Sacramento, California punk rock band Destroy Boys took their show to New York City’s Irving Plaza on July 14 where they headlined their own mini festival, DestroyFest, a new traveling festival with some of their favorite bands. Band performed together with Gully Boys & Jigsaw Youth.
Written by Andris Jansons
The punk rock band started in 2015 by Sacramento teens Alexia Roditis and Violet Mayugba while they were still in high school. After some lineup changes, they are now joined by drummer Narsai Malik ( since 2018) and David Orozco ( since 2021) on bass. To date band has released three studio albums – Sorry, Mom in 2016, Make Room in 2018 and lastly Open Heart, Open Mouth in 2021. This year band has released two singles “Beg For The Torture” and “Shadow (I’m Breaking Down)”.
Destroy Boys kicked off their 2023 touring schedule with a slot at Coachella in April and supporting Blink 182 and Turnstile for a 2-week run. After finishing up their current North American run in Chicago on July 22nd, Destroy Boys will head to the Europe. See the dates below.
Irving Plaza was pretty much Sold Out, not sure on official status but there was barely any room to walk around, and the band had to make a public plea for the crowd not to push forward in order to give those in the front row more breathing room.
Their music was a new discovery for me personally. While listening to their songs on my music service I had mixed feelings, but their live performance did seal the deal. Their energy was great. Set opened with Drink and American River and followed by Vixen and Cherry Garcia. Band also played both of their new singles. Other notable songs were Crybaby, Locker Room Bully and Duck Eat Duck World. For encore they played Piedmont and their classic hit “I Threw Glass At My Friend’s Eyes and Now I’m On Probation.”
See the full gallery of Destroy Boys performance here.
Destroy Boys tour dates
7/19 – Beachland Ballroom – Cleveland, OH #
7/21 – El Club – Detroit, MI #
7/22 – Metro – Chicago, IL +
8/8 – Proxima – Warsaw, Poland
8/10 – Sziget Festival – Budapest, Hungary
8/12 – Open Flair Festival – Eschwege, Germany
8/13 – Taubertal Festival – Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber, Germany
8/14 – Fluc – Vienna, Austria
8/16 – Junkyard – Dortmund, Germany
8/17 – Lux Club – Hannover, Germany
8/18 – Paradiso – Amsterdam, Netherlands
8/20 – Pukkelpop Festival – Hasselt, Belgium
8/21 – Rescue Rooms – Nottingham, UK
8/22 – The Fleece – Bristol, UK
8/23 – CHALK – Brighton, UK
8/26 – Mind The Gap Festival – Salt Lake City, UT
9/2 – Bumbershoot – Seattle, WA
9/24 – House of Blues – Anaheim, CA (Frank Turner’s Lost Evenings)
10/15 – Lunario Del Auditorio Nacional – Mexico City, Mexico
+ destroyfest
#with gully boys & jigsaw youth
^ with die spitz