These original Data-Boy Music columns have been collected in a book with LOTS of new material and photos - it's the story of Data-Boy magazine and the LA Punk / Post-Punk scene. The story presented is a lot more complete!

LA Punk Rock

TVparty presents found articles circa 1980-82 written by Billy Eye and Judy Zee from Data-Boy, a gay entertainment magazine published in Hollywood. These articles chronicle the bands coming up through the Los Angeles Punk and New Wave club scene during a key period. They read like a diary in the lives of these young clubgoers and the burgeoning scene they covered. In the early-eighties, young people in Los Angeles were flocking to makeshift clubs in droves to see new up and coming bands. Live new music, not DJs, was what they craved. These writings provide a sketchy look at the underground club scene in Los Angeles during the time that groups like X, The Go-Go's, The Minutemen and Wall of Voodoo entered the public consciousness. Billy Eye reported on the Downtown & Hollywood punk art/rock scene, a hardcore world of small, dark dives like The Brave Dog and Al's Bar, floating clubs like The Veil as well as established Hollywood icons like The Starwood, The Roxy, and Odyssey. Judy Zee also covered the Hollywood scene, while writing about Westside happenings in clubs like The Whisky, Blackies and Club 88 - she was one of the few female rock columnists on the scene at that time. Performances by The Go-Gos, Fear, U2, Grace Jones and Talking Heads are reviewed along with other obscure but influential LA rockers - particularly two up and coming bands, one that made it (early-MTV fave Missing Persons) and one that didn't (Red Wedding, the only openly gay punk band). A look at what nightclubbing meant in Los Angeles in the early eighties. INTRODUCTION

by Ronald Reagan. More about Billy Eye

and Judy Zee

PLEASE NOTE SOME OF THESE ARTICLES WERE HEAVILY RE-WRITTEN FROM MY ORIGINAL NOTES IN 1994 & 2002. THE JUKEBOX:

Obscure bands found here The Toasters 17 Pygmies New Wave Theatre Go Gos Single Bullet Theory (NYC) Hey Taxi! The Martians The Act LA Burgers Leather Nuns (SF) The Waitresses The Pandoras Phil Seymour Red Wedding Rain Parade Kommunity FK Missing Persons Scott Goddard TSOL