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Vinyl, camouflage, baggy pants and wallet chains were in high fashion at Rubbles
Sunday among members of the crowd who turned out for Overtime Festival 3, a concert
assembled to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS).
“We have a resource in the form of music, and it’s a great outlet for
emotions or whatever,” said Mike Gallacher, Tacoma, Washington junior and
member of Juneau. “A lot of the time, the money goes to the band and the
record label. It’s cool to have the money go to another cause.”
“We have had very personal contact with the disease in our past,” said
Dan Nixon, Ortonville senior and founder of Proletariat Records.

“I totally love the show as a benefit for multiple sclerosis. It’s a
lot different than other scenes. I like being able to let everyone know that we’re
not doing this for the money or to get famous, or to be cool, but that we’re
doing it for a good cause,” he said.
Overtime Festival 3 featured a lineup of bands that played everything from hard-hitting
punk rock to strange and exotic indie music. The bands that graced the bill this
time around were: The Soccer Moms, Granny Smith, Juneau, 9MM, Sucker Punch, and
Promise of Restoration.
All of the bands were invited to play at the benefit by Proletariat Records, although
only half of the bands on the list actually recorded on the label.
However, the days for two Overtime Festivals a year in Mount Pleasant are numbered,
as Proletariat Records is moving its base from Mount Pleasant to Detroit.
“Since we have two shows a year, one will be in Detroit, and one will be
in Mount Pleasant,” said Nixon. “We don’t know yet whether it’ll
be the fall show or the spring show.”
Whatever happens with the show in the near future, it will prove to only be a
sample of the hopes and dreams of those who are involved with Overtime Festival
right now.
“We want this to be as big as possible,” said Gallacher. “The more
people that come, the better.”
“Hopefully, we can do this on the level of a national tour someday,”
said Nixon. “If we could just get a bunch of bands together for a month and
hit 20 cities in that time, it would be great.”
The Overtime Festival may have passed by this time, but the show will soon return
to Mount Pleasant. Whatever its size or shape, one can be sure that the music
will be good, and the cause even better.
For more information about the bands on the Proletariat Records label, check out
the Web site at www.proletariat.00cd.com.
To see what NMSS is doing in regards to the disease, go to their Web site at www.nmss.org.