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Formed in 1999, and hailing from Boston, Massachusetts, DISASTER STRIKES is a band playing punk and hardcore music influenced in message and form by the likes of Econochrist, Subhumans, Civil Disobedience, Mission of Burma, The Proletariat, Crass, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, and Black Flag.

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Doors @ 8pm (but this will sell out so get your tickets in advance!)

Tickets for Middle East Club events are available:

* Middle East Box Office (1pm to 7pm, seven days a week, w/o service charge).

* At all Ticketmaster locations

* At http://www.ticketmaster.com

* By phone at (617) 931-2000.

For general info call the Middle East box office at (617) 864-EAST ext 221.


 

For information about booking DS contact: booking(at)disasterstrikes.net


Almost complete list of prior shows >>

October 3rd, 1999 - The Unseen, Toxic Narcotic, Mortarblast, Class Action, Stab the Judge, Disaster Strikes, 175 Grams @ Brighton Elks Club

October 8th, 1999 - ???

October 31st, 1999 - Boston Halloween Show at Brighton Elks: The Pinkerton Thugs, The Unseen, Toxic Narcotic, A Global Threat, The Afflicted, A Global Threat, Disaster Strikes, Mortarblast, 175 Grams, CHUD @ Brighton Elks

November 13th, 1999 - A Global Threat, Cops and Robbers, A Poor Excuse, Disaster Strikes, The Atrocious Kids, A New Problem, Tommy and the Terrors

April 14th, 2000 - A Global Threat, The Goonies, 1000xNO, Fallen Short, Disaster Strikes @ Franklin Community Center

May 13th, 2000 - Toxic Narcotic, The Unseen, Fallen Short, Disaster Strikes, Mortarblast, Beyond Authority @ Reflections, New Bedford, MA

June 30th, 2000 - Whoreacts, The PacMen, Class Action, Fallen Short, Disaster Strikes, Acadia @ Franklin Community Center

July 1st, 2000 - Americian Nightmare, The Dedication, Voices Forming Wepons, Fallen Short, Disaster Strikes @ Reflections, New Bedford, MA

July 7th, 2000 - Fallen Short, Disaster Strikes, Anti-Socials, Sick Rick and The Pukes, The Bad Habits, Technicalities, Rebel Riot @ Wawayanda/Slate Hill Fire Hall Middletown, NY

July 8th, 2000 - React, Boiling Man, Out Cold, Disaster Strikes, Fallen Short, Beyond Authority, 1000xNo, Cops and Robbers @ Reflections, New Bedford, MA

July 14th, 2000 - John Wayne's Severed Head, Class Action, Fallen Short, Disaster Strikes @ Westcott Community Center, Syracuse, NY (Release of "Fallen Short / Disaster Strikes split CD" on Rodent Popsicle Records)

July 15th, 2000 - The End, The Evicted, Fallen Short, Disaster Strikes @ the Vertex, 88 Liberty Pole Way, Rochester NY

July 21st, 2000 - Fallen Short, Disaster Strikes, Just Passed, Commie Daycare, Que se Dice? @ Westcott Community Center, Syracuse, NY

August 6th, 2000 - Nine Shocks Terror, Toxic Narcotic, Fallen Short, Disaster Strikes, Strong Intention @ Lawrence Knights of Columbus (moved from Old Mill)

August 19th, 2000 - Disaster Strikes @ the Baltimore Food Not Bombs House, 423 Southway, Baltimore, MD

October 14th, 2000 - Victim 21 (last show), 1000xNO, Beyond Authority, Disaster Strikes, Fallen Short, Dangerfield, Action Taken @ Reflections, New Bedford, MA

October 27th, 2000 - Toxic Narcotic, Disaster Strikes, The Profit$, Big Bubba @ The Portuguese American Club, Attleboro, MA

October 28th, 2000 - Toxic Narcotic, Big Bubba, Beyond Authority, Disaster Strikes, Class Action @ Reflections, New Bedford, MA

November 11th, 2000 - Beyond Authority, Civil Defense, Disaster Strikes, Fallen Short, Bombs Away, By My Side @ Reflections, New Bedford, MA

November 17th, 2000 - Stab the Judge, August Prophecy, Charm City Suicides, Disaster Strikes, My Magnificent Machine @ Franklin Community Center

December 1st, 2000 - My Magnificent Machine, Disaster Strikes, Fallen Short, 85 Cent Arrest, . . .And We Burn, The Task Force @ Franklin Community Center

December 3rd, 2000 - Ratos de Parao (Brazil), Toxic Narcotic, Class Action, Disaster Strikes, Molotov Cocktail @ Reflections, New Bedford

December 4th, 2000 - Out Cold, Insult, 1000xNO, The Thought Police, Disaster Strikes, The Dumpster Junkies, 175 Grams @ Reflections, New Bedford

December 15th, 2000 - Darkbuster, Jem and the Holocausts, Disaster Strikes, The Roachenders, Fallen Short @ Franklin Community Center

December 16th, 2000 - Disrupt Newbury Street's Posh Pre-Christmas Shopping Orgy! Stop Gap and Nike Sweatshops! Anti-Sweatshop labor demo @ The Newbury Street GAP

December 22nd, 2000 - Casualties, The Virus, Toxic Narcotic, Disaster Strikes, Social Insecurity @ the Westbrook American Legion, 17 Dunn St., Westbrook, Maine.

January 4th, 2001 - Benefit for Food Not Bombs: Disaster Strikes, 1000xNO, Dead Skunx, Dartboard, Suffering Bastard, Only Minutes Left @ Flywheel, Easthampton, MA

January 5th, 2001 - Benefit for Food Not Bombs: Strike Anywhere, Plan A Project, Blind Society, 1000xNO, Disaster Strikes, Defiant Trespass, Government Satire, Rambo, Revolution Summer @ Egypt Firehall, Whitehall, PA.

January 5th - January 6th, 2001 - One Scene Fest: 2 days, 30 bands: "The Best in Hardcore,Metalcore,Emo,Punk & Noise" @ Hanover House, 239 Hanover St. Meriden,CT. FRIDAY BANDS: 7th Rail Crew,Unearth,Groundzero,Hamartia,Only Minutes Left,Biartz,A Better Tomorrow,Bloodshot Hooligans,Nientara,A Heart Fades Forever,Stikpin,Breed//Extinction,Just For Today,Barstow,Spackle Tackler SATURDAY BANDS: 100 Demons,Death Threat,Locked In A Vacancy,Beyond Reason,Age Of Ruin,Final Stand,Flat Earth Society,Disaster Strikes,Cable Car Theory,As Autumn Burns,Scars Will Heal,Beaten Path,My First Step Toward Failure,Born Under Saturn,Clarity

January 10th, 2001 - 1000xNO, Disaster Strikes @ The Mantis, Kent, Ohio

January 11th, 2001 - BOSTON INVADES BUFFALO! - Recension (Canada), Melee (Boston), Disaster Strikes (Boston), 1000xNO (Mass.), Drunken Orgy of Destruction (Buffalo), NOT! (Buffalo) @ 99 Custer Street, Buffalo, NY

January 12th, 2001 - Allergic to Whores, Disaster Strikes, The Evicted, John Wayne's Severed Head, 1000xNO @ the Westcott Community Center, Syracuse, NY

January 13th, 2001 - Degenerics, Crispus Attucks, Affront, The Defiant, 1000xNO, Disaster Strikes @ Washington, DC

January 25th, 2001 - MASS. PUNK CIVIL WAR! NORTH vs. SOUTH: Lost Cauze, Indignation, CHUD vs. Beyond Authority, Disaster Strikes, Dangerfield @ Franklinc Community Center

January 27th, 2001 - Jericho, Carrying 74, There Were Wires (record release) Disaster Strikes, Inkling, Life Passed On @ Portuguese American Club, 65 Prairie Avenue, Attleboro, MA

February 9th, 2001 - Kill the man who Questions, Atom and his Package, Disaster Strikes, At Bay, Mother Courage, Erik Peters, Stormshadow @ the Station, Wayne, PA. All Ages

February 10th, 2001 - The Boils, Disaster Strikes, The DDTeens, Inhuman Aspects of Death @ the Teen Center, Newtown, CT

February 23rd, 2001 - Social War (Last Show), Disaster Strikes, Hopeless Dregs Of Humanity, Common Interest, Emilys Bat Mitzvah, As Dead As Dreams @ Newtown Teen Center, Newtown, CT

February 24th, 2001 - Disaster Strikes, Danger Field, More @ Reflections, New Bedford, MA.

March 6th, 2001 - Goat Shantee (crust/grindcore), The Insugent (tentative), The Grenades, Disaster Strikes (LAST LOCAL SHOW UNTIL JUNE SO COME OUT PUNKS!) @ The DIY Underground (space underneath the berwick), 18 Palmer Street, Roxbury, MA

March 8th, 2001 - Koal Slaw, C.O.M.B.A.T., Disaster Strikes (MA), Goat Shanty (GA) +2 more TBA @ The Windham Unity Church, 54 River Rd, Windham, ME, 5pm

March 9th, 2001 - A Global Threat, Disaster Strikes, 85 Cent Arrest, Pushover, Social Insecurity (Maine), Bloody Snots @ the Franklin Community Center

March 30th, 2001 - Y (German Hardcore), Melee (Thrash Attack), Disaster Strikes (Boston Punk), Sankhara (South Shore Grind) @ 155 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, MA

April 6th, 2001 - The Profits, The PacMen (CT, x-Pist), Downfallfear, It Takes All Kinds (NY), The Young Ones (NY), Disaster Strikes @ the Franklin Community Center

April 12th, 2001 - ROCK AGAINST THE FTAA! - Infotainment opposing the Free Trade Area of the Americas: Harum-Scarum, Melee, The Profit$, Disaster Strikes, Pushover, Ransom Speak @ the Newton Community Service Center. 492 Waltham Street., West Newton, MA

April 19th - 22nd, 2001 - Disaster Strikes goes to the anti-FTAA protests in Quebec, Canada

April 24th - 29th, 2001 - Disaster Strikes records "Drunk with Power" @ Justin Brady's parents' basement, Norwood, MA, and in John Howard's apartment, Jamaica Plain, MA

April 29th, 2001 - Limp Wrist, Rambo, Strong Intention, Kill the Man who Questions, Crispus Attucks, Disaster Strikes, Melee @ MassArt, Boston, MA

May 11th, 2001 - The Goonies, The Faux, The Coz, The Fleece, Disaster Strikes @Amvets Hall, Millis, MA

May 12th, 2001 - This show got moved to the front hallway at Ben Greenspan's Dad's house Moment, Disaster Strikes, Fallen Short, The Cause, Carved Hope @ The Newton Community Service Center, W. Newton, MA

May 19th, 2001 KYI, Last in line, out cold, civil defense, 1000xno, running like thieves/the first step, Disaster Strikes, Citizen uzi drive by, the action taken/XfilesX @ Reflections, New Bedford

May 27th, 2001 - Disaster Strikes, Skarmy of Darkness @ Syracuse

June 1st, 2001 - Shotwell (ex-Crimpshrine), The Goonies, Fallen Short, Disaster Strikes @ Newton Community Service Center, W. Newton, MA

June 16th, 2001 - "Drunk with Power" CD Release Show, Disaster Strikes, The Goonies, Shindig, PSAT, Time has Forgotten, Carved Hope, Mr. Nonsense Face @ Medfield Pfaff Center, Medfield, MA

June 17th, 2001 - The Truents, Disaster Strikes, The Krays, The Relix, X-Possibles, Endless Struggle @ CBGB's, NYC

June 18th, 2001 - Disaster Strikes @ Damon's Groovy Pad (AKA Damon's Mom's House), 273 Park St., Upper Montlcair NJ

June 20th, 2001 - Disaster Strikes, a bunch of crappy pop punk bands @ The Taj Mahal, Norfolk, VA

June 22nd, 2001 - Disaster Strikes, Government Satire, Defiant Trespass, Lifes Brief Pleasures @ The Punkrock Palace, 843 N Sherman St., Allentown PA

June 23rd @ Wyman Park, Charles and 29th, Baltimore, MD, 2PM

June 25th, 2001 – Lariat, Disaster Strikes, At War With Shadows, Ear Nest @ Brooksie’s House, 330 east lytle street, Murfreesboro, TN

June 27th, 2001 - Jeff Kookie is hospitalized in Orlando, FL for a staff infection from fire ant bites obtained in Virginia Beach

June 29th, 2001 - Disaster Strikes, Dead End Kids @ The Boca Pub, Tampa Bay, FL

June 30th, 2001 - Model Citizen, Pen-15, Shindig, Heaven & Breakfast, Disaster Strikes, The Wrong @ The Boiler Room, Birmingham, AL

July 1st, 2001 - This is one of the best shows we ever played. Outdoors with battery generators under a highway overpass. This Burns Clean, Disatster Strikes, Embrace the End @ Highway Underpass, Chatanooga, TN

Mon, July 2 @ Rural Hall, NC

July 3rd, 2001 - Casualties, A Global Threat, Disaster Strikes @ Ground Zero, South Carolina

July 4th, 2001 - Allergic to Whores, Disaster Strikes @ Dumpyard Squat, Asheville, North Carolina

July 5th, 2001 - Disaster Strikes @ The Bookstore, Athens, GA

July 6th, 2001 - Embrace the End, Disaster Strikes, Art of Mary, Forgotten Youth, Red Flower Society @ Some church in Maryland

July 7th, 2001 - The Infamous, Unorthodox, Embrace the End and Disaster Strikes @ Atlantis Roller Rink in Ocean City, MD

July 8th, 2001 - Disaster Strikes, Cappacinno Jellybeans @ Uniontown, PA

July 9th, 2001 - Disaster Strikes, Allergic To Whores, Rescue 201, Big Wheels @ the Cobra La, 1214 W. State Street, Olean, NY

July 10th, 2001 - Disaster Strikes, The End, The Crimson Guard, Stab the Judge, Allergic to Whores @ Brighton Town Park, 777 Westfall Road, Rochester, NY

July 11th, 2001- The promoter didn't realize he put the wrong date on the flyer until the day of the show. Fucking wanker. Disaster Strikes @ Some shit bar, Syracuse, NY

Thur, July 12th, 2001 - Disaster Strikes, Dance Emma Dance @ Club 242, 242 Main St., Burlington, VT

July 13th, 2001 - Resist & Exist, PacMen, Embrace the End, Disaster Strikes, Charm City Suicides, Social War @ Newtown Teen Center, Newtown, CT

July 14th, 2001 - The Nerve, The Commercials, Overlook, Disaster Strikes, Mike Blanx & The Skabs @ The Temple, 2166 Benson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

August 31st, 2001 - DS Homecoming Throwdown, A Global Threat, Moment, Charm City Suicides, The Pac-Men, Disaster Strikes @ Franklin Community Center

November, 29th, 2001 - Boy Sets Fire, Unseen, Moment, Disaster Strikes @ Worcester Palladium

November 30th, 2001 - Franklin Crust Fest 2002: Czolgosz, Fallen Short, Disater Strikes, Hopeless Dregs of Humanity, Give us Barrabus, Dance Emma Dance @ Franklin Community Center

December 2nd, 2001 - Empower! benefit show with Fallen Short, And I can't Wait, Disaster Strikes, Dance Emma Dance @ Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth, Jamaica Plain, MA

December 22nd, 2001 - Syracuse Xmas fest 2001: Diecast, Prevent Falls, Disaster Strikes, In Pieces, Skarmy of Darkness @ Planet 505, Syracuse, NY

January 2nd, 2002 - A Global Threat (Pete's last show), The Unseen, The Profit$, Disaster Strikes @ The Middle East

January 12th, 2002 - The Casualties, Disaster Strikes, The PacMen, Allergic to Whores, Senile Citizens @ Planet 505, Syracuse, NY

May 10th, 2002 - Last punk show at Franklin Community Center, Toxic Narcotic, Disaster Strikes, And I Can't Wait, John Wayne's Severed Head @ Franklin Community Center

June 7th, 2003 - Food Not Bombs Eviction Party, Disaster Strikes, Earth Died Screaming, The Black Freighter

September 23rd, 2003 - Bread and Water, Garuda, Disaster Strikes, Fruit Salad @ The New Disaster House, Allston, MA

November 8th, 2003 - "Anthrax on the Dancefloor" CD Release Show, Dropdead, Disaster Strikes, The Profit$, John Wayne's Severed Head @ West End House Boys & Girls Club, Allston, MA

November 30th, 2003 - Naked Aggression, Toxic Narcotic, Disaster Strikes, Swindle, The Profit$ @ All Asia Café, Cambridge, MA

December 29th, 2003 - Disaster Strikes, Zegota, Requiem, Raise the Curtain, Querencia @ The New Disaster House, Allston, MA

December 12th, 2004 - Disaster Strikes, Shanghai Valentine, The Hound, Refuseniks @ Great Scott, Allston, Presented by Honeypump

December 18th, 2004 - Disaster Strikes, Unholy Trinity, The Heuristic, Protokoll @ The Library, Allston

February 27th, 2005 - Zegota, Disaster Strikes, Youth Liberation Front, Old Sarum @ The Library, Allston

August 28, 2005 - Today is the Day, Disaster Strikes, Backstabbers Inc., ALAWALWAD, Fruit Salad, Ed Gein, and many more as part of the Literacy Fest and last shows ever @ The Library, Allston

September 3, 2005 - Today is the Day, Harley's Heroes (ex-Cro Mags), Circle of Dead Children, Disaster Strikes, Adolyne @ CBGBs, NYC

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