Tag Archive for the term: venues

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 [...]

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 [...]

We did our first Monthly mess at the Katacombes. Janick, the owner/manager of the space, was our primary contact. She’s a bilingual passionate punk lady with dreads and smiles and stories from a history of Montreal venue management. When we went down to talk with her and to book the show, we had to fill [...]

Sun sets and suddenly we’re at summer camp. The bathrooms are full of girls fixing their hair and people juggle beers as they migrate from stage to stage. I feel like exploring the woods with a flashlight, but I wonder if the trees are just a facade that ends after the requisite 5 or 6. [...]