They were tired of getting roughed up by bouncers and paying high ticket prices, and some interviewees complain that touring bands had begun to skip Chicago because the city had gotten a bad reputation at the hands of a small group of promoters who allegedly screwed them over. At the time, young punks often traveled to Lakeview to take in shows at Metro or Medusa’s, a teen club better known as a dance-scene staple, but they grew frustrated with their limited options. No Delusions opens on Chicago’s punk scene in the late 80s. (Front man Martin Sorrondeguy appears on the cover of this week’s Reader as part of my feature on Los Crudos, the defunct venues they played in the 90s, and Chicago’s gentrified present.) Los Crudos and openers MK Ultra are among the dozens of acts to appear in No Delusions, which Cergizan began working on in 2010-interviewing scene veterans, compiling archival performance footage, and collecting old photos and zines.Ĭergizan tackles the mountain of information he’s amassed with authority. The film premieres tonight at the Gene Siskel Film Center and tomorrow at the Beat Kitchen, where Los Crudos close out the festivities with two sold-out shows. Best of Chicago 2023: Music & NightlifeĪ couple weeks ago, when I spoke with director Steven Cergizan about his documentary on Chicago hardcore, No Delusions, he told me that what motivated him to make it was the desire “to contribute something to the scene.” Cergizan didn’t start going to local hardcore shows till the early 2000s, but his desire to give back connects him to the young musicians in the 1980s who planted the seeds for the jumbled, expansive, multigenerational community he explores in No Delusions. Best of Chicago 2023: Sports & Recreation.
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