From phlux Sent Thu, Jun 3rd 1999, 02:09
From phlux Sent Thu, Jun 3rd 1999, 02:09
>Yeah, now if the information that Pole & Neotropic were playing in the >Boston area were advertised ANYWHERE in the first place... I had to search >for an hour to figure out that the show was NOT at the Lansdowne Playhouse >(initial rumour amongst the local IDM set, they haven't had live music >there for about a year now) but at a new EuroDisco on 'Shear Madness Alley' >(I kid you not) called 'Venu Boston'. Jesus. Anyways, when I called this >place asking if the show was happening (around 9 PM), a woman informed me >that Pole WAS playing, around 10:30 (she hadn't heard of Neotropic) and >that the dress was 'very formal'. So, like any die-hard BC/CR/Din fan I >suited up, grabbed Hekla & headed over there. Now here's the best part: we >find the place (right off Tremont in Bay Village) and as we're walking in >about NINE black T-shirted bouncers (there was no line outside, in fact >there was no one around for blocks really...) informed us that 'the show' >was next door, at a club called 'Chaps' (you can see where this is going). >We didn't doubt this as there was no sound coming from inside Venu and >something resembling Pole was seeping through the walls of said club (I >know, I know, EVERYTHING sounds like Pole when yr outside of a club...) so >we go in, notice there's only a $3 cover (odd...) and when we tell the >attendant that we're on the Matador list, she looks at us, completely >perplexed, and tells us A) there's no guest list and B) there's no live >performance tonight. We walk next door to Venu again, see someone smoking >outside who looks like management and inquire about the show. "It's been >cancelled for a few days now". He at least knew what was up, simply heard >the word 'Pole' and recommended that we go back next door to Chaps, which >we did, and had a really great time to the prodigious disco stylings of DJ >Dave Ryan. I think we had more fun there (and had FAR more to drink, which >was incidentally cheaper per unit) than at the Pole/Scion/Vainquer show in >Williamsburg last summer (concrete walls, dripping water, one lightbulb, >Simon Reynolds, total fucking mess and also a complete mystery until 1 hour >before the show). Don't get me wrong, I'm still EXTREMELY fucking pissed >off at the club and management involved (although I hear the dispute >actually centered around Pole/Neotropic becoming seriously alarmed upon the >realization that they had been booked (knowingly? "Venu Boston"? come >on...) in a Euro Disco, can't blame them) not just for the show falling >through, but because despite all of the trouble I went through to figure >all of this out there was not one other person loafing around the club >during the half hour or so I was down there that even remotely looked like >they were there for the same show. I'm just trying to imagine what it would >be like if the show HAD happened... -Våt Damn I'm glad I decided not to drive out for the show. That would have been 1 hour and 45 totally wasted. Rob Codec! http://www.mindstorm.com/codec LogiQ http://www.mindstorm.com/logiq