![]() ![]() It was sold out and everywhere I looked someone was smoking a cigarette. It had to have been 100 degrees in there. What a fucking dickhead! By then the heat was starting to get to me. A kid right behind me was waving a big piece around until a bouncer came and kicked him out. They threw the broken pieces into the audience, who started smashing them even more. At the end of their set they picked up two laptops, smashed them and talked about how technology was destroying music. Next up was Decahedron, who was so much better. Great name but what a shitty band! A pit had already started. SWEET! We got in and soon Planes Mistaken For Stars hit the stage. My friends’ mom let us borrow her credit card to get tickets online so we didn’t have to worry about it selling out. We arrived to the show and there was already a huge line. ![]() No booze or dope for the night but I didn’t even care, I was just happy to get the hell out of work. My two best friends picked me up and we headed straight for the Fireside. It was a long day of picking up dog and cat shit at the shelter. Regardless of the various criticisms, the SOH stands as one of the most iconic structures in the world and will always represent a moment of very progressive foresight which happened during an otherwise rather plain and pedestrian cultural landscape of late-1950s Australia.īy the way, the Peter Fitzsimons audiobook called “The Opera House” is a great listen if you’re a fan of books about architecture.April 15th, originally uploaded by rebecca ann rakstad. Some designers bemoan the somewhat lacking acoustics of the Opera House, but part of that reputation still exist because it didn’t get completed to the plans of original visionary Danish architect, Jørn Utzon. The construction was a massive struggle both technically and politically and it spanned over decades. When David Attenborough was just 24, he helped director John Weiley put the film together and it is a uniquely raw and honest look at the confounding mess that was the long, arduous buildout process. “Autopsy on a Dream” is an utterly fascinating, long lost (buried in archives for 50 years) BBC documentary about the building of the Sydney Opera House. The journey it retells is unforgettable and essential for those who reside in the world of music. If you are interested in music venues, urban planning, city politics, cultural wellness, or even just unlikely stories where great happenstances bring a lot smart folks together who actuate a huge project, I hightly recommend the new book “This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better.” A whopping 6 chapters detail the process with the city of Huntsville and tvg hospitality. It is an arduous process, but what is happening in Huntsville truly shows the value of their work. Then, after an immense amount of work on the front end, they connect cities and people who can help facilitate their recommendations. In the most over-simplified sense, the audits they do start with a deep research dive into what a city is lacking with venues and other music scene infrastructure. Shain was strikingly modest and genuine about all the work his company has been doing with Music Audits for cities around the world. It took place at Jeff and Blues on the Orion campus and the evening had really warm vibes all around. I was genuinely blown away by the presentation and panel Shain Shapiro (the founder of Sound Diplomamcy) moderated with a few of the key people responsible for bringing the Orion Amphithear to Huntsville, Alabama. The Fireside Bowl: An unlikely place for punks of all ages By the way, a major shoutout to the Firehouse Community Center here in Birmingham - they do so many incredible to help foster young people through music.Īnyway, the story is worth the listen if you have the time. Having these outlets as prime entry points is essential to creating a thriving music scene in any particular city. Ultimately, and regardless of scale, live music is most predominantly about community. There is no telling how many legendary bands formed because the members were once kids who saw shows at spaces like these. Having all ages spaces like the Fireside in Chicago, the Einstein A-Go-Go in Jacksonville, and Jabberjaw in LA (to name a few) really opened the doors for such creative, vibrant music scenes. We started our band when we were still teenagers and often we couldn’t play at 21+ bars and venues. ![]() I was honored that Man or Astro-Man? got mentioned in this recent WBEZ Chicago radio story as one of the memorable shows that happened at the Fireside Bowl. ![]()
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