Last week word circulated that longtime Cambridge rock club T. Bouley has issued the following statement, available to be read in full below, which was just passed along to Vanyaland. The final night of T. And what a journey I have had. July 25, will be the last night of T. I have enjoyed 43 years of owning T.
It and I have gone thru many changes. We started as a dive bar bought it in put in food and ran it until So that stage has like two tons of sand under it. That does not soundproof, by the way. I mean, something must have changed, but it was really imperceptible, like glacial, the rate of change.
Millman : I hated [the backdrop on the stage]. Bonney loved it and she would never take it down. Arkin : The green room used to be famous for just tons of graffiti, and you could look in and see all this Boston history on the walls. There was a really big mirror that had a ton of stickers on it for every band. So that was like within a month of me being there or something. And I remember I had tickets printed, I went out and took photos of, like, a tractor in a field, because they were very Americana.
It was just a feeling of camaraderie and support. Millman : That was a thriving corner. Because The Middle East had upstairs and downstairs. And then ManRay across the street, they were always packed. Central Square was the place. Patey: Before I worked here, we did a memorial show for [cult-famous singer-songwriter] Elliott Smith [in ]. Somebody put together this video montage thing, we put flowers on the stage, and everyone sat. I remember that—everyone sat.
Searles: Seeing the Arcade Fire show in I think they were right on the cusp of hugeness. They were about to be very, very big and you could kind of tell. And, you know, the show got so much attention so quickly, and it was crammed.
And everybody who was there felt really lucky because the band sort of lived up to any hype that was happening at the time. But yeah, people just, there were exclamations coming out, in disbelief, after songs ended. Bonney was really excited about it, and she bought candy for the campers, the participants, the girls. Which were necklaces that all the young girls got to wear, and fill with basically straight-up Pixy Stix sugar. So she had this bowl of, it looked like cocaine, in the dressing room.
Arkin : I saw Screaming Females there [in ]. But I actually got to see them back to back at T. But seeing them at T. I remember thinking this is such a great, intimate venue. It felt like the best place to see them.
And it was a totally sold out, packed show. And it was mostly housewives and middle-aged women. Some younger woman had got here, very excited obviously, and drank too much and threw up all over the woman in front of her. Puts the Narragansett T-shirt on Millman: There was a dressing room there. And we never locked the door, and nobody was supposed to lock the door because you never knew what people were doing in there. And it was the end of the night and the band was over, and I went in to the dressing room—I think I went in to pay them, I was ready to pay them.
And the door is locked. I mean it was a constant line, a rotating—it was almost like an assembly line, like a junk factory. People just going up and down tables finding various old crap. Some of which was very cool, some of which was actual crap. There were old cables that were probably broken, there were dusty glasses. It was more of a way to gather, because Bonney was sitting at a table near the exit, and everyone was paying.
So in a way it was like we were paying our respects to the Don. Because Chris Ewen is that good and makes you get out there and make a fool of yourself. She is my favorite bartender in Boston, hands down. So put your laptops down and fightin words away, and get yourself a drink from her.
No small wonder its a popular night with the great music and decent prices. And relax, enjoy. Mary B. Boston has a dearth of decent DJ nights alliteration like woah but I think I can add Heroes to the list of those I would go back to again. The music is awesome for the most part — you get what you come for. The crowd was diverse with people of all walks of life getting down on a lazy summer evening.
Dawn E. Seriously, ever. Anna F. I would love to give Hereos five stars. I have been going wherever Chris Ewen spins for over twelve years now.
Masochists will enjoy the scowl from Terri the bartender! John F. The Fall of Heroes at Toast was a sad, sad night for me. I never made it when it was at Club I. And the closing of that location made me fear that my favorite dance night was lost and gone forever.
But, no! It rises from the ashes, and so close to the spot where the famed ManRay once stood. Huzzah, yes? Chris Ewen is a great DJ , who generally knows how to keep things going with a solid, sometimes surprising mix of tunes. If you ask him nice he might even play the hit he and his synthpop band had back in the 80 s. Someone here asked who would want to get drunk and dance to Morrissey. Personally, I can remember a number of times that doing just that «Suedehead,» how I love thee!
Daphne M. Wow folks, judgmental much? Too uptight. Heroes is best for people with a genuine love for this kind of music who go to clubs to dance and have fun with friends, not gawk at people. This is not a crowd for the uptight. This is not a night for people with superiority complexes. Heroes is a surprisingly unpretentious environment considering how often pretension can be associated with underground music scenes.
When it was at Toast, I went during the summer in shorts and sandals while a lot of people were gothed out; nobody cares, almost nobody stares. Peench P. Talk about disappointment. Okay not everyone but I saw enough of them, every way I turned, I was going blind by the minute, we looked around, then looked at each other while sipping our drinks « what is this»? Our drinks? Maybe the music got better later on?
Not the kind of heroes I like for sure. Erin B. So lame; what ever happened to originality as part of the status quo? Mats K. It would seem not everyone feels the same way about this night as I do, but here goes.
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