hopefully it won't ever get shut down! - Sonia!! įireside has rocked my ass for 4 years now, and I'm sure it'll consintue to do so. especially for bands to play there and to see all your friends, i love it how they have free water too and those little arcade games. I think the fireside is an awesome place. Keeps the kids off the streets and where its all at. Seen the ending of braid there and many other bands who are now making it big why destroy something as good as that. Rock n roll and bowling seriously who would shut it down. world inferno/friendship society - mesa, įireside rocks some of the many bands I've seen there include Vandals,Alkaline Trio,Oblivion,Los Crudos, Charles Bronson,Dead Steel Mill,U.S.Maple,and countless others - j, awesome! love to come back sometime! R - roland, įireside rocks the socks yo. I played at the fireside with cluster bomb unit in 96! it was a blast!!! we played with los crudos, drop dead and some more. go to the next Logan Square concerned citizen meeting and find out how to stop the x-man - concerned citizen, Lets stop this x-man mayor daley and save fireside. everyone who lives in chicago should go there and experience a high quality show! especially if my good friends dearest fae are playing. They should let you bowl while they play!! - nessa, ĭude the fireside kicks ass. However, they do get some great bands that aren't given the opportunity to play elsewhere in Chicago. The acoustics kind of suck and it is an awkward venue. The fireside is not the best place to see a show. The Fireside is awesome and it CAN'T be torn It's gonna ROCK so hard! I can't wait, I'm SO excited. I'm goin to the Fireside Sunday to see 3 Dimensional Stick Figures. There is no doubt in my mind that this band will be the next biggest thing out of Chicago. Very energetic onstage and very tight in musicianship. They are a new and upcoming band from Chicago and were incredible. I saw a group on August 7th by the name of Big Big Shoulders. The owners turned it into a strictly-bowling alley a few years ago. Features local and national hard-core bands. sys, Īn old bowling alley turned into a ska/punk hangout for those with multiple piercings in multiple places. Bar is in a separate room bands play next to the ball returns on lanes 1 and 2.
Get there early - a line forms 1/2 before each show. Popular spot for new bands $6 cover for most acts. for instance, offers a series of money-saving ideas, including getting the most out of a Quizno’s meal, and the comedy duo Paul and Storm has started mashing up Kanye’s tweets with New Yorker cartoons.Chicago : Fireside Bowl with photo! via Planet99 Although mocking tweets from Ye bro Aziz Ansari are even more Kanye-like than the original, the mocking hasn’t just come from his friends. Speaking of Twitter, noted oversharer and rabid luxury-label consumer Kanye West has finally joined the likes of Lindsay Lohan and Joan Rivers on the social networking service. Meanwhile, Lupe dropped a nine-song album this week by his punk-rock side project Japanese Cartoon. A July 24 tweet from the label claims that the album is still coming. Rap producer and former 1st and 15th associate Prolyfic picked a fight with Lupe Fiasco via Twitter this week, calling Fiasco’s recent material “emo weirdo bullshit.” Someone at Lupe’s label, Atlantic Records, seems to share this opinion, as the record, tentatively entitled “Lasers,” remains unreleased. Critics have responded that while the crash was heavy, the damage sustained was “not metal enough.” While the van, trailer, and some equipment (mostly Dave Turncrantz’s vintage Gretsch drums) were totaled, the band members were are all OK.
Of course, where there’s nostalgia, revisionist history is never far behind: ‘BEZ reporter Robin Amer remarks that shows at the Fireside back in the day “sold out nightly,” news to everyone who ever played to Elliot Dicks and the four other touring bands on the bill.Ĭhicago metal band Russian Circles missed a few dates on their tour with Boris after their van was rear-ended on I-10 near Baton Rouge on July 30. WBEZ did its own version of the CNC story, which featured nostalgic quotes from former Los Crudos front man Martin Sorrondeguy and Underdog Records collectivist Douglas Ward but no comment from famously reticent former Fireside booker Brian Peterson. Last week the Chicago News Cooperative reported for the New York Times on a new series of shows being booked this summer at the bowling alley by House Call Entertainment’s John Benetti. The raunchy Fireside Bowl bathrooms of yore have finally achieved mythological status. Best of Chicago 2023: Music & Nightlife.Best of Chicago 2023: Sports & Recreation.