Another Message from Scott Blacula

598923_471503599584372_2116088754_nLast week we passed along a message sent to us from the Springfield metalcore wrestling band Scott Blacula. In that message, which you can see here, Scott Blacula expressed their disgust in Black Sheep as a venue among a few other things. They also talked about their show last Wednesday possibly being their last. Today we are bringing you an official statement not from The Pukester, but THE Mr. Scott Blacula himself.

My empire has gone through its share of ups and downs, but over the last year, an endeavor to spread my greatness across the universe has degenerated into crass insults and barbaric displays of rage and ignorance. When I brought the original four jobbers of the IGWF(Inter-Galactic Wrestling Federation) together to form Scott Blacula, I had nothing but the full intentions of this band to speak of my praises, and hopefully become something more substantial than they could have as professional wrestlers. Instead, they continued to dwell on their miserable failure of a past, speaking of nothing other than wrestling. In fact, not a single song written was about me. One song was even focused on someone who was obsessed with a TV Show in which MY GLORY-HOGGING COUNTERPART starred.

I let all of this slide until it became apparent that these fools only cared about their own goals, one of which being to slander my good name after everything I have given them. The Pukester may have taken it upon himself to disband the quartet, but nothing is official until I say so. Matters have gotten too far out of hand, and it is with great pleasure, and miniscule regret, that I hereby fold the band of Scott Blacula. The Pukester, The Undertoker, Jack Swaggerty, and CM Drunk, or Nick Foley, or…whatever the hell he calls himself these days will no longer work under my employ, as I have chosen to end this empire before these peons can do any more damage. The IGWF will be no more, and the members of Scott Blacula will be banished from the cosmos, forced to live menial, unrewarding lives on the stinking heap of trash that is Planet Earth.

Goodbye forever, people of this abhorrent planet. Never forget the majestic name of Scott Blacula, and all that I represented.

-Mr. Scott Blacula

We are not entirely sure how this works out, but we think that it is safe to say that the local metalcore band Scott Blacula is no more. Congratulations Springfield! We have defeated Scott Blacula once and for all!

Scott Blacula did have one more match scheduled before they were ultimately defeated. That was to be against Smoke Coke at The End Is Here Fest on November 9th. Does this mean Smoke Coke automatically wins the match, or will there be some other band to take Scott Blacula’s place to battle it out with them?

 

November 5th at Black Sheep: Two Knights, Our Lady, Wir Konnen, and Jess Knight!

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November’s a wonderful month to get sad! (Right?) Whether it is or not, we got a real doozy right here. All the way from Denton, Texas, we have a great, very math-y, emo group named Two Knights. They’re on Count Your Lucky Stars Records and are going to be on tour, so be sure to come and show some support! Also, check out their stuff down below! Next, we have the locally famous, emotionally-driven, Our Lady. They will going on tour shortly after this show with Ghost Key on November 7th! Next, we have local emo group Wir Konnen, which features members of Montagh and Lovecow. Last, but not least, opening things up, we have the lovely Jess Knight playing some acoustic jams.

The show will be at 7:00 pm and cost $5! You can find a link for the Facebook event page here, and be sure to check out all the other cool shows happening this fall by going to our Black Sheep Shows page!

Tonight at Black Sheep: Folk Y’All, Southtowne Lanes, Lovecow, Montagh, Mystery Gift, Paqui Persea

fdfWe’ve got a spectacular line-up tonight for your enjoyment, ladies, gents, theys and its! From way back in the backwoods of Connecticut, we will be featuring the old-timey folk punkers Folk Y’All! These guys will make you want to stomp your feet and dance with their banjo pickin, wash-tub playing, accordian pumping tunes. Portland based SowthTowne Lanes will also be joining us this evening! Check out their brand spanking new E.P on their bandcamp! These guys will grace us with some alternative pop-punk riddled with emotion and energy, so definitely look forward to hearing them. Bringing us back to the folk-punk end of the spectrum will be our very own Lovecow! Filled with manic wit, wholesome folksy tunes and mega-popular hits, these folks are sure to please as always.

The local band Montagh will be performing tonight as well! Their folk-punk tunes are emotional, plodding and just plain swell. They’re sure to put on a good set as always. Following them we will be receiving mysterious gifts from Mystery Gift! Probably pieces of home furnishing. This is going to be their first show, so give some support and check them out! Another marvelous act we’ll be featuring tonight is Paqui Persea. He’ll be giving us an acoustic explosion, according to the facebook event, so don’t miss out!

This will be at the Black Sheep Cafe at 6:30 pm! Bring $5 to see six bands! If that’s not a bang for your buck, I don’t know what is. You rule! Here’s a diddy by the spectacular fellows of Folk Ya’ll so give it a listen. While you do that, check out these upcoming shows! 

“The weather tonight is going to be clear” says the Wizard On the Folk Y’All album. 

September 24th at Black Sheep: Boom Boom Kid, Nephrons, Strong Power

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It looks like another September has popped up on our calendar here at Black Sheep and we are very excited! On Tuesday, September 24th we will be welcoming Boom Boom Kid all the way from Argentina. Wow! Boom Boom Kid is a solo project of sorts of Carlos Rodríguez formerly of the hardcore Argentinean band Fun People. Boom Boom Kid plays a type of punk/pop-punk that is sure to get you bouncing. We are excited to welcome in these Argentinean punks. Also playing the show is Springfield’s own Nephrons who recently put out a new record. This show will also be the first show of a brand new Springfield project called Strong Power. We don’t know anything about the type of music this new band played or who is in it, so we should all be in for a treat!

The show starts at 7:00 pm and costs $5 (so we can help our friends get back to Argentina). You can expect a flier and facebook event sometime soon. In the meantime, check out our shows page for a look at what’s coming up at Black Sheep this fall.

Roundtable Tomorrow At Black Sheep/Help Finding Electricians and Roofing Contractors

tumblr_msd94olfPW1qfyo63o1_1280The fall has come crashing on us here at Black Sheep like a wave of Elmer’s glue. It’s time to surf the wave and take on some new projects! Tomorrow at 1:00 pm we will be hosting our first roundtable meeting of the fall. What happens at our roundtable meetings? Our meetings are a chance for everyone to voice their opinions on how things are ran at Black Sheep and they are an opportunity for us to brainstorm ideas. Remember all of the cool stuff that we got accomplished last fall? The meeting will go from 1:00 to 2:00 pm and everyone is welcome to come. We have some big things coming up this fall including a really cool Halloween show/Hobgob and we want to talk about them! After we are done meeting we will split up into groups and go flier for our upcoming shows around town. Do you have a show coming up in Springfield that you need help promoting? Bring some fliers to the meeting and we will do some flier-trading!

As the fall approaches and the weather is starting to get colder we are pushing to get a better heating and cooling system inside of Black Sheep. We have some things planned for this, but right now we need you help! We are looking for any electricians or roofing contractors that would be able to get us an estimate on a project for us this fall. If you know of any electricians or roofing contractors then please get ahold of us! Shoot us an email at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com.

If you can’t make it to the meeting at 1:00 tomorrow, don’t worry! We plan on continuing to have our roundtable meetings every other week. If you have trouble making it to the meetings there is still plenty more that you can do to get involved. To find out more about that, check out our get involved page!

Montagh Recording/Plan To Release Split

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A couple weeks ago, local Goth-Folk band, Montagh announced on their Facebook page that they were going to release a new split! We do not yet know what band they have decided to do a split release or what format the new material will be released on. Very few details have been released yet, but there have been pictures posted of the band recording. The top right picture, in specific, was posted with the caption “11/16/13”. What could it mean??

We will keep you posted with more details about this upcoming split. In the meantime, check out Montagh‘s previous releases on their bandcamp page right here! You can also catch Montagh live at Black Sheep next on Sunday, September 22nd along with Good Times, Big Storm, and Jess Knight. Check out a facebook event for that show right here.

Tomorrow on Black Sheep Radio: Hometown Heavyweights (Again)

1208642_10201281124264258_477805246_nThose of you who were trying to listen to The Black Sheep Radio show last week might have noticed we had a little bit of technical difficulties and an older episode got put on the air instead of our newest one (oops!). The team over at Black Sheep Radio headquarters are very sorry for this mistake and they have promised us here at blacksheepspringfield.com headquarters that they will make it up to all of us somehow. For starters, the episode that was supposed to air on Friday is already on our radio tab. You can download and stream the episode by clicking to the link to it in that tab. Second, the radio crew will be featuring most of last Fridays episode in the new episode that will air tomorrow. This means that we will be airing most of our interview with Central Illinois band Hometown Heavyweights! They played at Black Sheep last night and it was great. This will also be the last episode for a while featuring long time Black Sheep Radio engineer Greg Harvey. We wish Greg the best of luck with all of his future radio engineering projects.

The Black Sheep Radio Show airs tomorrow (Friday) from 4:00 to 6:00 pm on 88.3 WQNA fm. You can also stream the show online at the same time at wqna.org. Did you miss an episode? You can download all of our past 35 episodes from our radio tab.

Central Illinois Music in the 1960s

ReactionsClippingHere at blacksheepspringfield.com headquarters our team of top archeologists have been hard at work over the past year or so under-covering crucial information on music scenes of our past. Today we bring you some gems of the past that have been pulled out of an old music blog called Garage Hangover. If you head over here to the Illinois section of bands you might find some lengthy entries on some bands that came from our state back in the 1960s. We went ahead and did most of the work for you by pulling out most of the bits that mention Springfield or talk about bands in our great city. You can read those bits below.

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1085488_10201591207049739_1465187633_nFor all of the full entries that go along with those bits, you can head here. Are you interested in digging deeper into music of Springfield’s past? You might want to check out the Springfield music blog Some Things Can’t Be Ignored!

 

 

Tonight at Black Sheep: Scott Blacula, Endeavor, Hometown Heavyweights, Deviant, Quincy Curran

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This show is going to be monumental! This is Scott Blacula‘s LAST SHOW, ladies and gents. That’s right, it’s true. Do you want to know why? To sum it up, The Pukester (their frontman) has made it very clear to Black Sheep that Scott Blacula is fed up with the conditions under which they perform (if you could even call them performers). This post explains it all, my friends. They will be gladly missed. Next on the line-up we have Endeavor, a heavy, progressive and melodic band from the beautiful land of Fredericksburg, Virginia. These guys are here to bring the heart back into hardcore, so expect their music to both convey and invoke some intensity and emotion. It’ll be rad!

Following Endeavor is the physical embodiment of pizza: Hometown Heavyweights! Coming from the wholesome area of of Central Illinois, they are sure to bring us some inspiring and grounded pop-punk tunes so stick around and check them out! Following their set, we’ll experience the very first Black Sheep show of Deviant! These fellows come from Central Illinois as well and are happy to bring us some melodic hardcore this evening so look forward to experiencing their devious antics. Last but not least! Quincy Curran will be playing a mysterious acoustic set for us this evening. It may be all at once or it may be scattered and esoteric. Who knows! Come to the show tonight at 7 pm and find out after you pay five bucks!

Looky looky, here’s a song by Hometown Heavyweights! Check out their bandcamp for a free download of their jams. Also, be sure to check out the facebook event for this fine occasion as well as the upcoming shows we’ll be hosting.

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The weather this evening is supposedly going to be partly cloudy. I’ll believe it when it see the clouds. Temperatures are predicted to range from 29 degrees C/ 14 degrees C. This weather forecast was brought to you by me. 

September 12th at Black Sheep: The Outlook, IAMIAM, Aubrey Puyear, Gazeebo

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Look at this interesting show that just snuck its way onto our upcoming shows in September! On Thursday, September 12th we are hosting a show that will be a combination of harsh noise and spoken word. We have The Outlook coming all the way from Boston, Massachusetts. What kind of band is The Outlook? The Outlook is not a band! The Outlook is a spoken word project which raises awareness of various social and political issues such as drug abuse, alcoholism, domestic violence,eating disorders, animal abuse, environmentalism, and child prostitution/exploitation. The Outlook will follow the intense and harsh noise of IAMIAM, a newer noise project featuring Austin Connelly of Montagh. This show will also feature a little bit of Springfield spoken word, as we have Aubrey Puyear doing some of her own spoken word. Then we have harsh noise project Gazeebo playing their second show at Black Sheep complete the show.

The show starts at 7:00 pm and admission is $5. You can check out a facebook event for the show right here. Also don’t forget to check out our shows page for a look at what else is going on at Black Sheep this fall.