Sean C. Morgan
The second annual
Psychostock show this weekend, Aug. 13 and 14, will feature 12 bands.
The concerts run from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Sankey Park. The festival will use the bandstand for a stage.
Psychostock admission is free.
The show features a variety of rock ’n’ roll genres, said organizer Andrea Culy. They include rock, metal, funk, punk and industrial, along with several Christian bands.
The music is going to get heavier throughout the day,” Culy said. “Last year, we said the psychometer’s going up.”
Last year’s Psychostock was one day long with six bands, Culy said. Some 50 to 150 people were at the park throughout the day.
“It was an experiment,” Culy said. Organizers didn’t publicize the event much.
“We wanted to see how smoothly it would go, how the community would react to it,” Culy said.
The shows went smoothly, she said. The transitions were smooth, with strong camaraderie among the musicians.
The show didn’t even have the problems the organizers were expecting, Culy said. They didn’t have a litter problem, and the city didn’t receive any negative comments.
The bands and fans enjoyed the networking and socializing, she said. People who heard about it later wondered why they hadn’t heard about it and told organizers they would attend the next one.
“The music itself, there really isn’t a whole lot of places for this kind of music to play,” Culy said. Her son’s blues band was playing everywhere last year, while his metal band wasn’t.
The lineup includes bands from Portland and Eugene, Culy said, along with a number of bands from Sweet Home area.
Gavin Redick of Sweet Home is responsible for pushing the festival to two days, Culy said.
Redick wanted his Christian band, TodayisNow, to play. Festival volunteers thought it would be a great idea to add a day with Christian bands.
Redick started contacting people he knew in other Christian bands, Culy said. Later, they decided to mix up the lineup for both days, with Christian bands playing throughout the festival.
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“These are partly our kids,” Culy said. Seventy percent of the bands are Sweet Home performers.
“What we found is that it connected a lot of people in the music community in Sweet Home,” Culy said. What made it work was that they were willing to play the show for free, and the festival was put together on a shoestring, with volunteers donating their time and energy.
At this point, organizers have started talking about turning it into a three-day festival, Culy said.
Bands in the line-up this year include Juicy Solution, Mantra Fear, Caducus, Crimson Guardian, TodayIsNow, Axis Salvation, All Things Shine, The Berated, The Shy Seasons, Funkle Ted, Slashbanger and Laserlight Shotgun.
For more information, visit the psychostock website at psychostock.webs.com, email [email protected] or call (541) 401-1774.