Underrated Punk House/Illegal Music Venue Names We Have Loved

Shit Biscuit (went there last weekend)
Fuck Mountain
Tower of Positivity
Medusa
Jazz Central
Bomb Shelter
Mala
XXXUSA aka Medusa
Metrodome

Oz

Le Sous Sol (my house venue, 2001-2007 RIP)

http://oregonpunk.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/le-sous-sol-no-4/

The House Of Raging Women in Bloomington IN (saw The Hated there in '89)

I can't think of any more right now! I know there were more.

Legion of Doom and its neighbor Surf City Compton

FORT THUNDER
MUNCH HOUSE
THE HILARIOUS ATTIC
THE CANDLE FACTORY
PUD HOUSE

crystal mexico

/crystal mexico peacepipe wormhole

warehouse in St Peters, Sydney, called St Petersburg

Twin Palms in Pomona, CA, was a great show house.

Atl punk rock series:

Die Slaughterhaus
Die Slaughterhaus 2
The Alphabets House
I Defy
I Can Fly
Rob's House

forgot The Neutron Bomb

aw yeah bomb shelter otm

old school clown lounge after hours all night lock in boozathon RIP

running one of these is also one of the best and most fun ways ever to get evicted. which has happened to me twice.

we were lucky enough to own the place. in the seven years that we did straight up crazy insane multi-band punk shows, the cops came exactly once... to warn us that they would have to ask us to stop if they got noise complaints.

partly luck, partly supportive/mellow neighbors. the cops also once stormed the house and almost shot one of my roommates in a separate incident, so it's not like they held us in high regard.

Swiss House

yeah, i lived at several of these throughout the years and surprisingly the cops didn't seem to care too much. even the neighbors were supportive of shows earlier in the day

one of these was called the golden trapperkeeper lodge, which was and continues to be a dumb name. the other was just called buchon house, though eventually the house's second story loft became the real epicenter, resulting in self-identified "loft kids" and shows at "the loft". several of these people have tattoos of my old roommate's face w/batwings now for some reason

Seven year run for a punk house is crazy

well we had a no alcohol policy that was reluctantly enforced, that helped

also we were lucky, it was such a cool thing... other people did most of the booking work, I was just the guy who lived there who walked around the yard telling kids to take their brownbagged 40's down to the park if they wanted to drink.

about a month after my wife and I met (8 years ago), we picked up her (ex) stepdaughter for Thanksgiving and my first thought was OMG this kid is a total punk. when we stopped at my house she looked around w/a confused expression and said "wasn't there a house around here that used to have punk shows?" we were like the constant for almost a half generation.

it was also cool b/c parents would come over and check in with us... I owned the place with a good female friend and after we explained that we didn't allow drinking at the venue the parents were always so relieved and happy.

fave shows: Submission Hold, Iowaska (*ex-Amebix), the lovely Minneapolis band FAGGOT who I bet y'all know, Tragedy, 3 Inches Of Blood, usaisamonster, MDC, too many to remember

once our neighbors came home and there were four very confused punk kids sitting in their basement. the punk kids looked at the couple and said "is there a show here tonight?", man we were lucky that couple had a sense of humor.

The Banana Hammock

Thundercoot

Meow Manor

one of these was called the golden trapperkeeper lodge, which was and continues to be a dumb name.

hahahah I played there a couple times
there was also a party there where people kept falling down a long flight of stairs and the cops came, and I was only there to hang with a friend who lived there who had (unbeknownst to me) gotten arrested earlier that evening for graffiti and was in custody

mortville, which was around for a long time and shut down as part of chicago's crackdown on punk houses in the lead-up to the 2012 nato summit

seems like there must be mortvilles in other places

Frisbee Lounge, Misfit Theatre

First Church of the Buzzard

NTKHQ

Faggot...yeah that band is...really something
There was The Church in mpls too, which was actually a church

Superhappy Funland in Houston, TX. Probably the most amazing and expansive punk/art space I've ever seen.

Glad to see the Pud House get a mention! Wish I had made it to Fort Thunder at some point, but certainly a huge hub of weird/wonderful for its run.

7 years is a REALLY long time for a punk/illegal space to last. Kinda wish I had instilled a no alcohol policy when I helmed one of these things, but I guess some of the "good" may have gone away along with the "bad" that might have been avoided. Good idea for a thread, so many of these places provide such a crucial service to any given town.

Pud House was actually started by the USAisaMonster dudes mentioned upthread, the band formed there before becoming citizens of the universe. Such a great live band when they hit their peak.

Baltimore rollcall:

Tarantula Hill
Comfort Dome
Mirkwood
Nowherehouse
The Bank
Floristree
Tribal Haus
Coward Shoe
America
Myspace

oops forgot

Barclay House
Scary Studios
CopyCat

Fifth Dimension

I think "America" and "Myspace" as names for noise bro warehouses are particularly awesome choices

forgot The Neutron Bomb

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, March 12, 2014 7:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

have you seen the fuckin condos they've put up in its place

saw a new one on flier called House of Lard

jabba's palace

the piss factory

Yes, H4A I've seen them. Fine w me, since when they moved Lenny's there it felt like a sports bar and I never liked it much.

Crazy thing about the Neutron Bomb is years later I learned it was started & run pretty much entirely by Knife (of Knife and the Stabs) when he was like 17 or something.

always thought the decision to rechristen the house of suffering the "house of suffering succotash" was sort of a watershed moment in mid-00's boston diy

fortress of solid dudes

SF Bay Area

Golden Trapper Keeper Lodge
First Church of the Buzzard
Huffin House
Grandma's House
Clit Stop
Bay Area 51
Life Changing Ministries
Lobot
Razorwire Compound

oh and RCA - named for the old RCA television sign on the front of the building from when it was a tv repair shop

The Mangler

my favorite in Seattle: The Cockpit

fortress of solid dudes

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s.h.i.b.g.b.'s

Couch Couch, in East Atlanta, was cool. They had these big cutouts of Christmas nativity stuck up on the wall. I play shows with several bands there and premiered a night of 3D experimental video.

Ray Capo's Cantina and The Cool Ranch were two great ones in New Brunswick. Also The Mold Hole, mainly because it was literally a moldy closet.

Albuquerque had remarkable name/vibe synchronicity. Cunt Castle, Glitter Factory, Cowabungalow, Outer Space, Exxon Valdez, The Wolf Shack; each hosted the kind of shows you'd expect by the name (well maybe Exxon Valdez is a stretch, but uhh, figure lots of noiserock).

I totally forgot the Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut

Fort Goof

Conny's Plank House