Name: The Birth of Punk in NEO
Start: 2026-05-13T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Music Box Supper Club

Presented by Thomas Mulready and Vanity Crash - Featuring Special Guest Artists
Venue: Concert Hall
Showtime: 7:30 pm
Doors open: 6:00 pm
Reserved
NEO Rewind Series
MEMBER ONSALE: 11/4
PUBLIC ONSALE: 11/6
The Birth of Punk in Cleveland, Akron & Kent Celebrates the Fountainhead of Punk Rock in Northeast Ohio Prefacing the Scenes in New York and London, presented by Thomas Mulready and Vanity Crash.
Years before punk reared its ugly head in New York or London, a group of misfits, art students and disaffected youth in Cleveland, Akron & Kent, Ohio, many of them appalled by the massacre at Kent State University, spun off bands and artists that eventually moved on to New York and London as leaders of the new punk scene.
Obsessive musicologist Thomas Mulready, in collaboration with glam punk heroes Vanity Crash, turn their attention to a movement that still shakes the world to this day.
This multi-media event includes from special musical guests from the Cleveland/Akron/Kent axis performing seminal music from this pioneering era that changed music for all time.
In addition to live music, the show features highly edited interviews with artists from the region who were instrumental in the early punk scene, and whose influence penetrated worldwide:
* Stiv Bator (Dead Boys, Lords of The New Church, in a vintage interview from 1979)
* Craig W. Bell (Mirrors, Rocket From The Tombs, Saucers, X__X, co-wrote “Final Solution”)
* Adele Bertei (The Wolves, The Contortions, The Bloods, Brian Eno, Thomas Dolby)
* Chris Butler (Waitresses, Tin Huey)
* Denny Carleton (The Lot Souls, The Choir, Moses, Milk, The Pagans)
* Robert Kidney (15-60-75 The Numbers Band, spawning Devo, The Waitresses, Tin Huey)
* Rock & Roll Mercenary Marky Ray. (Nine Inch Nails, Butthole Surfers, Jesus & Mary Gang, terrible parade, Death on a Stick, Death of Samantha, The New Salem Witch Hunters, the Jim Rose Circus)
The live shows will also feature area bands and solo artists from Akron & Cleveland & Kent performing some of the hits that their predecessors made famous, along with a selection of their own original songs, soon destined for history. A second set each night will feature live original music by musical hosts, Cleveland’s glam punk heroes, Vanity Crash.