I wasn't there, so my story may not be entirely accurate. Someone who works
at OpenLabs (the manufacturers of the Neko) told me about the fire incident.
I think he mentioned something about Matthew Dear only getting to play a few
tracks before they cut him off... And that this was in another "room" from
where Richie was doing his thing...?
That'll teach me for relating a second-hand story. ;)
Todd
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> From: Albers, Brian [mailto:BAlbers@premiereradio.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 11:05 PM
> To: Todd Simmons; idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: RE: [idm] Richard Devine: L.A. Meltdown
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> >The crappy part is that the club got shut down due to the incident.
> >And so a bunch of other musicians who were scheduled to play
> didn't get
> >to.
>
> Hmmm. That's peculiar because Richie didn't go on until 2 and
> didn't finish until almost 3am, so if there were other
> artists scheduled, I can't imagine that they'd have too long
> to play. Not to mention that there weren't but 75 or so
> people there for Richie, and most all of them split after he
> finished, so those other artists would've been playing to an
> empty house.
>
> Also, the show wasn't in any sort of club, but a small dusty
> art gallery directly adjacent to a bar, but definitely not
> part of the bar, as the two rooms had seperate entrances and
> addresses. The bar itself, the Blue Monkey, was doing just
> fine all night. So if the fire marshall wanted to shut
> anything down, he could lock up the doors to an mostly
> abandoned art gallery with no music going on in it anyway.
>
> In fact, the fire marshall's best case would have been to
> shut down the bar for overcrowding because the place was
> super packed like a NY subway at rush hour. You literally
> couldn't even turn around because there were so many people
> squashing you into immobility.
>
> Not that I'm calling 'bullshit' on your original statement.
> That's just how I saw it.
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