channel Three, Alice Bag, Mike Watt, Chuck Dukowski, Rikk Agnew, Phranc, Alley Cats, The Crowd, The Gears-our list is way too long to list and includes rad newer bands as well as some from China! All the while, we’ve made a lot of friends in LA’s storied punk community. We also have a lot of fun exposing kids that can handle it to DIY culture. For five school years now, our all-ages matinees inspired by the neighborhood’s punk rock past at the old Hong Kong Café (but with cookies and little kids dancing around in front like the Peanuts Gang in a Target Video) have raised about $10,000 annually to help provide an extensive music education to largely immigrant, English-learning, and underserved students. I never expected our Save Music in Chinatown benefits to support Castelar Elementary’s music program to last this long.
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