What's going on Thursday?

We Barbarians headline the Rock Shop tonight with Henry Wolfe, Charles Burst, and Soft Landing.

any idea is b&s is going to get canceled? I know it's rain or shine but what about hurricane like winds?

BEACH FOSSILS 10/17@ BROOKLYN BOWL.....FUCK YES

The OSA is going to provide all of the gaunt hipsters with parachutes, to ensure that if they blow away, they'll be able to safely land back in Brooklyn.

belle & suckbastian

How long will rain be playing for?!

anyone know if springsteen is going to join Gaslight at radio city?

you fucking suck 11:50. Seriously. Rot in hell you bastard.

Esperanza Spalding @ NYU

https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/8332855

WERE THERE SCOTTISH INVOLVED????!?!?!?

Seriously? I love B&S but I don't want to go out in that bullshit tonight.

"Southerly winds will develop by late morning and steadily increase throughout the day. Sustained winds of 25 to 35 MPH with gusts up to 60 MPH are expected by late afternoon lasting through this evening."

"The worst effects of this storm, including its torrential rain and the strongest winds, will be occurring later this afternoon and tonight."

It is going to rain on everybody's parade tonight! They should cancel well in advance instead of making everybody show up and then telling them to go home or else there will be a gaggle of irate B&S fans!

Please cancel the show or move it to Terminal Five..

i don't recall hearing any pavement fans complaining about the rain last week. you b&s fans should man up

A quick passing shower is not the same thing as a tropical storm.

Even a tropical storm doesn't mean constant thunder and lightning and torrential winds for hours and hours at a time, nonstop. A lot of forecasts are still calling for on-and-off rain until later in the evening. I can see why they'd want to hedge bets and not cancel only to have the rain not hit until 10 or 11.

It would be nice to have some notice and it sucks that it's not gonna be a nice night, but all of this TROPICAL STORM!!! TROPICAL STORM!!!! screaming sounds a little hysterical. Though I'm sure the weather people appreciate the attention.

there is a very good possibility the worst of it will hit west of NYC.

please cancel and reschedule somewhere nice and warm (and preferably seated) so all of us delicate b&s fans don't have to brave this awful weather

They should move it somewhere indoors indeed. It is not a Bowery Presents show. It's AEG. Therefore Terminal 5 is not an option. They could move it to Best Buy Theater (Nokia), but there is another show there tonight. I'm not sure where else would be an option. I also rather they postpone it than going there tonight in this weather. Hopefully whatever they decide, they don't do it last minute.

You pathetic losers. Go see Envy tonight. That is the only show worth going.

of course they'll do it at the last minute. this is aeg we're talking about.

Richard Pinhas w/Wolf Eyes at Secret Project Robot Art Experiment

shut up, you pussies. belle & suckbastian, indeed. hahaa

I'll wait until they play the Wellmont

I already got burned at Modest Mouse. I don't need to head out there (no umbrellas allowed, remember) get soaking wet and then have to leave with 7k other people when they call the show.

And I stood in the rain for pavement. slightly different circumstances...

black dahlia murder. goatwhore. 'nuff said.

this wouldn't be such a big deal but we've been waiting 4 years for B&S to come back to NY. hope we don't get screwed!

I really hope the reschedule tonight, It will be very unpleasant being out in the pouring rain.

going to see gaslight..though the envy show very sweet

Too bad we live here.....tonight's show at Hollywood Bowl will be epic.

Pavement/Sonic Youth/No Age

:(

That Tame Impala video is cool

Massive layoffs expected again at Sony Music

Does anyone know what time B&S will go on tonight? I'd at least like to time my arrival to get there just before. Ticket says 5:30. Does that mean main act at 8? 8:30?

I would guess 8pm...doors 530 TF 7-740 B&S 8 would be my guess.

unfortunately, tumultuous rain will be opening the show at approximately 6:23pm

TF 7-745
B&S 815-945

rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right now the rain is all passing well to the west...but they're insisting that the next cell will pass right over Kent Avenue.

belle and sebastian show moved to Brooklyn Bowl

Ark Building 5pm
Loading Animals 2-by-2 5:30pm
Teenage Fanclub 715
B&S 815

I just called OSA to find out IF the show is canceled, how will we know? The woman who answered the phone completely bitched me out even though I asked very politely. The scoop is that:

- they "can't" cancel the show (for reasons I did not understand)
- "it's not even raining in Williamsburg" (oh, is the show right now and NOT in 6 hours?)
- umbrellas are not allowed because they are dangerous flying metal objects which attract lightning (wait, I thought if there is lightning, there's no show?)
- the show will probably be cut short (so if people are willing to brave the weather, they won't even get their $50's worth)
- if you dare to ask for the status of the show, you will be yelled at.

Thanks.

^Very nice 1:46pm! LOL!

Oh, and she said IF it's canceled, it will be posted on Facebook and Twitter.

GunFight! is NOT playing COCO 66 tonight. Not sure where that info came from...

check the North Brooklyn OSA Facebook for updates: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Open-Space-Alliance-for-North-Brooklyn/129521483174

2:13 can't check it at work with the firewalls..

if you can post any updates that would be great!

I've got my raincoat and rubber army surplus boots ready. I've waited too long for this not to happen.

today's choice is so easy: Envy

B&S show is looking good so far. The rain should hold off until 9pm via weather.com.

Rain rain go away, come again another day!

2:39..umm it says heavy rain, wind and lightnight when I last checked...accuweather and weather.com that is!

for you dorks with jobs so lame you can't look at certain websites, here's the comment thread on the OSA facebook page. nothing newsworthy really. ahem,

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Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn: Belle and Sebastion at the Williamsburg Waterfront, Thursday September 30th, rain or shine

Mark Mueller typo!


Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn how so? am i missing something? is it because it's at night? is there another saying?

Mark Mueller band name spelling!


Nancy Sieper Berggren Sebastian

Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn Thanks for the help! The show is still on!
Belle and Sebastian, TONIGHT!

Kevin Wolfe Um, why???

Conditions sound like they're going to be dangerous. This is a disaster waiting to happen :(

Maxwell Bertolero what time does Belle and Sebastian go on?

Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn We have to try to have the show... and Belle and Sebastian go on at 8pm

Darren O'Toole I'm gonna be really sad if the show goes on and I piss away $100 but for me I can't see the sense in driving two hours for this when weather.com is reporting heavy rains along with thunder/lighting expected..Do what you all have to do.

Kevin Wolfe Wow, seems irresponsible. Potentially endangering thousands of people. 50 mph winds and 7 inches of rain. Bad idea. And it will be a huge shitstorm after the show is cancelled a song or two in. Do the right thing, OSA.

2:39 is right. It says WINDY with a 10% chance of rain until 9 PM.

I rather have a job where I can't look at a few webpages then no job..thanks

Set times for buzzoven?

2:45...bizaare but true..they just changed it..this weather forcasting stuff is BS! My appologies!

Who cares what % chance of rain it is projected for during the day! The show is not happening right now. B&S will play from 8 to 10. For 9PM weather.com says Heavy Rain/Thunder with 90% chance.

you need to learn to read weather.com
it says thunderstorm 7pm heavy rain 8pm.
TF will be play 5 songs and we go home.
people who are coming for this from all over should do what we do in amsterdam, burn OSA offices to the ground.

2:54, weather.com currently says cloudy/wind from 5PM until 9PM. Then rain/thunder. Then heavy rain afterward.

AccuWeather also says cloudy around doors, but has rain starting around 8PM. No mention of thunder/lightning.

Are people doomsaying to justify flaking on their own $50 tickets, or what?

It will probably rain.

It might rain heavily.

It might just be on and off.

You can't actually will a show to get canceled by posting on BV. Just so you know.

perhaps not, but self-obsessed promoters like OSA definitely read and care about what is said on sites like these...

letting this show go on is a jelly-level move

3:04 I would hope so but they most likely only care about money...wait till they get sued for someone slipping or worse yet getting injured due to said storm.

I guess the idea is it sucks to really not want to go but not get your money back for skipping... and I get that...

But in fairness, it says "RAIN OR SHINE" on the ticket. It's kinda weird to buy a ticket to a RAIN OR SHINE outdoor show and then say, waaaahhh, I don't wanna go in the rain, why can't they just cancel it and refund my money!

Uh, because I have a ticket too, and I'll go in the rain, I don't care. At least it's not cold. And it would really suck if they had to cancel even though it wasn't raining for 90% of the show time.

It's not as if they've been ambiguous about whether they planned to do the show. The only "IT'S TOTALLY GETTING CANCELED!!!" talk has come from, uh, irritable BV commenters.

There's a difference between "rain" and "dangerous thunderstorm" you snark fuck. Or did you just move to Brooklyn after that major storm last week?

so at best they gonna play 60 min set...
better cancel TF and put them on at 7pm.

Of course all these pussy BS fans are worried about the rain. Lamest comments of the year aside from bitches working at OSA. Keep up the good work OSA! You guys are so important to the community and great at picking up trash while drunk on your aussie wine hoping someone throws you behind the mccarren park bathrooms and puts it in.

Right, me, they did after all say that as soon as any rain falls, they'll stop playing immediately. Clearly they'll only play sixty minutes because there MIGHT be thunder at 9.

That said, moving the whole thing up would actually make a lot of sense, considering they have 90 minutes between doors and the opener, a 90 minutes that by most accounts should not be too rainy... but I guess that's probably unlikely at this point. As is a cancellation based on what MIGHT maybe happen in six hours.

man, bv commenters will argue / make mean comments about any topic. of course weather forecasts are right up there with religion/abortion/the death penalty in terms of controversial topics so it's kind of understandable.

Belle and Sebastian are terrible.

From the Belle and Sebastian site tour Q&A's

http://www.belleandsebastian.com/qa.php?about=tours

From: Lauren
Q.Stuart, I really love you guys and I've been so excited to finally see B&S in concert that I'm willing to do almost anything, including standing outside all night in a torrential rainstorm (I've got all my rain gear on!), but I'm really having doubts about going now because of the hazardous driving conditions (my street is already flooded and it's only been raining a few hours). This weather is an absolute disaster and I've been stressing over it for days! Whether you're able to play tonight or you end up canceling because of flooding or thunder, would you consider coming back to New York again? Even if it's not until next year? Just so I (and the other fans who aren't able to make it to Brooklyn today) have something to hold onto to?

A. if it can't go ahead, then we'll do everything possible to rearrange for the end of october, and if that's not happening, then of course we'll be back! come on, it's NY!

but i must stress, that as i write we're still all go for tonight..

will advise furthur later
x
Stuart - 30/09/10

From: Eva
Q.Forecast calls for heavy rain tomorrow for the waterfront show. Are you still going on or will it reschedule? love you guys, but would be a bummer to have to stand in the rain.

A. we thought a lot about it, but we're going to go ahead with it, unless conditions are so bad that they don't let us on the stage. there is no viable alternative ..

put your galoshes on and we'll have a ball!

Stuart - 30/09/10

Gotta love the assholes who call people pussies because they don't want to see a show during a dangerous thunderstorm. Hope you get struck by lightning soon.

Most people would not have bought a ticket at first place if they wanted their money back. Everyone would be happy if they could move this somewhere indoors though.

man, Chavez was awesome last night.

Sure, 3:25. Suggestions for where they might move it day-of? Please do not suggest places that:

a. already have a show booked
b. can't handle the waterfront capacity
c. don't actually have a stage

Gotta love assholes who buy a ticket to a rain-or-shine outdoor show and then complain about how it's gonna rain.

anyone have a setlist for the GBV show in dallas last night?

anyone have definitive set times for belle and sebastian, irregardless of rain?

3:35 and others, we don't mind the rain, we mind getting there from all over just for show being called off after 5 songs.
if you haven't been at waterfront yet, state police calls it off with the first lightning. get it?

It says rain-or-shine, not you-might-get-struck-by-lightning-or-shine.

if the band gets struck by lightening it will be the end of shitty music

i saw dave matthews in high school at the meadowlands and there was a torrential downpour during his encore and you were literally soaked through your clothes within 30 seconds of it starting to rain but dave just kept playing two step and everyone was going nuts and then lightning struck the stadium and all the lights went out but there was no effect on the music and dave just kept playing and it was awesome

When that happened with Modest Mouse, it was rescheduled, yes? So what's the harm? If you go and it doesn't get called, awesome, that means no lightning and you saw the show! If you go and it does get called, then you'll probably get the reschedule you wanted in the first place! So all you lose out on is a little bit of time and dryness, which is not so weird for an outdoor rain-or-shine show.

I really don't understand what the complaints are here. That they're not pre-emptively calling the show? That you might have to leave your house because the show you bought tickets to MIGHT happen if it's not horribly unsafe?

Look I'll be crazy disappointed if it gets called after ten minutes, too. But that possibility exists for all kinds of outdoor shows. It sounds like everyone is whining about being inconvenienced by weather but trying to couch it in "someone is putting me in danger!!"

cool story bro

Here you go 3:38:

A Salty Salute
Shocker in Gloomtown
Tractor Rape Chain
Pimple Zoo
Closer You Are
Buzzards and Dreadful Crows
Break Even
Hot Freaks
A Good Flying Bird
My Valuable Hunting Knife
Cut Out Witch
Lethargy
Striped White Jets
Yeah He’s Bad
Gold Heart Mountaintop Queen Directory
Watch Me Jumpstart
Awful Bliss (Robert Pollard and Tobin Sprout)
14 Cheerleader Cold Front (Robert Pollard and Tobin Sprout)
Quality of Armor
Gold Star For Robot Boy
Dodging Invisible Rays (Tobin Sprout)
Atom Eyes (Tobin Sprout)
Queen of Cans & Jars
Unleashed! The Large Hearted Boy
Echoes Myron
My Impression Now
I Am a Scientist
My Son Cool
Drinkers Peace
Game of Pricks
Smothered in Hugs

Encore 1
Postal Blowfish
Don’t Stop Now
Motor away

Encore 2
Jar of Cardinals
Exit Flagger
Some Drilling Implied

Encore 3
Johnny Appleseed
Weedking

That said, if there's a lot of dicking around before and after Teenage Fanclub and B&S doesn't take the stage as quickly as possible, that will be kinda sucky, since it looks like we might have a decent window of non-stormy weather.

thanks olaf

Not everyone lives in Williamsburg. If you spend time to get there and the show gets canceled, it'll be a big disappointment and waste of time/money for a lot of people.

The biggest mistake was for AEG to book a show by a band, who hasn't played in years, at an outdoor venue. There are a lot of people travelling for this show and they are the ones who could get screwed the worst. It was also stupid from AEG's perspective because in the chance it gets canceled they will lose a lot of money. In fact they already lost because a lot of people in NYC buy tickets day-of or a few days before the show. I'm sure they did not sell many tickets in the last couple of days because of the projected weather.

Is the OSA hummus stand rain or shine?

http://gizmodo.com/5652348/new-yorks-subway-may-not-survive-tropical-storm-nicole

What could this mean for the L???

GET ME AWAY FROM HERE I'M DRYING

boo hoo bands won't come play in my living room when it rains

This band is not exactly a reuniting Pavement. They're playing a bunch of shows this month with a bunch more likely to follow within a year or so. It's not really AEG's fault that people's travel plans might get messed about. If they reschedule, just as many people might not be able to go on the new date. Sucks but it's life.

Fuck AEG for lots of reasons, but not for booking an outdoor show in the fall.

omg bv you douche, just fuckin post alicia keys jay-z sade yes SADE janelle monae etc already...no obviously none of us are going but is it really not a noteworthy show? jesus

"http://gizmodo.com/5652348/new-yorks-subway-may-not-survive-tropical-storm-nicole

What could this mean for the L??"

that bushwick label that always hosts those halloween rides will make a scuba party out of it; rest of city will remark "stupid hipsters"

gentleman and a scholar, 355p

B&S Going on early tonight via Twitter.
B&S taking the stage half an hour early tonight to beat the storms: onstage at 8pm! Please RT, phone your friends, etc. See you there!

the best looking girls are staying inside

95 comments on a Thursday?!?!

Get back to work, kids!!!

Oooh, thanks 5:36!

I hate it when it rains in my hummus... Makes it all soggy. :(

Hey douches
B and S on stage and no rain

Fuck!

Whine, whine, whine. Guess mother nature got the last laugh on you complainers. Serves you right. Shows over. It rocked an you fuckin' missed it. Any chance you can find something else to complain about? Lame ass fucking bitchy hipsters....

why did b&s claim they'd be going on "a half hour early" by going on at 8? all waterfront headliners go on at 8. with the 10pm curfew, had they started at 8:30, they wouldn't have made it through their setlist.

belle & SUCKbastian

For the record, the B&S show was amazing -- it wasn't like the just 'played the hits', but I think they did a good job of hitting songs that longtime and hardcore fans would like. Yeah, their most recent stuff has been hit or miss but the new songs are great, and sounded good tonight.

The weather turned out to be just fine, and the haze over Manhattan looked gorgeous. Sorry you all spent so much of your time spinning your wheels and bitching.

Yes. The B&S show was dry and utterly captivating. They put on a hell of a show and everyone forgot about weather problems after about two songs. It was a great show.

Warm, gorgeous, no rain. The comments about where it should be
pre-emptively moved must be from competing venues/other promoters. Thanks B&S, OSA, Parks, for letting the music play on.

The show was great. I would not have missed this for the world. As long as the show was not canceled I was going to go even if the sky was falling. That does not mean people didn't have the right to voice their concerns. We all got lucky today, but jackasses like 10:18 who are so full of hate for others will ultimately always be fucking losers.

setlist //

I Didn't See It Coming
I'm a Cuckoo
Step into My Office, Baby
Like Dylan in the Movies
I'm Not Living in the Real World
Piazza, New York Catcher
I Want the World to Stop
Lord Anthony
Sukie in the Graveyard
We Rule the School
Another Sunny Day
The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner
Write About Love
There's Too Much Love
The Boy with the Arab Strap
If You Find Yourself Caught in Love
Judy and the Dream of Horses
Sleep the Clock Around
Me and the Major
Get Me Away from Here, I'm Dying

This weather report just in:

The music goes on.... lame or whine

that fat keyboardist has SOME MAJOR cameltoe happening

"during a dangerous thunderstorm"

btw Ben Franklin and his kite were tight

gooooooooood