I just saw on NY1 news that Club Avalon — formerly the Limelight — has been sold and will be turned into a series of shops. The place was once a church, then was converted by infamous club entrepreneur Peter Gatien into the Limelight club back in 1983, and I just saw the Cramps perform there a few months back.
The place attracted the usual NYC club shitheads, especially as Avalon, but that's part of the territory, and I will be sort of sad to see it go, despite it being the venue that staged the one show I walked out on in my twenty-five years of seeing live music, that show being the Pixies gig from around ten years ago. I never did get those guys...
I find it hard to believe the Pixies were as bad as the Residents were when we saw them at Alice Tully Hall many moons ago...
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BTW...
I started my own blog just for the hell of it. It's still a work in progress:
jbligh.blogspot.com
I only saw one show there, Rollins Band. The place was great. Another sad loss for the City.
ReplyDeleteYou don't suppose this has anything to do with all those multi-million-dollar condos going in across the street?
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