in case anyone was wondering, The Annex is closed

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The Annex

I just got an email asking if there was any truth to my post about LES club the Annex closing. That reminded me that I did leave that one with a "?" on it. So just to confirm, the venue closed on September 12th.

Ruff Club held their final party there on September 11th. On September 17th, DJ & promoter Spencer Product wrote:

As we close in on the one week anniversary of the end of three and a half years of Ruff Club..and the Annex, I think (as I speak for myself) recovery has been reached. It was an epic evening. Men were great live ! The A.R.E. Weapons kicked ass as usual and everyone who came made this night amazing ! Thank YOU, New York ! Stay tuned to this website for new events, projects, ideas, thoughts, pictures ...and whatever the hell else we decide to put up! Love, Product

Ruff Club's Danny Le Nimh then posted a video of his final walk through of the club on September 16th. You can watch that below...

The Annex in the LES of NYC closed on September 12th 2009. I went there on the 16th to collect all the various things that I had left there...sound, lighting etc...made this little video with my iPhone as one last memory. This is how it looked...

Damn I will miss that place and throwing RUFF CLUB there...

XXXXXXXXXXX

- Denny Le Nimh

Tags: Danny Le Nimh, LES, Ruff Club, Spencer Product, The Annex

posted at 1:26 PM on September 30, 2009 in music | venues | Comments (23)

Comments (23)

good riddance that shitty place!

Posted by pdiddy | September 30, 2009 1:33 PM

i spit on its grave- good riddance

Posted by Anonymous | September 30, 2009 1:47 PM

what an unambiguously awful place

Posted by Anonymous | September 30, 2009 1:51 PM

i hope the people who ran that place become homeless, especially the duchebag bartenders and idiot bouncers. suck on this Annex

Posted by Anonymous | September 30, 2009 1:54 PM

fuck that place and the people who worked there. bury them all in a fucking wall!

Posted by Anonymous | September 30, 2009 2:01 PM

yeah, I hated that place. they represented how crappy the LES became.

Posted by KWest is a gay fish | September 30, 2009 2:09 PM

the annex was still open?

Posted by Anonymous | September 30, 2009 2:13 PM

dirty place. i welcome the new sportsbar overlords!

Posted by Anonymous | September 30, 2009 2:21 PM

I was going to open an bar called the Auxiliary Annex next door. Now it won't make any bloody damn sense.

Posted by yeti | September 30, 2009 2:25 PM

"i hope the people who ran that place become homeless, especially the duchebag bartenders and idiot bouncers. suck on this Annex"

Actually, they all got hired to work at Terminal 5 and Bowery Ballroom now. You can thank Tom Yaps and the fat loser who works for Bowery Presents for that.

Posted by Anonymous | September 30, 2009 2:28 PM

now please close the dark room down, arrest the cokeheads owners and send those kids back to iowa to do math with the rest of america.

Posted by anon | September 30, 2009 2:34 PM

Can we do phonics AND math?!

Posted by Anonymous | September 30, 2009 2:52 PM

I'm a fucking superstar mathlete

Posted by Anonymous | September 30, 2009 2:56 PM

Annex wasn't the greatest, but it beat having to go into Williamsburg for a show. Good central location. The BV CMJ shows were pretty good at the Annex.

Posted by Anonymous | September 30, 2009 3:08 PM

oh come on. dark room's pretty fun if you're wasted enough. annex was a nightmare all around for years and years.

Posted by Anonymous | September 30, 2009 3:54 PM

Saw Helios Creed there, but I still hate that place.

Posted by Anonymous | September 30, 2009 4:47 PM

what a shithole of a bar. good riddance, annex.

Posted by Anonymous | September 30, 2009 5:14 PM

Chuck Schumer loved this place.

Posted by Anonymous | September 30, 2009 5:43 PM

man, that booker was the fuckin worst. what a cunt

Posted by Anonymous | September 30, 2009 6:26 PM

for once the geniuses on this board are correct