RTP-area local music and culture

[grady AT ibiblio.org]

Kenny had an invisible for-sale sign on the Brewery off and on for the 
past 8 years or so. Dave does a good job in the N&O piece in covering 
the basics--Hillsborough Street just isn't really a destination for 
those of us who aren't NCSU students anymore, certainly not nearly as 
much as it was 10 years ago. King's has a liquor license, is a wee bit 
larger & can thus draw a slightly wider range of touring acts, and Kings 
has gone out of its way to establish non-rock nights where it's open for 
drinking and various other activities, which in the midst of the general 
 live-music slump is fairly necessary.

The Brewery was a great live-music room--I saw some absolutely amazing 
shows there, many of which involved Backsliders and/or Six String Drag, 
and the amazing pre-fame Whiskeytown shows, where Ryan would change up 
the entire set, altering the tempo and mood and arrangement of nearly 
every song, every time they played; but also some absurd (and 
underattended) national acts, none of which I can remember this early in 
the AM, as well as the infamous Laso Halo/Lemmons the Shiny Clown show 
which involved a baby made of meat that slowly cooked from the inside 
out over the course of the evening.

But it's not the sort of place where you'd go to hang out if there 
wasn't a band playing, and at the moment at least, those kinds of clubs 
are having a tougher time staying open, unless they're Cat's Cradle.

Ross

G Neal wrote:

> n e 1 no y the brewery closed?
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