Mercury Lounge

You stumble.

Stumble over to the Mercury Lounge.

It's over there at 217 East Howson Street.

And that's where they found their manager, former booking agent at the Mercury Lounge, Ryan Gentles, quit his job after seeing this incredible tight band of handsome young lads with incredible songwriting.

He's like, this is it.

I'm out of the Mercury Lounge and becomes their manager.

And from there, they're sort of off to the races with their first EP in January 2001 called And that's the first time the world got to hear Last Night and The Modern Age.

The EP is called The Modern Age.

The former right back on the Puerto Rico National Under-20 soccer team, a.k.a. Young Miko, is almost a sellout at Barclays tonight.

Also tonight, Gus Dapperton is a sellout at the Mercury Lounge.

Mrs.

Black Key drummer Michelle Branch is a sellout tonight at the Beacon Theater.

Maybe Hubby could take a page out of her book when it comes to selling tickets.

On Saturday, Brian Andrews, the Yeehaw Fuck the Law guy, is taking his Blue Nami victory lap at the Mercury Lounge.

That is sold out.

Also sold out at the Mercury Lounge this weekend on Sunday, The Paradox.

I grew up in New York.

Mercury Lounge.

Mercury Lounge.

At the time, when we were in New York, Mercury Lounge was like, I saw Green Day at Mercury Lounge.

Yeah.

We performed there several times.

And We were just broke.

We didn't have any money and we had this hand truck and we would push the gear up Mott Street and down Houston because half of the gigs were on Houston Street, including the Mercury Lounge.

CBGB's was around the corner on Bowery.

So a lot of the places you could literally push a hand truck to the gig and then push it back again.

And it's one of the most exciting pure rock songs of the 21st century.

I still remember first hearing it and first hearing Arctic Monkeys and seeing them at Mercury Lounge, this tiny club in New York.

And just there were so many moments when it felt like Rock was back, and it never really came back the way we thought it was going to come back.

This was their Smells Like Teen Spirit.

is The Strokes.

Yeah! The Strokes came out of New York at a time when there were rock stars for a new era, at a time when we were really rock star deprived.

I first saw them at Mercury Lounge, a tiny little bar in the Lower East Side.

They were doing a Saturday night residency in early 2001.

just because of yeah it being much more kind of riff based i guess yeah

interesting take me back to the beginning again it's funny you know i uh last time you're on this show i'm not sure if i told you i was at that mercury lounge show that you guys did earlier it might have been your first show in new york and i wish i knew that jimmy page was like the soundboard because i probably like most people would freak out i mean you don't really see jimmy page hanging around the mercury lounge too much now you're like friends with him which is probably weird to get i don't know if he texts you but it's gotta be strange to be on a somewhat texting friendly basis with Jimmy Page.

I would imagine I had no, I didn't see him there and I didn't know until recently that he was actually at that show watching guys, which again, probably another mind blown situation when you realize that you're playing and then you look, someone says, by the way, uh, just so you know, we're playing for 200 people and one of the audience members happens to be one of the greatest guitar gods of all time.

Yeah.

And...

I didn't know for sure he was there until I was walking on stage.

And as you know, Mercury Lounge, the dressing rooms at the back of the venue.

So I had to walk past Jimmy to get to the stage.

know? I'm going to see my Jay-Z tonight.

Dashboard Professional Mercury Lounge, 5.30 p.m. start time.

5.30 p.m. start time at Mercado.

Damn.

What

if you got some just clean ones? Don't wear the ones to dashboard.

You'll get stepped on at the Mercury Lounge.

Seriously? Even though it will be a very respectful space, it's still too risky.

that's cool

this year so but the prom thing was um one of my favorite things done because it was uh it was like just a mercury lounge in new york kind

of

cool they were like hey guys you want to like take this slot like we have an open slot and we were like okay we didn't really plan on booking a show or anything but

Yeah, it worked out.

That's cool.

Lovejoy played the Mercury Lounge.

Their second show in America and New York was Mercury Lounge.