Xmess Spectacular

I just wanted to let all the remaining holiday heathens here in town to drop by the Makeout Room This Sunday Dec 23

I predict lotsa wine, women & song and likely more mayhem than ya can shake a pixie stick at....

There will be a Psycho Santa, naughty helpers, a snow machine, decorations, a tree, drink specials and some other festive crap. The only thing missing will be your drunk uncle, and trust me, we will be channeling him all night.

A portion of proceeds will benefit the SF Food Bank and there will be a raffle featuring fabulous prizes from DEMA, Open Mind Music, Cha Cha Cha, Savers, RubyDolls, Event Magic, Lil Tuffy etc

Everyone's a winner

bring two cans of food and some dough


I am too lazy to figure out why I can't get all the stuff I want to fit into this page, so go here for more info y'all

ncane.com/ncf

Sweetwater runs dry, Mabuhay Gardens to re-open Sept 7th

Sweetwater runs dry, Mabuhay Gardens to re-open Sept 7th
posted by Lil Mike

Marin's storied Sweetwater venue in Mill Valley closes down on August 31st with a farewell night featuring music from Noe street denizen and longtime local rocker Chuck Prophet and The Mission Express. The venue, in biz for some 30 years was an intimate spot where musical luminaries like Bonnie Raitt, Jimmy Scott, Jerry Garcia, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe and countless local musicians captivated audiences in the cozy confines off Throckmorton St. Given a 30 day notice by the landlord last month, It's a double death knell to Mill Valley & Marin's once world renowned music scene this fall as Village Music, a longtime fixture in the community closes as well.

Where some go down, another Phoenix rises...

Rumor has it that legendary SF punk venue The Mabuhay Gardens in North Beach is scheduled to host a grand re-opening party on Sept 7th. The venue, most recently The Velvet Lounge, was a former Filipino supper club that started hosting punk shows and art damaged music catering to the nearby SF Art Institute crowd circa 1976. It's reputation built up as a sort of west coast CBGB's in the late 70's, while hosting acts like The Ramones, Devo, The Avengers, Tuxedomoon, Mutants, The Nuns and Nico. Later until the late 80's under late booker Dirk Dirksen's guidance it hosted numerous hardcore & indie rock bills including acts like Flipper, Metallica, Green on Red, Black Flag, Mojo Nixon, Dag Nasty, Sea Hags, Soul Asylum and many more.

read on for more Mabuhay history and some details on the re-opening night affair after the jump...

Mabuhay History:

In 1976, Filipino restaurateur Ness Aquino opened up his sleepy struggling venue to a bill featuring The Ramones & The Dils. Soon a bunch of art damaged kids who were anything but hippies started hanging out nightly. For the next decade the Mabuhay Gardens aka Fab Mab, was booked by Dirk Dirksen and became the defacto center of the city's punk scene. Hosting local bands like The Mutants, Avengers, Nuns, Crime, Chrome, Offs, Dead Kennedys, Flipper, Pink Section, Lewd, Toiling Midgets, Inflatable Boy Clams and many more the venue gained an international reputation similar to NYC's CBGB's. Touring groups that passed through included acts like The Damned, Blondie, Suicide, TSOL, Husker Du , Toxic Reasons, DOA , and tons of others.

Upstairs a larger space was called The On Broadway Theater and handled the bands as punk begat hardcore and groups drew larger crowds in from the suburbs. Dirksen grew less interested in the knuckleheaded Hardcore scene by the mid 80's, and Paul Rat started presenting the events. The Mab venue ceased presenting bands by mid 1987.

The lower portion of the venue operated until recently under the name Velvet Lounge.

443 Broadway St
San Francisco, CA 94133


The upstairs space is now known as Broadway Studios, and has occasionally presented bands since the glory days ended. I helped promote a Sublime show their in 1994 with the late Wes Robinson, and saw Convoy there in 1998. It's also been used as a comedy venue for cable telecasts and last weekend a Sublime tribute act played the house.

Playing the reopening night downstairs at the reinvigorated Mab on Sept 7th will be the Radishes, a new LA/SF axis band featuring indie rock vets like Scrote of the Billy Nayer Show and leader Paul Stinson . No word on whether they'll be joined by recent recording collaborators Rey Washem of Scratch Acid/Jesus Lizard, and Paul Barker of Ministry.

Where Are They Now File : Terence Hallinan ?

The first SF politician I ever met was Terence Hallinan back in the late 80's... Actually I also used to run into fellow Supervisor Harry Britt at a liquor store on Haight St now & again, but he wasn't really shaking hands, maybe just the late afternoon DT's...

My Hallinan meeting was at a SOMA discotech on Harrison St called City Nights, where one could just as easily catch a set by The Ramones or a case of the clap. Hallinan's rep as a fighter stems from his teenage years when his nickname was KAYO and an attempt to join the 1960 Olympic Boxing Team. His rep as a partier, includes a youthful arrest for beating up some Coast Guard recruits to steal a case of beer, and even being name dropped in a sordid episode he denies in Janis Joplin's autobiography.

March on a few years later and he ended up spending 7 years on the board of supes, and 8 unlikely years as the city's District Attorney, a job that somehow suited a maverick fighting Irishman. Unafraid of controversy, Hallinan once pulled a similar trick to the Bush admin, firing 14 senior prosecutors, and posted a guard outside his office in fear of retaliation.

He lost a bitter re-election in 2003 against Kamala Harris, who talked about restoring "public integrity" while violating a voluntary campaign spending cap in the process. Anyhow, it ended his 15 year run of elected service, and Hallinan vowed to the media he'd be going into private legal practice with his son Brendan, and relished opportunity to get his life back.

Then for the past few years, w/ Fajitagates long gone by, and dog maulings a thing of the past, I heard hide nor hair of him again...

the rest of the spiel & where fighting Irishman Terence Hallinan spent his green St. Paddy's... after the jump

By the time I ever met Hallinan, he was running for supervisor, and had already amassed quite a rep amongst the city's politicos, policy wonks, and left of center ne'er do' ells. He'd spent part of his youth working on civil rights issues in the deep south, and his fiery father Vincent preceded him by being labor activist Harry Bridges' Attorney and a one time Independent Progressive Party presidential candidate who'd spent part of his campaign in jail on contempt of court charges..

With his family name, let's just say Hallinan did not get into the high officialdom world easily. He was the classic "troubled youth" who did more than fight for his right to party, he battled for survival as his father's controversial political activities made their family targets for daily derision and beatings for the 6 boys after school.

Five of the brothers became UC Berkeley boxing team members, the littlest... well he wanted to be a lawyer like his daddy...

While attending UC Hastings Law School, having previously been down south, Hallinan worked on desegregation issues right here in San Francisco, organizing sit-ins at businesses like the Sheraton Palace, Mel's Drive-in, and a Van Ness Cadillac dealership that all refused to hire black employees. On one occasion, after protesting hiring policies at the Sheraton Palace, Hallinan was actually jailed at the same time as his mother and older brother, Patrick.

He also ended up studying at The London Scool of Economics for a spell, where he of course... was arrested, this time for protesting the war in Vietnam and fined one pound.

Later on... he was a somewhat flamboyant local lawyer, politician, and "old progressive".

I had heard nary a peep of what he was up to, when tonight I got an email from my buddy Al who'd just rode his bike from Fort Bragg to Laytonville and had run into some interesting characters up north...

I'll quote Al on this one, retelling his St Paddy's Daze with our former DA...

On Saturday I went to Area 101 which is a very cool art/community center/venue located 10 miles north of Laytonville on 101. The event that evening was a question/answer forum with the three candidates for Mendocino County District Attorney, specifically about enforcement of the state and county marijuana laws. The stage, lighting, seating arrangement, sound, and video (three cameras - two on booms, one on rollers) was as good as any commercial studio that I've ever seen. There was plenty of great food and beverages (no booze) at reasonable prices. There was more ganja there than you could shake a stick at. The debate was moderated by Terence Hallinan. All the colorful hippie growers that gave Mendocino its reputation were there speaking out as elders with the clout of Mendocino county measure G and California's proposition 215 behind them, and the DA candidates (as well as the sheriff) all vowing to respect the will of the public. I thought I was dreaming. The whole thing felt like a docudrama. Basically, the social ramifications of pot mirrored its chemical complexity. That's why I love this place.

Turns out Terence at age 70, sits alongside Willie Nelson & Woody Harrelson on the advisory board to the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws. He also has a small farm up near Petaluma, and his clients include Olive Rancher Nan McEvoy pornking & convicted murderer Jim Mitchell and a slew of "medical" pot farmers & users that could use a helping hand around the law...

X-Bedlam Ed's She Spot 1019 Mob - THe Gig is Weds @ Rickshaw

so...uh, it's been 15 odd years since I foisted any o' my own songs on y'all...

and if ya stop the Rickshaw Stop this Weds nite... you'll get the extremely rare opportunity to see me attempt to perform a couple of them once again,

i'll be shuckin' and jiv'n as part of the inaugural edition of "Class Reunion"...

Which has been hyped as "a series of shows highlighting the awesome talents of Bay Area artists from the late '80s and early '90s. For this first show, we've got the remaining members of Ed's Redeeming Qualities, plus the current bands of ex-Catheads, Spot 1019, Wannabe Texans, and Tarnation. Plus, our hosts will be playing a couple oldies from their bands, X-Tal and Bedlam Rovers. "


Neo from X-Tal has even emailed me an mp3 taken from an old CD of one of the tunes i'll be doing with him, and I've posted it online, as well as a buncha tunes from She Mob, one of the 3 bands playing ... check that out at lilmikesf.blogspot.com


and if ya don't belive me, or wanna know even more about this hoedown , read my pal Neo's post about it here...

sanfrancisco.tribe.net/templa...tail.vm


hope to see ya there, and that you'll come down for the next installment in January...

wazzup and whatnot - or ROCK-TOBER IS HERE

Tonight - The Underwater City People will be rockin' at The Knockout right after Clare's Bingo Bonanza with DJ Cheese in the house...

check out UCP online at www.underwatercitypeople.com and dive deeper into the submerged realm of a band moving through liquid time and space and worthy of a few minutes of yer precious time..


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p.s other stuff cooking on the Lil Mike Horizon...

stop by Sadies on Sundaze for personalized nocturnal attention and sipping soiree' & beverage consumption convention. Each week I usually show some interesting and archival music vids ( rare Small Faces, Ike & Tina, T-Rex, Gits, Pogues etc), act the part of nefarious DJ and trivia quiz master when not mixing drinks, insult customers and survive...
Sun Oct 30th is my special Scary Halloween Pajama Party ( more details as they arrive on various tattered cocktail napkins). Sadie's tribe is oozing online at sadies.tribe.net


Weds Nov 9th - J Neo of X-tal & I are helping host " Band Class Reunion "
a monthly series of shows a The Rickhaw Stop where bands of yore reunite and show ya how it waz done back in those heady Albion Backroom Daze... on the 9th we've got She Mob and the Bay Guardian's resident rambling cheap eats columinist & ukelele Dan Leone & violinist Carrie Bradley ( also ex-member of a band called The Breeders) performing their quasi acoustic classics as Ed's Remaining Qualities... watch out for many more musicians coming out of the woodwork in he coming months...possibly even me... yikes...

Shout Out To MY Peeps ( or whatever you are supposed to do here)

Uh, just wanted to let y'all know I'm awhile and kicking... I have been busy this summer scraping together a living and in the downtime crawling through the wreckage ...

Stay in touch... spam me yer thoughts and stay gold pony boys and girls...

The easiest way to run into me is to visit me @ Sadie's most Sunday Nights and I suppose the truly persistent shall be rewarded for your troubles

toodles etc.

Welcome To The Lil Mike Blog Y'all

Hmmm... what choo lookin' at ?...

well here's just a note that i'm gonna be hosting a new Sublime Tribute Cd listening session at Sadie's on Sunday

plus playing some of the rare vids from my collection of the band in action...

see sublime.eventmagic.com


also my pal Parker is having something like his his 100th B-day celebration and bringing in The Leaving Trains from LA for several days of gigs starting tonight - Sat June 18

Thurs June 16: The Leaving Trains at Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco, with Killer's Kiss.
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Fri June 17: The Leaving Trains at 12 Galaxies,with Sean O'Brien & His Dirty Hands , Sonic Love Affair and The Dilettantes

Sat June 18:The Leaving Trains at Thee Parkside, San Francisco, with The Willowz

p.s

If you live/work near any of these places below, they're giving away 500 free airline tickets tomorrow ( Friday June 17), ...


SONG AIRLINES, is announcing their new non-stop service to San
Francisco. They have created a Plexi-Glas walled promo vehicle that will be touring the streets of San Francisco tomorrow and Friday showcasing SONG,
with airline seats and plasma TVs to boot. Oh, did I mention that they will be giving out more than 500 FREE TICKETS to some lucky people.

Here is the schedule. Come by and check it out. They will have a trivia game with 1-in-5 people walking home with a FREE TICKET.

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Promo Schedule
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6/17
Noon-3pm Union Square
3pm-7pm Castro St. b/t 18th & Market

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p.s i'm posting tunes & tales like a madman at my mp3 blog


I guess the evil technocratic geniuses over in the Tribe.net labs finally got on the blog wagon. I'll look into making better use of this space in the near future. However seeing as that I'm a busy lil' beaver-eater, uh, that's just gonna have to be postponed for now...

I'm likely gonna be hard pressed to find time to keep lotsa fresh nonesense here at this Tribe.net blog server, so for now I suggest ya check out my regularly updated mp3 blog at

lilmike.blogspot.com


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