Where is the Tonic RIP thread?

I guess there was this
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=37594

It's a bummer, I've seen some good shows there, played there a few times, and was actually booked to play there four days after they close their doors forever.

I always thought the staff there was a little on the smug side, but that's New York City for ya. In fact, Tonic pretty much personified hipper-than-thou NYC elitism for me in many ways. Still, a good venue that will be missed.

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in all honesty, i will be very sad to see it go, even though they started booking more pussypop than ever before in the last year or two... i assumed it was an (evidently vain) attempt at "appealing to a broader audience."

the sad thing is, the stone books decent stuff but is tiny and tends to cater to the avant-jazz crowd pretty exclusively, and what else is there?
theres no shortage of like-minded events but it doesn't seem like there's a venue that's consistently booked with that stuff.
i do like the issue project room, though. i guess the kitchen and zebulon sometimes..

and this weekend looks to be crazy

Pussypop?

Tonic is such a great place, it was the first venue I ever went to the week I moved to New York. I saw Loren Connors play that night.

It was also the first place I saw Animal Collective and Devendra Banhart. Whatever you want to say about recent attempts to "appeal to a broader audience," Tonic always booked a wide varety of stuff. Sure they booked some shows for the avant-jazz crowd but they also had amazing people like Tetuzi Akiyama and Pita and Supersilent and Fennesz, and plenty of rock bands and folk singers and pretty much anything else you can think of.

Hipper-than-thou NYC elitism? Give me a break, and move somewhere else.

Actually, I live about 700 miles from there. I grew up there and got as far away as I could, as soon as I could. And if you ask other touring bands about the place, I'm sure you'd hear many experiences that mirror my own. But what do I know? I never saw Devendra there.

the first time I went to tonic, I went to shoot some dudes' klezmer band (gay).

the last time I went there I shot These Are Powers

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/132/415670505_1c3c240026_o.jpg

In between I forgot where Tonic was.

Oh man, that's crap. When I was there with my friend, we went almost every night. Walking back to the hotel at 3 am in the morning was just bliss after having seen a gig at Tonic.

Saw some good shows there - Fushitsusha, Borbetomagus/Merzbow (co-billed, not collaborating), Khanate/Orthrelm (same), Derek Bailey twice, a few others...still, a venue's a venue. There'll be another.

place had an open sewer in the basement. cancer city

going to cancer city tomorrow for the closing night. zorn and friends improv upstairs, then timeblind @ the bunker downstairs. I'm really going to miss Tonic.

the remaining post friday shows that were cancelled have all been rescheduled a block away, plug: http://www.visionfestival.org/main.asp

hmmmm

ending a long lurking period to let folks know about the protest Marc Ribot and friends are organizing tomorrow. Tons more information is available at http://www.takeittothebridge.com

Avant Jazz/Indie/New Music Cultural Crisis

Responding to community outrage at the eviction of Tonic - a center of New York City's new music cultural life for the last 9 years - an ad hoc committee of musicians, cultural activists, and their supporters are convening to call for public political intervention.

When: 11:00 am this Saturday April 14th

Where: Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street between Rivington and Delancey

Why: To ask for public political intervention to protect new music/indie/avant/jazz in New York City and to ask the city to provide a minimum 200 capacity, centrally located venue for experimental music.

What: From 11 am on April 14 -- musicians and other performers will stage a musical protest against the planned closing of Tonic, a vital NYC new music resource.

Tonic, located at 107 Norfolk Street, has been unable to afford a series of rent increases imposed by landlord William Gottleib Inc. It will be forced to close its doors April 14th.

Coming on the heels of the closing of CBGB's, Sin-e, Fez, the Continental, and numerous other downtown venues, the closing of Tonic represents the continued shutting down of NYC's most important live music experimental jazz, indie, and new music scene.

This wave of club closings constitutes a market failure. If there is not immediate and sufficient public intervention, either in the form of limiting rents, or supplying alternate space and funding, or both, New York City will lose an essential part of its heritage, culture, and economy.

too bad. i spent a lot of fun drunken hours dancing in sub tonic. miss those giant barrels. saw some good shows upstairs, too.