ABOVE: El Guincho photographed; notorious photo-unfriendly zone. Capture by Sung July 2010
Summer, 2000: One of the first shows I saw in Los Angeles was the Beachwood Sparks at Spaceland. Over the years I saw many wonderful shows at that venue. And time and again, after the blog started, we’d send photographers to shows there – always with the same results. Impossible room for photographs. I love that joint, everything about it. Shed a tear. We got this announcement today:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 8, 2010SPACELAND HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
After 17 years of calling 1717 Silverlake Blvd home, Spaceland Productions the indie promoters who’ve booked some of the earliest shows for Beck, Weezer, Elliott Smith, White Stripes, Silversun Pickups, Foo Fighters, Arcade Fire and others – will be leaving the Silverlake venue which has become synonymous with the club night. The venue will now operate under the moniker of The Satellite and will have in house booking. Spaceland will have shows in the room through March, 2011 including a Melvins residency, the Los Angeles debuts of UK acts Vaccines and Yuck, and a dual Monday night residency in January with The Fling and Bell Brigade.
“It just reached a point where it was time for us to move on,” says Mitchell Frank who started Spaceland as a weekly club night in 1993. “We’ve had some incredible musical moments here, people met, fell in love, started life-long friendships, but it’s just time for a change.”
