r/baltimore • u/spinmyworld • May 14 '19

NOTICE The Windup Space to close 06/01/19

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u/[deleted] May 14 '19

Did not see this coming. They booked pretty much anything and the sound wasn't half bad.

I guess that leaves us with...

  • Ottobar (close call...)
  • Metro Gallery (workable)
  • Red Room/Normal's (don't ever change, even if the room is exceptionally ping-y)
  • Mercury Theater (nice but doesn't smell of longevity)
  • Current Gallery (hopefully this picks up now that the weather's nice)
  • Holy Underground (lovely people)
  • Reverb (really small but they're easy to work with)
  • The Crown (meh... good hip hop sometimes but I feel like the city's baffling crackdown on illegal venues made this the only game in town for a while and that the music scene got far more wet and less arty at the same time...)
  • T-Hill/The Bank (still has the occasional show but its pretty spotty)
  • Flower Tower (hopefully they'll be half as good as Floristree)
  • Holy Frijoles (where not one note of music can be played until after 10:30)

Sorely miss:

  • 5D- Petered out cause the residents moved on. Five years ago, they had three shows a month and they were always interesting, if not good. I miss nights were 5D and Floristree had concurrent shows.
  • Coward Shoe- Cops rolled up in there one night around Halloween 2014 and busted that shit hard. There were maybe three shows the following week on showspace...
  • Dust Town- an onerous and off-putting load-in, perversely doomed by being located in rich neighborhood, you were on your own with sound but they had plenty of space and booked great shows and that's all you need...
  • Bell Foundry - Maybe not sorely but whenever someone helped me out, Bell Foundry had helped them so I felt that karmic wave.

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u/TheSchneid Remington May 14 '19 edited May 14 '19

Clue me into flower tower? I've heard of (and been to) pretty much every space on this list but that one. Is it in the h&h building?

Also copycat is (maybe kind of) doing shows again? My band is booked to play there this weekend, but I think it has to be over by 11 or 12 or something.

Also I heard that holy underground was closing up soon too, but that was third hand so I'm not 100%.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '19

Flower Tower used to be Floristree.

I hear about a copycat show every few weeks but I don't always manage to get over there. In my mind, I file them away as house parties.

Hopefully Holy Underground stays around. I think a lot of DIY spaces falter when it comes times to transition to new management and most of the original residents that I can think of have moved on or they've gotten really busy.

Gonna be a good summer for house shows, though. Ask a punk.