Oh, so I hear another bar is on the brink of failure… again. Well, maybe they’re losing business because the bands/events that are booked there just aren’t enticing enough for people to bother. Stop booking shitty bands for fucksakes! P.S. All you ‘DJs’ can fuck yourselves too. We don’t need any more goddamn ‘DJs’. What we need is real musicians, original music, and exciting artists. Not the same old crap every week. —Dippy Doodad
This article appears in Mar 10-16, 2011.
or it could be the high taxes downtown, the high utility rates to boot. Theres more businesses shutting downtown than just bars.
On the up side… its one less place a DJ can torture people & take credit & get paid for the music produced by others ~:)
The bar and restaurant business is one of the hardest to succeed at. You can’t justify the costs of a great band every night…maybe once a week…maybe.
20-30-40 years ago musicians in this city were making hand over fist. These days… you’re lucky if you get a gig every few weeks.
DJs have just taken over *shrug*
*making money
DJ shows are the shows I go to when the bar the live performance I was enjoying closes for the night.
And it’s always shitty.
The downtown core is dying. That bar won’t be the last.
DJ’s are great!…between band sets I mean.
do you know why they are closing o.p? it’s because of all the bad publisity they have been getting of late on here. and add to that, you can get shot, going to places like that. plus their booze is watered down. so, did that answer your question?
can someone give me hint about which bar this is?
What bar is it
The bar scene in this city has gone completely to hell, and the reasons are too bloody numerous to list. The best bands and musicians in Halifax, raised on a steady diet of country, blues and rock, have to fight for gigs against teenyboppers with three chords among them and a willingness to play their emo garbage for free because they want “exposure.”
The new bars are trying too goddamned hard to be hip and trendy and to bring Toronto to a city that would rather burn T.O. to the fucking ground and pee-pee on the ashes. The older bars have to play “Celtic” music to pull in the tourists from Boston and New York who suffer shit hemorrhages if you won’t play “Danny Boy” ’cause it’s really an English song.
The biggest offender in all of this are the record companies that are virtually forcing _every_ live act to release an album. It’s not necessary; it doesn’t prove anything about a band’s worth to its listeners; it forces a whole shitload of “music business people” into the account book; and in the end it kills the live scene through too-high expectations and crappy “original” music.
Give me a hard-working cover band who can slip a couple of their own (their best!) into their sets and that bar will be hopping.
Read the rest of the Coast, smurfie. It’s there in the food & drink section.