The Basement celebrates four-year anniversary with local and regional talent
- Photo: Eric England
- Cellar Dwellers Geoff Donovan and Mike Grimes
To say that The Basement is an integral part of our local music scene's infrastructure is an understatement of epic proportions. With its intimate size, inclusive roster of performers and benevolent, sin-inducing staff, the club below Grimey's record shop is an easy place to feel at home.
Whether you're witnessing bands partake in the rite of passage that is New Faces Nite or watching a secret Metallica show, The Basement is where you'll see the local rock narrative transpire. For these reasons the club is more than a music venue to many of its patrons: It's a nerve center that's hard to imagine this city doing without. The club celebrates its four-year anniversary Friday night with a bash whose lineup traverses the spectrum of both local and regional talent.
Ghoulish Atlanta road warriors The Howlies will compete with salacious local transplants The Ettes in an all-out garage-off, while Chicago's self-proclaimed "Beatlesque-cosmic-Americana" singer-songwriter Miles Nielsen figures out how he can become as cool as Danger Bear frontman Jason Jones and his Shelby Street Revival. Ready for her iPod commerical—that's code for a Feist comparison—contemporary pop songstress Madi Diaz will attempt to thwart the best efforts of Those Darlins, Murfreesboro's favorite traditionalist trio of time machine operators. Perhaps some sort of Iggy Pop-like self-mutilating stage antics are recommended for Movement Nashvillian Ricky Young, who will round out the bill in his quest to get the "good songs running through [his] veins" out of his veins and through a public address system so they can be heard.
All of this will be supervised by the watchful eyes of proprietors Mike Grimes and Geoff Donovan, who all can rest assured will do so with the same pride and dedication that has made The Basement the indelible institution that it is four years in.
Mayor Dean, forget Elton and Billy. Give these guys to keys to the city! —Adam Gold
Email agold@nashvillescene.com or call 244-7989 ext. 404.
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