An Advance Look Inside "Stage 48" Venue in NYC

[kenpierce]

Hey PE Friends,

Last week, my good buddy Skeleton Pete and I got an inside walk-around of a brand new multipurpose event space that will be fully opened in March. I scribbled some notes and he shot some photos and I wanted to share it with all of you as I am sure some great Progressive Rock bands will be playing here eventually. Take a look.

http://www.piercingmetal.com/wordpress/?p=15979

[JKL2000]

Thanks, good to know about and the place looks pretty nice. I hope you're right that there'll be some prog shows there. When is the King's X show? Where's the calendar on your site, actually? Thanks for the effort involved in putting the photos and notes together.

[kenpierce]

My regularly updated regional events calendar for this region is found at http://www.piercingmetal.com/cal/ so please bookmark it if you enjoy shows down here. It's as thorough as possible. I update it many weeks in advance of the shows. King's X will be playing this new venue in May. They're preceded by that Uli and Y&T show that were mentioned. I am hopeful of course and its nice to have another decent size space to enjoy live music. Only time will tell.

[timmy]

studio 54 is back?

[JKL2000]

Thanks, Ken, that's a GREAT calendar you have! Right away I saw two shows listed that I need to see.

Hey, I forget, is the Best Buy Theater the one that is all general admission (usually) but has lots of seating toward the back? I get it confused with the one that used to be the World Federation of Wrestling theater or whatever.

[JKL2000]

Hey, Consider the Source is playing here this Thursday night (2/7) at 8pm, opening for a band called Papadosio! (Consider the Source played at ProgDay 2012 and was very cool.) Papadosio seems to be some kind of chillout band, not sure I'm into them. I have to be in the city Thursday afternoon, maybe I'll stick around for the CtS show.

[blusterbox studio]

The Residents play there Saturday

[walt]

Swanky.

[Gladiator1634]

Nice looking place but personally for prog type shows I would prefer if the bar was located in a lobby as opposed to being in the same room as the band. I guess it all depends on who the artist is but I feel this type of layout could prove to be very distracting during the show.

[scags]

It reminds me of Terminal 5.