I'll pass on Staten Island.

As someone who grew up on Staten Island, and lived there until a year ago, I say: hell yeah, Shaolin!
As someone who grew up on Staten Island, and lived there until a year ago, I say: there is no band I like enough to get me to ride the damn ferry again. Let alone deal with the buses and the adventure of getting back there in time to catch one of the crowded, old, and (worst of all) /hourly/ night boats. I wish them the best, but I highly doubt their future.

oh man, there are so many jokes to be made here..

ah, the former mystic lounge.

a cavernous coffin of class, for sure.

i give it 3 months max.

Staten Island already has a couple of nice places to see bands like Martini Red. And the bands are almost always better than this.

Too bad it's not anywhere near the ferry. In fact it's closer to NJ than Manhattan/Brooklyn.

"i give it 3 months max."

It's been open for a couple of months now. The location is decent for Jerseyites and some South Brooklynites, but that's it. The old location wasn't so convenient by subway, but a cab ride from Queens/Brooklyn with friends wasn't so bad.

How can they not find a location in the old hood? Is that area also desirable? Are hipsters moving there too?

What is at the old location? And what about L'amour East?

3 months from now i meant. i drove by a couple of weeks ago on a saturday and it was dead and they hadn't even changed the sign over from mystic.

i think it is awesome if staten island gets more venues and improves the scene, but that locations doesn't make any sense to me. there's nothing there except the arthur kill and some car repair...

the location is godawful. i grew up around there. any hipster walking the streets is bound to get a punch in the face from wandering droves of guidos. it would be cool if it suddenly was a fun place to be, but there are much better locales on staten island than this.

you mean bayridge? i think its becoming more desirable for sure. havent been there in decades but it was actually pretty affordable compared to rest of nyc, and i think it aint that bad as a nabe.

oh yeah, old l'amour east we could def use something like that in queens.

why would anyone go to staten island? any band that played there I would seriously question their judgement.

One of the best shows I ever done saw was on Staten Island: The Specials playing at the (somewhat dilapidated) Paramount Theater in 1981.

upcoming NY Post headline:
"Guidos Pummel the PBR out of Other Borough Hipsters"

Hipsters wouldn't go to L'amour regardless of its location. Pitchfork doesn't say that metal is hip, so hipsters don't like it. Hipsters only listen to music blogs tell them to listen to.

"wandering droves of guidos"

that's hilarious.

its not just a metal venue, we've been playing there for the past 3 months.

driving around pretty late one night on the south shore, looking for an open bar, saw this place, went in...

WhiteSnake was playing

driving around pretty late one night on the south shore, looking for an open bar, saw this place, went in...

WhiteSnake was playing

driving around pretty late one night on the south shore, looking for an open bar, saw this place, went in...

WhiteSnake was playing

- There once was a good music scene, but almost all of the venues closed and a lot of bands broke up. There is no real venue in SI.
- There are some good musicians from SI, but you wouldn't know because they moved to Brooklyn and now they are all 'Brooklyn' artists.
- the guidos are unbearable, in most of SI you don't fit in unless you have a fake tan and a lexus.

hey man you cant replace any of the lamours good luck for trying but you just cant

I went to both L'amour Brooklyn & Queens and moving it to Staten Island is an insult!!

SI is pretty lame and there are a heck of a lot of guidos and wiggers around here, but The Paramount there used to be a rockin venue! Metallica played there back inteh 80's and so did Venom, PIL and other acts fo that decade! I wish that place was still rockin now! It's not that far from the ferry and would have been a better location for L'amours.

Damn, i miss the days of The Factory/Snoopy's. Twisted Sister! Crystal Ship, bring that back.

Simply put u all are faggots. Ooo and SI doesnt suck well atleast not half as much as u "hipsters" at life.