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Shows of note as of 04/07/94 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ The Chicago Shows List: Ideal for general purpose recording +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ NOTE: Remember how I was going to start a monthly listing of whatever bands you wanted to have listed, so that you could get all of your favorite band's shows listed for the month? It's started, and it comes out weekly, but not from me. It's handled entirely by cheeks@interaccess.com. New this week: Beck / That Dog (live in-store), Reckless Records Bob Dylan, Valparaiso U. Athletic/Rec Center Butt Gravy / Stop The Ride, Lounge Ax Dandelion / Black Market Flowers, Lounge Ax Incognito, Metro Judy Tenuta, Cubby Bear Luna / Low, Metro Matthew Sweet, Park West Meat Loaf, World Music Theater Mercury Players / Godplow / Grither, Empty Bottle Mono Men / The Mortals / Cowslingers, Empty Bottle Mothers Day / Strap / Twitch, Empty Bottle Nine Inch Nails / Marilyn Manson, Riviera Theatre Peter Himmelman / Kevin Montgomery, The Vic Sass Jordan, Park West Schooly D, Elbo Room Tarnations / National Drag / The Shiv, Lounge Ax Throw / Flap / Starbilly, Empty Bottle Tool / Flaming Lips / Failure, Riviera Theatre Violent Femmes, Valparaiso U. Athletic/Rec Center Yanni, Arie Crown Theatre Aragon Ballroom: 1106 W. Lawrence at Broadway --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 20 Wed 7:30 Pantera / Crowbar (aa) May 13 Fri 7:30 $18.50 Blues Traveler / Soulhat Arie Crown Theatre --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jun 17 Fri *Yanni (tix Sun noon) 18 Sat *Yanni (tix Sun noon) Avalon: 959 West Belmont / (312) 472-3020 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 09 Sat Pere Ubu / Cassius Clay / Birds At The End Of The Road 20 Wed Jake E. Lee / Jaxx / Crucifix 28 Thu Greg Ginn / Rig / Dyslexic Apaches 30 Sat 9:30 $10 Prong / Course Of Empire (21+) The Crawlspace: 952 Newport (at Clark/Sheffield/Newport) / (312) 248-5822 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 07 Thu 7:00 $5 Swiftkick / Flying Luttenbachers / Scissor Girls / tba 08 Fri 7:00 $5 Gauge / Garden Variety / Braid / Plane Rides For Five Minute Drives 09 Sat 7:00 $5 The Hedonists / Fagalonious P. Hector / Jolly Rogers / Catch 22 10 Sun 7:00 $4 G-Men / Mother's Day / tba 30 Sat eMily / Tommyrot / Chemical Blue / tba Cubby Bear (21+): 1059 W. Addison / (312) 327-1662 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 24 Sun Stanley Jordan May 06 Fri Black Uhuru 07 Sat NRBQ / Rollover 14 Sat *Judy Tenuta Drum Pad: 48 W. Palatine Rd., Palatine, IL / (708) 934-8768 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 26 Tue 7:00 $5/$7 Kenny Aronoff (It's a drum clinic. It's not at the store so call the store for info.) Elbo Room: 2871 N. Lincoln, (312) 549-7700 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 24 Sun *Schooly D Empty Bottle: 1035 N. Western / (312) 276-3600 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 07 Thu *Mercury Players / Godplow / Grither 08 Fri *Mothers Day / Strap / Twitch 09 Sat *Throw / Flap / Starbilly 15 Fri *Mono Men / The Mortals / Cowslingers Lounge Ax (21+): 2348 N. Lincoln / (312) 525-6620 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 08 Fri Yo La Tengo / The Sea & Cake / Sleepyhead 09 Sat Wool / Don Caballero / Janitor Joe / Mother's Day 10 Sun Prisonshake / Specula 13 Wed *Tarnations / National Drag / The Shiv 14 Thu *Butt Gravy / Stop The Ride 15 Fri Jon Spencer Blues Explosion / Mule / Silkworm / Crain 16 Sat Railroad Jerk / Mother 17 Sun *Dandelion / Black Market Flowers 23 Sat Bailter Space 30 Sat The Silos May 04 Wed Faust / Gastr Del Sol COMING: Thax After Dark, Medicine, Loose Diamonds, Lungfish / God & Texas / Lung, Five Eight, Duckhills, Syd Straw, Sir Douglas Quintet, Cub Metro: 3730 N. Clark / (312) 549-0203 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 08 Fri 7:00 $6 Seaweed / Bivouac / Braniac (aa) 08 Fri 11:30 $6 Quaker Youth Ensemble / Luck Of Eden Hall / Mo Fuzz (18+) 09 Sat 7:00 $6 Dyslexic Apaches / Brown Betty / Marble (aa) 09 Sat 11:30 $6 Chris Connelly / William Tucker (18+) ("special acoustic performance") 13 Wed 9:30 $3 Climbing Vines / Rollover / Juggernaut / Shovel Choir (18+) 15 Fri 7:00 $5 Smoking Popes / No Empathy / Oblivion / Gauge (aa) 15 Fri 11:30 $7 Royal Crescent Mob / NIL8 / Spank Wagon (18+) 16 Sat 9:00 $10 Blue Meanies / Mustard Plug / Parka King / Secret Cajun Band / Hi Ball Holiday (18+) 20 Wed 9:30 $3 Feeble Landslide / Orange / Juxta (18+) 22 Fri 10:00 $6 Fig Dish / Hannibals / Throw (18+) 23 Sat 9:00 $12 Ozric Tentacles (18+) 24 Sun 6:30 $7 Simple Simon / Triple Fast Action / Drag (aa) 25 Mon 7:30 $10 Melvins / The Obsessed (aa) 27 Wed 9:30 $3 Thought Industry / Acumen / Lily Crushers (18+) 28 Thu 7:30 FREE Stabbing Westward / Adamjack (aa) (get tickets at Evanston or North & Halsted or Ashland Rose Records) 29 Fri 7:30 $12 Shonen Knife / Dentists (aa) 29 Fri 11:30 $8 Red Red Meat / The Sea & Cake / Dolomite (18+) 30 Sat 10:00 $8 Shudder To Think / The Grifters May 05 Thu 7:30 Pavement / 3Ds (aa) 05 Thu 11:30 Pavement / 3Ds (18+) 06 Fri 7:00 *Incognito (aa) 06 Fri 11:30 *Luna / Low 28 Sat 7:00 KMFDM / Chemlab / Sister Machine Gun / Acumen (aa) Oak Theatre: Armitage & Western / (312) 235-0088 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 10 Sun 7:00 $10 Carcass / Pitchshifter / Aftermath (aa) 23 Sat 7 Seconds / Sam Black Church / Vic Vacume & The Attachments / Full Off The Alley: 18061 S. Dixie Hwy at Ridge, Homewood / (708) 798-2252 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 09 Sat Tortoise 16 Sat Blanket Party / Foo 23 Sat The Geezers / Jimmy The Go-Go Man / Mr. Clean 30 Sat Evething / Hypnogogic Nodscene / Sour Milk Olde Stratford Hall: call 223-2254 for directions ask for Norah --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 22 Fri 6:00 Lunkhead / Nostrilsaurus / The Smoothies / Ducksnake Park West (21+): 322 W. Armitage --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 09 Sat 7:30 Laurie Anderson ("An Evening Of Readings from her new book") 10 Sun 7:30 Michael Hedges / Michael Manring 15 Fri 7:30 The Subdudes / Pat McLaughlin ==SOLD OUT== 20 Wed 7:30 Cece Peniston (aa) 23 Sat 7:30 The Benoit/Freeman Project w/special guest Phil Perry 24 Sun 7:30 $13.50 King's X (aa) 26 Tue 7:30 *Sass Jordan (aa) (tix Sat 10am) May 03 Tue 7:30 The Brian Setzer Orchestra 10 Tue 7:30 *Matthew Sweet (aa) (tix Sat 10am) Poplar Creek: Route 72 (Higgins) & Route 59 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jun 18 Sat $23-50 Jimmy Buffet / The Iguanas 19 Sun $23-50 Jimmy Buffet / The Iguanas Jul 17 Sun James Taylor 23 Sat Julio Iglesias 25 Mon Bonnie Raitt / Bruce Hornsby Aug 20 Sat Chicago 21 Sun Liza Minnelli 22 Mon Mannheim Steamroller 26 Fri Steely Dan Reckless Records: 3157 N. Broadway / (312) 404-5080 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 09 Sat 4:00 *Beck / That Dog (live in-store) Rialto Square Theatre: Joliet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 01 Sun Victor Borge Riviera Theatre: 4746 N. Racine (Lawrence & Broadway) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 17 Sun 7:30 Bob Dylan ==SOLD OUT== 18 Mon 7:30 Bob Dylan 29 Fri 7:00 $22.50 NKOTB (aa) 30 Sat 9:30 $22.50 Anthrax / Fight May 06 Fri 7:00 $23 Bruce Cockburn / John Trudell (aa) 07 Sat 7:00 *Nine Inch Nails / Marilyn Manson (aa) (tix Sat 10am) 14 Sat 6:00 *Tool / Flaming Lips / Failure (tix Sat 10am) Rose Records: 924 Davis, Evanston --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 11 Mon 10:30 *Peter Himmelman (live in-store) Rosemont Horizon: Touhy & Mannheim, Rosemont --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jul 20 Wed 8:00 $27-40 Phil Collins ==SOLD OUT== 21 Thu 8:00 $27-40 Phil Collins Schubas Tavern (21+): 3759 N. Southport (at Belmont) / (312) 525-2508 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 12 Tue John Wesley Harding 13 Wed John Wesley Harding Soldier Field: Where the Bears play --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jul 12 Tue 8:30 Pink Floyd ==SOLD OUT== Star Plaza Theater: 1-65 & US 30, Merrillville, IN / (312) 734-7266 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 10 Sun Tom Jones Jun 18 Sat Kansas / ELO Jul 01 Fri 8:00 $28 Aretha Franklin 16 Sat 8:00 $28 Hank Williams Jr. Aug 07 Sun Willie Nelson / Waylon Jennings / Asleep at the Wheel 28 Sun 7:00 $22 Everly Brothers / Kris Kristofferson Thirsty Whale: 880 W. Grand, River Grove / (708) 456-2414 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 23 Sat Nuclear Assault / Halifax Gibbot / Guiltrip Uic Pavilion: U. Of I. Chicago, 1140 W. Harrison / (312) 413-5740 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 15 Sun Salt-n-Pepa / R.Kelly / Kid Capri / Xscape Valparaiso U. Athletic/Rec Center: Valparaiso, IN / (219) 464-5233 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 16 Sat *Bob Dylan (Tix available via TicketMaster) 21 Thu *Violent Femmes (Tix available via TicketMaster) The Vic (21+): 3145 N. Sheffield --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 08 Fri 7:30 The Samples (aa) ==SOLD OUT== 22 Fri 7:30 The Connells / The Indians (aa) 30 Sat 7:30 Sarah McLachlan / The Devlins (aa) May 05 Thu *Peter Himmelman / Kevin Montgomery World Music Theater: Tinley Park --------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 28 Sat Elvis Costello & The Attractions / Crash Test Dummies Jul 09 Sat *Meat Loaf (tix Sat 10am) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The code list: * new listing 18+ 18-and-over 21+ 21-and-over aa all ages All shows are all ages except where noted. All information listed is subject to change. Phone First. Subscriptions: Liz Clayton <lclayton@uhuru.uchicago.edu> Ask her to add you to the mailing list for the Chicago Shows List. Be specific; she maintains more than one list. Everything else: Andy Lester <alester@farpost.chi.il.us> (preferred) or or <alester@mcs.com> (if you must). Send any additions, errors or whatever else to me. You can also get it from Far Post BBS, (708) 934-6224 Other shows lists available on the Internet: Atlanta: ofross@vader.cc.emory.edu San Francisco: the-list-request@violet.berkeley.edu Chicago Favorite Bands: cheeks@interaccess.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |