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SAVE CAMAS BOOKSTORE AND MUSIC VENUE
| Message Board > General Chitchat > SAVE CAMAS BOOKSTORE AND MUSIC VENUE |
| Anonymous User Info... |  We are also doing a benefit concert each month to keep them going. Come out and help us SAVE CAMAS - Thu, 2 Apr 2009 5:55pm Edited: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 5:55pm | ||
| Chopper User Info... | Haven't heard any good dub in a while. Worthwhile cause as well. No negatives that I can see. - Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:47pm | ||
| Matt "Bass" Williams User Info... | This a fuckin' sweet idea. It's good to see some one is at least trying to keep music in this city. - Tue, 28 Apr 2009 7:56pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | I don't get it, how can Camas bookstore be going under? Did the owner go on a multiple binge and spent all the profit? - Tue, 28 Apr 2009 8:57pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | Have you been in there? - Wed, 29 Apr 2009 1:14pm | ||
| KRIEG User Info... | One has to make profits in order to binge spend them away. - Wed, 29 Apr 2009 3:37pm | ||
| Matt "Bass" Williams User Info... | If the live shows are going under it's because the city is imposing their nasty live music wrecking bylaws. Funk - V is searching for good reasons to stick around Victoria but the incentives certainly seem to be dwindling. Granted there are still a few cool places to play 19 + but all ages shows.. but unless you already have enough of a following to fill Element.. forget about all ages gigs. This is just one more nail in the coffin, and it's sad to see. If any one has something better to share.. some good news that I haven't heard yet I'm all ears. - Wed, 29 Apr 2009 4:37pm | ||
| Jl User Info... | "I don't get it, how can Camas bookstore be going under" well mixed with a tough economy and people with deep pockets and aligator arms... makes for a small business like a bookstore VERY hard to compete. Also with rent cost/building cost on the up&up; makes for an even harder business to run, especially a specialized bookstore or any specialty shop for that matter. and for the record there are MANY more places to host an all ages show... but again, most people do not think of the cost(s) involved with running a show/venue.(ps, a venue doesn't HAVE to be in the downtown core either). - Wed, 29 Apr 2009 5:19pm | ||
| steve User Info... | james bay rugby club. - Wed, 29 Apr 2009 5:23pm | ||
| Matt "Bass" Williams User Info... | JB rugby club huh? That might be worth looking into.. I've checked out almost every other joint in town over the past week searching for a place to put on this NINJA SPY/ FUNK VIGILANTE show with no luck. - Wed, 29 Apr 2009 8:02pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | Yes, I chatted with a few people in there and gave them a ton of books actually. - Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:59pm | ||
| Kristian North User Info... | the NEW owner of the roxy theatre reported camas to the bilaws officer, it has slated may 15th as the end date of all live music happening there. bummer. boycott the roxy. the owner is a greedy developer who gives nothing to the community and treats his employees and longtime customers like dirt. i sure would love to see that guy get his. feel free to vandalize his business if you are more of a punk than me. PS his name is MIKE SHARPE - Mon, 4 May 2009 8:51pm | ||
| LETSGETRAD! User Info... | this is such a drag. camas was my favorite for shows what was camas doing wrong exactly? - Mon, 4 May 2009 9:35pm Edited: Mon, 4 May 2009 9:39pm | ||
| steve User Info... | NO HAVING FUN! - Mon, 4 May 2009 10:39pm | ||
| Talk's Cheap User Info... | My question would be...how does Camas having shows effect the Roxy and their business AT ALL! the only thing it does is bring more people and LIFE into the neighborhood...and that can't be a bad thing for business. This town continues to dissapoint me. The city of Victoria continuously caters to douchebag business men, and destroys anything vibrant or unique that's happening in this city. It's very frustrating. - Mon, 4 May 2009 10:43pm Edited: Mon, 4 May 2009 10:44pm | ||
| steve User Info... | twilight zone.. brickyard shut down by douche movie theater owner .. camas shut down by douche movie theater owner.. - Mon, 4 May 2009 10:53pm | ||
| colin sic User Info... | The ROXY just bought a full PA system and is planning on having shows in the near future. And it is my understanding that the brickyard stopped doing shows because of a liquor license issue and not because of the odeon next door. Pierre at the odeon is a pretty chill guy - Tue, 5 May 2009 3:48am | ||
| kristian User Info... | !!! - Tue, 5 May 2009 9:58am | ||
| LETSGETRAD! User Info... | blackball the roxy - Tue, 5 May 2009 2:04pm | ||
| Tyler User Info... | sit-down punk rock at the roxy? - Tue, 5 May 2009 2:09pm | ||
| Talk's Cheap User Info... | They won't be booking any worthwhile shows at The Roxy. It will all have to be "events". On a weekend, they'd have to make $500+ for the room before they paid the band, just to make it worth cancelling a movie. And that's if they start shows after 9PM. Plus, like you said...it's a sit-down venue. Book punk or metal, and seats get broken, etc. - Tue, 5 May 2009 3:54pm | ||
| Curmudgeon Rocker User Info... | ol' Howie never woulda pulled this. - Tue, 5 May 2009 4:31pm | ||
| J. Peatman User Info... | How is a benefit show going to help Camas though? Obviously it's a good initiative, but all it could do is help them get through another month, before they're faced with the same financial problems again. - Wed, 6 May 2009 11:01am | ||
| kyle User Info... | then have another benefit show in a month. - Wed, 6 May 2009 1:09pm | ||
| Jl User Info... | "They won't be booking any worthwhile shows at The Roxy. It will all have to be "events"" is this FIRST HAND info? or just an assumption? It would be terrible for a venue, who's simply trying to expand the music scene, to have some idiot(not saying directly that YOU, poster, are an idiot) touting negative feedback to a venue they a)have never played in b)never booked or organized a show at said venue. it could be like me saying that Camas Books has never booked any worthwhile shows for me to attend. And all they do is cater to a crowd that wants everything for nothing... but is that the case? - Wed, 6 May 2009 2:01pm | ||
| k8 User Info... | so is there a way that camas can get the proper licensing to hold shows? how did second story do it? - Wed, 6 May 2009 3:29pm | ||
| Matt "Bass" Williams User Info... | What is the second story? I'd like to know more about this place... - Wed, 6 May 2009 4:53pm | ||
| trevor corey User Info... | I saw Corb Lund there years ago. Sat back in a nice easy chair, sipping on organic tea. It was nice. They still around? - Wed, 6 May 2009 4:57pm | ||
| k8 User Info... | second story is long gone. i think it was due to high rent costs? it was a super chill coffee shop/book store downtown that held all ages shows and it was in the space above (i think) flavour. but anyways, i poked around a bit online but couldn't really find what i wanted to know about business licenses. is it unrealistic for camas to obtain the necessary licensing to host all ages shows? are the workshops still happening? i suppose i should just go down there and talk to comrade myself. - Wed, 6 May 2009 6:56pm | ||
| Something Better User Info... | Hey I am the guy that organized the benefit show. At the time we organized the show Camas had just lost a financial backer, but was still able to have music, they had no idead that there music was going to get shut down at all. We were doing it to help with Cash Flow. . Our event went well btw and we reised a few hundred bucks for Camaas (Thanks to the music going community) We did plan to do thme once a month, to try and keep Camas around specifically becuase it was a place that my band, and lots of others we know have played. No joke, 1 week after our show, the Bylaw rolls by and drops this bomb. In a way I feel bad all of a sudden becuase I wonder to myself . . . By publicizing the fact that people care about Camas, and that it is in fear of going under, did we wake the beast who then saw an opportunity to come drive a nail in the coffin, while the bookstore was already down. . . All in all a sad situation. Orange Hall is where we held the benefit show because it holds more people that Camas. It only costs 20 per hour to book, and the Woman Muchelle who runs it was awesom with us. We played loud hip hop, and live Reggae Ska for 3 hours and no one complained a peep. We were done by 11:00 and we are playing there again on the 16th of May. I would recomend Orange Hall as a good venue. Got to pick up your own sound setup from LM Though for the night. All in all still worth it. Sound and the space could be yours fro about 100. It not hard to make that back on a 5 dollar show, and the sound in there is great. Shhhh Please dont tell the city there is somewhere to have music, next they will be sending arsonists to burn down the places that do have permits. . . Unite. - Thu, 7 May 2009 2:08am | ||
| Karasu User Info... | I remember seeing D.R.I., Cryptic Slaughter, and Moral Decay at the Roxy. First two or three rows totally destroyed. - Thu, 7 May 2009 6:15pm | ||
| Chris Johnson User Info... | Hey there, I'm a member of the Camas Collective, which runs the bookstore. Actually we run a community space, and book sales are one of the ways we pay the rent, utilities, and insurance. We are all volunteers, and Camas is a non-profit society with the goal of providing accessible community space for community organizing, activism and art. We sell books and host music events as a way to subsidize the space for grassroots community groups that would otherwise not have a space to gather. We want to thank the local music community for helping us provide this space. Yes, after this fundraiser we will need more fundraisers. That's the name of the non-profit game. So we're always looking for bands willing to play a set at a fundraiser. For more info about Camas visit http://camas.ca Thanks again - Fri, 15 May 2009 1:23pm | ||
| Chris Johnson User Info... | I don't know if any of us had heard yet that the Roxy owner was the person who called the city. The bylaw department has told us they had received 3 complaints in the course of a year and a half from business owners, but would not say from who. We're committed to being part of our local neighbourhood here, and we'd rather approach our neighbours and learn how to resolve our issues (if we can) without having to resort to calling the bylaw department or vandalizing property. We plan to assess the impact we have been having on the neighbourhood in a respectful way and do not intend to antagonize anything right now. - Fri, 15 May 2009 1:40pm Edited: Fri, 15 May 2009 1:43pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | I know Jake from the Remanes got pummeled at the DRI gig, I still remember walking past the Roxy cause I wanted to hear DRI, that gig was SO LOUD!!! Wish I had gone to it but if I can remember I was uber broke. - Fri, 15 May 2009 9:41pm | ||
| Bryan User Info... | Sorry to bump this thread for this reason but I wasn't sure where else to ask... does anybody know the contact for Orange Hall? - Wed, 20 May 2009 12:35pm | ||
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