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  • From: grady AT ibiblio.org
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: brewery
  • Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:11:50 -0500

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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