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| - Yah this is a crazy venue but I am in fact a fan. It used to be located next to Cafe Cleopatra on St Laurent, south of St Catherine in a room that was an unfortunate layout for shows, but even then the vibe of the collective that ran the place was kind and open minded: they usually do punk and hardcore shows but were super nice to us when we showed up with guys on acoustic guitar, poets, comedians, violins, projections and samplers.
Now the space is a much bigger room a few blocks north on St Laurent, and it's pretty well amazing: the sight lines, sound and projection and screen make it kind of ideal not just for music shows of all kinds, but also for events like the Fringe Festival press conference and chilli cook off which has been hosted here for the past couple of years.
There is a balcony, the stage is 3/4 in the round, cute little cubby areas which you can designate VIP if you like, and oh yeah: incredible artesan metal work of the skull and bones variety creeping up everywhere.
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