Most clubs treat the floor as a place to stand. In October 1999, fabric opened beneath Smithfield Market in London and treated it as a loudspeaker. The idea was simple enough to explain and strange enough to feel: if low frequencies can be felt as well as heard, put the machinery for feeling them in […]
Athens, Georgia had almost no music business in the late 1970s. A record shop, a bulb-lit club and a heatless church built the scene instead.
Gilman Street opened on 31 December 1986 with a ban on alcohol and a vote for every major decision. Four decades on, the governance is the thing that survived.
Simon Nicol turns 76 today. He gave Fairport Convention its name, its rehearsal room and, in the end, its continuity, without ever wanting to be the lead guitarist.
A members-only room in a former parking garage, a custom Richard Long sound system and a DJ who retuned it all night. How Paradise Garage made the dance floor an instrument.
The Room That Was Built for Films Most legends about Hamburg’s Star-Club begin with the Beatles. Start instead with the building. Manfred Weissleder opened the club at Grosse Freiheit 39 on 13 April 1962, and the address was a former cinema. That detail explains almost everything about how the place worked. A cinema is a […
