A Compleat History of Plain Parade

May 17th, 2006

Ever wanted to know who played a show with Plain Parade? By a sheer stroke of luck, I discovered that our Blogger archives [what we use to maintain the front of our site] extend all the way back to Day One. I’ll figure out a place to put them on PP’s site, but in the meantime, entertain yourselves.

Sugar Town events included here as well. If no venue is listed, show was at Doc Watson’s.

…Dragon City have played 13 shows with us. I think they deserve an award.

2001

01-11 - Sugar Town - Sarah Dougher, Cynthia G Mason, Kara Lafty @
Balcony Bar

02-08 - Sugar Town - Gal Lombardo, Bilenky Cycle Works @ Balcony Bar

03-01 - Sugar Town - Undergirl, The Pearly Gates @ Balcony Bar

04-12 - Sugar Town - Palomar, Persons @ Balcony Bar

05-17 - Sugar Town - Ill Ease, Mary Prankster @ Balcony Bar

06-28 - Sugar Town - The Demolition Doll Rods, Fuckbomb @ Balcony Bar

07-26 - Sugar Town - The Operators, Winterbrief, The Winter Blanket @
Balcony Bar

08-30 - Sugar Town - Bionic Finger, KeN, Snow Fairies @ Balcony Bar

09-20 - Sugar Town - Cynthia G Mason, Kelly Slusher @ Balcony Bar

10-?? - Sugar Town - Boyracer, Rabbit In Red, Undergirl, Huon @ Balcony Bar

11-?? - Sugar Town - Crowns On 45, Thorazine @ Tritone

12-01 - Sugar Town - She Haw, The Dirty Triplets, Zia @ Balcony Bar

2002

01-05 - Sugar Town - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Jane Anchor, Riff Raff, The
Minks @ Balcony Bar

02-15 - Sugar Town - Ari Up, Fursaxa, Pocahontas and the Ribs @ Balcony Bar

03-30 - Sugar Town - ST Mixtape Released - Jenny Toomey, KeN, The Dirty
Triplets, Lisa Christ Superstar @ Balcony Bar

04-26 - Sugar Town - Lefty’s Deceiver, O Mighty Isis, The Hissyfits, The
Vexers @ Balcony Bar

05-18 - Sugar Town - The Day, Head, Sweetie @ Balcony Bar

06-07 - Sugar Town - Thorazine, Palymra Delran, The Harps, Anti Emz @
Balcony Bar

07-27 - Sugar Town - Hallelujah, April Disaster, South Side Yawning
Company, DJ Silvia

08-07 - Sugar Town - Tribe 8, Bantam @ Balcony Bar

09-08 - Sugar Town - Ladyfest Benefit - Cynthia G Mason, Fursaxa, Navy,
Sashimi, Undergirl, The Method & Result @ Balcony Bar

09-14 - Sugar Town - Seana Carmody, Emily Sparks, April Disaster @
Balcony Bar

11-19 - First Plain Parade show - Walkie Talkies, Beach Balls, The Minks

11-29 - Sugar Town - x’s x’s, ??? @ Balcony Bar

12-05 - Marianne Nowottny, Readings by Whitney Pastorek, Diane Vadino,
Meredith Broussard, Samantha Barrow

12-06 - Colette Carter, Vertebrae, Tan As Fuck, Nimbus, DJ Daphne Carr

12-?? - Sara’s 33 1/3 Birthday Party

12-12 - Dragon City, Lee, Hanged Up

12-13 - Lorelei, x’s x’s, The Tunics

2003

01-09 - Neon Hunk, Kites, Newton

01-10 - Trolleyvox, Anthemic Pop Wonder, Lee

01-16 - Rich Kaufmann and Primo Carnera, Cordalene, The Baird Sisters

01-17 - Chino, The University, Surround

01-23 - Palomar, Dragon City, Raccoon

01-24 - King Of Prussia, The Method and Result, The Caribbean

01-30 - R5 Collaboration - 90 Day Men, Boas, Apache Grip, Alkali Flats

01-31 - Hail Social, Tizzy, The Color Guard

02-07 - Sinister Luck Ensemble, Central Falls, Friends of the Library

02-08 - Sugar Town - Helen Back & the Str8 Razors, Needles Jones,
Sisters Sugarillo, Lotsix @ Balcony Bar

02-13 - Crimson Sweet, Stiffed, Undergirl

02-14 - Boothby, Fingernail, The Needles

02-20 - April Disaster, The Teeth, Lee

02-21 - Cancelled

02-27 - Hilliard, The Improbables, The Reputation

02-28 - The Jane Anchor, The English System, Apparatus Engine

03-07 - The Sand Family, Kiss Kiss Kill, American Altitude

03-08 - Raccoon, Holy Ghost, Surround

03-14 - The Sinners, Wide Right

03-20 - Ladyfest Philly - Victory At Sea, The Jane Anchor, Cynthia G
Mason, Jen Hess

03-27 - The Teeth, Chet Delcampo, Bishop Allen

03-28 - This Radiant Boy, Val Emmich, Kilroy

04-30 - Holy Ghost, Ion Leaks, Hya Kcha

04-04 - We Ragazzi, Taking Pictures, The RTM

04-10 - King Of Prussia, Dragon City, Elefant, Motor

04-11 - The Trouble With Sweeney, Elk City, American Altitude, Cruel
Summer DJs @ UACA

04-17 - April Disaster, Denison Witmer, Melon Galia

04-18 - Alkali Flats, Lee, Metropolitan, Awek

04-24 - Crimson Sweet, Dutchland Diesel, True If Destroyed

04-25 - Thee Minks, Mondo Topless, Buzz Sawyer

05-08 - R5 Collaboration - Alan Sparhawk (of Low), Bitter Bitter Weeks,
Haley Bonar, ifthousands

05-09 - Helen Back & the Str8 Razors, MimiRock

05-16 - The Creatures of the Golden Dawn, The Graveyard School, The Cignal

05-22 - The Trolleyvox, Cordalene, Persona

05-23 - R5 Collaboration - Fog, Dosh, Kandywhales

05-29 - Azita, Brother JT, Everything Is Fine

05-30 - Walkie Talkies (Final Show), The Sand Family, Just Go No Texas,
Lotsix

06-05 - Rex Hobart, Langhorne Slim, Joey Beltram

06-06 - Trouble Everyday, Surround, Dragon City

06-07 - Sugar Town - The Ssion, The Tunics, Falkor @ Balcony Bar

06-12 - Eli, Grand Fabric, Buddy, Thanksgiving

06-13 - KeN, Jukebox Zeros, Apache Grip, Mz. Pacman

06-20 - Karl Hendricks Trio, The Red & The Black, This Radiant Boy

06-22 - Booze Cruise: The Trouble with Sweeney, DJ Dave Pianka @ Captain
Lucky’s River Steamboat

06-26 - Hokkaido Concern, Antelope, Liars & Magicians

06-27 - Downbeat 5, Thee Minks, Kilroy

07-03 - The Teeth, Trolleyvox, Escargo-Go’s, Bugs Eat Books

07-10 - Dragon City, The Long Lost, An Affinity Group, The Horns

07-11 - 215 Festival Benefit - The Wayward Wind, Iain Levison, Erik
Bader, Michael Azreal-D

07-15 - Trouble Everyday, Persona, Illoin, Octopus Project @ Club 218 South

07-17 - R5 Collaboration - The Swords Project, Bishop Allen, Raccoon,
Can/Am Connection

07-18 - Maria’s Birthday Party - This Radiant Boy, The Caribbean, Cherry
Coke! (Maria, Bucky from TRB & Joey Sweeney’s Kinks cover band)

07-24 - Race For Titles, The Red & The Black, Late Night Television,
Apple of Discord

07-25 - Lesser Birds of Paradise, American Altitude, Motor

07-31 - Snow Fairies, Lucky Dragons, El Boxeo

08-01 - Undergirl, The Bad Vibes, Spitting Cobras

08-06 - Our First Sold Out Show - The Lucksmiths, Via Tania, Tim
Kinsellas, The Mosquitoes

08-07 - The Jane Anchor, Lefty’s Deceiver, Grand Fabric

08-14 - Just Go No Texas, Plastron, The Charms

08-15 - Infamous “Pint Glass” Episode - Raccoon, Cordalene, Metropolitan

08-21 - R5 Collaboration - Cougars, Sovenskya, Young Vulgarians

08-22 - Ben Edwards Trio, Needles Jones, P.T. Lovecraft, David Smith

08-28 - Palomar, Overlord, Nixon’s Head, The Anderson Council

08-30 - Sugar Town - Beretta 76, The Long Lost, Box Five, Mama Spell @
Balcony Bar

09-04 - Snow Fairies, Dear Nora, The Motherfucking Clash

09-11 - Kandywhales, Stars As Eyes, Lotsix

09-12 - My Pal God Records Night - Taking Pictures, Quick Fix Kills,
Heroics, DJ Jon Solomon

09-18 - Aim of Conrad, Late Night Television, Pattern Is Movement

09-26 - “What I LIke About Jew”

09-27 - Black Eyed Snakes, Kid Dakota, Young People, The Teeth

10-02 - The Collapse, Miniband, IAmLoved

10-03 - Can/Am Connection, Relay, The Sems, Arkitekchur

10-09 - Trolleyvox (Record Release), The Sixth Great Lake, James Hindle

10-10 - “Huwavah Goodtime”: The Teeth, Raccoon, Buried Beds, Thaddeus
Pekula, Pat Kelly

10-16 - Espers, Alasdair Roberts, Brother JT

10-17 - This Radiant Boy, Awek, Lee

10-19 - Cordalene, The Rosebuds, The A-Sides

10-23 - Low Skies, Relay, The Twin Atlas, Timonium

10-24 - “The Broken Hipsters” Preview: The Sand Family, Like Moving
Insects, Todd Young, Lotsix

10-26 - Buried Beds, Carolynne McNeel, Snoozer, Cara Hyde

10-30 - The Sickidz, Jukebox Zeros, Edison Rocket Train, The
Motherfucking Clash

10-31 - Dragon City, Young Vulgarians, [[[[VVRSSNN]]]], Dirty Projectors

11-03 - “Let America Laugh” Screening

11-06 - Cynthia G Mason, The Last Wave, Dear Nora

11-07 - Del Rey, The Vanishers, Zombi, Pattern Is Movement

11-13 - Alkali Flats, Natural History, Relay, Trouble Everyday

11-14 - The Method & Result, Be Careful Little Hands, Heavenly States,
Goodmorning Valentine

11-21 - First Anniversary - Helen Back & The Str8 Razors, The
Reflectors, MimiRock, Pink Steel

11-28 - Kilroy, Persona, Future Tips

11-29 - Sugar Town - Beretta 76, The Tights, JD & The Rocketbras, Buried
Beds @ Balcony Bar

12-04 - My Favorite, The Last Wave, Collette Carter, Carolynne McNeel

12-05 - Sonic Liberation Front, Positron, Jungulungularity, DJ Dan Buskirk

12-11 - Pilot Round The Sun, Can/Am Connection, The Sw!ms

12-13 - Consonant, French Toast, South Congress

12-18 - Hilliard, Grandfabric, Hoy, Chris Dillon

12-23 - “What I Like About Jew” @ Tritone

12-26 - Plain Parade “Office Party” - The Trouble With Sweeney, Mama
Spell, DJ Chatty Cathy

2004

01-15 - Sharron Kraus, Jack Rose, Curtis Eller’s American Circus

01-16 - Sugar Town - The Tights, True If Destroyed, Carolynne McNeel

01-22 - First Straight Week Of High Attendance - The Teeth, Dragon City,
Bishop Allen, The Weather

01-23 - The Creatures of The Golden Dawn, The A-Sides, Headquarters, The
Sw!ms

01-29 - PA Muzzleloader, Clockcleaner, 1776

01-30 - This Radiant Boy, Lefty’s Deceiver, National Eye, Future Tips

02-05 - First Appearance On CNN - Sex Workers Art Show

02-12 - “Quest For Sleep” Screening

02-13 - Anti-Valentine’s Tribute To the Smiths - Dresden Dolls, Marc
Spitz, Eric Bader, DJ Bethany Klein, Open “Top 5 Breakups” Reading

02-20 - Cordalene, Bitter Bitter Weeks, The Perfectionists

02-26 - Third Floor Re-Opening - One Star Hotel, Elevator Parade, Head
of Femur, Impossible Shapes

02-27 - Jukebox Zeros, Beretta 76, Undergirl, Wide Right

03-04 - Trouble Everyday, Les Baton Rouge, Black Strip Withdrawal

03-05 - The Teeth, Like Moving Insects, Buried Beds, She Haw

03-11 - The Spinto Band, Doctor & Philip, The Donuts, The Sheep, DJ
Scott Rodgers

03-12 - Dragon City, Motor, The Caribbean, Oxford Collapse, “Pop Mart”
Dance Party

03-18 - Newton, Japanese Karaoke Afterlife Experience, Cotton Museum,
Unicord Hard-On, Taiwan Deth, N-Tron

03-19 - Kandwhales, The Needles, Boyskout, “Supercrappy” Dance Party

03-25 - Aunt Jessica, Lucky Dragons, Greg Davis Group, Marumari

03-26 - Sugar Skulls, Sons & Daughters, The Jane Anchor

04-01 - Jack Rose, Ian Nagoski, Glenn Jones, Julia Vorontsova

04-02 - Final Plain Parade Show At Doc Watsons - Disassociated Writers
Project Benefit - Relay, (The Sounds Of) Kaleidoscope, The Last Wave,
Erron Olive, “Hot Lava” Dance Party

04-08 - Metal Urbain, Clockcleaner, Make A Rising, Pinataland @ Tritone

04-09 - Lefty’s Deceiver, Del Rey, Blacksonny @ Millcreek Tavern

04-16 - Rock Lotto Finale: Blow Me Ian, Band #2, 1040 EZ, Recess!
Recess!, $$$ @ Millcreek Tavern

04-22 - Motorist, Picastro, Cerebrus Shoal @ Tritone

04-29 - The Sw!ms, Doublehorse, Low Skies @ Millcreek Tavern

04-30 - Sugar Town - Thee Minks, The Motherfucking Clash, Whitney
Pastorek @ Millcreek Tavern

05-03 - Sharron Kraus, Saint Joan, Baird Sisters @ Tritone

05-07 - The Quails, True If Destroyed, Kiss Kiss Kill @ Millcreek Tavern

05-08 - Helen Back & the Str8 Razors, Undergirl, DJ Roger Segal @ Tritone

05-13 - Narcissassy DJ Night featuring The Motherfucking Clash @ Tritone

05-14 - The Nitelights, Midnite Grace, Sexton Ming, Chaz the Unloved @
Millcreek Tavern

05-22 - Sugar Town - Cynthia G Mason, Wanamaker, Trolleyvox @ Tritone

06-26 - Tall Boys, Beat Jamz, DJ Lisa Garrett @ Tritone

07-11 - V.I.P., Gravy Train!!!, Plastic Little, DJ Trishylicious @ Silk City

07-16 - This Radiant Boy (Record Release), Dragon City, Fivehead, Regina
Hexaphone @ Tritone

07-19 - Snow Fairies, Bugs Eat Books @ Tritone

07-24 - Sugar Town - All Girl DJ Throwdown @ Tritone - DJ’s Bethany
Klein, Chatty Cathy, Trishylicious, MJ Fine, Stacie George, Kelly (of
Songs About Fucking), Miss Meow, Julie G, Darshana & Chetana Borah, Maria T

07-25 - Vanishers, Canine 10, Notekillers, The Nein @ The Fire

08-02 - Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Rifle Nice, Newspaper @ Tritone

08-20 - Like Moving Insects, Cynthia G Mason, The Winter Blanket, El
Boxeo @ The Fire

08-23 - Jim Guthrie, Adam Arcuragi, Bret Tobias @ Tritone

09-03 - “Movies With Live Soundtracks” Screening @ The Fire

09-09 - Sugar Town - Frostiva, The Reflectors, Rifle Nice, Red Skate Red
@ Pontiac Grille

09-22 - Heyday Entertainment Collaboration - Euphone, The Love of
Everything, Shark Quest, Bombs @ The Khyber

10-08 - Heyday Entertainment Collaboration - Walkie Talkies, Lion Fever,
Jukebox Zeros, Buy Star Bombs @ The Khyber

10-15 - Trouble Everyday, Medium Medium, Dragon City @ Tritone

10-22 - Buried Beds, Friends of the Library, The Method and Result,
Saeta @ Tritone

10-29 - Sugar Town - Benefit for Axi Nue @ Tritone - DJ’s Julia
Factorial, Miss Meow, Pussy Galore, Stacie George, Trishylicious, Evile
Mlle Memphis, Silvia La Chica Ye Ye, Darshana & Chetana Borah, Maria T

11-06 - The Jane Anchor (Record Release), Grandfabric, DJ Sara Sherr @
Indre Studios

11-12 - Lefty’s Deceiver, Undergirl (Record Release), DJ Psydde
Delicious @ Tritone

11-13 - The Teeth, National Eye, American Altitude, Low Skies @ Tritone

11-19 - Second Anniversary, First Artist Meltdown - Sympathizers, Greg
Davis, Ariel Pink, Signer @ Tritone

11-20 - Plain Parade Second Anniversary Party @ Tritone

12-17 - Dragon City, Bitter Bitter Weeks, The Nein, Pattern Is Movement
@ Silk City

12-31 - Plain Parade Rockin’ New Years Eve @ Tritone

2005

01-10 - First Road Flare Thrown At Maria - Clockcleaner, Pissed Jeans,
Yowie, Yes Collapse @ Silk City

01-21 - Northern Arms, Mr. Unloved @ Tritone

01-28 - The Spinto Band, Artanker Convoy, Golden Brown @ Tritone

02-05 - 7-11 Party @ Silk City - DJ’s Laris Kreslins, Andrew Jeffrey
Wright, Luis Mayo, Sara Sherr, Jesse Pearson, Maria T, Joey Sweeney,
Kristaps Kreslins, Thom Lessner, Brendan Newnam

02-12 - American Altitude, Grandfabric, Low Skies, Roadside Graves @ Tritone

02-18 - Rarebirds (Record Release), Rainy River, Sea Snakes, The Winter
Pageant @ Silk City

03-12 - The Perfection!sts, Dragon City (Split 7″ Release Show), Fuck
With The Bull Get The Horns, Yah Mos Def @ Tritone

04-02 - South Congress, Relay, Bellafea, Viva Voce @ Silk City

04-23 - Thrilladelphia Music Festival 2.0 - Golden Ball, Make A Rising,
Joey Sweeney, Rarebirds @ Tritone

05-09 - “Gimme Fiction” Listening Party @ Silk City

05-16 - Rarebirds, Northern Arms, Canine 10, The Changes @ Silk City

05-27 - First Random Sufjan Stevens Sighting - Castanets, Creeping
Weeds, Weird Weeds, Thunderlip @ M-Room

06-10 - Like Moving Insects, Lesser Birds of Paradise, Future Tips @ Tritone

06-17 - Doug Gillard, Bigger Lovers, The A-Sides @ Tritone

06-24 - Manishevitz, Trouble Everyday, ZZZZ @ Tritone

08-04 - Sympathizers (Record Release), Doctor & Philip, Eat Forever @
Silk City

08-13 - WOAR Benefit - KeN, The Jane Anchor, Beretta 76 @ Tritone

09-17 - Hockey Night (Cancelled), Yah Mos Def, Lee Jae-Won, DJ Julia
Factorial @ M-Room

10-01 - National Eye, The Spinto Band, PAS/CAL, Illumina @ M-Room

10-08 - Nethers, Mike Wexler, Benjy Ferree @ Tritone

10-28 - Dirty Faces, The Strugglers, Buried Beds, Amy Pickard @ Tritone

10-29 - Best Use of A Half Pipe - Dragon City, Jetpack, Foxymorons, Walker Lundee, Bishop Allen (Cancelled), Raisch-Hirsch, DJ’s Doug Wallen, Nick Krill, Maria T @ 3233 Amber Street

11-11 - Kandywhales, Rifle Nice, Regina Hexaphone, Heston Rifle @ M-Room

11-19 - Third Anniversary Party @ Tritone

11-22 - “Songs From The Sixth Borough” is released

2006

02-10 - Edie Sedgwick, Porktamer, Hott Beat, Wang Newton @ Tritone

02-18 - Notekillers, Oxford Collapse, Aquila Rose, Centipede E’est @ M-Room

02-24 - The A-Sides, The Eames Era, Walker Lundee, Cordalene @ M-Room

03-04 - Unfaithful Servants, My Best Fiend, Chaz the Unloved @ Tritone

03-09 - Sugar Town - Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves, Evil Janet,
Surefire Broadcast @ Tritone

04-08 - Lynnee Breedlove, Kelly Beardsley, Kelli Dunham, Lotsix @ Tritone

04-15 - Audible (Record Release), The Capitol Years, DJ Joey Sweeney @
M-Room

05-06 - Most Money Raised At A Fundraiser - Dumpsta Player’s “100 Proof”
@ TYZ

One Response to “A Compleat History of Plain Parade”

  1. Raised By Bees » My Quarterly Blog Post Says:

    [...] Oh and finally, Maria posted Plain Parade’s entire history here. Commentary forthcoming. As always, hugs to anyone who played a show with us, spent their hard-earned dollars on our shows, wrote about us, or told us to keep fightin the good fight — especially during our dark Doc Watson’s daze. It keeps me coming back year after year. [...]

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