Talk about a Mickey Rooney — “Let’s put on a show” — moment. Ian Fitch was sitting in his huge back yard on the north side of Youngstown, chatting with his buds, Ian and Evan James, who are, together, the new noise band Hospitality, when one of them noticed the cement pad in the corner of the yard, the floor from the former garage. It looked like a stage.

Wouldn’t it be cool to practice there? That would be the perfect spot to play. We could invite our friends; some other bands; have a show.

“We asked the neighbors, and they said they were cool with the idea,” Fitch said, and Bingo! Reality. War! In My Yard. “We had been talking about having our own events,” Fitch explained, “and we figured, what the hey! we’ll  go ahead and do it.”

They’ll do it Saturday, June 13, starting at 5 p.m. and running til 1 a.m. They’ll have 10 bands; Hospitality will be featured. Ian James’ other band, Braille*, will perform, as well as Braille’s Tony Cucitrone doing his solo act, Mammal, between bands. All but one, The Revisiter from Kent, are based in the JamBrain area. Most call themselves “noise, jam bands, or alternative.”

The other bands are: White Hair, Exit Exit*, Black-Black, Psychic Assassins*, Sewing Machine War, and Panzer Talk*.

Fitch’s big back yard is at his place at 425 Fairgreen, just off Belmont on the north side. This War! is free.

*See JamBrain articles about these bands.