![]() ![]() Just throw in a little building renovation, positive word of mouth and impressive headliners to stir up a local cult following, and the Fireside Bowl could become the hottest ticket in Chicago’s underground music scene once again. Maybe a punk night held once a week, run by mP and filled to the brim with local music, could breathe life back into a once sacred haunt. The Fireside was great when mP Productions booked shows there. And, with the recent resurgence of punk rockers in the local music scene (like “flower punk” wunderkinds The Orwells, still in high school!) the timing of a Fireside revival couldn’t be more perfect. Here’s a thought: Maybe people will stop complaining about the smell if they’re at a PUNK ROCK show! They’ll be too busy moshing and getting drunk to care about cleanliness or the staff tending to their needs post-haste. Some Yelp reviewers have been particularly unkind, complaining about everything from bad service to the building’s dilapidated condition to the musty “old” smell that fills the air. Now, according to many disgruntled Chicagoans, the magic has soured. Possibly the most exciting thing to happen at Fireside in recent years was Vince Vaughn filming scenes for The Breakup in 2005.Īt one time, the Fireside Bowl was legendary. Find the perfect fireside bowl stock photo, image, vector, illustration or 360 image. But Fireside now trails far behind other venues in terms of attendance and acclaim. Beaver & The Bill Collectors at the Monkey l.On rare occasions, bands stop by to pay homage to the good old days, like White Mystery returning to Chicago for their summer tour. Friday Photos: The Spits (dressed as Reagan).Pop Punk Legends Sicko Playing Live at a House Party.Lux Interior of the Cramps cries for rock'n'roll!.Capitol Hill Block Party line-up announced!.Seattle Semi Pro Wrestling 5th year blowout!.US Air Guitar Championships- Seattle date announced!.Moral Crux: I've Got a Bomb for the Mainstream!.I just need to put together some photos to run with it. The next up is a great story by Fred Speakman from the band Zero Down talking about growing up punk in Seattle during the '80s and early '90s. I plan to start running a few other people's photos and writing on this blog in the future. Oh, I should add I didn't take this photo, it was taken by Joel Myrene, Bellingham show booker and ex-member of a bunch of bands, including the USS Horsewhip. And Ben totally followed through and the column later was reprinted in his book "Punk is a Four Letter Word" with credit to where it was first published. I was ecstatic! Here one of my punk heroes not only called and talked with me for an hour, but he wanted to do a column for my zine. In the end he said he wanted to write a column in 10 Things, the kind of stuff he couldn't say in his column in Maximum RocknRoll. ![]() But one day out of the blue he calls me to rant about the current state of the punk scene (this was probably around 2000 or 2001) and we end up talking for about an hour. I'd never met him or talked to him before. I never thought Ben actually read my zine though. I was a huge Screeching Weasel fan and always sent a copy of my zine to Ben's label, at some point he started advertising in my zine. It's of The Lillingtons with Ben Weasel (of Screeching Weasel fame) singing along for a song at the Fireside Bowl in Chicago. This is a fairly random photo I found in my old zine stuff last night. ![]()
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