Xmas Eve

Jerome Capers





Xmas Eve




Eric Capers




Bruce Rayburn




Eric Capers




Jerome Capers




Eric Capers




Xmas Eve




Bruce Rayburn and Jerome Capers

The first time I saw Xmas Eve was when they opened for The Fall and Blurt at the Keystone Berkeley. I shot all three bands and met the guys in Xmas Eve after they played. They were interested in seeing their pictures so we agreed to meet after I had the flim developed and contact sheets printed. There were a few shots the band liked and used on flyers for later shows. I went on to see and photograph them at other venues such as Berkeley Square and The Mab in San Francisco. I am not quite sure, but I think they opened for the Dead Kennedy's at The Mab and I shot both bands that night.
 

Xmas Eve released a self titled EP in 1982. The four songs can best be described as art punk and are: Paint it Red, My House, Indestructible Man and Life's a Penitentiary. The vinyal was packaged with an insert that had liner notes and a photograph of the band. We went out into the hills and spent a few hours taking various pictures of the band in their leather jackets in what looked like the desert. One of these shots was printed on the insert and another published in BAM magazine.