Just Announced

[Got Haggis?]

In 2000, the company was sold to Clear Channel Communications for $4.4 billion, and operated as Clear Channel Entertainment until 2005, when it was spun off as Live Nation. In 2010, Live Nation merged with the ticketing company Ticketmaster, forming the larger conglomerate Live Nation Entertainment

[Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

What is everyone's problem with this place? I quite like it.

I have a few gripes
1 is location...now that is different for most here so this is personal.  But it's a pain to get to from Arlington
2 the staff suck
3 the beer selection sucks
4 the sight lines often suck
5 typically the venue gets bands I can't stand...but once a quarter they land a good one

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

What is everyone's problem with this place? I quite like it.

People think there is some sort of merit in being IMP-fanboys and trashing on other venues is a way that they indicate their religious fervor and "tr00 fanhood". It's performative. Its a rock music Emperor's New Clothes.

[grateful]

5 typically the venue gets bands I can't stand...but once a quarter they land a good one

Heilung, for example.

[sweetcell]

What is everyone's problem with this place? I quite like it.

they got over a million dollars in MoCo taxpayer money - my money at the time, as i was a resident of MoCo - as a subsidy.  the whole deal was really shady.  seth (and others?) offered to open the venue with no corporate hand-out but the Live Nation backroom deal went through.  fuck them.

[analogfossa]

What is everyone's problem with this place? I quite like it.

That place is like the Applebee's of concert venues. It feels like a building became a Budweiser ad.

[RustyOrgan]

Anyone have the Bikini Kill presale code?

[hutch]

What is everyone's problem with this place? I quite like it.

That place is like the Applebee's of concert venues. It feels like a building became a Budweiser ad.

Oh that’s good

[Got Haggis?]

Signed up for their fan club but no password as of yet

[Vas Deferens]

it doesn't matter where they play, it will still be a $40 show at least.

[Vas Deferens]

Best Coast / Mannequin Pussy
3/19

[Vas Deferens]

Lucero
2/19 and 2/20
Ottobar

[Thousand Made-Up Loves]

What is everyone's problem with this place? I quite like it.

I have a few gripes
1 is location...now that is different for most here so this is personal.  But it's a pain to get to from Arlington
2 the staff suck
3 the beer selection sucks
4 the sight lines often suck
5 typically the venue gets bands I can't stand...but once a quarter they land a good one

You forgot the most important part--Montgomery County took Seth's offer and told him to fuck off and instead paid Live Nation more to open the FSS. The county actually paid LN money to open with a bunch of requirements like a minimum amount of hours per year for local events and what not. LN has as expected wiped its ass with those requirements.

Seth was willing to spend his own money like an entrepreneur to open in Silver Spring and instead the county GAVE TAX MONEY to LN to open.

Fuck LN.

[Thousand Made-Up Loves]

What is everyone's problem with this place? I quite like it.

they got over a million dollars in MoCo taxpayer money - my money at the time, as i was a resident of MoCo - as a subsidy.  the whole deal was really shady.  seth (and others?) offered to open the venue with no corporate hand-out but the Live Nation backroom deal went through.  fuck them.

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[Thousand Made-Up Loves]

What is everyone's problem with this place? I quite like it.

People think there is some sort of merit in being IMP-fanboys and trashing on other venues is a way that they indicate their religious fervor and "tr00 fanhood". It's performative. Its a rock music Emperor's New Clothes.

FSS gets shitty acts, fourth rate rappers and cover bands. Montgomery County paid LN to fucking open a cover band venue? What a disgrace.

I'm far from a Seth fanboi but he gets great acts and bands love playing his venues. Let me know when he's booking AC/DC cover bands.