RTP-area local music and culture

["James Hepler" <hepstyle AT gmail.com>]

Finally a place to parry!

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 7:56 AM, grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:

> For a brief period after I moved here, the best place to see shows in
> Durham was a weird narrow downstairs room (with the stage on the long
> side) called Under the Street. No, I wasn't there for the fabled Sun Ra
> show, but I saw a lot of the Triangle's bright lights there.
>
> Needless to say, Durham being Durham, UTS closed just as the early-90s
> "next Seattle" hypestorm was peaking.
>
> Cut forward a few years (to ~2002), and for a time the space experienced
> a renaissance as Bully's Basement/The Basement. It was probably most
> notorious (among women, anyway) as the bar where they'd connected the
> hot-water line to the toilet, but it also anchored the emergence of the
> newly-visible (always present, but often more underground) Durham Scene
> (whatever that is). Saw a bunch of great Sames shows there, an amazing
> show by the pre-Wigg Report band Rosa Begosa, one of the few Triangle
> appearances of Asheville's Piedmont Charisma, etc.
>
> So of course it had to die after a year or two (this still being Durham).
>
> Today I learned via blog that following a long fallow period, the room
> is now the MidSouth Fencer's Club:
> http://archerpelican.typepad.com/tap/2008/02/mid-south-fence.html
>
> http://midsouthfencersclub.org/
>
> (Fencing being that thing you do in the white suits and the mesh
> face-masks and the long skinny sword-like things)
>
> Which is actually probably an excellent use for such a long skinny room.
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