Earlier we announced our big Halloween show happening at Black Sheep on October 24th featuring Don’t Mess With Winkie, Los Injectors, Bad Banshee, and King Worm. NIL8‘s legendary Hobgoblinspookadelic will not be happening at Black Sheep this year, but instead just at Donnie’s Homespun. The date for that will be on Halloween, Friday October 31st. For that show there is another great local lineup. NIL8 will be playing (of course) along with long running Springfield punk band The Timmys. They will be joined by newer Springfield hardcore/punk/ska bands Bad Banshee and King Worm. For photos of last year’s Hobgob you can check out our Hobgob 2013 album on flickr.

All of that will be at 7:00 pm at Donnie’s Homespun (located at 107 West Cook Street) and the show is all ages. Admission will be $5. Find a facebook event for this right here. You can check out a list of this show and more upcoming Springfield shows on our Springfield shows page.

This year’s Hobgoblinspookadelic lineup is here! It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for! Get ready to be spooked! As we all know, Springfield punk legends NIL8 will be playing this year’s Hobgob, as they do every year. Other than NIL8, there are four other bands on the bill! The first of those is the rowdy punk/hardcore band Soap Scum! Soap Scum last played at Black Sheep on Friday, September the 13th and it was a very spooky show. Next we have Springfield’s newest indie/pop rock band that everyone loves, Looming. Looming played their first show at Black Sheep not long ago and it was great. Check out their new six song EP here. Another scary one we have on the bill this year is the harsh noise project Execution Techniques. To top that all off we have a fun punk band from Champaign called Orange Soda. We have been told the band features members of Dino Bravo and Kowabunga! Kid and are guaranteed to bring us a good time.

Hobgob is on Friday, October 25th this year. Costumes are encouraged, but you can do or wear whatever you want. This will start at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can find a facebook event for the show right here, and check out our shows page to see what else is coming up at Black Sheep!

We are very excited to announce today that we will be hosting NIL8‘s annual Hobgoblinspookadelic on Friday, October 25th this fall. Yes, this does mean that NIL8 will be playing. We are not going to tell you the other bands playing right now though! The full show will be announced later on in the month. We’d just though we would give you a head start in making Halloween plans and picking out costumes by giving you the date early.

To check out a bunch of photos from Hobgob last year, check out our Hobgob 2012 flickr set. You can also see what other shows we have coming up this fall on our shows page.

TICKETS

Remember that show back in March where Off With Their Heads was supposed to play at Black Sheep? Well sadly they had to drop, but they also promised us that they would come and play in Springfield sometime very soon to make up for it. Well guess what folks? That day has come! Off With Their Heads will be playing at Black Sheep on Saturday, July 20th! (For real this time!) They won’t be joined by Teenage Bottlerocket this time, but we do have quite the lineup of bands for this show! Also playing this show is Springfield long-running punk rock band The Timmys! (Who also won your choice for best Springfield album of 2012). Then we have… NIL8!?! The even longer running Springfield punk band has not played Black Sheep since Hobgob in October- which was also NIL8’s 30 year anniversary as a band. Come dance, stage dive, and slam to this incredible lineup of bands on July 20th!

The show will start at 7:00 pm. To purchase tickets, go here. Admission will be $6 in advance and $8 at the door (links to tickets will go online soon). You can find a facebook event for the show right here. You can also check out our shows page where you can see all of the Black Sheep shows that are coming up.