Bar East Ale House
1733 1st Avenue,
New York, NY 10128.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

The guys at the bar, and the bartender were nice, but it didn’t really feel like an open mic night. It’s not that I’m looking for the pretentious sycophancy of a “coffee shop” environment, just a little engagement from the audience. Not sure I’ll go back to this one.

Comments

• Called to check sign-up time: 7pm, starts at 8pm.
• About a mile from the subway.
• Arrived at 7:15pm to sign up and the place was dead aside from a few friendly locals.
• Sound guy arrived at 8:30pm and had trouble getting the mics working.
• Other performers started to arrive around 8:45pm.
• 9pm I helped the sound guy fix the mic problems – bad mic and channel on the desk.
• Four songs, went first, started playing at 9:15pm.
• Noisy and seemingly disinterested room.