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Intimate new Dublin venue Crawdaddy

Deaglan · 2004-03-19 20:37:51

CRAWDADDY Junction of Harcourt St. & Hatch St Dublin 2 Dublin’s newest & most intimate live music venue opens April 10th! The name Crawdaddy may not be significant to many people, indeed may seem obscure to most, but as the name of Dublin’s newest live music venue it is about to become very well known amongst Dublin’s…

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19-03-2004 9:37pm

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Deaglan

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CRAWDADDY
Junction of Harcourt St. & Hatch St
Dublin 2

Dublin’s newest & most intimate

live music venue opens April 10th!

The name Crawdaddy may not be significant to many people, indeed may seem obscure to most, but as the name of Dublin’s newest live music venue it is about to become very well known amongst Dublin’s music elite.

In fact Crawdaddy is not a new name to the world of music – preceding ‘Rolling Stone’ & ‘Creem’ Crawdaddy was the first US Rock Magazine in the 1960’s, at a time when the world was only beginning to take rock music as seriously as the intelligencia took folk and jazz. Even more notably in January 1963 a local entrepreneur Giorgio Gomelsky booked an upcoming band called the Rolling Stones at his ‘Crawdaddy Club’ for an eight-month, highly successful residency – the Rolling Stone’s first residency - for a fee of £1 each, plus a share of the door!

Back to Dublin’s own new Crawdaddy, being the first phase of the on-going re-development and extension of the POD & Redbox complex Crawdaddy is due to open it’s doors on Saturday 10th April with Jamaican reggae legend Horace Andy, the first to take to it’s stage. It will be similar in style to the Jazz Cafe in London but with a broader music policy. With the capacity an intimate 300 spread across two floors with reserved tiered seating on the balcony, sound, lighting and dressing room facilities second to none, we feel it will become the most artist-friendly small venue in Dublin. And like London’s Jazz Café we hope that it will eventually build its own brand so that we can bring in more jazz, world, reggae, hip hop, afro, soul, folk and funk gigs – genres in which there are not currently enough shows in Dublin. With each event a new experience, from cerebral counterculture chin stroking to charming and trendy hangout, Crawdaddy will also have a bar feeding into it for pre & post show drinks.

april guests:

Sat. 10th & 11th- HORACE ANDY - Jamaican reggae legend & Massive Attack collaborator

Fri 16th & 17th - TONY ALLEN - BBC World Music Award winner & master drummer

Fri 23rd & 24th - COURTNEY PINE - Jazz legend with 10 piece band

Sun 25th - ATMOSPHERE - led by rapper Slug, America's biggest-selling underground hip-hop act

Tickets now on sale for above shows at www.ticketmaster.ie / 0818 719300 or Road Records, Sound Cellar, All City, Freebird, Comet! For further information on events check out www.pod.ie/news.php. New Crawdaddy website coming soon!

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#2 22-03-2004 10:48am
sodiumlightbaby

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€5.00 a pint anyone ?

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#3 22-03-2004 2:14pm
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You know what that venue needs? a really good dj... see here

I've been too lazy to get another gig since handels changed management and decided to book cabaret acts instead (*sigh*), but this could be just the ticket!

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#4 22-03-2004 8:52pm
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Originally posted by Deaglan
It will be similar in style to the Jazz Cafe in London

Jazz......Nice

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