Bloated Kat presents Bloated Saturday, featuring Meat Wave, with Lifestyles and Younger
Gabe’s — Saturday, Aug. 20 at 12:30 p.m.
This Saturday, Dallas Center, IA’s Bloated Kat Records descends on Gabe’s Iowa City with a huge swathe of its roster along with some guest phenoms for the first ever Bloated Kat Punk Fest. Tickets are $15 for the entire day, running from 12:30 p.m. until 2 a.m. Sunday. Thirty bands from across the country will be performing; see below for the full list.
Chicago punk trio Meat Wave (Chris Sutter, Joe Gac, Ryan Wizniak) headline the event, bringing a frenetic and addictive sound to Iowa City. Their show is both part of the festival (and accessible with festival passes), and a stand-alone show, with separate tickets available. Fellow Chicagoans Lifestyles support, along with Iowa City’s own Younger. This portion of the evening starts at 9:30 p.m.; separate tickets are $7.
Meat Wave’s latest record, Delusion Moon, came out last September — as promised by its warped but reverent Pink Floyd-homage cover image, the album features the band’s compelling ability to diffract a punk sound through a weird psychedelic haze.
Full Festival Lineup
Be My Doppelganger — Evansville IN
The Blendours — Des Moines IA
Closet Witch — Muscatine IA
ConeTrauma — Iowa City
Dingus — Minneapolis MN
The Emersons — Rochester NY
Harsh Times — Davenport IA
Hate Your Friends — Denton/DFW TX
The Headies — Wilmington DE
Hospital Job — Springfield IL
House Boat — New York, NY
Indonesian Junk — Milwaukee WI
Jail Bus — Iowa City
Jokergas — Iowa City
Kowabunga! Kid — Champaign IL
LIFESTYLES — Chicago IL
Like Bats — Chicago IL
Lord Green — Omaha NE/Quad Cities
Maiden Mars — Iowa City
MEAT WAVE — Chicago IL
Mikey Erg! — New Jersey/New York
Rational Anthem — Iowa City
The Ridgways — Omaha NE
Seattle Fucking Supersonics — Tallahassee FL
Starry Nights — Iowa City
Thunderbolts — Lincoln NE
Tong Po — Quad Cities
Turbo Lover — Columbia MO
The Wilderness — Chicago IL
Younger — Iowa City
