THURSDAY

WINGNUT DISHWASHERS UNION (Vt.) w/ Brook Pridemore (N.Y.), The Hills Have Rivers, SGFY and People Before Profits at 6 p.m. April 17 at the Artists For Freedom and Unity Hall, 318 N. Callow Ave. in Bremerton.

All ages, presented by the AFU, $5 cover.

“Any good punk is at least part hippie…” so says the man behind the Vermonter madness that is Wingnut Dishwashers Union.

He’s got plenty of both in him and more caffeine-fueled, road-tripping wisdom than you could shake an old, weathered acoustic guitar at. Amidst a nationwide tour, he’ll be rocking the AFU with a couple other punks showing their hippie side— three-fourths of the band Neutralboy in SGFY and Donny Rivers from YIA and Spencer Hill from Madmartigan in the duo, The Hills Have Rivers.

But back to the Wingnut Dishwashers Union. He’s a staunch and adamantly folksy advocate of a world without dishwashers. So some might want to ask “Who will do the dishes after the revolution?”

He does his own dishes now, he’ll do his own dishes then.

“It’s always the ones who don’t, who ask that (expletive deleted) question,” he sings.

So there you go, and now you know the chorus from at least one Wingnut song.

Info: www.myspace.com/artistforfreedomandunity or call the AFU at (360) 782-1329.

Hometown hero-types Death Cab For Cutie and Kane Hodder are back in town, as is some hippie kid from Vermont.