Presented with The Bowery Presents, the one-day festival will feature 21 bands, including headliners Iggy Pop and Jack White.
The gates open at 3 p.m. (rain or shine) with three stages ... and you need to hustle once inside because the music starts at 3:15.
Find ticket info and FAQs here.
In May 2024, EVG talked with Captain Sensible of the Damned before a show at the Manhattan Center... the Damned will be on the main stage at the CBGB Festival.
Here's a Q&A flashback to a discussion on CBGB:
In April 1977, the Damned played four nights at CBGB — the first UK punk band to do so. One CBGB superfan remembered your April 8 set this way: "They were aggressive, and the singer wore big black eye makeup, Captain Sensible wore a nurse's outfit. They were polished pandemonium. They didn't hang out afterward as most of the NY bands did."What do you recall about those shows? Any trepidation at the time about playing in a club that was quickly gaining a punk reputation?We couldn’t hang around 'cause after our performance, the club chucked everybody out, including us, and started sound-checking for a second show on the same day. We'd never experienced that in the UK, but New York is full of bars, so we just found the nearest and carried on there.The Damned at the time were like a gang — we had no respect for anyone. The drinking and chaos would get out of hand quite often. I can remember getting thrown out of four Paris hotels in one night. I believe we threw quite a few insults at the sedate CBGB audience and got some abuse back, but any reaction was better than NO reaction, so that was all good.Seeing what has become of CBGB is tragic, though... how short-sighted of city bigwigs not to keep the place running as a venue — it'd be a shrine to punk rock for fans the world over who would flock to NY to see where it all began.
CBGB closed at 315 Bowery in October 2006.
