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Shows of note as of 12/29/94 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW ADDRESS INFO With the new way we're doing the mailings, it's become easier for Andy to do the list maintenance than it is for Liz. So, effective immediately, Andy will be taking care of everything related to the Shows List. Adds to the list, subscriptions, you name it, he does. The address to mail to is: <shows@farpost.chi.il.us> Please put something in the subject to give me a clue as to what it's about, so I know what to read right away. NOTES Last week's Off The Alley show on the 28th is now entirely different. New this week: Avocado Jungle Fuzz / Redball / Foo, Fireside Bowl Baby M / Vishnu / Disarray, Fireside Bowl Billy Ray Cyrus, Rosemont Horizon Dirt Merchants / Foo / tba x 2, 3rd Floor Godheadsilo, Lounge Ax Halcyon / Soliday / Free Jesse / tba, Fireside Bowl Headcleaner / Dyslexic Apaches / tba x 2, 3rd Floor Hoodwink / Tetsuo / Autumn / Back Of Dave, 3rd Floor Lazy / tba x 3, Fireside Bowl Tony MacAlpine / Mark Wood Band / Psycho Therapy / Tempest, Thirsty Whale Megadeth / Corrosion of Conformity, Aragon Ballroom Mushuganas / Lynyrd's Innards / Charles Bronson / Lunkhead, Off The Alley Needle / Full / tba x 2, Fireside Bowl Oi Polloi / Los Crudos / Blown Apart Bastards, Fireside Bowl Parker Brothers, Fireside Bowl Pound / Soul Food / Triphammer, Fireside Bowl Racecar / Alligator Gun / Mushuganas / Banana Buster / Nostrilsaurus, Elhmurst VFW Hall Rye / Copper / Farside / tba, Fireside Bowl Slapstick / Apocolypse Hoboken / Cheer Accident / Groovy Love Vibes, 3rd Floor Slapstick / Jack Kevorkian Suicide Machines / tba, Over The Edge Snap Judgment / Bign / Me and the Chimp, Off The Alley Steel Legion / Fatal Order / Third Rail / Slag, Thirsty Whale Tetsuo / Morsel / tba x 2, Fireside Bowl Tricky Dick / 30 Seconds Deep / Man Dingo / Schleprock, Fireside Bowl Wickerman / Downset / Dog Eat Dog / Madball / Groovy Love Vibes, Fireside Bowl Aragon Ballroom: 1106 W. Lawrence at Broadway / Chicago, IL / (TM) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 03 Fri 8:00 Slayer / Biohazard / Machine Head 10 Fri 7:30 aa *Megadeth / Corrosion of Conformity (tix Jan 7 @ 10am) Berkeley Hillside Presbyterian Church: Hillside, IL --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 30 Fri 88 Fingers Louie / 30 Seconds Deep / 4-squares / Slapstick (Call Joe (708) 344-6381 for info) Congress Theater: 2135 N. Milwaukee / Chicago, IL --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 31 Sat 8:00 $20 21+ Vulgar Boatmen / The Elvis Brothers / Soul Vitamins / Jason & Alison Coronet Theater: 817 Chicago Ave. / Evanston, IL / (708) 733-0030 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 31 Sat $20 Freedy Johnston / Nicholas Tremulis Jan 06 Fri Lonnie Brooks Blues Band / Flynn Bros. 11 Wed From Good Homes 24 Tue Leon Redbone 24 Tue Leo Kottke Cubby Bear (21+): 1059 W. Addison / Chicago, IL / (312) 327-1662 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 21 Sat Buckwheat Zydeco 22 Sun Al DiMeola Double Door: 1572 N. Milwaukee / Chicago, IL / (312) 489-3160 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 30 Fri Shoes / Stonebillies / The Good 31 Sat Veruca Salt / Loud Lucy / Triple Fast Action / Fig Dish Jan 01 Sun The Indicators / Garden Bower 05 Thu Rod Almighty / C-Clamp 06 Fri Ulule / Janitors Of Rhythm / X-Feline 07 Sat Blind Venetians / Brown Betty / F.S. Camels 08 Sun Girls With Tools / The Kluggmaknots 12 Thu The Shiv / Luxury Bucket 13 Fri Las Toallitas / The Falling Wallendas / Dagnabit 14 Sat Insania / Jan James / Cathy Bratten 15 Sun Andrew and the Tree / Smoking Fish / Ratl 19 Thu Whitey / Falstaff 20 Fri Mr. Blotto 22 Sun Sphinx / Cyberputz 26 Thu Sammy Tenuta & The Force Feb 11 Sat Springheel Jacks Elhmurst VFW Hall: Addison & Hahn / Elmhurst, IL --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 04 Wed 30 Seconds Deep / Tub Ring / Monkey Hustle 13 Fri 6:30 $5 *Racecar / Alligator Gun / Mushuganas / Banana Buster / Nostrilsaurus Empty Bottle: 1035 N. Western / Chicago, IL / (312) 276-3600 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 30 Fri Dis- / Couch Flambeau (Dis- is doing their Gary Numan/Tubeway Army set for maybe the only time in Chicago.) 31 Sat $10 Red Red Meat / Hum / Velo Deluxe / Windish (tix bar/Ajax/Blackout!) Jan 05 Thu Screw Party / 77 Luscious Babes / Electric Church 06 Fri Howards / Hushdrops / Hooker 07 Sat Hurl / Shiner / Saturnine 60 14 Sat Matt Wilson Band 19 Thu Wool / Guzzard 27 Fri God Bullies / Mercy Rule COMING: New Bomb Turks Fireside Bowl (aa): 2648 W. Fullerton / Chicago, IL / (312) 486-2700 / info: Brian (312) 384-5813 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 30 Fri 8:00 +Clearly Better / Hentchmen / Dick Justice 31 Sat 7:00 $5 +Robespierre / Dirt Merchants / Tragedy Clowns / Apocolypse Hoboken / Sidekick Kato Jan 02 Mon 7:00 *Oi Polloi / Los Crudos / Blown Apart Bastards 05 Thu 7:00 *Halcyon / Soliday / Free Jesse / tba 06 Fri 7:00 $5 +Tommyrot / Shift / Hash Brown / Ceilishrine / Skimmingtons 12 Thu 7:00 *Wickerman / Downset / Dog Eat Dog / Madball / Groovy Love Vibes 13 Fri 8:00 +Vic Vacuum & The Attachments / Kisss (punk Kiss tribute) / Vinilla / Slunt 15 Sun 8:00 *Tricky Dick / 30 Seconds Deep / Man Dingo / Schleprock 19 Thu 7:00 *Rye / Copper / Farside / tba 20 Fri +88 Fingers Louie / Geezers / Eclectics / Hit Men / 4-squares / Raunchous Brothers / Poonjab 21 Sat 9:00 *Pound / Soul Food / Triphammer 22 Sun *Parker Brothers 26 Thu 8:00 *Baby M / Vishnu / Disarray 27 Fri 7:00 *Tetsuo / Morsel / tba x 2 Feb 03 Fri 8:00 *Avocado Jungle Fuzz / Redball / Foo 09 Thu 8:00 *Lazy / tba x 3 10 Fri 8:00 *Needle / Full / tba x 2 Fitzgerald's: 6615 Roosevelt Rd. / Berwyn, IL / (708) 788-2188 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 30 Fri Webb Wilder / Carpetbaggers 31 Sat Webb Wilder / Carpetbaggers Hard Rock Cafe: 63 W. Ontario / Chicago, IL / (312) 943-2252 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 31 Sat FREE Material Issue Lounge Ax (21+): 2348 N. Lincoln / Chicago, IL / (312) 525-6620 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 30 Fri The Sea & Cake / Oversoul 7 / Apollo 9 31 Sat The Coctails / Liquorette Jan 05 Thu Waco Brothers / Church Key 06 Fri Sabalon Glitz / Galaxy Of Mailbox Whores / F/I 07 Sat Handsome Family / Billy Joe Winghead / Saturnine 60 12 Thu Slink Moss & The Flying Aces / John Huss & Moderate Combo 13 Fri Red Krayola 14 Sat Gringo / Lava Sutra / Tart Feb 03 Fri Tortoise 04 Sat Eleventh Dream Day Mar 02 Thu *Godheadsilo COMING: New Duncan Imperials, Pritchard, Venison, Chesterfield Kings, Rosehips, Los Toallitas Metro: 3730 N. Clark / Chicago, IL / (312) 549-0203 / (TM) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 30 Fri 10:00 18+ Lovely Trees / Cassius Clay / Boogie Shoes 31 Sat 6:00 aa Poi Dog Pondering 31 Sat 11:00 18+ Poi Dog Pondering ==SOLD OUT== Jan 06 Fri 10:00 18+ Spankwagon / Nitro Jr. / Crank / Goatboy 07 Sat 10:00 18+ Love Cup / Hardvark / Dick Justice / Brand 09 Mon 9:00 18+ Killdozer / Steel Pole Bathtub / Molly McGuire 11 Wed 7:30 aa Tom Jones 13 Fri Baby M / Every Good Boy / Number One Cup / Local H 14 Sat 6:30 aa Smoking Popes / Sidekick Kato / Smoothies / Jerkwater 14 Sat 11:30 Acumen / Blue-Eyed Christ / Colla Destra 20 Fri Ex-Idols / Simple Simon / Tarpit / Subliminal E-X 21 Sat Mount Shasta / Brise-Glace / U.S. Maple 27 Fri Mean Reds / Mariana Trench / Brando's Charm / Stranger Things Off The Alley: 18061 S. Dixie Hwy at Ridge / Homewood, IL / (708) 798-2252 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 31 Sat *Mushuganas / Lynyrd's Innards / Charles Bronson / Lunkhead Jan 07 Sat Mob Action / Attack / I Love Rich 14 Sat +Moon Seven Times / Babbette's Feast / Liquid Kramer 21 Sat +A.Y.A. 28 Sat *Snap Judgment / Bign / Me and the Chimp Over The Edge: 166 North St. / Elgin, IL / (708) 608-0086 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 08 Sun *Slapstick / Jack Kevorkian Suicide Machines / tba Prairie Center For The Arts: 201 Schaumburg Ct. / Schaumburg, IL / (708) 894-3600 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 25 Sat 8:00 $18 Peter Schickele Apr 07 Fri 8:00 $24 The Smothers Brothers 22 Sat 8:00 $16 Randy Newman Rosemont Horizon: Touhy & Mannheim / Rosemont, IL --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 31 Sat Gin Blossoms / Flaming Lips / Ween Jan 13 Fri Boyz II Men / Babyface / Brandy 15 Sun 7:30 Nine Inch Nails / Jim Rose Circus / Pop Will Eat Itself ==SOLD OUT== 16 Mon 7:30 Nine Inch Nails / Jim Rose Circus / Pop Will Eat Itself 18 Wed *Billy Ray Cyrus Feb 24 Fri Alan Jackson / Faith Hill Schubas Tavern (21+): 3759 N. Southport (at Belmont) / Chicago, IL / (312) 525-2508 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 31 Sat 10:30 $45-55 Uptighty Shank Hall (21+): 1434 N. Farwell Ave., Milwaukee, WI / (414) 276-7288 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 25 Wed Leon Redbone 26 Thu Peter Himmelman Feb 21 Tue Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 3rd Floor: 223 E. Chicago St. / Elgin, IL --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 21 Sat 6:00 $5 *Hoodwink / Tetsuo / Autumn / Back Of Dave ==NEW DATE== 28 Sat 6:00 *Slapstick / Apocolypse Hoboken / Cheer Accident / Groovy Love Vibes Feb 04 Sat 6:00 *Dirt Merchants / Foo / tba x 2 11 Sat 6:00 *Headcleaner / Dyslexic Apaches / tba x 2 Thirsty Whale: 880 W. Grand / River Grove, IL / (708) 456-2414 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 06 Fri Lillian Axe 07 Sat Lillian Axe 14 Sat 10:00 *Steel Legion / Fatal Order / Third Rail / Slag ("A night of classic metal!") 14 Sat 6:30 Chronic Jaywalker / Slunt / 4-Squares / The Hit Men / The Raunchous Brothers 20 Fri *Tony MacAlpine / Mark Wood Band / Psycho Therapy / Tempest Thurston's: 1248 W. George / Chicago, IL / (312) 472-6900 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 30 Fri Dolly Varden / Eve Thing / Mr. Furley 31 Sat El Vez Toto's: 1450 E. Algonquin / Schaumburg, IL / (708) 397-7000 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 31 Sat Strutter / Arra The Unicorn: 300 W. Juneau Ave / Milwaukee, WI / (414) 224-0123 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 30 Fri J.F.A. United Center: 1901 W. Madison / Chicago, IL --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 31 Sat 7:00 Isley Brothers / O'Jays / Whispers / Angela Winbush / El Debarge Mar 03 Fri Amy Grant / Gary Chapman The Vic (21+): 3145 N. Sheffield / Chicago, IL (TM) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 30 Fri 9:00 17+ The Freddy Jones Band / Rollover / Peat Moss 31 Sat 9:00 21+ The Freddy Jones Band / Rollover / Peat Moss Jan 28 Sat Mercyful Fate / King Diamond / Solitude Aternus WZRD: WZRD 88.3 FM / Chicago, IL --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 05 Thu 10:30 Woo-Woo Stick 12 Thu 10:30 Duotron 19 Thu 10:30 Gift Apples 26 Thu 10:30 Corky Siegel with Chamber Blues --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The code list: * new listing + listing has changed this week 18+ 18-and-over 21+ 21-and-over aa all ages (TM) Tickets available from TicketMaster Chicago: (312) 559-1212 Wisconsin: (414) 276-4545 Champaign-Urbana: (217) 351-2626 Brian Contact Brian Peterson @ (312) 384-5813 Dave Contact Dave Eaves @ (312) 248-5822 Kim Contact Kim @ (312) SHE-1HER Mike Contact Mike @ (815) 961-0322 Call the Chicago Punk Hotline: (312) 409-2310 All information listed is subject to change. Phone First. The Shows List is updated late every Thursday night. You can get it over the Internet in two ways: World-Wide Web: http://www.mcs.net/~alester/home.html Mail subscription: <shows@farpost.chi.il.us> Ask to be added. Please mail to shows@farpost.chi.il.us: - New shows you'd like to see added - Any corrections to anything in the list - Subscription requests, or drop requests - Information about other shows list across the country - Anything other comments, etc You can also get it from Far Post BBS, (708) 934-6224 Other shows lists available via email on the Internet: Chicago Favorite Bands: cheeks@interaccess.com Chicago Folk Shows: hrow@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Iowa: bands@ac.grin.edu Columbus, OH: TREADWAY@MPS.ohio-state.edu Midwest (OH,MI,KY,IN): aa704@po.cwru.edu Atlanta: ofross@vader.cc.emory.edu San Francisco: the-list-request@violet.berkeley.edu Boston: wisner@aiag.enet.dec.com Washington, DC DIY: brendan@clark.net Texas: twist@usis.com Lists available via World-Wide Web: Chicago Shows List: http://www.mcs.com/~alester/home.html Chicago Favorite Bands: http://www.interaccess.com/users/cheeks/Music/chifav.html Madison, WI: http://scrap.ssec.wisc.edu/music/madison.clubs Atlanta: http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~ofross Other mailing addresses: Brian Czarnik (Oblivion/Bollweevils) BriC6389@aol.com Underdog Records: UnderdogR@aol.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |