Thorp and Sailor's Grave Board

9:30 club

clevohardcore - 2-25-2010 at 12:26 AM

in DC. What is it like? I imagined it would be tiny, but PIL is playing it.

gavin - 2-25-2010 at 12:37 AM

the place they are playing in a.c. is the same place i saw the pistols play
best place i ever saw a show

SS76 - 2-25-2010 at 07:53 AM

Its pretty big, not huge. I saw Gwar there 97, and got kicked out of a Rollins Band show a week later for taking a SIP of beer(I was 20)

BDx13 - 2-25-2010 at 11:37 AM

haven;t been to the new one.
the old one was kinda legendary.

clevohardcore - 2-25-2010 at 04:16 PM

SO it closed and them reopened elsewhere?

BDx13 - 2-25-2010 at 04:45 PM

in the 70s there was a club at 930 F street called the atlantis.
it closed, then reopened as the 9:30 Club around 1980, i think.
it was small and awkward from what i remember.
watch that minor threat video - you'll see giant pillars right in front of the stage.
anyway, it moved to a bigger venue (which was also a different music venue previously) in the mid-90s.

BDx13 - 2-25-2010 at 04:48 PM

minor threat, live at 9:30 in 1983:
1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxGPMEhVKuE
2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sazUPtaSb-U
3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T2xXCXsIZ8
4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1bxDqGtosQ

also, npr broadcasts concerts live from the 930:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1026289...

CR83 - 2-25-2010 at 09:27 PM

That club is one that I always heard about. Like how's I'd hear about Coney Island High, Unitarian Church, CBGB's and Gillman Street. No idea what any of them are like but as a kid who is in the midwest those places always seemed like Meccas for HC and Punk Shows.