This would be fucking marvelous

http://blogs.newsobserver.com/beat/index.php?title=changes_on_the_local_concert_horizon&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Quote :

"We might be seeing a step in this direction in downtown Raleigh, where there are tentative plans to put a new concert venue on the site of the old Sir Walter Chevrolet dealership at McDowell and Lenoir streets. For now, it's the construction staging area for the new convention center going up across McDowell Street. But after that's done, the property's natural slope would make a dandy small amphitheater. If all goes according to plan, it will open summer 2009 with a capacity in the 3,000-to-5,000 range. Negotions are underway for Live Nation to operate it and also pick up at least some of the construction costs."

(sorry if this is already somewhere else or in entertainment and I'm blind)

1/4/2008 6:02:33 PM

ugh.

so we'll just move the shitty summer outdoor concerts to this?

really, how many venues do we need for washed-up 80s and 90s bands?

[Edited on January 4, 2008 at 6:06 PM. Reason : maybe i'm just too jaded about the live music scene in raleigh]

1/4/2008 6:05:51 PM

livenation=clearchannel company=

1/4/2008 6:07:00 PM

well guys, i guess its better than nothing

1/4/2008 6:11:14 PM

i don't want to see any new music venues in raleigh until king's opens back up. then i'll be happy.

1/4/2008 6:12:32 PM

well i'm trying to be optimistic

1/4/2008 6:32:24 PM

Oh good, I've been looking for someplace to see horrible mid-level bands in the rain.

1/4/2008 8:16:09 PM

clear channel venues suck if the past is any indication of all their venues

1/4/2008 8:32:10 PM

Quote :

"i don't want to see any new music venues in raleigh until king's opens back up."

1/4/2008 10:30:11 PM

Finally I can see Snow Patrol in Raleigh!!!

1/4/2008 10:32:56 PM

Quote :

"Oh good, I've been looking for someplace to see horrible mid-level bands in the rain."

Quote :

"i don't want to see any new music venues in raleigh until king's opens back up."

1/4/2008 11:13:38 PM

fucking debbie downers, the lot of you

1/5/2008 2:50:53 AM

It's not that this is a particularly bad idea, it's just that outdoor venues suck for rock music. There's no bass response and very little connection between the band and the crowd. If they want to have stuff like they have at the art museum there, that'd work...but who wants to go to an amphitheatre in the middle of downtown when they can go to one that's nestled into the corner of a really cool environment?

1/5/2008 4:09:56 AM

Quote :

"Oh good, I've been looking for someplace to see horrible mid-level bands in the rain."

huh huh huh huh funny

1/5/2008 7:27:14 AM

what rain?

1/5/2008 8:21:38 AM

what rain, and what the fuck is kings

1/5/2008 8:42:12 AM

1/5/2008 10:00:35 AM

it's a good thing i don't like music

1/5/2008 11:18:00 AM

So did you guys buy your tickets to Angels & Airwaves yet?!?!?

1/5/2008 11:19:13 AM

shit, i'm still trying to figure out the who/what/when/where/why/how of kings

1/5/2008 11:20:34 AM

use your delorean to about a couple of years ago

shoot- not even couple years

[Edited on January 5, 2008 at 11:24 AM. Reason : Ø]

1/5/2008 11:22:50 AM

i heard kings was that barbecue place downtown

or something

probably good they tore it down

1/5/2008 11:23:38 AM

Quote :

"So did you guys buy your tickets to Angels & Airwaves yet?!?!?"

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL


And if you live in Raleigh and don't know what Kings is/was, kill yourself.

1/5/2008 11:41:48 AM

so, why did King's close down?

1/5/2008 11:49:53 AM

probably because they were losing more money than they were making.

1/5/2008 1:30:32 PM

nope. it was for a staging area for a parking deck for the convention center. they actually ran a pretty good business and have been looking for a new place to open up.

1/5/2008 2:03:50 PM

They lost their lease. The building was bulldozed to make access for a parking lot for a new development, IIRC.

^ what he said.

[Edited on January 5, 2008 at 2:11 PM. Reason : asdf]

1/5/2008 2:06:31 PM

fuckin convention center

1/5/2008 2:47:30 PM

Kings Barcade was tops

1/5/2008 3:06:27 PM

I miss the Cover Up.

1/5/2008 4:02:46 PM

Quote :

"Negotions are underway for Live Nation to operate it and also pick up at least some of the construction costs."

No thanks.

1/6/2008 12:35:34 AM

yea I had my birthday at kings one year, and also experienced one of the funnest shows I've seen, sharon jones and the dap kings (or tones).
place rocked

[Edited on January 6, 2008 at 2:00 AM. Reason : 1]

1/6/2008 2:00:34 AM

goddamn sharon jones is fucking incredible

1/6/2008 3:59:54 AM

Quote :

"I miss the Cover Up."

no joke. one of my favorite events of the year.

1/12/2008 5:32:15 AM