Its official...

Borscht has agreed to play at the upcoming A7 show taking place at the Knitting Factory here in NYC on Dec. 6. Since Adam Nodelman has left the planet, I'll be taking his place on bass (gulp) along with original members Steve Veraja, Mike Oswald & Phil Franklin. To follow is all the info you could want, and more:

On Saturday December 6, 2008, Wendy Eager of Guillotine Magazine and
Bryan Swirsky of Complete Control NYC Booking & Management are hosting
a tribute to the infamous A7 Club in New York's Lower East Side, the
very same venue where the New York City Hardcore underground was born.
The event – entitled ONE BIG CROWD – will take place on all three
floors of the Knitting Factory NYC and will be running all day. We
will have more information as to what time doors will open and how
long the show will run plus stage times once all the bands have
confirmed.

Advance tickets can be purchased via Ticketweb at the link below for a
special Halloween-to-Election-Day presale price of $20.00 for the
event:

http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=455344&pl=knitting4

John Kelly from Urban Waste was kind enough to design a MySpace page
that will be completely interactive and updated on a daily basis once
it goes live. If you are in a band playing this event, PLEASE link to
this page and refer to it often as often as possible for updates. Send
us flyers and pictures. Help us build this page and make it home to
those that were there back in the day and a place to visit if you have
even the slightest passing interest in the era. Link is here:

http://www.myspace.com/a7reunion

The following original A7-era bands are confirmed to play the Main
Space and Tap Bar rooms. Others to be added plus special surprise
guests as soon as we secure confirmation:

76% Uncertain (paying tribute to CIA & Reflex from Pain)
Adam 12
Anti Christ Newsboys (feat. Wendy Eager)
Antidote/The High & Mighty (w/Drew Stone on vox)
Butch Lust & Hypocrites
Dave Jones from Mental Abuse/Agnostic Front solo
Disgrace (feat Butch Lust, Steve Wishnia from False Prophets & Dave
Ultraviolence)
False Prophets
Fatal Rage
Payload! (feat. John Sox from the FUs doing FU's and Straw Dogs)
Ism
Jerry's Kids
Major Conflict
Modern Clix
Nihilistics
No Thanks
Rapid Deployment
Reagan Youth
Roach Motel (feat. George Tabb)
SUX (feat. Jack and Paul from AOD)
The Betrayed
The Ultimates
The Undead
Ultraviolence
Urban Waste (feat. Johnny Waste, John Dancey & Kenny Ahrens)
US Chaos

To round out the bill, we've added some newer bands that channel that
old school spirit today to play the Main Space, Tap Bar and Old Office
rooms:

Sexual Suicide (feat. Ex-Anti-Christ Newsboys/Trenchcoat Army)
Blackout Shoppers
Violent Society
Fed Up!
Government Warning
Waste Management
Reason to Fight
Cardiac Arrest

We've also scheduled some special guest authors and poets who've
written about their experiences in the scene during the early-80's
period to speak in the bottom floor Old Office:

Eugene Robinson (ex-Whipping Boy; author of Fight)
Wendy Eager (Guillotine magazine)
George Tabb (Roach Motel/ex-Letch Patrol/ex-Iron Prostate/Furious
George; critic and author of Playing Right Field: A Jew Grows In
Greenwich; Surfing Armageddon and Take My Life Please
Mykel Board (Art/Artless; author of Even A Daughter Is Better Than
Nothing and I: A, Me-ist)
Steve Wishnia (False Prophets/Iron Prostate/Hooverville etc; author of
Exit 25 Utopia)

Any questions, please write Bryan and Wendy at: a7nyhc[@]gmail.com. We
are still looking for people who were there in the day that want to
participate so please do not hesitate to get in touch. Especially Dave
Gibson or any one who helped run the club!