RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

I met Matt Brown at the Brewery.

I also left a nice, brown shirt there.  I wonder if
they still have it.

Hep


--- grady AT ibiblio.org wrote:
> 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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