Andrew Wiggins leans back, takes a second to think and then counts under his breath, “Six, seven years ago… Atlanta's house show scene is cyclical. There used to be Squaresville, C-12 South, the Metroplex... all these houses I was too young to ever go to six or seven years ago. They all shut down in the space of a year, and then two or three years ago, I Can Fly started hosting shows, 141 Moreland started up, and we suddenly had all these house shows again.”

At 23, Wiggins is a relic of the Atlanta house show circuit. He has played in Atlanta for the past four years, first with Blame Game and Brickmason, and most recently with Hawks.  He's now organizing and recording We No Fun, a compilation record of Atlanta and Athens house show superstars – underground bands that have profoundly influenced each other and the Atlanta and Athens sound.

Of course, the components and roots of that sound are hotly debated. Chris Dortch's upcoming documentary, We Fun, sees those roots in Atlanta's more well known bands: Black Lips, Deerhunter, Mastodon, The Selmanaires, Anna Kramer and the Coathangers. While those bands are household names now, they were once so obscure that the only venues open to them were house shows.A few years ago, these bands were just as unknown outside of Atlanta as many of the bands on the We No Fun compilation are now. Wiggins characterizes the record as a sort of “mirror history” of Atlanta bands and music.

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