BELGRADE / BOZEMAN, MONTANA
THE BLOODY MARY ORIGIN STORY
FIELD SESSION / 20192017
Erin and Vince were already making noise together in Halleys Return. They carried that band’s punk, do-it-yourself attitude straight into The GU: load the gear, make the thing, invite people in, and give every local musician a real shot.
2018
Vince started running sound at The Haufbrau and The Filling Station. The GU also dragged lights into Mosh in the Mountains and Metalfest. Every booth, stage, and cable run pulled us deeper into the people making Bozeman and Belgrade loud.
2020
When COVID changed everything, we made a home for the noise on Andreas Drive in Belgrade: lights, projections, a stage, and a sound system built to hit you in the chest. We filmed bands, held interviews, played with projections, and kept every session free because local musicians were the whole reason the room existed.
2025
The studio chapter wrapped when Erin moved and Vince’s career changed. Eight years of sets, interviews, experiments, unforgettable nights, and one lifelong friendship are still humming in these tapes.
THE GU VIDEO ARCHIVE
Sessions, interviews, performances, and experiments from the Gallatin Valley. Every card opens the full artist playlist.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE CABLES
DEAR GALLATIN VALLEY,
We started with more cables than sense. We carried a recording rig into practice spaces and asked musicians to trust us with the songs they were still becoming. You did. You let us hear the missed notes, the first tries, the jokes between takes, and the moment a room caught fire without anything burning.
Vince and I had already learned how to make noise together in Halleys Return. That band gave us our punk rulebook: do it yourself, share the stage, make room for people, and ask forgiveness later. That attitude shaped the unforgettable shows and experiences we built, and it shaped a friendship we will carry for life.
When the world went quiet, we built a loud little room on Andreas Drive. We aimed lights, hung projections, pushed the sound system, and watched that industrial space turn electric. Musicians came through the door. Friends dragged in friends. For a while, all of us made a world together.
Every GU session was free. Nobody got an invoice. They got the lights, the stage, the full sound system, and our full attention. We loved local musicians, and we wanted them to leave with something that felt as alive as the night itself.
We kept pointing cameras at the scene, and somewhere along the way the scene taught us how to belong.
The studio closed. The lease ended. The friendships, bruised ears, shared flyers, packed rooms, and songs kept moving through the valley. The GU lives every time someone catches the opener, shares another band’s flyer, or grabs a friend and says, “You have to hear this.”
So please: keep going to the weird show. Buy the tape. Learn the name of the band before they leave the stage. Tell somebody when a song knocks the wind out of you. The spirit of The GU is alive wherever you show up for each other—and wherever somebody, for one loud second, bangs their head like nothing else exists.
WITH ALL MY HEART & ALL THE VOLUME,AZAKAELA ERIN REDFIRECO-FOUNDER, THE GALLATIN UNDERGROUND
GO CATCH THE OPENER.
GO TO A SHOW. TELL A FRIEND. KNOW YOUR SCENE.