Media The Stranger Isn’t This City’s Only Publication Intent on Shutting Down All Ages Music
posted by on July 31 at 12:51 PM
Now the Seattle Times is getting in on the act, as well!
On Friday, the Times cleverly printed the home address and Myspace profile link of Camp Nowhere without permission (we don’t print the address of Camp Nowhere or list their shows at the request of the residents).
Of course, the house got a visit from the cops this morning, and now the residents are forced to delete their Myspace and do less to promote their shows, which feature a lot of touring bands who play houses. Here’s a quote from a resident of the house:
Because of an article written on Friday in the Seattle Times, that stated “There’s also a thriving underground, do-it-yourself movement, including popular house venues like Camp Nowhere in the U District,” the police came to our house this morning to figure out what was going on. The article later went on to list our home address and myspace.
Here’s a link to the story (which is not the page containing the home address and Myspace. Because of our previous agreement with Camp Nowhere, I won’t link to that). It is by a 19 year-old journalism student. It has other innacuracies about the city’s all ages venues (Vera doesn’t have shows every night of the week, Studio Seven isn’t a nice atmosphere).
It struck me as funny that she describes El Corazon as "smaller than most — only the size of the typical suburban living room." Yeah, if I want a nice intimate setting, I head straight to El Corazon. I've had shows in my living room, and I think it's fairly obvious that El Corazon is much, much larger (and happens to be the last place I'd ever want to see a show - I avoid that place like the plague). Down with traditional venues, up with alternative spaces!
Typical suburban living room.... if you live in Medina. And your house is infested with the devil.
House shows are rad, but from the feel of the article, I think the student isn't as involved in the scene as she would like people to think she is. If she was, she'd have figured out the key to house shows is not publicizing the addresses!
And yeah, Studio Seven isn't a nice atmosphere unless you enjoy getting the shit kicked out of you by angry skinheads.
More Trent, less of the rest of you.
I just had to check to see what school she went to (the whole thing struck me as something an SU journalism grad would write) but apparently she went to WWU.
Score one for SU's paltry journalism department I suppose.
I've only ever been to one show at Camp Nowhere (This Will Destroy You last August) but it was a great time and the room doesn't sound terrible. The whole setup makes me kind of claustrophobic and if anything life-endangering happened in that space I imagine someone could die. But that's kind of the allure now isn't it?
Too much is being made of the author's status as a journalism student. Lacking in sense (in a half dozen different ways) and lacking in experience are different things.
I actually like the odd, small/wide setup at El Corazon, I just haven't really had many occasions to go there since they changed from Graceland and switched bookers/focus.
It's been 4 weeks since Grandy/the Stranger had Atlas shut down... not long enough to get me laughing at the title of this story.
Well obviously this reporter doesn't know their Seattle music history - all of the venues she mentions would not exist if it weren't for Seattle's seminal all ages venue the Old Fire House (which she doesn't even mention). The only one of the venues she mentions that might exist without the Old Fire House is El Corazon. She was probably in grade school when Kate and the Old Fire House crew were shaking things up and changing the face of music for Seattle forever.
do we need to start some real crime in this city so the cops have something to do other then fuck with our music?
Why exactly are all ages shows so incredibly horrible? Classifying all of us underage kids as "stupid hipster kid faggots" is like classifying all of the 'overage' kids like drunken sleazeballs who only go to shows to remain cool. Come on. Everyone has a right to enjoy music, EQUALLY. EVERYONE was underage for twenty one years of their life, which is probably most of the show-goers life anyways. get a brain and some decency and let everyone enjoy good music before it goes away.
— The Camp is amazing, great place to play, see bands and eat vegan grub from time to time... I will be VERY sad to see it go (if indeed it does sink). They just got a better PA and everything, those kids work so hard to keep all ages alive in this city. My hat is off to them, either way.
Comments Closed
In order to combat spam, we are no longer accepting comments on this post (or any post more than 14 days old).