Home Tickets Bands Car Show Wiggle Room Vendors Getting Here About CONTACTS Bands: Dave Quick General Info: Mike Martin Vendors: Courtney Southern Car Show: Ted Blackington Burlesque: Selia DKatzmeow Carmichael <IFRAME style="WIDTH: 100%; HEIGHT: 100%" id=widget1-frame marginHeight=0 src=".//Home_files/widget1_markup.html" frameBorder=0 allowTransparency marginWidth=0 scrolling=no></frame></IFRAME> <TABLE class=StatusMessageTable><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <MAP id=map1 name=map1><AREA title=http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=221873417823371&ref=ts href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=221873417823371&ref=ts" alt=http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=221873417823371&ref=ts coords="3, 3, 151, 296"></MAP> ATTENTION BANDS! To be considered for HRW 2012 please follow the guidelines HERE </SPAN> The Heavy Rebel Weekender is our Church. It is the Church of all that is Rock and Roll! We offer salvation and communion once a year, for 3 days, at 4 pulpits that we call stages! The Heavy Rebel Weekender is our house party and we invite you to come and party with us! The Heavy Rebel Weekender is a celebration of all that is Rock and Roll. A celebration of the spirit that continues to live on through the bands that practice the religion of Rock! Be it Rockabilly, Punk Rock, Psychobilly, Honky Tonk, Garage Rock, Ska, or just plain Rock and Roll, we bring it all under one roof for all to praise and meet at the altar of Rock! The Heavy Rebel Weekender is a celebration of the "Heaviest Rebels" of Rock and Roll. It is that simple. Musicians and groups that changed the landscape or music: Elvis Presley, Flat Duo Jets and Dexter Romweber, Howling Wolf, Bo Diddley, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Social Distortion, Jimmy Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Cramps, The Ramones, Ted Nugent, X, Fugazi, The Who, The Sex Pistols, Reverend Horton Heat, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Hank Williams (all 3 of them), Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, D.A. Coe, New York Dolls, ALL, The Stray Cats, and so on! The idea is that all of Rock and Roll pulls its influence from all other Rock and Roll, and that all Rock and Roll that is good should be celebrated! This idea is why HRW can never be, or should never be, called a billy weekender. It can never be called a Punk Festival or any other singular genre festival. It is Rock and Roll Festival. It is a festival, a celebration, or, as we like to call it, a Weekender. The Heavy Rebel Weekender is unique in its ability to showcase working bands and touring bands - bands that make a living playing music and driving shitty vans and buses. Bands that call the road HOME. The HRW has, for 11 years, booked the best of these bands. Bands that draw simply because they are great at what they do! The HRW is not a new concept, even when we started HRW, it was not a new concept: the weekender idea has been largely popular for years. What was novel was the concept of combining all the music that we loved into one event. The concept of bringing many different sub-cultures together, under one roof, for a weekend of drinking, rockin' and meeting new people, that was new. We pride ourselves in the all accepting attitude created at the HRW. The HRW has always and will always bring you, "the Blood" of the Rock and Roll world, together with the bands, "The Heart" of the Rock and Roll world! Events & Attractions <MAP id=map2 name=map2><AREA title=http://loserville.net/ href="http://loserville.net/" alt=http://loserville.net/ coords="3, 3, 167, 56"></MAP> In addition to 90+ acts, the Car Show, Burlesque, and a wide variety of Vendors, here are some other things you can take part in (or just watch!) over the fun filled weekend: CROSSROADS GUITAR CONTEST: A HRW staple featuring some of the most amazing guitarists you've ever seen on one stage... dueling it out in the 11th edition of this HRW headcutting action. DO NOT miss this show! Oh yeah, and you JUDGE the winner by screaming till you can't breathe! This contest is open to ALL HRW attendees and band members, so bring your guitar! SLAP OFF BASS CONTEST: Watch and cheer as your favorite bassists play along with a hand-picked HRW rhythm section, each showing off their unique take and skills on the instrument. Where else in America or anyewhere can you see 10 upright bassists sharing the stage in relative harmony and dissonance? Heavy Rebel Weekend is the only place! The Bass Contest has become second only to the Guitar Contest and is not to miss! Again, this is crowd judged and open to all! HEAVY REBEL RAFFLE: The HRW Raffle is held on Sunday. Tickets are sold throughout the weekend. Grand Prize is a box full of CD's from HRW bands, HRW T-Shirts, work shirts, HRW and band merch, 2 tickets for the 2012 HRW, beer tickets and more. There are second and third prizes, too! KRISPY KREME DONUT EATING CONTEST: Sit down in front of a mountain of Krispy Kreme goodness and scarf down as many as you can in 2 minutes. Whoever eats the most WITHOUT puking, WINS! What do you win? We'll let ya know! This replaces the nanner puddin contest from previous years, due to the closing of the Kopper Kitchen. MUD WRESTLING: Mud Wrestling for 2011 will once again be truly clean mud. No rocks, sticks or anything else to poke at you! Held during the HRW Custom Car and Bike Show, The Mud Pit continues to be on of the favorite spectacles to behold at HRW, everyone and anyone is invited to join in the pit. Mud Wrestling is, of course, free to all HRW attendees and even non-HRW attendees! MOST BEER IN 60 SECONDS: OK people, Its pretty self-explanatory. You show us your 21, we put your ass on stage, supply you with FREE beer and YOU drink it. Last years winner drank 5, can you do better? Here's the catch: You get 60 seconds, you CAN NOT puke, it must go IN your mouth (not on the floor), you will be yelled at by the crowd, and there is no 2ND place! Winner receives $100 worth of drink tickets! WET WIFEBEATER CONTEST: This is the event of the weekend according to the poll we took! No, its not beating a wetted wife, its a wet T-Shirt Contest! The T's are replaced with much "nicer" wife-beaters! Its real "easy"! Girls, if you think you have a "gift" from the heavens and want to prove it, then bounce on stage! The girls line up, and they are drenched with ICE cold water! You, the spectators are the judges...the more noise you make, the better chance your girl(s) has of winning! Competition is stiff and the judges will be hard on you, but its well worth it! Free tickets for 2012 and more! HEAVY REBELS DOCUMENTARY: A documentary on the Heavy Rebels who keep coming back each year, brought to you by Bryant Rogowski and Dayna Noffke. Heavy Rebels takes the camera to what one regular describes as the people's party to celebrate the music, cars, events, and - above all - the people, who make it an event unlike any other. See event schedule on Bands page for movie times.
I know us Iron Lords are definitely stoked to be there again this year!!! the past couple of years the quality of cars is getting better and better so get ya ride dialed in and lets break some stereo types and show the rest of the country that a car show in the south doesnt have to be over run with rat rods! See y'all soon!!!
and if you are reading this and have never been, the venue for both the car show and the bands is the radness!!! cool old side street surrounded by old brick buildings in downtown Winston-Salem N.C.! and the music venue is in a really cool old building that I think was the old court house! ( I may be wrong about the courthouse but Im pretty sure thats right )
the hotel that most of the people that I know stay at has a 1st floor parking deck, ntm its winston, not austin
D-Russ, honestly I don't remember, I'm almost positive that it's the host hotel and that information should be on the website.
The Mariot is where a lot of people stay, its only 2 blocks away, and tends to get beer bottle thrown through the windows, well... maybe that was just for last HRW, but anyways, LOTS of fun and sweet cars
Captain American needs to show up at the show to save all the Orca Bettys from the mud pit. He looks like the man for the job.
I was a first timer last year in my 40 coupe - I've already registered the roadster for this year. Hey, D-Russ - if it rains we'll both be pretty wet!
Looking forward to another year of seeing you hoodlums! Iron Lords will be parking the cars again and we're hoping for a better turn out then last year! I should have a Sugar City Speed Shop Booth setup so stop on by and say hello if you see us!
He'll probably have to skip Heavy Rebel to deal with some kind of flea infestation or perhaps any scenario you'd like to take from the movie Money Pit.
Yes Boobie WILL be there and sporting the newest trend among all the hipster kids which is Tupès! You and him are going to get along just fine, he likes to mess with people about as much as you do ha!! How about, we see what you all are bringing to the show?
Looks like a decent showing for the VA HAMB. I hope everybodys plans work out and we can meet along the way and drive into NC as a group. Is anyone commited to staying through Saturday night? I would like to leave Sunday morning provided I have someone to hang with.
Just tell her you will be back Saturday night. It's easier to ask for forgivness than get permission.
Was there last year for the first time (on our honeymoon), and we will be drivin the coupe and and a buddy driving his A-sedan up this year, I can't wait! I hope to get to put a face with the names and meet some other Hambers.
Nice start on your website Sugar City Speed Shop. What kind of stuff are selling? Are you selling Captain of American Underwear? If I can help out anyway let me know. I live North of Greensboro. Good Luck and Peace out.
I keep wanting to go to Heavy Rebel, but i'm not showing up until i've got this Buick done. Next year, hopefully. It'd be fun to see my buddies in D-Ray and the Shockers & Gojira playing outside of Wonderland in Richmond.
It's been a few years since I played Heavy Rebel, but my new old band will be playing this year at 7:30 on Friday. Say hi. You can listen to all of our songs for free from our new album here: http://griswolds.bandcamp.com/ I'm stoked! It's ALWAYS a killer time. Never disappointed.
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