Undergraduates and Local Music

paok bluefreaky at earthlink.net
Fri Feb 11 11:56:27 EST 2005


Once last  year I was selling t-shirts for jett rink at Go! and there was this gaggle of teenage girls who were all very, very into jett rink ...  or very, very into viva, i should say.  it was very cute to behold.

the only problem w/high-school shows is that they make me feel very, very old and creaky...

phaedra

-----Original Message-----
From: grady <grady at ibiblio.org>
Sent: Feb 11, 2005 11:47 AM
To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene at lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: Undergraduates and Local Music

I think there's a fair amount of segregation between the two scenes 
here, but there is plenty of overlap, too. Certainly a few years ago 
Strunken White drew shitloads of high school and college+ kids to their 
shows, and Natasha were doing the same up til their untimely demise.

The B-Sides/Never were all high-school age when they started, as were 
some of those Tunnell boys in Vibrant Green. Rubeo were a "high school 
band" who eventually morphed into des_ark.

Plus there is the whole Trekky Records crowd, which seems to have seized 
upon Nightlight as the most-accessible club for underage kids, which I 
think is great.

I'm such a slackass that I haven't made it out to see any of the Trekky 
bands--except for Choose Your Own Adventure, that is, who are all much 
older than college-age & who are I guess some proof of continued 
cross-pollenation between the high school & "adult" scenes.

I think if anything, a lot of "adult" music fans around here are more 
than willing to check out the high school bands without even consciously 
thinking of them as "high school bands" or at most, noting it in passing 
& then moving on.

I'm not sure how that relates to what we're talking about, though, 
although certainly the demise of Strunken White & Natasha had everything 
to do with post-graduation scatter.

Should there be more all-ages shows? Definitely, of course, yes. Are 
there *already* a lot? Yes--aren't all Cradle shows all-ages? Nightlight 
seems to be permanently all-ages. Go used to be flooded with high school 
kids for certain shows, but so much for that, I guess.

Ross

bendy wrote:
> 
> grady wrote:
> 
>> Keep in mind also that last time I checked, *both* the Cave and Local 
>> 506 were strictly 21-and-over venues, albeit with varying levels of 
>> ID-checkage at the Cave, at least. That is very much an 
>> "unapproachable" factor for the majority of undergrads.
> 
> 
> This was something I was going to bring up, too, and I think Randy hit 
> upon it as well when he mentioned that Charlotte had a good *high 
> school* scene. This is indeed a balding rock scene, very much 
> post-drinking age. Which is odd, 'cause compared to other scenes, the 
> drinking ain't a big part of it.
> 
> But for all our sprawl, we dont' really have a suburban scene that feeds 
> into the metro scene. I grew up in the greater Boston area, and you 
> definitely had the "kids" bands (Gang Green, Throwing Muses) that got 
> the matinees in the clubs, and the "grown-up" bands that never did all 
> ages shows (Blackjacks, Til Tuesday), but there was continuity between 
> it. Like how Til Tuesday won the battle of the bands one year, followed 
> by Gang Green the next year, who did their own version of Voices Carry. 
> Some of it must have to do with the transient nature of the area- I bet 
> a lot of the high schoolers here go elsewhere for college, and we all 
> know how many transplants there are here.
> 
> Bendy [on preview, what Bran just posted too...]
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