by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
BROOKLYN NY, June 18 – It was a sun-drenched Sunday in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn when the slimmed-down Punk Island 2023 took to three stages, not five.
A singer or vocalist writhed on American Veterans Memorial Pier as from the NYC South Brooklyn ferry people disembarked, some paying $4 to arrive from Corlears Hook, DUMBO or Wall Street - and some, tourists, confused at all the "noise."
Others arrived through the blooming Narrows Botanical Garden, past signs from the upcoming Lavender Fest.
The survival-of-the-fittest bands thrashing away portrayed, some at least, a darker vision. There remained, for example, GAL, Hardly Fits and His Sweatshirt. Inner City Press was there.
There were smiles and dogs, and the harbor glittering. Long Live Punk Island - let it grow larger, and louder
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