Caught Docents again at the rare Brooklyn house show, with Bunny Tonight and Discotelle from Philly.
One of the reasons I started this substack and really pushing myself to go to more shows and take photos was to find these types of shows. When I was playing in bands, there were more DIY venues and shows were easier to find from Facebook events or fliers on Instagram. So when a house show did happen, it wasn’t hard to know about it if you were vaguely connected.
Now DIY venues in Brooklyn are slowly fading away, with few left that aren’t primarily bars, and punk houses get profiled on Rolling Stone and then shut down a few weeks after (it’s happened twice in Brooklyn, I’m assuming the Hancock will follow the same pattern so I need to get to a show there before it does).