People come and feel safe with us.” 9:30 Club has hosted several LGBTQ Pride parties, the BENT dance party series, and other events for LGBTQ patrons. “has always been a place where people are welcome. Schaefer notes that since its early days, 9:30 Club and I.M.P. The venue will have at least two bars flanking the stage cocktails but no food will be available. The Atlantis takes over the footprint of now-closed Satellite Room. Schaefer notes that the sound and light systems use the latest available technologies, similar to next door at the current 9:30 Club. “There will be energy on both sides of the stage,” she says.Īlthough The Atlantis is set to be a replica of the original 9:30, I.M.P. While design elements are still coming into focus, Schaefer says that the space will be intimate, with almost no separation between the artist and the crowd. We need a place for emerging artists and for the community to discover new acts. “We were missing small venues in our umbrella. communications director, provides further insight. The venue first opened in 1980.Īudrey Fix Schaefer, I.M.P. He was an independent booker of the club for the first six years and then he bought it, and managed the move from its original location to its current location in 1996. Hurwitz got his start at the original 9:30 Club, originally located at 930 F St., N.W. Hurwitz and the team developed a tagline for the new venue: The Atlantis, Where Music Begins. Its stage will support bourgeoning artists and the legends of tomorrow,” Hurwitz said. If the stories are told right, both the artists and the fans begin their hopefully longterm relationship. “This will be where we help introduce new artists to the world… our smallest venue will be treated as important, if not more, than our bigger venues. The 9:30 Club holds 1,200 people, while The Anthem has space for up to 6,000. This can be the most exciting step in an artist’s career.” oversees multiple larger venues, “We’ve been doing our smallest shows in other peoples’ venues for too many years now,” said Seth Hurwitz, chairman of I.M.P. All tickets have been allocated fans who were unable to snag tickets can attempt to do so in May, when a fan-to-fan ticket exchange opens. Within four days of the announcement, fans had requested more than 520,000 tickets, many times more than the total 19,800 available.
To thwart scalpers, The Atlantis utilized a request system for the first 44 shows when they went on sale two weeks ago. Indigo Girls are their most elemental and best on “Look Long,” with Reynolds and the ace band attractively sprucing up the tunes without breaking the duo’s foundational folk-rock mold.Other big names on the inaugural 44-show run roster: Franz Ferdinand, Barenaked Ladies, Third Eye Blind, Spoon, and Billy Idol. It’s a quirky creation, like a collaboration between fellow Georgians R.E.M. “Feel This Way Again” and “Favorite Flavor” deal with the challenges of being a parent, the sweet harmonies and banjo of the former reminding of the Dixie Chicks, while the latter is a joyful pop tune with backing vocals from Lucy Wainwright Roche. “Muster” questions gun culture and all sorts of violence with a mandolin-supported melody, while “Change My Heart” focuses on galactic vibrations and the consequences of the “American schism.” The yearning “Country Radio” is about “just a gay kid in a small town” who hears and loves the songs, even if the stories don’t quite fit his identity. With 11 songs covering themes from romance and parenting to family memories, gun culture and gay identity, Ray and Saliers do their best to rinse the salt out of a few wounds, gently dress others and also attempt some preventive care.
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