Heavens To Betsy Unearth Video From First Show In 1991

In 1991, indie rock festivals didn't really exist, but K Records co-founders Calvin Johnson and Candice Pedersen basically willed one into happening. The duo put together what they called the International Pop Underground Convention, a six-day marathon of punk and indie bands coming to their Olympia, Washington hometown. The bands included Fugazi, Bikini Kill, L7, the Melvins, Built To Spill, the Fastbacks, Unwound, Nation Of Ulysses, Seaweed, and Johnson's own band Beat Happening. But the most historically significant event of the festival was the gig known as Girl Night, not least because that's the first time Corin Tucker ever performed in front of anybody.As the story goes, Tucker was a teenage kid from Eugene, Oregon who'd just finished her first year at Evergreen State College. Earlier that year, she'd seen Bikini Kill and Bratmobile, and she'd had her mind blown. When someone Tucker if she had a band and wanted to play the festival, she said yes, even though she'd never so much as written a song. She got Tracy Sawyer, her best friend since middle school, to play drums, and they called themselves Heavens To Betsy. The bill at Girl Night included Bratmobile, 7 Year Bitch, the ...