As seen on Neighborhood Beat: Bushwick:
Get out your maps and locate 1087 Broadway as soon as possible. Put on a light jacket, bring along your open mind and be prepared to surround yourself by what may very well be a true eclectic’s heaven. Welcome to Goodbye Blue Monday.
Everybody has one of these: the relative who’s ‘a bit odd.’ At the reunions there might be whispers of “syndromes” and “strange behavior” and a variety of other backyard psychological analysis. But when you were a kid, visiting this particular relative’s house was like a visit to a museum of awesomeness; stacks upon stacks of old records, Barbie dolls in various states of undress, a graveyard of electronics, crocheted umbrellas, colored glass sculptures, jars of buttons, beads and butterflies– if you could collect it, this relative had it. And displayed it with pride, much to the dismay to the other family members.
Walking into Goodbye Blue Monday is like visiting that museum of awesomeness again. Except this time there’s coffee. And someone is singing about how hard it is to be a black cat in a gentrified neighborhood (or playing a saw solo, or simply snapping into a microphone while talk/singing about the importance of birthdays, etc.)
Goodbye Blue Monday welcomes any and all forms of artistic performance and expression, even going so far as having a “free booking policy.” If you want to perform, Goodbye Blue Monday will give you a stage. But be warned: “If you suck, you’re going to know it.,” says Goodbye Blue Monday’s founder Stephen Trimboli. “But we won’t stop you from trying again.”
So the next time you have a yearning to hear some violin metal, saw solos or perhaps the next big thing (see: Vampire Weekend), head over to Bushwick and pull up a stool or stack of phone books and let the mind take it all in at Goodbye Blue Monday.
Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway
Brooklyn 11221
www.goodbye-blue-monday.com
To watch this and other Neighborhood Beat: Bushwick episodes, tune Monday – Friday at 12:30pm and 8:30pm on Time Warner 56, Cablevision 69, RCN 84 and Verizon 44. You can also watch all episodes of Neighborhood Beat on demand on the Neighborhood Beat web page. (Or download your favorite episodes on iTunes, keyword: “Neighborhood Beat”)
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