RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

Seattle's the next Philadelphia.  :(

--- eleni binge <elenibinge AT gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, I'm not in Seattle anymore. But I loved this
> club.  I saw the Yoko
> show referenced, and discovered many a new band over
> a soy White
> Russian or two in the 90's...Babe the Blue Ox,
> Ovarian Trolley,
> Citizens Utilities, 7 year bitch...even Archers of
> Loaf, see, so this
> post relates directly.
> 
> It was a great club, though snobby at times (the
> Seattle Freeze
>
[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2005/0213/cover.html]
>  was
> sometimes well in effect here).  Somehow it managed
> to stay open
> during the gawd-awful gentrification of Belltown
> (pricey condos,
> remaking dive bars into 'wait-to-be-seated' sterile
> upscale eateries,
> valet parking).  The obvious comparison here to make
> is with
> Durham...and I truly do hope we avoid taking the
> Belltown path here.
> How?  No idea.  But someone needs to open a down-
> home-cooking-cheap
> restaurant with my favorite foods (seitan gyros,
> biscuits & gravy,
> vegan cake, etc) and mismatched chairs with tables
> that are a little
> sticky with unknown substances. Oh, and a dive bar
> with soy white
> russians and floors your shoes will stick to.
> 
> In any case, I think we're fairly lucky here in the
> Triangle, and the
> SE in general, music-venue wise.  There are so many
> places to play
> here that one has to be disciplined about not
> playing shows rather
> than booking gigs. For such a large city (Seattle)
> there weren't that
> many good places to play/see shows, at least when we
> left...and now,
> it's just gotten a little worse.
> 
>
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/343960_crocodile18.html
> 
> --eleni
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> alt.music.chapel-hill --
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> 



      
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