CBGB's interior being reconstructed for CBGB Fest.... (Duff to give keynote speech in front of it)

see this wall live, in person!

Here’s something you can see at CBGB Festival next week that you may not have expected: the inside of the club itself. When the legendary Lower East Side club closed back in 2006, owner Hilly Kristal and club talent booker Louise Staley carefully dismantled the interior and have had it in storage ever since. “Hilly wanted them to live on. He saved them for exactly this type of occasion,” said Staley in a press release.

So, the original CBGB walls and the original sound system will be reconstructed – no, not at the Varvatos store, but at Landmark Sunshine Theatre on October 10 for the CBGB Fest keynote address which will be given by MTV President, Van Toffler and Duff McKagan whose band, Duff McKagan’s Loaded, played the fest last year in Times Square. You can’t make this stuff up.

Two days earlier (10/8) at Sunshine, CBGB: The Movie will make its NYC premiere. Tickets are still available. You can also win tickets to CBGB Film Fest screenings at the Wythe Hotel.

Other CBGB Fest events: My Morning Jacket and Grizzly Bear are playing for free in Times Square; Judge will be at Saint Vitus, and many BV photographers (and others) have work in a free photo exhibit.