4 posts tagged “even”

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Alas, another great venue disappears from Melbourne.  The Spanish Club  is exactly that - a club for Spanish people.  But about 2 years ago they opened their doors to Melbourne's rock (and comedy and other) favourites.  It is an awesome venue with a good array of beers (from Carlton on tap through Coopers to expensive Spanish imports), a great sized room and a good stage height.

However, it appears that the members want their club back.  Well... it is theirs, so I s'pose that's their prerogative. It does, however, mean that there is again one less place to go see a good band.

We managed to call in the last minute baby-sitter (thanks Nanna) and say farewell to this venue in style, by attending Even's last gig there.  I think the first gig I saw there was Even too, so there was a certain symmetry.

Vox

I am somewhat concerned for Melbourne.  I still wince when I walk past what was the Punter's Club. As has been very well publicised, the Palace has now gone (so many great gigs there - Femmes, H&C, JSBX - and ones I missed like Soundgarden and Nirvana!) and the plan is for a venue to be built in the 'golden triangle' area, but I doubt it'll be any decent size.

The way I see it, we'll always have the venues for huge stadium gigs (Melbourne being such a sporting capital) so the big commercial successes can come and charge $45 for a T-shirt.  The next level down from that we have the superb Forum, the almost-as-good HiFi Bar and the rediscovered Metro.  (And why the Bull Ring still lays idle I'll never understand - it was never my cup of tea there, but it's a great room!) But beneath that, we jump straight to pretty-small pubs - Northcote Social Club and The Tote being personal faves.  Don't get me wrong, I'm loving the smaller gig - but sometimes they sell out too early.

A little (Spanish) bird tells me that there may still be some use of the Spanish Club for gigs - but my gut tells me that with other people doing the bookings, they probably aren't going to be the ones I'd like to attend.

Anywayz - here's Even saying goodbye with their obligatory encore cover - this time The Stones, via dodgy phone recording...

As per usual, we got along to see Even's annual Christmas Even gig, this year again at the Spanish Club in Fitzroy. Nanna came down to mind the little girl, so we headed to a friend's place for a take-away feed and then headed off.  (I was happy to head home after the feed, as I was so tired, but Naomi convinced me to go to the gig - not that I needed that much convincing!)

The gig was great (as per usual) as you can probably somewhat surmise from the dodgy phone footage.

I'm a bit miffed I didn't get all of 'I can't explain' - my phone's memory ran out.  Jumping Jack Flash was the final song of the night, so I had deleted some of the songs from my phone to accommodate it.

Read this - SO true!

If the music world was just, then people would speak of Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards AND Vanda and Young.