- Post date
- 17 Sep 2018
- Caption
- These flyers are shared by @joshuasezrelax from 1997 gigs held at the short-lived, yet all too memorable Bollocks. An all-ages punk club located the border between South L.A. and the City of Vernon.
These shows featured a mix of LÁ bands such as Pyschosexuals, Los Mugrosos, among maaaany others along with touring bands such as Naked Aggression and the Business (UK). So what was The Bollocks? Well, according to the July 9, 1998 L.A. Times article, the Bollocks was, "the combination of a club aimed specifically for an all-ages crowd and music that, at its core, remains disaffected […]a venue that's completely off clubsville's radar--as far from the Sunset Strip as is physically and symbolically possible. Located on an abandoned street corner, Bollocks is little more than a big rehearsal space, consisting of a ticket window, a raised stage, a small bar serving only soda and popcorn (each'll cost you a buck) and a restroom that, as these clubs go, isn't as gnarly as you might suspect.” The venue was ran by this British crusty punk-rocker named Eric Teggers.
The Bollocks Long Beach Blvd. location was shuttered by 1999 and Teggers began to host Bollocks at different locations, among them one sketchy joint on 7th Street in the deepest of Downtown’s Skid Row area, and at the storied Paramount Ballroom in Boyle Heights. In the 2000s, the Long Beach Blvd. site became the South Central Farmers’ Community Center, this as the insurgent South Central Farmers five acre lot where dozens of South LA families farmed collectively was located right in front of the site!
Both the Bollocks site and the former lot of the South Central Farmers currently sit empty nowadays.
Thanks for for sharing these flyers that are part of the collective history of LA punk.
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- Location
- South Central Farmers' Cooperative
- Type
- flyer
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- https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn2hn-WhU-s/
- View on Internet Archive
- https://archive.org/details/199712121702_201907