Music Hall of Williamsburg

You know?

I mean, Bowery Presents is closing, uh, Music Hall of Williamsburg because they're like, "We're getting priced out."

Yeah.

And I'm like, "Okay, well, that means..." And they're not even that small independent.

Were you one of those lucky ones on the East Coast who got to catch the best all-request show and they really held to that? My son and I were.

And some of the people in the crowd, including my son Jim, excuse me, took great advantage of them actually adhering to that format and not cheating a lot of times too when you have a all request show people just ask for their favorite songs the bands play anyway not the case at the music hall of williamsburg at least on wednesday night obviously the shows are different every night depending on the crowd and what they ask for who gets to ask my son got to ask for one from their very first ep 10 years ago so long ago back when no one had heard of the band, even in their native New Zealand.

Of course, nowadays they're known all over the world for the most part.

And that is a different song from that same first EP.

But let's just get it going.

I'll thank the sponsors after the next set, because like I said, I'm really hoping to get to the music.

This is the best from the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, September 23rd, 2026, just five days ago.

I took this video on my iPhone, so I'll apologize that I missed the first few notes of the song, but it starts fairly early in it.

I

saw her in real life many years ago in the Music Hall of Williamsburg.

She was at her then boyfriend's gig, The Horrors.

She was going out with the lead singer and she was just there.

That is a stretch, but they've done a very good job.

Finally, on Tuesday, the big show over at Music Hall of Williamsburg.

The Womack sisters are a sellout there.

In L.A., you can still snag tickets for Tricky at the Bellwether tonight.

But it actually did.

And then we were like, I think toyed with the idea of putting on a second show to even like Music Hall of Williamsburg, which is like a little bit bigger, I think.

We're like, is this like... you know, is this too aggressive? Like we're like biting off more than we can chew here.

And then that sold out too.

800...

Was Music Hall in Williamsburg 800-ish? Probably a little more.

No, actually, Music Hall is 650.

Oh, interesting.

Yeah.

Like, that's again, the...

So 800 in Detroit, mind you.

Music Hall either recently did or is soon to host Glassjaw, Bikini Kill, and Mannequin Pussy.

Yeah, yeah.

We did two nights at Williamsburg Music Hall, and then we did a third night at Bowery.

But-

Right

... we recorded those Williamsburg Music Hall shows, and that's actually something that we've only released on vinyl.

But that's gonna change.

Oh, that's great.

Uh, it was really nice to see the group, and, um, they really kicked some serious butt.

Interestingly enough, the engineer on that album from, uh, 35 years ago, Raise, was at the gig at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, the one I took Caroline to on, I guess, the Saturday, and Adam introduced me.

So it was interesting to, to ...

You know, I wouldn't have known him from Adam, but, uh, obviously, a key figure to have done such a good job engineering the track we just heard.