Uninvited | buzzcoven

Worst case scenario of a first annual biker vs metal/art festival going awry is no bands show, no press covers, no attendance shows, no soundboard ran and no drinks served. In my breif one day stop after my annual Grease Monkey Block Party invite, it was anything but 'No Show'. After much delay in downtown Brooklyn traffic due to the Climate March in New York City earlier that day, I made my way to the entrance of the first annual Univited Fesitval right after sundown. Bands were proceeding on time with a mild to moderate attendance with an open, overcrowded city skyline background behind a brilliant, light shimmered stage. Everything was in place and order for the heaviest, riff-rattling stage to take Brooklyn by climate-raging storm. Doom Metalers cabinets and rigs from across the grid lined up and down backstage. By Sunday, coolers were still full of booze, and Elder were in full effect in Brooklyn right after the new Gates Of Slumber side project, Wretch played. Elders unabridged set was as stellar as the effervesent moonlit sky they played under. The layout of the venue provided unparrallel surround sound with a brick wall of art on the righthand side that took two artists 30 hours a day for 8 days straight to paint. Suffice to say, alot was put into it. Thanks to the owners and organizers of Nihil Gallery in Brooklyn, the location was provided down a barricaded street under construction, but with the little help of acute ear-ringing hearing one could easily navigate by foot from the F train.

Inside the gallery was an array of art that streamed items from multimedia paintings to digital art on concrete walls with dimmed lighting to boot. I met inside the indoor walk-through to film commentary from the promoters and co-partners of the Univited Festival, along with artists and builders that represented Satanic Mojo and Corpse Collision. Upon interviewing the fest promoter, Erick we learned the festival was inspired from him and his buddies sitting around drinking with an idea to throw an art party during New York's Bike Invitationals with a concept to invite the people who are most generally "uninvited" to these sort of
exhibits, events and galleries. he's quoted having some of the If you havent heard of Mothership by now and according to Eric, "you're living under a rock".

About the time I was packing my own equipment up to hike back on the open highway I came from, Weedeater showed up from a last minute flight from Atlanta.
I tricked them into thinking I needed a pass for entry by offering a lending hand with their equipment but from an inside joke about others equipment being stolen from past experiences with the bands they've toured with recently,
Dixie Dave was "on spot" with keeping his guitar case glued to his palms. In a world of metal vs art, no one can ever be too cool to think their famous friends cant stiff them in the skip of a beat of a missed, Brooklyn pothole moment.
Ride on, and at your own risk in lands where no man's safe but always still invited to take on danger.