[NewMusic] Bay Area - East vs West

[Matt Davignon]

Batman would win.

On 8/19/07, Sarah - 21 Grand <21grand at 21grand.org> wrote:
> Matt D-ebated:
> We've got as many or more venues in the West Bay as we do on the East
> Bay - Luggage Store, Noise Pancakes, G3, Meridian, SF Sound, ATA,
> Recombinant Media Labs, The Lab. I'd be happy to see another venue pop
> up anywhere. Frankly, I'm thinking this scene is as much or more an
> East Bay phenomenon than a San Francisco one.
>
>
> - yes, but these venues program experimental music once a week, at most, and
> all are at venues for which presenting experimental music is a real
> "backburner" thing (with the exception of Meridian, which seems quite
> supportive) - compared to 21 Grand and 1510 alone, there is more
> experimental music programming in the East Bay.
>
> I would disagree that is more East Bay than SF - I'd say it's more or less
> equal. Of course one could argue about the boundaries of "the scene," which
> is about as pointless as debating who would "win" in a fight - Batman vs.
> Spiderman.
>
> sl
>
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