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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: azaghal1981 on March 19, 2010, 05:26:05 pm

Title: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: azaghal1981 on March 19, 2010, 05:26:05 pm
Someone had to start this thread; same rules as "Hey Seth" apply.
Does Whycontrol even read this board anymore, though? Haven't seen him posting in forever.


Lindstrom?
Booka Shade?
Gui Boratto?
Rusko?
Kode9?
Trentemoller?
Mouse on Mars?
Richie Hawtin?
Squarepusher?
Flying Lotus?
Oh yeah and that Chapterhouse/Ulrich Schnauss bill
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: sweetcell on March 19, 2010, 05:50:02 pm
rusko is the only name i don't recognize there, but for all others you have a heart-felt +1 here.  great list of acts, azag.

what's this venue like? i've never been.  good for electronic acts, i take it? 
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on March 19, 2010, 06:16:02 pm
Squarepusher would surely be a 930 booking, no? I'd go to most of those listed.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: azaghal1981 on March 19, 2010, 07:03:26 pm
I dunno.


Last time he was here in '04, didn't he play the BC? I'm guessing demand for him has dropped since then.


Sweetcell, here (http://dcist.com/2010/03/first_look_u_street_music_hall.php?gallery0Pic=2) is a good description of the venue and it's sound system.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: sweetcell on March 19, 2010, 11:52:37 pm
Sweetcell, here (http://dcist.com/2010/03/first_look_u_street_music_hall.php?gallery0Pic=2) is a good description of the venue and it's sound system.

OMG i'm in love.  the place looks (and by all accounts, sounds) awesome.  can't wait to see what DJs & electronic acts they get in there.

this is a really cool development for DC.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: betao on March 20, 2010, 01:05:14 am
I imagine Ritchie Hawtin would also be a 9:30 booking.

And didn't Booka Shade play at the 930 back in May? How well attended was that?

Also, +1 for all of the acts listed.

Especially Gui Boratto, Chapterhouse, and Mouse on Mars.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: azaghal1981 on March 20, 2010, 01:12:04 am
Not very.  This room would have been a perfect fit.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: Staralfur25 on March 21, 2010, 03:30:18 am
lindstrom......... ;D
would be awesome
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on March 22, 2010, 09:10:23 pm
I went last Tuesday and last night, in love with that system. It's feckin' uuuuuge. Rusko's up in Baltimore in 2 weeks and Will was talking about getting Boratto, the best way to keep up is to follow their Twitter page. Nadastrom did a free show there last night and they have their innagural weekly party coming up on Friday "Red Nights" I think its called. Its up on Facebook.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: sweetcell on March 23, 2010, 03:07:20 pm
Talvin Singh
April 23, 2010
Highline Ballroom, NYC

hey U St. Hall bookers?!?!?!?

edit: his myspace page states "Apr 27 2010 8:00P  Tba    Tba, Washington DC" so maybe you're already on it?  then again, the NYC date is wrong so that page isn't an authoritative source...
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: sweetcell on March 23, 2010, 03:14:06 pm
another great booking for the USH:

(http://i2.cmail2.com/ei/y/8C/7FE/CBB/055547/csimport/uhall10-0324ancientastronauts_1.jpg)

free, too... too bad i'm out of town.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on March 23, 2010, 03:48:21 pm
Man, if I didn't already have Spoon tickets, I'd be at that. Love Ancient Astronauts.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: sweetcell on March 23, 2010, 06:54:30 pm
man, if i wasn't at Groove Armada in NYC, i'd be at Ancient Astronauts too.  life is a long series of choices...
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on March 23, 2010, 07:57:48 pm
I actually would've picked Ancient Astronauts if I had known before I had gotten a Spoon ticket. Seen Spoon, really great, but never seen Ancient Astronauts, which is a fabulous record. Oh well!
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: Christine Moritz on March 24, 2010, 02:05:57 am
man, if i wasn't at Groove Armada in NYC, i'd be at Ancient Astronauts too.  life is a long series of choices...

Ancient Astronauts will also be playing at Eighteenth Street Lounge on Fri. 3/26, along with Ursula 1000.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on March 24, 2010, 03:32:03 pm
Chad Hugo from the Neptunes DJing on Thursday night, their website is officially up as of yesterday in case you missed it.

http://www.ustreetmusichall.com/
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: sweetcell on March 25, 2010, 01:31:34 am
man, if i wasn't at Groove Armada in NYC, i'd be at Ancient Astronauts too.  life is a long series of choices...

groove armada proved to be a very respectable consolation for missing AA.  show was really really good, bordering on excellent. i was expecting something more along the lines of house & electronica, instead got a full band doing electro-pop. place was hoppin', literally - the floor at webster hall is a total springboard. and yes, they had frikken LASERS (http://picasaweb.google.com/sweetcell/GrooveArmadaWebsterHall).
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: snailhook on March 26, 2010, 01:45:06 am
fyi, will and jesse will be doing most of the booking, but i'll be doing the occasional show there (of course, anything off-the-wall that you notice).
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: azaghal1981 on March 26, 2010, 11:08:57 am
That's awesome. There are a bunch of acts that would be too big for the Velvet or a house/warehouse space that other venues around here wouldn't touch.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: sweetcell on March 29, 2010, 03:15:47 am
USH article in the WaPo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/28/AR2010032802383.html

main topics: their no-camera policy (love it), and.... brightest young things.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: azaghal1981 on March 29, 2010, 07:33:10 am
God, BYT sucks.


At least they finally got the hint and stopped trolling this board with their crap.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: sweetcell on March 29, 2010, 08:21:56 am
To their credit, when BYT wasn't allowed taking pix they handed out pads and paper and asked people to draw images... Made for some funny submissions. I hope they do that again.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: sweetcell on May 03, 2010, 12:38:12 pm
friday may 14: hercules and love affair dj set
friday may 21: derrick carter

cool
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: betao on May 03, 2010, 05:03:01 pm
that derrick carter gig has my interest. what is U-street like atmosphere/crowd wise?
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: sweetcell on May 03, 2010, 05:50:31 pm
couldn't tell ya, i haven't made it there yet.  i suspect it's relatively laid back for a dance club, not in with the beautiful crowd (yet)... could be wrong.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on May 03, 2010, 09:09:16 pm
The BYT photog equates a ban on party photos with limiting freedom of speech?  Douche. 

Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on May 04, 2010, 09:44:46 am
couldn't tell ya, i haven't made it there yet.  i suspect it's relatively laid back for a dance club, not in with the beautiful crowd (yet)... could be wrong.
Its kind of a sweaty dance floor mess, by the time 1am rolls around its sticky sticky hot in there.

Been on capacity nights, so amazing.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: Thousand Made-Up Loves on May 10, 2010, 09:40:01 pm
Michael Mayer is gonna bring the house down. Too bad it is on a Tuesday night, I hope he goes on before midnight.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: walkonby on May 10, 2010, 09:52:20 pm
Michael Mayer is gonna bring the house down. Too bad it is on a Tuesday night, I hope he goes on before midnight.

doesn't he wear a mask, can never die and kill girls in their panties?  oops . . . wrong michael.
Title: Re: Hey U St. Hall bookers
Post by: Thousand Made-Up Loves on June 02, 2010, 10:09:23 pm
Did anyone see Mayer last week? I didn't go because I had a feeling he wouldn't go on until after midnight (yeah, :paddytanniger, caddiemanager:?) and I was right. I was in Detroit for the Festival, he played on Sunday, the day I left. He's one of my favorites. German techno is incredible.