RTP-area local music and culture

[Duncan Murrell <dvmurrell AT nc.rr.com>]

Foiled again!

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You get what you epee for.


On Feb 20, 2008, at 9:29 AM, James Hepler wrote:

> 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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