It hardly looks like 40 years since a nightclub on San Pedro Avenue with a black-and-white checkered flooring emerged because the hotbed for San Antonio’s post-punk, goth and industrial music scenes.
But the 40-year reunion for seminal nightspot Phazez will happen Saturday, Could 2, at The Bang Bang Bar, the constructing that housed the unique venue from 1986 to 1989.
“At a time when San Antonio nightlife typically moved inside tight cultural circles, Phazez turned a uncommon assembly floor the place punks, goths, new wave followers, drag performers, faculty college students, and each LGBTQ+ and straight patrons gathered beneath one roof,” the reunion’s organizers stated in a press release. “The membership rapidly grew right into a cultural crossroads for individuals trying to find music and neighborhood outdoors the mainstream.”
Regardless of its brief run and small dimension, Phazez boasted an outsize affect.
DJs spun sounds rating from EDM and dance-oriented industrial to post-punk and underground hip-hop, changing into native tastemakers. The membership additionally hosted touring acts similar to Firehose, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and punk forefather Jonathan Richman.
Unique Phazez DJs David Milne (DJ Substance) and DJ Raleigh will spin at Saturday’s reunion. The occasion additionally will embody a memorial to the late DJ Jesse, a pioneering member of San Antonio’s post-punk music scene who began his profession at The Nation, one of many metropolis’s earliest LGBTQ+ golf equipment.
The gathering is free, however attendees are requested to RSVP through the Phazez Reunion occasion web page.
Free, 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Saturday, Could 2, The Bang Bang Bar, 119 El Mio Drive, (210) 320-1187, thebangbangbartx.com.
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