"Upside Down Punks"
"Upside Down Punks"
By J. Hunter Bennett with forward by Mickey Lynch
Microcosm Publishing, Portland, OR, 2025
Pages: 36
Dimensions: 4.25" x 7"
Cover: Paper
Binding: saddle stitched
Process: unknown
Color: full color cover with black ink interior
Edition size: unknown
ISBN: 9781648415913
Everyone has some legendary show that they could have attended but didn’t for whatever reason. The Fugazi show in Philadelphia that is the subject of this zine is one of my great missed opportunities. I have the flyer for the show, I had been to other shows at this terrible venue, I was friends with the other editor of Threatening Society ‘zine (the zine of Mickey who organized this show), and I’m still friends with Sean Gustillo who took the cover photo. I remember hearing about how great Fugazi were and how wild Guy Picciotto’s performance was after the fact. For those who also weren’t there, or are curious about how teenagers organized concerts and created culture in the late 1980s before the widespread use of the internet, this is a great read and a lot of fun. - Marc Fischer

