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Last Updated: 11/24/2009

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Gender: Female
Status: Single
Age: 75
Sign: Aries

City: SEATTLE
State: Washington
Country: US
Signup Date: 2/14/2006

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January 9, 2018 - Tuesday 
Here's a how-to/how-not-to guide to getting a show booked at the Blue Moon.
I do all of my business at my home via e-mail, so calling the bar to talk to me or approaching me while I'm working are pointless endeavors. Click back, then click on “send message.”

You have to have a web presence. No demo CDs will be accepted.
ALL BAND MEMBERS MUST BE OF LEGAL DRINKING AGE. It's a bar, silly. Also, on a related note, yes, it really is illegal for bars to host musicians under the age of 18. I don't care if other venues do it. It's not happening here.
It's fine if you play open mic on a regular basis, but it won't get you a show on a Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. People won't pay for what they can get for free. Neither will I.
Thursday shows are strictly limited to three bands a night. I can do four bands on a Friday or Saturday, but it has to be worth everyone's time and make for an extra special bill.

I do host out of town bands but tend to be selective about it. You should at least have a handful of local pals you can draw.

I don't book reggae bands.  Seriously, no reggae.  It's not happening. 

Anything else is fair game.
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October 6, 2009 - Tuesday 
Yep.  We are.  Although it's mostly just a link back to the myspace page.  (Bands and music are still myspace's strongpoint, as you know.)  Anyhow, if you wanna hang with the cool kids click here.

NOTE: I WILL NOT BE DOING ANY BOOKING THROUGH FACEBOOK -- MYSPACE OR E-MAIL ONLY!
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July 24, 2009 - Friday 
....courtesy of the good folks at Back Beat Seattle.  Click here.




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July 11, 2009 - Saturday 
....but doesn't get away with it.  This painting by bartender Mary McIntyre was almost stolen right out from under us by a band performing on Thursday evening.



Click here for the story. 

For more of Mary McIntyre's artwork, click here.

(Photo of Mary McIntyre's beercan painting by Amelia Gyde)

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July 7, 2009 - Tuesday 


A lot.  But don't take my word for it.  Take it from your good friends at Sound on the Sound.  Article here.
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June 23, 2009 - Tuesday 



Yeah, we did.  If you didn't know, that's because it was a secret.  More info and pics here.

The folks at Back Beat Seattle will be doing their first showcase at our fine establishment on August 14 with The Redwood Plan, What What Now, and Thee Satisfaction.
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December 4, 2008 - Thursday 

I know, announcements are exciting, right?  It's like saying that everyone loves Menudo -- it goes without saying.

First of all, if you haven't seen it, West Coast Performer magazine did an interview with me.  It's right over here.   I'm a little miffed that they cut out my favorite part:

Q -- What advice do you have for touring bands?
A -- Shower.

So, so true.

Also!  (This would be announcement number two.)  Effective immediately, we have a new evening happy hour to go with our usual afternoon happy hour.  Here's the deal:

$3.50 wells, 10-close, Sunday through Wednesday

(Sorry, no deal on nights when we have live music, but that could change.  You never know with this place.)

That's it for now, but expect another big announcement within a couple of weeks regarding our music calendar.  In the meantime, go get yourself a bowl of chili.  I don't eat that shit.
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August 27, 2008 - Wednesday 
I think I'm done here.
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July 9, 2008 - Wednesday 
You know Reverb, the Seattle Weekly's daily music blog?  OK.  Yesterday there was a posting by former Nirvana bass player Kris Novoselic.  You can read it here, but the quick gist is it's a piece called "Mudhoney Defined Grunge" and contains a Novoselic-shot pixelvision clip of Mark Arm & Co. circa 1990.  It's a walk down memory lane, understandable as Novoselic's post-Nirvana projects have been.... how do you say?  Ah, yes.  Ill received and generally milquetoast.  And that's not even me saying it -- it's written in the utter silence of cash registers and soundscan charts everywhere after releases by Sweet 75, Eyes Adrift, and the toe-tapping goodness that was the No WTO Combo.

Well, you know me, I'm a sucker for leaving a commet whenever possible, so I post something along the lines of the following:

That's nice, Kris, but what have you done for us lately?

Did you see it?  No?  Well, that's because Reverb rejected my comment.  They did the same thing while blowing Man Plus in a show preview and I skeptically commented about them ever showing up because they no-showed us here one night.  (Yes, they're "Band A" in this classic blog entry.)

What gives?  Sure, comment sections get annoying when that one
I understand weeding out comments is necessary when it comes to posted personal information, random racial slurs, spambots, and continued repostings of Dan Savage's pre-war thinkpieces (as it happens all the time on the Stranger blogs), but only putting up approved comments is a joke.  You may as well have the comments come from the editorial department.  Besides, if you're gonna post one article a day, you might as well have somebody commenting on it.  It livens up the room, you know?

Instead, the comments are filled with stuff like this:

well... being a videographer is a tough job, I think Chris was better at playing bass, I feel like being on a boat :))))  But well, this is a nice documentary, of course, putting in online is a nice idea.

I love Mudhoney. I actually owe you Nirvana guys. I'd never have checked out Mudhoney if I hadn't got into you. I actually really like Green River also.

I saw Mudhoney live, for the don't-know-how-many-th time just a few weeks ago and they sound better than ever.  Afterwards I drunkenly complimented Mr Arm on the softness of his band's t-shirts....

Also, seriously, what has Kris Novoselic done for us lately?  

Anyhow, if we're gonna live in the past, here's my story:

On my first visit to Seattle in the summer of '96, I went to the Rebar to see Sweet 75.  This was in the early, EARLY days of Pitchfork, where we thought there was an article in me going to Seattle.  There wasn't, but I wrote it and it ran anyways.  (Thankfully, it doesn't exist anymore.)

I figured I could talk to Kris Novoselic and maybe get a few words out of him and possibly a picture of him holding Ryan Schrieber's second cassette release Bitch-Free Television.(also, sadly, not existing anymore).  He seemed nice at first, but refused to appear in a picture, repeatedly asking "How do I know that you're not affiliated with the KKK?"

"Uh... because I'm not," I said.

"Can I see your magazine?"

"Well, it's this website thing, actually."

"So how do I know you're not part of the KKK?"

Was it because I was wearing a suit at the time?  I don't know.  What I do know is he said he'd talk to me after the show.  He didn't, of course, which was fine by me because... Jesus.  That was terrible.  Their lead singer is still alive.  The universe is cruel indeed.

(NOTE: My next posting will take place in 2008, although I may not get around to it until 2015.)
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June 17, 2008 - Tuesday 
"Didn't you used to be in the Hopscotch Boys?"

From last show to "where are they now?" in a mere nine days.  Now I know how Phillip Michael Thomas feels.
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