- Post date
- 19 Jul 2018
- Caption
- Here's a flyer for a 1994 tocada with María Fatal, Los Olvidados, and Excel Nova (Pastilla) at the mythical Hong Kong Low in Chinatown. What is remarkable about this flyer is the use of the “Hoyo Funky” designation for the tocada (or the production entity that put it together). So what’s an Hoyo Funky. This is a term that was coined by Mexican beat/onda writer Parménides García Saldaña to define the clandestine improvised venues where rock and roll adherents shows took refuge in the outskirts of Mexico City after 1968.
The violent suppression of the students protests of in the Tlatelolco plaza by the Mexican government in October 2nd, 1968 began a forbidding period of constant surveillance, censorship, and suppression to most of what could be considered youth culture, particularly rock and roll concerts.
It is also illuminating to see that this 2018 there are events, gigs, tocadas here in Southern California that are being put together this summer that also employed the name “Hoyo Funky” as it connects these youth culture historical legacies from Mexico and Latin America to contemporary music and happenings taking place in LÁ’s present.
For Rock Angelino participants, the “hoyos funky” morphed into “ephemeral forums.” These were improvised venues that functioned for one night or had a longer run. In Southern California, we can think of joints like Hong Kong Low, El Pirata, Las Pampas, The Allen Theater, The American Legion, The Black Castle, etc. These in addition to the countless backyard shows and emulated and evoked the conditions of the Hoyos Funky: The more marginalized neighborhoods these venues were, that harder the rock, punk, or ska blasted!
Which is your favorite “Hoyo Funky/Ephemeral Venue”?
- Location
- Chinatown Central Plaza
- Type
- flyer
- View on Instagram
- https://www.instagram.com/p/BlcOokshG4s/
- View on Internet Archive
- https://archive.org/details/19940527945n_201906