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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: concert start times |
| Date | Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:15:07 -0400 |
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From: "Michael Coxe" <audities@gmail.com>
> Several SF clubs have workarounds. The Make Out Room, which books
> CvS, the Orange Peels, Corner Laughers and other pop acts has live
> music
> starting at 7:30pm, then does dj/disco stuff starting around 10:30pm
> which brings in the serious drinkers.
Here in Boston, The Avalon (across Lansdowne from Fenway Park, at one
time the legendary psych club Boston Tea Party) did that as well:
indie rock shows in the early evening, techno for coked-up Eurotrash
later. This had the benefit of shows ending at 10:30 on the dot and
everyone basically being herded like sheep out the doors while "Just
Like Honey" played over the PA. To this day, I have an automatic urge
to leave the room whenever that song comes on.
Sadly, the Avalon is no more. The space and its sister punk club Axis
were demolished and are now a theater complex branded with the House
of Blues name. They've got dozens of shows listed and there's not a
one I care about seeing. *Maybe* Animal Collective. Otherwise,
non-stop crap.
For several years, the MFA ran indie shows in its courtyard in the
summer and its movie theater during the rest of the year, and I've
seen a lot of great shows there. But the guy booking the space has
left, so I don't know if that's continuing.
At this point, I pretty much only go to clubs that I know I find
comfortable. I'm turning 40 in about three months: I have grown tired
of standing on concrete floors all night, so I don't go to clubs that
I know have inadequate seating. Similarly, the subway and buses stop
running around 1 a.m. now, so I don't go to any club I can't walk home
from, which since the closing of the Lansdowne Street clubs means I'm
pretty much restricted to the Paradise (which admittedly is the main
club I go see bands at anyway) and the folk club Passim in Harvard
Square.
S
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