May 6, 2008
My Brawlroom Valentine
We hate the Aragon Ballroom as a live amplifier-driven music venue. Hate, hate, hate. The acoustics are awful, the sight lines suck, and the place hasn't been worth stepping inside since they got rid of the buckets of beer after that Sonic Youth / Public Enemy show we were at that ended up in a riot.
However, we might have to force ourselves to step into the concert hall from hell now that we hear My Bloody Valentine is playing there for their Chicago stop on September 27. On the plus side, since the sound already comes at attendees in thunderous washes of feedback it should fit Kevin Shields and company's volume needs quite nicely. Too bad we won't be able to make heads or tails of which song is which as sounds crash into each other in all the wrong ways. Tickets go on sale Saturday.
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I'm there.
yep. the place sucks. every now and again, i feel compelled to go .. last time was manu chao. it was completely worth it. i ended up in the front row, however, so that might have had something to do with it. yay.
ahhh, those buckets of beer! oh, to be 16 with a fat, black sanford marker and watching a gig at the aragon.
Yes, how will you ever capture the nuances of Kevin Shields' delicate guitar work? Worse, what if you couldn't make out the lyrics?
Hehe.
I dunno. It seemed like the acoustics had been fixed pretty well when interpol played there recently. The new management has uglied things up with garish paint jobs though.
I agree with BWChicago, the sound at Interpol was pretty decent. My impressions of the paint job was that it was 'historically accurate'.
I'll be fighting my way to the front for MBV - see you there!
See, God does listen to little girls' prayers. MBV was the one show that got away, and finally....
I don't mind the Brawlroom. It's got some serious old school cred and I have great, great memories of that place in the early 90s. Also, the acoustics do sound like you're standing in an aluminum shit house, but didn't KS engineer Loveless for that inside an aluminum shithouse sound anyway?
I couldn't agree more with the Aragon being one of the worst venues in the city. The decor is abysmal but tolerable, however the acoustics and the heat basically ruined the last show I attended there (Flaming Lips) and I have no desire to ever return.
I love the Brawlroom. My grandparents met at a dance there and eloped from there 6 months later on New Year's Eve. Plus I saw someone get knifed during an Iggie Pop concert.