MATT GEROVAC - BRENT KIRBY

Hi everyone -

I have made some pretty significant changes to my website home page just recently, I think this version of my page is prolly as 'long' and content rich as I can make it without it being too busy - well, some of yous readers might think it's too busy, ok, I admit, it IS to busy it's JAM PACKED my whole site is lopsided with my home page so rich and thick with significant content. Heh.

OPEN MIC EVENTS AND A NEW MP3 SINGLE ON MY HOME PAGE:
I have posted a long list of significant Open Mic scenes around Cleveland AND I have posted a single MP3: A very mellow 'full band' version of The Burnside Blues that was recorded at Strangelove Recording with Sam Phillips and Tony Koussa Jr. - please oh PLEASE listen to the song.


Ok, enough about my home page, here are some new local music news items for consideration:

Matt Gerovac has kinda been elusive for, like, months now but he is coming out for a show - solo I think - at the house of blues - here are the details he has sent me:

• MATT GEROVAC at the HOUSE OF BLUES on Sat., May 21st at 8p.m. opening for - Paul Fayrewether. For tickets you can go to www.ticketmaster.com or www.hob.com. www.mattgerovac.com (Pssssst: I can't find a site for Paul Fayrewether)

Also, there is a double CD release party - a big un - for Brent Kirby at the HIFI club coming up Thursday May 5th:

You are cordially invited to be an exclusive guest of Brent Kirby and The Flashing 12's 'The Mean Days' CD Release PartyMay 5th, 2005 8:30pmThe Hi Fi Club$5 21 and over $8 under 2111729 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, OH (216) 433-4444 www.hificlub.infoWith Special Guests G.S. Harper The Company Line Jason Jay Guggy Tim Longfellow The Special Appearances by The Jody Grind Kim Kennedy Joey D from Liquid Brent Kirby and The Flashing 12's will perform at 930pm

Anyhow, I hope everything is going well for YOU and YOURS - I am still struggling to make sense of the things that I am trying to make sense of - planning for some time away from CLE this summer - so stay in touch, OK??

BY!

Audra K. - Arabica - Open Mic - Bloging - Email

Hi All Y'all!

Who is out there:
Uhm, actually, I have very little idea who "All Y'all" might even be .. I get so little 'real' email anymore, I get a HUGE pile of bullshit SPAM like every single day and it sucks. I so rarely get an email from someone who has looked at my site and has something to say about it or otherwise just found it usefull, shanggers, maybe it's just not as usefull as I would like it to be!! If you are a reader of my site, please drop me an email line or two just to let me know that you are 'out there'.

Audra Kubat:
For the first time in a very long time I have had a few minutes on the phone with Ms. Kubat and found out that she has just recently released her brand new album!!! If you surf on over to timesbeachrecords.com you will find a tiny picture and a couple of sample mp3 files - I have only just downloaded them and will listen to them later on this evening.

Blogging:
I have only begun to write in my blog again just recently - I was way out of the habit for a long time. And then I rigged up that bit of javascript to show the headlines on my homw page and I think that has helped me to motivate - however, still a huge problem with the script in that the Netscape browser will not show display the headlines and I seriously am completely baffeled as to why this little bit of script won't display the headlines in the netscape browser, if you think you can help please send me a line.

Open Mic and the Arabica Empire:
Ok, for what seems like awhile now I have been meaning to offer a round up of the open mic events in and around town, and even though it might be impossible to get a complete list I have what I think is a pretty good and useful list - there are some new ones coming online at all of these Arabica Cafe's around town:

ARABICA BEDFORD 720 BROADWAY 440-439-0555
Thursday Night Open Mic 7PM with host Dave Terry

ARABICA CLEVELAND 818 E. 185TH STREET 216-486-7777
Saturday Open Mic 8PM no host specified

ARABICA CLEVELAND HTS. 2209 LEE ROAD 216-321-0761
Tuesday Open Mic 8PM with host Charlie Mosbrook back at the helm of things - a particularly notable open mic event with Charlie Mosbrook one of the elder statesmen of open mic and a fine
singer songwriter

ARABICA BROADVIEW 7462 BROADVIEW ROAD 216-520-4437
Thursday Night Open Mic at (no specific time was listed) with host Alan Studt

ARABICA RICHFIELD 4174 WHEATLEY ROAD RICHFIELD 330-659-2030
Thursday Open Mic at 7PM no host specified

ARABICA SHEFFIELD VILLAGE 5322 ABBE ROAD LORAIN 440-934-0900
These guys just ran an ad in one of the local music rags indicating that they were looking for music

ARABICA PARMA HEIGHTS 6285 PEARL ROAD 440-886-6648
These guys just ran an ad in one of the local music rags indicating that they were looking for music

And that about does it for the Arabica cafe's there are probably a few more but these are the ones that I see advertised.

At any rate, I need to get going here tonight - again, please email me with any questions about the music scene at the University Circle Arabica - and dont forget we have Ms. Racheal Sage coming to the cafe for a couple of sets this wednesday April 27 - this is a free show - all ages - smoking and non - non-alchoholic - free wireless internet

gOODbye forNOW!!!

UCA in MAY 2005 : Open Mic Nights : Guitars

There was a good crowd of guys (and one woman singer songwriter, Chelsea Ryan) for the last Open Mike at UCA - thanks all of you for coming out - thanks Dave for blowing that cross harp with me, that made my night, I hope we can do that again soon!

I want to alert all of you to a new Wednesday night happening at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Lyndhurst on - heh, I don't want the whole UCA open mic crowd dodging over there at once, but you all know that we only do open mic twice a month so there are two other nights - anyhow, they have beer and sports TV heh, whatever, it's shapping up to be a decent event, nice PA, MC is Robin Stone, signup between 7 and 8 for a spot to play - and AND - they give away prizes!! Yup, it's a sponsored event, Guitar Center and Budwieser ganging up on the whole thing. Go on up there, BUT WHATEVER YOU DO DONT GO ON WED. 27TH BECAUSE RACHEAL SAGE IS COMING TO UCA!! All of you should come out to this show.

ON THE EAST SIDE Monday nights belong to XELA and the open jam night at the B-Side lounge below the grog shop - heh, you know where that is, dontcha? Anyhow, they have (litteraly) PILES of AMPS and they have drums and mics and everything - just bring an instrument wit you.

ON THE WEST SIDE Monday night jam session and open mic belongs to JIM SNIVELY hosting open mike night at McNamaras 8611 Lake Ave. Cleveland Ohio 44102 216-939-9346

ON THE WEST SIDE on Tuesday night we are back with the Phoenix open mic in Lakewood Ohio on Detroit - a younger crowd, lots of street side action and tea sippin.

I am hammering out the music calendar for MAY and it will be posted soon - briefly we got Zach, Xela, Kate Morrisey, Randy Martin, Brent Kirby (welcome back dude), John Toula and Justin Markert (who BETTER make his gig this time - heh) and we are doing the strangenight again: Adam Probert comes to the cafe and records for two and a half hours. Musicians dont pay anything up front, but if you want your tracks, you gotta go to strangelove recording and sit with Adam for a few minutes while he chats up the studio - generally, tracks recorded at the strangenight can be had on CD for about ten to fifteen bucks for the musicians. Last time we made a CD from the whole night. It was allot of work.

Bela Dubby Cafe in Lakewood has beer and art!!

First, about my auto updating blog headlines issues (like you care anyhow):

April 8 2005 6:19 PM: Ok, in my attempts to create web site perfection I decided I just HAD to try to get my blog headlines from my blog onto my home page, and it (the project) kind of worked, and so far it also kind of doesn’t work. I mean the obsession can’t be a healthy thing, so I had to let it ride. Here’s how it stands: This feature currently works well enough within Internet Explorer. The blog headlines won't print within the Netscape Browser...I am working on figuring out why. I have always found the Netscape Browser to be picky and I am getting this HUGE ridiculous error in Dream weaver that is supposed to be a problem with my style sheet - I can’t find the problem. What - the - fuck - EVER... it's working well enough. I really had to struggle with this feature - seems like the javascript objXML is able to parse the Atom Feed just fine, as long as the index is on my site not the Atom site - I think it's a username password problem, however, this does not look good for trying to pull in other peoples headlines - like r3tr0 - I was hoping to parse HIS blog headlines as well, but R3Tr0 posts his blog to the blogspot, which means the Atom feed is hosted on the Atom site. Whew! So, for the time being, it’s working as well as I can make it work with the current set of technologies. I might change my blog to work differently, but the whole point was to be ale to pull in news feeds from other blogs – anyhow, if ANY of YOU PEOPLE have ANY IDEAS at all then contact me.

BELA DUBBY Art Gallery and Beer Cafe in LAKEWOOD at 13321 MADISON 216-221-4479
I found a really neato local café this past Saturday, one I had been looking for and looking for and could not find – it’s in Lakewood on Madison at 13321 Madison Ave. and the place is called Bela Dubby and the owner woman is a sweetheart – and HUGE BONUS they have a BEER LICENSE and they have an American IPA ON TAP – yeah! Thos of you who know me well enough to know that I like IPA better than any other beer should know that I am rejoicing. They have a huge pretty storefront as well, funny that it’s seems to be so easy to miss. I mean, where have this place like BEEN anyhow?? I suppose it’s been right there. Anyhow, free wireless internet, great coffee, nice space, good beer, art on the walls, it’s lookin’ good for these transplanted New Yorkers and we should al be so happy to have an alternbative to the old Jitters place – which, by the way, seems to have closed down for no good reason and with NO indications of when of if they are coming back again but personally although I really liked the place I could not STAND the indoor smoking and I hope that ALL OF THAT is going away once and for all in Lakewood call me a prude or whatever I don’t care.

Here for your convenience are the official (Jill wrote these down for me) is the Bela Dubby hours for Summertime:

Sun & Mon: Closed

Tue through Thurs. - 8am to 8pm

Fridays - 8am to 12am

Sat. - 10am to 12am

Open Mic Nights in Lakewood and Coventry

Open Mic Nights in Lakewood and Coventry

The self proclaimed 'Kid with the long hair' reminded me this past Tuesday that the Capsule Bar in Lakewood at 13376 Madison Ave. continues to host a Monday Night Open Mic ... from 8PM until 2AM - to be somewhat more specific Jeremy is the kid with the long hair, he works with Food Not Bombs and he is the host of the Monday Night show at Capsule. I have not had the pleasure of attending this event just yet, but since I have now been 'officially reminded' I will try to stop in there. Jeremy can be reached at starvationarmyzine@yahoo.com

Jim Snively continues to host the highly successfull and well-attended Monday Night Open Mic at McNamara's Bar just around the corner from Don's Lighthouse where the Shoreway runs into Lakewood - if you need specific information about this event, feel free to contact Jim at his number 216-409-1011 he answers his phone and he is a super pleasant fellow to speak with

Here are a few other choice Open Mic events to consider:

Mon. 10PM The B-Side Lounge - with host XELA
Coventryyard Cle. Hts. 216-932-1966
(This one is not in Lakewood but its a good night in Coventry)

Tues. 8PM Phoenix Coffee Detroit Ave. - with host XELA
Lakewood Ohio 216-226-4401

I have it from the horses mouth that Mr. Xela is prolly skoochin' out-of-town for some travels in June and so will be using some guest host's for his various events.