music-man Posted March 13, 2002 Share Posted March 13, 2002 Maybe I'm just paranoid, but ... In the last week I've had two $$ gigs cancelled by clubs that got fined for hosting music w/o a license; I had a buddy whose band got slapped with a $500 fine for flyering; and the sound guy at a Bleeker St. club told me before we started playing that we had to "keep it low" because his club, along with every bar/club on the "Strip" between Bowery and 6th Ave, had been hit with a warning & fine for noise violations. Anyone else running into this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bear Jew Posted March 13, 2002 Share Posted March 13, 2002 Yo... Something similar happened in Philly about eight years ago. Bands were busted for hanging show flyers (mine was one of them) and clubs were busted for noise ordinances, etc. Within a couple months, three or four cool venues were shut down and the number of posted show flyers had seriously dwindled in the "hip" area of town. City govmt. people would actually show up at the venues and give the artists a hassle about the flyers -- they came to one of my gigs and held up the show until they found out what band put up the posters and issued a warning to every band at the place. They told us if we didn't get the flyers down, the club would be fined about $200. per poster. Needless to say, we denied everything, but (out of respect to the club owner), we agreed to take down as many of the posters as possible. That was one sucky time. The club got shut down anyway -- the Govmt. peeps were clearly asking for a bribe (rubbing their fingers together while they were talking to the owner!!), but our buddy wasn't into it. He was then cited for noise violations, insufficient signage, and something about the bathrooms. Anyway, the legal stuff really changed the way bands promote shows in Philly, and it's also made a lot of the clubs "toe the line" a little more stringently in terms of greasing whatever wheels need to be greased. Good luck. \m/ Erik "To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." --Sun Tzu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kudyba Posted March 13, 2002 Share Posted March 13, 2002 Actually, I just got an email from someone that said they were cancelled from the NYC Hard Rock Cafe for the very same reason...sounds like a crackdown... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BP3 Posted March 13, 2002 Share Posted March 13, 2002 Rudy wouldn't have done this. Bloomberg would rather have news bars than blues bars. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
music-man Posted March 14, 2002 Author Share Posted March 14, 2002 Actually, Rudy probably would have ("quality of life")- but apparently Bloomy's gonna scrape even the empty cans for revenue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip McDonald Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 Ironic - I just got off the phone with a friend about something like this. Drove past a club located about half a mile from my house and noticed 6 police cars across the street, parked side by side in the parking lot of a closed grocery store... sort of positioned in the dark as if they're just cars parked there. My guess was that for some reason they were about to shut down this club across the street... I suppose once again they didn't pay their, ahem... (cough).... "license fees". Guitar Lessons in Augusta Georgia: www.chipmcdonald.com Eccentric blog: https://chipmcdonaldblog.blogspot.com/ / "big ass windbag" - Bruce Swedien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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