RTP-area local music and culture

["Katherine Carpenter" <wwkd AT hotmail.com>]

i just stopped going because they almost never booked a show worth seeing. 
if i'm not mistaken they even stopped running ads in the independent. 
lately, kenny was having other people book shows if they felt so inclined, 
and i know there was a hardcore show recently with some out-of-town bands. 
but i think most people who considered doing that realized the uphill 
battle, as far as promoting shows, that they would have faced, since no one 
i know even bothered to look up at the marquee as they walked past the 
place. sucks to see it go, but it may have sucked worse for me to watch it 
go downhill so far...


----Original Message Follows----
From: <burton AT email.unc.edu>
Reply-To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: brewery
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 13:31:06 -0500

i wonder if brentwood towing's rapacious, insidious, avaricious,
abusive towing work had a hand in the demise of the brewery. on nights
when there was a big show at the brewery they would swarm around with
several tow trucks, stealing cars out of unmarked parking lots. i got
towed from a Grover show in summer of 94 and swore i would never go
back to the brewery. and i never did. i can't be the only one who made
that decision. bb




Quoting 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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