It started off in this incarnation as the locale of GREEN DOOR NYC a weekly party that played cool Punk Rock and danceable Metal for patrons keen on after hours, pharmaceutically-assisted overstimulation. Mark's Place) - I believe it was the first place owned by ex-Heart Attack/DGeneration singer, Jesse Malin (prior to opening Niagra and the Black'n'White bars). The bar closed due to some unfortunate circumstances, but relocated to a much bigger space on Attorney Street. I once spotted Iggy Pop (who used to live across the park) and Sinead O'Connor here (though not together). One stood a very great chance of seeing various luminaries simply hanging out here. Hall of King Missile here once, and he spent the entirety of the interview complaining about his cold and the fact that his record company was screwing him.
The most memorable for me was a robust performance by Gavin Friday. (8) Sin-e (124 St.Mark's Place) - Made somewhat famous by the live Jeff Buckley e.p., the tiny little hole-in-the-wall with a hearty Irish vibe used to be a very cool place for intimate, live performances. It wasn't a crucial place, but I missed it when they closed it down. My friend, the excellently named Brent Butterworth, and I actually made our way into a photograph on the front page of the New York Times' Arts section of the crowd at that Fluid show.and we weren't we even huge fans of the band. It felt a bit out of place in the East Village, but I saw a few up and coming bands there like the Blood Oranges, Eleventh Dream Day and grunge also-rans, The Fluid. As such, the interior was decorated with the large shnozed string-bender's illustrations of various celebs. (9) Woody's - (somewhere on E.4th Street, just west of 2nd Avenue) So short-lived that it's not even listed in Muprh's NY Bar Graveyard, much less easily Googlable, Woody's was a rock club owned by Rolling Stone guitarist, Ron Wood. Sometime after that, not only did the Palladium close (ringing the death knell on the era of big clubs), but they tore the whole damn thing down to build a NYU dormitory. The last show I caught there was The Unsane and Cop Shoot Cop opening for Foetus (see poster). In later years, I saw Fishbone, the Dead Milkmen, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, 2 Live Crew and Digital Underground there. However, when not playing host to coke-crazed club kids dancing to bad house music (the club's interior was used for the abortive program, "Club MTV"), the Palladium still hosted live music. Shortly after that, they ripped the seats out and transformed the place into a then-state-of-the-art nightclub (as immortalized in "Bright Lights Big City"). I saw Devo play there on their Oh No! It's Devo tour there in 1982 and Judas Priest there a year later. (10) The Palladium - (126 East 14th Street) - It started out as a concert hall (the front cover of London Calling by the Clash was shot there). The place indeed reeked of sleaze, but it was also pretty damn cool. I remember seeing bands like New Model Army, Vent 414, Foetus, the Lords of Acid, Front 242, Cop Shoot Cop, Shrinkwrapped-era Gang of Four and - wait for it - Killing Joke play in its once-hallowed apse. (11) The Limelight - (47 West 20th Street) - The notorious converted church on Sixth Avenue between 20th and 21st streets may be more renowned for Peter Gatien's Disco 2000 parties and the murderous hijinx of self-proclaimed "Party Monster," Michael Alig, but the venue also played host to a number of live acts in its troubled day.
So, anyway, in very loose order here comes.Īlex in NYC's Top Eleven Favorite Since-Closed Live Music Venues/Clubs I was talking with a friend recently about some great shows we had seen here in the past twenty years, and it was remarkable how many of them took place at clubs that simply no longer exist - either due to encroaching gentrification or one mad mayor or another's fascist tendencies.
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