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Posted in music | venues on April 26, 2008
Luna Lounge was shut down by the NYC Health Department
Benefit Show Tonight Canceled!This closing comes just two days after Sound Fix Records (a venue in the same Brooklyn neighborhood) was able to sort their issues with the health department and whoever else kept shutting them down.
April 26, 2008 - 10:55 amDear Music Fans -
We're very sorry to report that the Luna Lounge was temporarily closed down by the New York City Health Department last night and the Benefit show for Common Ground is canceled. Those of you who bought advance tickets can use them for the rescheduled show. Also, please note that the advance ticket sales will all go right to Common Ground.
Because we don't know all of the facts, I hesitate to disparage the responsible parties. But I feel completely free to write that it seems very unfair to shut down a rock venue/bar on a Friday night right before the music starts, and thus putting the business out for the whole weekend, unless the public's health is really at risk. I highly doubt this was the case.
The unfairness trickles down to so many levels, especially to the bands, who were very generous by offering to play for free; and you, the fans who bought tickets already, planned to attend, and for those who will show up with no show going on. We're really sorry to all of you. I also want to relay that the management at Luna Lounge feels very bad about the show being canceled and looks forward to doing the show in the near future.
Mostly, we feel lousy that we won't be able to send a big fat check on Monday for about $4000 to Common Ground to help with their efforts to end homelessness. At least not yet...
The show will go on! We'll get back to you ASAP with the new date for the Benefit show.
You can and should still learn more about the work of Common Ground by checking it out here: http://www.commonground.org/.
Sincerely,
Gabriel Levitt
Founder, Jezebel Music
Posted on April 26, 2008 8:42 PM
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Comments (12)
Well, the cops do hate homeless people. So it does make sense to for them to stop people from helping them.
Oh, and anyone have a good reason why NYC didn't go LA-Riots after the Sean Bell verdict? Are we all really just a big bag of Starbucks-fed pussies?
Posted by anon | April 26, 2008 8:56 PM
OBAMA WHERE ARE YOU?
Seriously, from a music venue perspective there must be a brooklyn assemblyman who has it out for music venues. i'm curious to see if they try to target mhow.
Posted by GOPster | April 26, 2008 8:58 PM
The "real" Luna Lounge closed down years ago.
Posted by Anonymous | April 26, 2008 9:02 PM
maybe this will make KF think twice about moving to Brooklyn
Posted by MC | April 26, 2008 9:56 PM
sean bell found his death not because he was black but because he was a lowlife
Posted by anon | April 27, 2008 1:41 AM
how is luna doing in general? they never seem to get anyone i'm interested in (not that means it can't fill the place) and it's a big venue... just curious.
Posted by bill p | April 27, 2008 2:02 AM
"Oh, and anyone have a good reason why NYC didn't go LA-Riots after the Sean Bell verdict? Are we all really just a big bag of Starbucks-fed pussies?"
Like YOU went "LA-Riots" yourself. (Obviously, you didn't, because if you had, you would not have been able to post that comment.) If YOU didn't do it, how can you call anyone else a pussy?
Posted by Anonymous | April 27, 2008 5:10 AM
"Oh, and anyone have a good reason why NYC didn't go LA-Riots after the Sean Bell verdict? Are we all really just a big bag of Starbucks-fed pussies?"
Maybe because the LA Riots were racially motivated because all of those acquitted were white and in the Sean Bell case, the 2 of 3 acquitted were BLACK. And I don't drink coffee.
Posted by b.LOUD | April 27, 2008 5:48 AM
Seriously, can we get a riot going? I need to get an HDTV.
Posted by Anonymous | April 27, 2008 12:54 PM
I was in Luna Lounge a couple months ago on a friday, and about 8 cops come walking in during a set. They went into the back and looked around for a long time, but I never found out what was going on. I wonder if that was related. Regarding that whole Bell thing, I have to actually give the NYPD some credit. I saw some black guy flipping out last night during a vigil. He was telling the cops that if he had his weapon on him, things would be different. They took about 20 minutes calming this lunatic down, when in reality they probably should have just arrested him.
Posted by Anonymous | April 27, 2008 12:55 PM
"sean bell found his death not because he was black but because he was a lowlife"
Uh, no. He met his death because a police officer confronted him without identifying himself as such, and Bell may well have thought it was a carjacking.
(If I'm not mistaken, the police officer who confronted him was black. If Bell took him for a carjacker, would he have thought the same if a white guy had confronted him? Food for thought.)
Posted by Anonymous | April 27, 2008 1:03 PM
I blame this on the Taco Bell rats.
Posted by Jens Carstensen | April 29, 2008 9:44 AM