Posts Tagged ‘satellite’

More Deets on CVS on the Corner

C-Ville Weekly reads our rumors about Satellite and CVS and does a follow up story.

I like the C-Ville, but seriously, could you mention us in the article as an inspiration for your journalistic pursuits?

Anyway, despite the fact that we are mere “blog chatter,” we still don’t know anything about the situation.  The article doesn’t mention the whole discussion started as a result of the still unconfirmed rumor that Satellite’s lease will not being renewed.

The C-Ville does report that CVS hasn’t signed anything but they did look at the space.  It’s all still a rumor, that’s the story.

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Satellite Ballroom’s Lease Rumored to Not Be Renewed

Heard this from a birdie this morning:

Satellite Ballroom’s lease won’t be renewed.  No clue on when it’s up, just that it’s over.  Wonder if Coran will put the push on finishing renovations at The Jefferson, to fill the void?  Came from another music person in town.  Trustworthy.

Who knows when this will happen or more deets to this rumor?

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Jim Waive and the Young Divorcees album release party, Satellite Ballroom, Charlottesville, Va.

[written by colfer]

Jim Waive and friends were phantasmagorically fun. I don’t think there was a person there that did not at least have to suppress their joys of having fun. The fun was skittling around the plank floors and running out the light poles. Fun was riding the air and surfing sixteenth notes down the breaks of the Waive of humanity.

Now I have not been out anywhere the last few years where people really let loose, that’s hard to do when everybody’s got a video camera in their phone & there’s a senseless war spilling blood with our names on it. But at times at these events, you do get a community vibe & a sort of contagious mellow beauty that is different from the nineties. Some of these kids brag about their “second generation alternative thinking” or whatever, but let’s get to the music.

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