Tag Archive for the term: venue

Les Pas Sages on Rachel street - Potentially the best Indyish Monthly Mess venue so far, not because it had a big stage (pretty small) or because the projector equipment was positioned perfectly (cool, but not perfect for us) but really, because it met a set of other, more personal criteria. When we begin to […]

Kaya Fraser has started to get quite a lovely buzz going this year about her album and live show, and I had the pleasure of squeezing in to Montreal’s famed cozy basement venue in the McGill ghetto this week to partake. When I arrived at 8:45 the room was packed, and I grabbed the last […]

Well, we did two MonthlyMess’s at the Main Hall, and I hesitated to write this ‘Venue Story’ because we’ve said a lot about the Main Hall here at Indyish over the past year and half since we had our launch weekend there, August 2006. Explore the tags below, you’ll see what I mean.

The nice […]

Well, tomorrow is the Indyish Monthly Mess. This is perhaps the most mind-blowing Mess for me yet, for a lot of reasons. For one, I’m really excited that we’ll have Nightwood with us, giving away exclusive EP previews of their new album, which just got picked up by local love buds Grenadine Records!!
Also, we’ve partnered […]

Review of Editors live at Club Soda in Montreal on January 20th 2007
I arrived at Club Soda at 9:30pm (about an hour before I usually think about leaving the house for a show), forgetting that larger venues like Metropolis, La Tulipe, le National, and Club Soda actually start on time, and on time is early.
Here’s […]

Strictly Acoustic ran it’s 9th edition last night and I trundled out, not just to see and support James Finnerty…

…and OK Giraffe…

…but also to take in the show’s logic and concept, to meet the organizer and see if I could pass along some perspective here for musicians looking to get involved.
The night runs on […]

Venue Stories is an open column which any Indyish member can contribute to by writing a story about a venue they’ve been in. Currently I’m working my way through stories of our first year’s worth of Indyish Monthly Mess shows which were all in Montreal…
Playhouse is like that bar in Buffy, (not the Bronze, which […]

Ah Green Room. If you’re in Montreal on a Friday or Saturday night and want to dance with stylish young student hipsters to indie rockin tunes, you go to Green Room. This space is ideal in so many ways except the one that counts in a series called Venue Stories..ie; it’s no longer a venue. […]

Well, if you’re a Canadian kid seeking the indie music in your town, chances are good you know or need to know Stillepost - a moderator-coordinated forum of show listings from all the dark lovely holes in the walls of towns across the nation, which also plays host to some rebel yells, and fights and […]

Here’s a quick and blurry video bit, shot from near the back of Divan Orange last night where I got to take in Daniel Schacher’s solo act. It was cozycrowded in Divan Orange, as this venue tends to be with its warm, big, bright art and smart booking; where shows always start after 10pm because […]