Originally posted by hutch:
Originally posted by azaghal1981:
The staff have all been really cool to me. My only real beef is with the sound upstairs.
here's a timely example then for you!
last night i was walking on 14th.. some band named the aquabats was playing and there was a HUGE LINE..i mean the kind of line you see sometimes on saturday nights... all i wanted was to get a beer and hang out a bit in the red room.. kindly asked young girl working there by door if i had to do the line and that all i wanted was to go to the red room..
sure enough she said yeah.
thats helpful? thats retarded.. they have two doors for pete's sake.
they really don't know how to run a business.. no credit cards in 2008??
i just hope they stay open as they are a good addition to the city and more imporatantly my neighborhood. they definitely play a role...and every few months they have a show i really want to see.. like gene ween band
i've been going there since 1994 so i definitely care about the place and i've seen some killer shows there and i know dante's heart is in the right place..but they just don't know what they are doing.. and that goes for everything about the place.. at the silver jews/monotonix show my friend orders some of that food from the whats it called food place and it took like 45 minutes.. he missed most of monotonix. [/b]
if youve been going there since 94, youd have known their policy and about how the lines work.
and you might also know the cafe has always been quite slow, but the food is damn good!
i saw plenty of great bands at the backstage and at the black cat. the sound isnt great but it was nice to see Ash, Bloc Party, Graham Coxon, VHS or Beta, etc. there. Because as of now, Im not seeing any of those bands at smaller clubs.
and plenty of places in NYC dont take credit cards. But most places have ATMs where you can get some cold hard cash.
And whoever is seeing Animal Collective in NYC (forgot who it was) - the manhattan ballroom is another one of those all cash places. it tells you when you walk in, as once you go up to the ballroom (5th or 7th floor) you cant go back to the main floor.