Punk #2

In Moscow on Pushkin Square there was graffiti in English on a park bench that mentioned Kurt, LSD and something else. I'll search through my journal and find out what it was.

I went to one punk concert, the Young Gods, a Swiss band. The clientele was like punks everywhere. Of course, since it was Russia you also had a bar with no drinking age. The band spoke French and sang in English, but didn't know Russian. A few times the singer said "Don't hurt yourselves" in English. Which is funny, because a warning like that you'd want everybody to understand, and less than a quarter of the people would have understood it. I hadn't heard the band before and they were only mediocre, so I didn't get a CD. I would have gotten a tape (for $2), but of course they were sold out.

St Petersburg, Russia -- September 1995