Their cocktail prices are slightly more affordable than other bars in the area, and they have a couple of cheap beer options . The weekend cover charge is $15. (EP5) Never Get Old: David Bowie & Polyphonic Spree, April 2, 2004, 084. Myself, our pal Miss Bennies, M. Zeppelin and then-S.O. The last Friday of every month features a live ethnic band. Street violence had grown. I can feel the energy in this one, VA. Its an excellent set up for whatevers coming next. NYC had been my No.1 destination to visit for years owing to my long-time fascination with the city and its history, especially as a flash point for transgression and cultural innovations. This Sunday, for instance, the annual Easter Bonnet contest will take place at 6 P.M., and the best-dressed head will win $200. This collection of playlists provides a wide sample of reggae shows with particular attention to Gil Bailey. I miss going every three months to NYC and have not been in over 22 years. We certainly hadnt purposely tried to ditch her or anything, but clearly she somehow missed the memo that was were going up to the second level. Gabor, London Gardens, London, Ontario, Canada, Wednesday March 19, 1980 + A Meditation on the Amorphous Nature of Memory & Why the Present Is Always in the Past, 178a. Hanging Around: Hugh Cornwell from The Stranglers featuring Blondies Clem Burke, November 5, 2010, 154. The Ritz was founded in 1980 by Jerry Brandt in the historic Webster Hall ballroom and concert space on 11th Street between Third and Fourth Avenues in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. 'I Knew I Was Hit', "People were saying, 'Yo, I got hit! Danceteria.. saw The Clash there.. sigh.. Its pretty darn cold and frozen here today too, such as its been during this particularly brutal and unforgiving winter, so Im pleased this provided warmth and smiles (which is somewhat odd, given the circumstances described). I would like to plan a Saturday night outing for, Hi Everyone. Hardcore was never a big thing for me but it was one of the key underground. I checked into my room to discover that Id been put in a multi-bed space with a couple of doofi who were inexplicably irked that I was drinking Guinness. "And this guy said: 'Ain't no problem. That was his niche. The clubs mainly offer recorded music unless otherwise noted, and some have dress codes. The crowd around him grows. I felt the pain. Probably in the 1980s. He was moving to Miami Beach, Fla., and he thought the humid weather would damage the photos. There were college stations all over the NY/NJ/Long Island area that served all kinds of programming. I recall the Reggae Lounge as being like an old dance hall, holding perhaps 1,000, with a stage at the far end of a big open space, a balcony up top, with seats or ledges where people were sitting lining the walls of the club. #8: VA-Tel presents 20 OUTTASIGHT XMAS SENSATIONS! Circle Jerks Reggae Lounge, New York, NY - Nov 16, 1983 Nov 16 1983; Following concerts. Locked Inside: Janelle Mone, June 23, 2012, 171. Behind him, baby sharks, swim in a tank and in front, a clown slumps in a. Hold On Me: Esperanza Spalding with Gretchen Parlato, June 28, 2012, 172. MajorStage Presents: Live Hip Hop & R&B 9:00 pm MajorStage Presents: Keenan TreVon 7:00 pm 01 MajorStage Presents: Scorey 7:00 pm 02 KiDi: The Golden Boy North American Tour 7:00 pm 03 More Love Less Ego: Afrobeats 11:00 pm Mannywellz 7:00 pm 04 Rhythm Revue 6:00 pm Caribbean Saturdays Flag Fest NYC 11:00 pm While the rest of the magnanimous seven decided to grab a brew and snake off to the sidelines, The Artist and I each decided to hit the dance floor. Monkey Gone To Heaven: The Pixies perform Doolittle, April 16, 2011, 156. I'm glad he took the pictures because there was a lot of free-flowing alcohol back then, Glam said. And there was a lot of AIDS consciousness in NYC by that time, although much was still unknown (how it happened, no treatment options, etc.). Bar 13 121 University Pl. (EP10) Im Not Angry: The Heatwave Festival (Part 4) and How I Found My Way Back After Being Stranded in the Middle of Nowhere, August 23, 1980, 008c. This dude named Agent Jay played with Dubb (Dub) Agents with an A-List team of musicians backing the artists. Discopravity: Psychic TV, Danceteria, New York City, New York, November 17, 1983. The Peppermint Lounge was a popular discotheque located at 128 West 45th Street in New York City that was open from 1958 to 1965, although a new one was opened in 1980. 19 vintage photos that show what New York City looked like in the 1980s. And even having witnessed and sometimes been part of some wild mosh pit shows through the years, this by comparison is still more like a soccer brawl in my mind. : The Most Joyful, Protracted Job Exit of My Life, David Bowie 1947-2016: Often Copied, Never Equalled, The Velvet Underground & Nico @ 55: VAs Anniversary Playlists, RIP Lou Reed: Between Thought & Expression Lies A Lifetime, I Need A Fix: Beatles White Album @ 45/I Buy White Albums, June 1, 1974: Eno, Cale, Nico, Ayers 40th Anniversary, Picture This: VA Poster Collection Highlights. We Rule the School: Belle & Sebastian, Saturday July 6, 2013, 176. (EP18) Clash City Rockers: The Clash with Black Uhuru, September 5, 1982, 011. As a result of efforts by club owners to create environments that are comfortable for uptowners yet funky enough for downtowners, today's discos have become places where punkers and bankers, street kids and top recording artists whirl in one colorful blur. A more flamboyant crowd dances at an odyssey of a club called Paradise Garage, 84 King Street, near Varick Street (989-2975), which is open to the public on Friday nights only. These vagabond shoes were longing to stray. (EP28) Dangerous Acquaintances: Marianne Faithfull, August 15, 1983, 020b. Instead, we threw on some music, spending hours into dawn talking, joking, drinking, and toking until we all noticed the sun was rising. Roseland also features a variety of contests. History. Often homemade or assembled from thrift-store items, the outfits were unique and bold expressions of identity. Abra: I agree with you, re: the reason behind the brisk pace. Off a 10-foot-by-10-foot dance floor that offers a view of the harbor, a three- piece jazz band plays from 7:30 to 12:30; the cover charge is $2.95. Admission is $10 on weekends. I got hit!' (EP21) I Found That Essence Rare: The Gang of Four with The Hoi Polloi, March 5, 1983, 014. Adding a business to Yelp is always free. Jouvay Night Club Queens, NY. Corso, at 205 East 86th Street (534- 4964), compensates for its lack of sophisticated decor with the vibrancy of its salsa music. At the Peppermint, admission is $11; at Danceteria it is $8 before 11 P.M. and $12 after. I need to spend a good long relaxing hour with your post, but already I know its gonna be great. (EP14) The Fine Art of Surfacing: The Boomtown Rats with B.B. Its a cold frozen day here, but this lively account warmed me up and gave me a smile. Eventually the party re-started among this new gang of four, not-so-solemnly setting to work on getting our shine on and glowing brightly before heading out for night #2. She had been with us downstairs and the crew assumed wed all stayed together and migrated up to the balcony. I took a friend with me and she enjoyed herself very much and I promised she would. I borrowed some of the interstitial banter from Studio One: In Finestyle to use in it. "Donald said, 'Yo, what's the problem?' Plenty of time to feast on the city with a side order of mischief. designanator: You must keep a journal to have that level of detail for a common-or-garden calendar day. Three men were shot early yesterday morning in Manhattan as they left a reggae nightclub, just 12 hours after the state moved to shut it down because three people had been killed there in the last two years, the authorities said. I also love to dance. For one, he was older than most of the people out at the clubs, and with his salt-and-pepper hair, he looked it. Wed be driving through the dark of this cool, late fall night, the 8-9 hour trip plopping us down in Manhattan in the early morning. As he walked into an upscale steakhouse in midtown Manhattan, a hit team shot and killed Castellano and his bodyguard. designanator: And what were you up to on that day, John? I had a special crack violence file that I kept to convince the geniuses in Washington who kept telling me it wasn't a problem.". 1. At the core of the 1980s meltdown was the emergence of crack-cocaine, a highly-addictive and extremely cheap narcotic. Each camp spent those hours getting to better know the other, all of us hitting it off like a house on fire before all six found somewhere to pass out and venture deep into the land of nod, dreaming wistfully of degenerate behaviour ahead. And there is a choice of ballroom music or heavy metal, Arabic folk songs or reggae. The Peppermint Lounge, New York City 1980 - 1986 A few more numbers on, and the soundsystm faded sharply as the rasta/skinhead rotation do-si-doh-ed at this punky reggae party, with the dreads now taking over the wall seats and the leatherednstudded mohicaned punques now swarming the floor as the Circle Jerks began making their way to the stage. Warhol. Mountaineer's Club at Vasmay Lounge, NYC, 1986. Middle Eastern and Greek food is available, and for those who do not dine, the cover charge is $5. As for the photos, while I am still bestus pals with MZ, Ive lost track with several others, so didnt want to use any close up shots just to respect privacy. All We Have Is Now: The Flaming Lips, July 10, 2010, 150. Black Flag at Reggae Lounge, NYC, 1984. In 1995, Di Biasio gave Glam four boxes of his photos to store in his closet. These tracks were rooted in the fetishized Amen Break era. Check out this footage of the South Bronx in 1982: And then this documentary short, A Most Violent Year, which explores the multifaceted problems New York City faced in 1981: And if you're fascinated by the history of New York, check out our other posts on when the New York subway was the most dangerous place on earth and startling images of 1970s New York. Splendor in the Grass: Pink Martini, June 26, 2011, 162. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. The drinks were expensive but it's comes with the location. VA, thanks for sharing this first part of your trip to the city! Dear Record Store, I QUIT! Of course, only our own little Betty Crocker knew how much of the Vitamin P resided in each nougatey product, but within about an hour it became clear to each of us that hed packed plenty into the rich snack. After that we headed uptown to visit a classmate at her design office and then headed over to the West Side and had a hamburger at Burger King before we parted company for the day and I headed back to catch a bus back to CT. Activism & Politics Bars & Nightlife Staten Island 1970s 1980s Lesbian Bars, Clubs & Restaurants. A dinner of Indian food is served from early evening until 1 A.M., for about $50 a couple. B. April 14, 1984 Reggae Lounge, New York City, NY | Concerts Wiki | Fandom 28,127 pages Explore Wiki Content Community Register April 14, 1984 Reggae Lounge, New York City, NY View source Others like you also viewed April 22, 1984 Duffy's, Minneapolis, MN May 20, 1984 Bowes Lyon House, Stevenage, ENG May 26, 1984 Babylon, Hengelo, NED Mr. Cab Driver was instantly and understandably pissed at the situation, bitching loudly on the trip over about how he could be busted for having so many people in the car. Bar 13 NYC is one of the best lounges in Union Square Bar 13 is open 7 days week and available for private events contact us for information about Bar 13 New York City . Graffiti warns of the perils of crack-cocaine. They were all alphabetically organized with little index cards like youd see in libraries. You were a legend in your own mind. Fri, Sep 30, 11:00 PM + more events. No user attended. Please send me a message if you can direct me to some biographical information. Keep This Party Going: The B-52s, Renaissance, July 8, 2010, 148. Following some pre-gig prepping, where there was much communal delight when I pulled out the aforementioned shrubbery, we skinned up and got dolled down in our ragged non-finest and off we went. I just loved this!!! Want more historical New York? I'd go back.". The idea for an alternative radio station was re-booted at the turn of the 80s, initially available within campus and via a cable hookup, but went into open broadcast in the fall of 1981, still going strong today. Wouldnt It Be Nice: Brian Wilson, June 20, 2011, 158. I Feel Possessed: Crowded House, July 15, 2010, 152. It was called GRID then and at that time seemed confined to the gay community. In New Yorks nightclub scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Alexis Di Biasio stood out in the crowd. He didn't take studio photography or anything like that.. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. 024 will cover Psychic TV at the Danceteria, the Flipper gig from a few months previous, post-Throbbing Gristle-offshoot Psychic TV performing at the hottest nightclub in the city at that time, Danceteria, 022b. State officials said the club, which opened as the Reggae Lounge in 1982 and later changed its name, had a long history of violence. There's a bar, a nice sitting area with dim lighting.. the reggae party was going down upstairs. The quartet spent a couple of hours chatting, laughing, and otherwise boarding the trains ride prior to heading out, but before we did, there came a knock on the door. New York lost 500,000 manufacturing jobs and correspondingly, over a million people left New York over the course of the 1970s. Reggae Party every Sunday@Bar 13. ARE YOU A PEOPLE PERSON? Whether you're a local, new in town, or just passing through, you'll be sure to find something on Eventbrite that piques your interest. Pictured, undercover cops arrest a drug dealer in Times Square. By the way, do you remember how much AIDS consciousness there was? Admission for nondiners is $15. Stop! That was part of the ethos of the day. For the feeling of actually stepping into a rock video, there is Private Eyes, 12 West 21st Street (206-7770), a club full of white walls, mirrors and video screens. As I had learned during the previous night, he was an avowed alcohol abstainer but loved the green stuff and other select stimulants mightily. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Another electric mix of people dances nearby at the Cat Club, 76 East 13th Street (505-0090). The shooting occurred about 4 A.M. outside the Island Club at 285 West Broadway, south of Canal Street. 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