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Charlotte Music Venue?

Discussion in 'Music Forum' started by HardHarry, Jul 30, 2004.

  1. Jul 30, 2004 at 3:11 PM #1
    HardHarry

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    When is Charlotte going to get a decent indoor music venue for medium-large followings bands? Much of the reason many bands won't play here is that there's no good venue for it. You either have to play outside (ok, but not ideal), in a giant, antiquated sports bowl, or in Grady Crappy HS Gym Cole. I thought some developer had purchased a suitable site for a 3-6k seat venue?
     
  2. Jul 30, 2004 at 3:28 PM #2
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    If they ever get off of there asses and fix up the Carolina Theater or start having good shows at the Blumenthal place downtown it would be nice. Independence Arena and Ovens aren't bad but they don't have many shows either. I think the real problem is lack of interest in this town.
     
  3. Jul 30, 2004 at 5:19 PM #3
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    Yeah. I'm a native, Charlotte totally sucks either as a market or as promoters for good music. The loafing did an article on this, where they went to all these other cities and found a core of Charlotteans that went all over, and how maybe the market exists but is not being exploited.

    Blumenthal is awesome, but way, way, way uptight. Ovens is crappy, but the right size.
     
  4. Jul 30, 2004 at 6:15 PM #4
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    Do they still do shows at Spirit Square? That was always a cool place to watch music. Kinda small though.

    Trying to think of the guy that used to promote them - was it Klein?
     
  5. Jul 30, 2004 at 10:19 PM #5
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    fuck IE, it gave me an error report the last 2 times i hit submit. i had a nice long post too.
     
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  7. Jul 31, 2004 at 1:25 AM #7
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    Yeah those metal barriers at the top of the fixed seating give off such an organic tinny sound... kinda like trash can lids... :nono:

    Sorry LJ - I sat back there for coldplay and the acoustics bit ass. I had forgotten how bad it sucked.

    But thanks for the other info. We really need a 3-5k seat indoor theater type venue for live shows. There's just something great about that type of venue.
     
  8. Jul 31, 2004 at 8:37 AM #8
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    The problem is not the arena it the people/city itself. Tremont is a great place to go to a concert(great sound), but they rarely sell out the big names(even though the place only hold 1000-1200). They did not promote the shows enough and people for some reason are not able to figure out when shows are(unless it Verizon, which is promoted heavily). Amos is good place too but they have the same problem as Tremont in that they can not sell out a show. There were about 500 for a Seven Mary 3 show a couple month ago-very sad.
     

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