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  • From: Duncan Murrell <dvmurrell AT nc.rr.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: The *real* end of an era
  • Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:02:44 -0500

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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