Tag Archive for the term: venue stories

METHINKS is coming! Yay, just heard from Paul Aflalo our Indyish Monthly Mess producer and he’s spoken with our traveling, faceless-to-us collaborators, and they are on their way to the venue as we speak/blog to set up the Montreal installment of their travelling art escapade! And then sound check begins for the mix of acts [...]

The Yellow Door is a small basement venue in Montreal‘s McGill ghetto. It is tiny, awkward, with minimal technical equipment, and it glows down the street and radiates out for miles and decades with a goodness and desire to bring beauty and music and yes, even an indisputable gentleness, to all and sundry. Some places [...]

It is with frustration that I must inform you that our Motown Show which was to have taken place tonight has been rescheduled. We were informed yesterday that Green Room had double booked the night with an Indie Montreal show. We took a few factors into consideration: 1. our show did not feature touring artists [...]

Next to the McAuslan Brewery, about a twelve minute walk from St Henri Metro here in Montreal, sat an odd lovely old house. Out of place in a block of small tenement buildings, large factories and expansive grey fields, parking lots, and a pervasive hint of hops, the house stands alone and looks rather staunch [...]

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 [...]

Ok, I’m jumping back into the frey of the Venue Stories column by hearkening back to the first time we did a fashion Mess, back in September 2007. This show was a co-production with a local friperie called Wa’ou, whose owner was launching her first full line of recycled designs and showing off her ideas [...]

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 way below, you’ll see what I mean, and [...]

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, [...]

Ah Green Room, le Salon Vert. 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 [...]

This venue is unofficial, and buried deep in the bowels of the horror-movie perfect old building at 1180 St.Antoine, in the perpetual shadow of the Bell Amphitheater (or whoever the title sponsor is now). It’s actually the studio of a small collective of painters / visual artists / artistsgenerally who call themselves and their space [...]