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[Ron Thigpen <rthigpen AT nc.rr.com>]

Hmmm, add it all up and the Place to Rock in Raleigh list doesn't look 
too bad after all:

Kings
Lincoln Theatre
Pour House
Berkeley Cafe
Bickett Gallery
Sadlacks

And you can in add in sometimes rockin' joints all up and down the size 
spectrum, such as the RBC, Disco Rodeo, Clark Art Basement and the 
GreenHouse.

It's not all my cup of tea, but there are hometown options.  And while 
each of these joints tends to have a "house sound" when it comes to 
booking, all of them have proved to be pretty open to putting in other 
types of shows when the support is there.

And it looks like the recently closed Retail space will become the 
Martin Street Music Hall.  I was there for the Alejandro Escovedo 
benefit and the can say that the upstairs room is pretty nice rock 
facility with probably something like 2/3rds the capacity of the Cradle.

I'm still waiting for someone to build an all night metro system with 
stops in my neighborhood and by the Cradle/Local 506/Go!, but that's not 
gonna happen.  Sometimes you've gotta drive to Rock.

Speakin' of which, if you haven't seen The Loners you are missing out on 
 one of the best local acts currently going.

--rt


Steve Burnett wrote:

> Paula C. wrote:
>
>
> > It's been a long damn time since I voluntarily drove to Raleigh to see a
>
> show at the Brewery.  Their booking has sucked for my taste, no doubt.
> But perhaps more relevant, they didn't try to reach out and gather a
> scene unto themselves, either. For example, the Pourhouse: You
>
> > personally might not ever want to see a show there, but boy, they know
>
> their niche market, and they book to it. What did the Brewery try to
> book to?
>
> As far as I could tell, the Brewery booked a lot of metal shows over the
> last year or two.
>
>
> > Bigger acts will go to the Lincoln the same way as they go to the Cradle
>
> in Chapel Hill, but there's still a whole lot of space in music world
> left unbooked, and I can't see that Kings would get all of that business
> in Raleigh. After all, Raleigh is much larger than Chapel Hill, and yet
> CH manages to keep Go!, 506, the Cave, and Nightlight going. Admittedly,
> some of those places have suffered financial difficulties, but they are
> there. I see Kings as sort of the 506 of Raleigh, but were is the Cave
> of Raleigh, where small local acts can get booked?
>
> To a very limited extent, Berkeley Cafe. Also Kings' Sunday afternoon (5pm
> to 7 or 8ish pm) series they started a few months ago is an attempt to
> provide a venue for small local acts.
>
>
> > Where is the Nightlight of Raleigh, with odd, avant-garde, or even
>
> non-rock acts?
>
> The closest counterpart to the Nightlight I know of in Raleigh is Bickett
> Gallery: my group played there more than once last year, and Walt Davis's
> AIM (Alliance for Improvised Music) has routed several AIM-related
> free-jazz and similar groups (Gunda Gottschalk from Europe, Eugene
> Chadbourne, and so on) performances to play there.
>
> If there's anywhere else in Raleigh that fits that description of booking
> "odd, avant-garde, or even non-rock acts" , I'd really love to know about
> it :). Seriously. Otherwise I may have to follow through on my threat to
> start hosting a house concert series in my living room.
>
> best,
> Steve Burnett   Subscape Annex      http://www.subscapeannex.com/
>
>
>
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