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Upside Down Punks: The Strange but True Story of That Fugazi Basketball Hoop Show
by J. Hunter Bennett and Mickey Lynch
Published by Microcosm Publishing
4.25" x 7" x 0.13", 36 pages, b+w pages, full Color cover
$7.99
From the publisher:
In the summer of 1988, a star-struck teenager with zero concert
promotion experience booked a fledgling DC punk band called Fugazi to
play a decrepit gymnasium in a forgotten section of Northeast
Philadelphia. Attendance was sparse, conditions were sweltering, and the
sound sucked. But thanks to time, technology, the rise of social
media??"and Fugazi singer Guy Picciotto stuffing himself through a
basketball hoop??"that once-disappointing show is now “legendary.” Read
all about the gig and how it came about through this oral history
compiled by attendee J. Hunter Bennett, including an introduction by the
kid who made the show happen, Mickey Lynch.
