what do you know about KNOXVILLE?

has this thread anywhere paid tribute to the wonderful intersection of 4th, 5th and 6th avenues? i'm hoping that survived the broadway/i-40 ramp reconfiguration.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=ellen+ave,+knoxville&sll=50.375616,-4.196082&sspn=0.093056,0.146942&ie=UTF8&ll=35.923663,-83.924464&spn=0.007385,0.009184&t=h&z=17&layer=t

also GAY STREET

It survived, mothra! And it's great, one of my favorite parts of town.

wow omg i'm hanging out in that corner with all the bars using googlemap street view! i'm right outside urban bar!

That's the old city, Ken! Corner of Jackson and Central. Hasn't changed a bit since you were here before. (Btw, still coming out this month?!)

wtf is hanna's cafe???

It's been there a long time. It's a fratty/sorority kinda bar on the same corner as the Pilot Light...that actual corner is taken up by Hanna's "patio", which is walled in concrete. Maybe you remember it now?

haha i'm now outside that bit outside old city java where you left your car keys inside the car. there's a white car parked there just now lol

yeah maybe! has it got two floors? there was one place that had maybe 2 floors that was a bit fratty

Haha, I guarantee that that car is Meg's who owns Java now.

The two floors place has gotta be Barley's! Way down on the same side of the street as the Pilot Light.

note: we did NOT go to hanna's

maybe that's why i didn't remember it!

went to: urban bar, patrick sullivan, barley's, pilot light (free beer?), and maybe one more!

manhatten!

yeah, Manhattan's

Pilot Light is where Bill the bartender chased us out onto the dancefloor while Cordero were playing.

lol

does craig still hang out at java?

No, in fact Java is totally different now! They don't even have shows there anymore. It's like, a cupcake-selling kind of coffee shop now.

:(((((((((((

;_;

there's egg nog, at least?

how easy is it to open a shop in knoxville?

hannah's cafe used to be "the spaghetti factory", right?

over christmas my friend josh actually made some people move from a booth at manhattan's because 15 years ago that booth was "his"

his did it very charmingly

p.s. roxy can't come out this month but still hoping in the near future! hopefully sometime when people in shops will say "happy holiday" to me to confuse the hell out of me.

how easy is it to open a shop in knoxville?

from observation and the experiences of various of my friends, i'd say the hard part is not opening a shop, it's keeping it open. the old city in particular is a mercantile bermuda triangle. (all the more reason to respect jason and the pilot light crew.)

if i can open a shop there i reckon it'd be so good it'd stay open.

hannah's cafe used to be "the spaghetti factory", right?

no, that became barley's

TRACER are you coming home for holidays?

I've got some old friends in Knoxville. The Pilot Light is the best rock club I've ever played at. The unflappable bartender was playing some of my all time favorite vinyl sides (Tyrannosaurus Rex, Hawkwind, PETER GREEN'S Fleetwood Mac) and I had to tell him how happy it made me. He just stared back at me without saying a word. I'm missing Tennessee in autumn.

that's gotta be bill warden

he's an institution

what band are you in?

I played with Jerusalem and The Starbaskets at the Pilot Light waaay back in 2004 (I think?). I'm not in any band now. I'm an ooooold friend of Brad C that played bass in Dixie Dirt. He actually did a solo thing that night at the Pilot Light that was really good. I think he works at Barleys lol.

i know bradford

will red bull dozers be able to play pilot light if it travels to america? didn't really look like it's a place for an indiepop/comedy fusion act..

you would go over awesome at the birdhaus, it's in 4th and gill

you could easily do pilot light too though, a monday or tues night would suit you fine!

roxy no :/ i will be preoccupied with keeping a tiny baby alive in london!!

will you be able to get me a gig around april/may next yr?

tracer come to knoxville around april/may next yr

yeah of course

tracer i didnt know! congrats!!

thank u! somebody had to do it

late may 2009 may be a possibility.. the softball tourney

softball tourney combined with red bull dozers gig in knoxville!??!?

yo knoxvillains - ASHEVILLE NC is your sister city for the election! if you've got a car, drive over there and help people get to the polls! SIGN UP! DO IT!

are they going to drive over here and help us get to the polls

(tracer i knocked a rock out of your parents lawn decorations with my car the other day. i was humiliated)

no they're not - TN is SO OVAH

"lawn decorations"??? were you driving in the orchard??

i see roxy's driving has improved

lol ken

no, some kind of...landscaping? near the driveway, and kind of on the border of our driveway.

no driving in the orchard yet!!

most beautiful place in the world right now

xpost roxy, still true? I am going to be in Kville from the 23rd to the 28th for holidays. Guess I should read this thread, every time I am in town I just kind of lump around at the fam's..

will be back there again in a week's time

that is awesome, casino! october is famously beautiful in these parts. it's perhaps not as lovely as that, but I still love knoxville in the winter, especially south of the river.

ayo roxyville, are u goin to this?

http://www.bigearsfestival.com/