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Venue Spotlight: Belly Up Aspen
Hosting over 300 live concerts a year, Belly Up Aspen is where Aspen goes for live music. The venue is laid back and intimate, but the artists that they feature are some of the biggest names in every genre of music out there.
Upcoming Shows:
- Mishka and Anuhea (May 16th)
- Elan (May 18th)
- Grouplove with Reptar (May 20th)
- A Silent Firm (May 21st)
- Here We Go Magic (May 22nd)
- Best Coast (May 25th)
- Lee Scratch Perry feat. SubAtomic Sound System (May 26th)
- The Big Wrap- 520 E Durant Ave
- Matsuhisa- 303 E Main St
- Brexi Brasserie- 411 S Monarch St
- Pyramid Bistro- 221 E Main St
- J Bar- 330 E Main St.
- Zane’s Tavern- 308 S Hunter St
- Hunters Bar- 430 E Cooper St
- 39 Degrees- 709 E Durant Ave
Venue Specs
Belly Up Aspen is an all ages club, however kids under 6 are not permitted. Certain shows may be 18+ or 21+, but the website and ticket will specify.
Parking at Belly Up Aspen can be tricky, because it is in a booming area, especially in the winter peak season. There are hourly parking spots and garages in the area, but be sure to arrive early to get a good spot.
Belly Up is a smoke-free environment, however those 21+ are able to leave and re-enter as they please to smoke in designated areas.
Belly Up Aspen- 450 S. Galena St. Aspen 81611
Erin L., Marketing Intern
Venue Spotlight: Belly Up Solana
Voted San Diego’s Best Live Music Venue, Belly Up Solana boasts an atmosphere that is uniquely Southern California. Belly Up is known for bringing in the best artists, both up and coming acts and the legends, no matter the genre.
Upcoming Shows:
- Whiskey Avengers (Apr. 24)
- Walter Trout (Apr. 25)
- Jungle feat. Terrakroma (Apr. 26)
- Stepping Feet (Apr. 27)
- The White Buffalo (Apr. 28)
- Abbey Road (Apr. 29)
- BFD Comedy Show (May 1)
- Lindsey Buckingham (May 3)
Hungry? These restaurants are super close to the venue!
- Wild Note Cafe- 143 S. Cedros Ave
- Zinc Cafe- 132 S. Cedros Ave
- Lockwood Table Cafe- 346B S. Cedros Ave
- Beach Grass Cafe- 159 S. Hightway 101
Thirsty? Grab a drink post show at one of these nearby hotspots!
- Tidewater Tavern- 221 N. Highway 101
- McCaffrey’s Pub- 123 W. Plaza St
- Carruth Cellars Winery- 320 S. Cedros Ave
Venue Specs:
Parking is completely free at Belly Up, with designated spots to the right of the club. Street parking is also available.
Belly Up is a 21+ venue, no exceptions. Be sure you bring your ID to get in!
Belly Up is a no smoking venue, but there are designated smoking areas outside.
Belly Up Solana- 143 S. Cedros Ave Solana Beach 92075
Erin L., Marketing Intern
Venue Spotlight: Warehouse Live
Just a few blocks from the heart of Downtown Houston in the up and coming EaDo District is Warehouse Live, a repurposed 1920′s warehouse and one of a kind concert venue. Due to its size and location, Warehouse Live is able to host events large and small, and books some of the biggest names in music today.
Upcoming Shows:
- The Melvins (Apr. 20)
- Buckcherry with James Durbin, Redlight King (Apr. 25)
- We Created This with Trick Daddy, Mia X, Twista (Apr. 26)
- Say Anything with Kevin Devine & the Goddamn Band, Fake Problems, Tallhart (Apr. 27)
- Teedra Moses (Apr. 28)
- Todd Snider with Kevn Kinney (May 3)
- The Fight to Unite Tour ft. Blood On the Dance Floor & Brokencyde (May 4)
- Chamillionaire & Paul Wall (May 4)
Fill up before the show at one of these eateries that are walking distance from Warehouse Live!
- District 7 Grill- 1508 Hutchins
- Huynh Restaraunt- 912 St. Emanuel St.
- Texas Barbecue House- 2401 Texas St.
- Cafe Shoppe- 2006 Walker St.
- Calliope’s Po-boy- 2130 Jefferson St.
Keep the party going, and have a drink at one of these nearby bars after the show!
- Lucky’s Pub- 801 St. Emanuel St.
- Little Woodrow’s East End- 2019 Walker St.
- Cork Soakers- 2024 Rusk
Venue Specs:
Usually, with a venue so close to Downtown, parking can be ridiculously hard to find. But, Warehouse Live is located amongst the unmetered streets of the Warehouse District and has three lots near each corner of the venue that provide cheap, easy parking.
All shows are all ages, unless specified on the ticket.
Warehouse Live is a non-smoking venue, but there is plenty of room outside in the designated smoking areas.
Warehouse Live- 813 St. Emanuel St. Houston 77003
Erin L., Marketing Intern
Profilin’: Neal G.
Neal G. is totally rad. He sells, wheels and deals, and charms the hell out of our future clients. He’s super tall, quite handsome, has a LOVELY wife who is much smaller than him. Oh… and he also runs to work sometimes. Yes, he runs all the way from home into downtown and to work. HOTT.
1) What do you do at Front Gate Tickets?
Talk with venues, festivals, and promoters all across North America about the awesome products and features Front Gate Tickets offers that can help them sell more tickets and promote and grow their business. If you’re interested in selling tickets through Front Gate, call me. Seriously – I’m your guy.
2) What are some bands you’re really digging right now?
All over the place right now – Robert Ellis, Perfume Genius, Kurt Vile, Sbtrkt, JD McPherson. Last week I only listened to Radiohead though because I went going to their ACL Live taping.
3) What’s the best show you’ve ever seen?
Sticking with Radiohead on this one – summer of 2000 I saw Radiohead in Florence’s Piazza Santa Croce . I walked to the Piazza at about 11am just to make sure I’d be front and center by the time they came on. “How to Disappear Completely”, “Planet Telex”, “Bones”, all the new Kid A stuff… the Italians were going nuts and I really thought I may have been crushed to death during a few sets, but it was epic. Hum in ’95 or ’96 in Houston was awesome too. (Hum rules. – Shrie)
4) What’s your absolute favorite book and why?
“The Young Lions” by Irwin Shaw. It’s an old WWII novel that twists your conscience, blurring the line between good vs evil, and leaves you attached to men on both sides of the battle.
5) If you could hang out with one band/artist or music industry mogul who would it be and why?
Right now it’d be Bill Graham – just to see him in action and hear his story in person would be incredibly inspiring. He persevered through some serious obstacles and setbacks in his early life which would have sidelined most people, but, in spite of it all, really did amazing things in his life. It’d also be really cool to hang with Levon Helm.
6) Would you care to share an interesting tidbit about yourself?
I’m feeling very uninteresting compared to my coworkers – semi–pro violinist, heir to the zipper inventor, food critic – that’s a high bar! Hmmm, as a summer job in college I worked on an offshore oil rig. That’s interesting, right? My boss was a legally blind crane operator everyone called Pork Chop (I never knew his real name) and he nearly killed me on two separate occasions… one of which I ended up with a broken ankle. We also rode out two hurricanes one summer and I was once somehow the only one around when a fire broke out. Looking back, I’m really glad I stuck with it, but even more glad I don’t have to go back. Now at the Front Gate office the worst injury I may sustain is a Nerf gun hit to the head. I’ll take it.
Profilin’: Ashley T.
In our fourth company profile feature, we meet Ashley T., woman about town/wrangler of all things FGT and an all-round damn good woman. She keeps us all on our toes, drops off holiday cookies sometimes and buys us breakfast tacos every other Friday. In other words, SHE IS THE BEST AND WE LOVE HER FOREVER.
1) What do you do at Front Gate Tickets?
I’m the Operations Manager for the Venues & Promoters department. I manage two Account Managers (Tess Y. & Lauren L.) and a Ticketing Assistant (Jamie K.) in addition to supporting my own roster of clients. I help clients setup and manage their events and work festival box offices from time to time. In addition, I help with development and bugs in the system.
2) What are some bands that you’re really digging right now?
I have to say that I am definitely not as hip as Natalie and Lauren, who have already been introduced. In fact, I’m probably less hip than 85% of the employees at FGT. Now, to answer your question… I am constantly listening to Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies, A.A. Bondy, Ryan Adams and I just recently let Bon Iver in to my life.
3) What’s the best show you’ve ever seen?
I’m not a Marilyn Manson fan, but I saw him perform at Roseland Ballroom in NY a few years ago and it BLEW my mind. I was so scared pretty much the entire time… it really stuck with me.
4) What’s your absolute fave movie and why?
I think it might be Jurassic Park. I was just thinking recently that I’ve probably seen that movie more than any other movie in my life. I watch the entire thing almost every single time it’s on TV and we all know that’s at least 1-2 times per month. That must mean it’s my favorite movie, right? (I’ve seen it SO much as well. Great flick. – Shrie)
5) If you could hang out with one band/artist or music industry mogul who would it be?
Honestly, I don’t really have a dream to hang out with anyone in particular. I’ve met plenty of moguls and artists and I learned pretty quickly that they’re just people. Some are interesting, some are not… some are a-holes and some could be your next best friend.
6) Would you care about sharing an interesting tidbit about yourself?
I play classical violin. I guess I should say that I played it since I haven’t opened the case this year but it’s just like riding a bike… I play the violin. I started in 5th grade and I spent every waking moment from elementary through senior year of high school practicing and playing in orchestra at school and around town. I wanted nothing more than to be a professional violinist up until my last year of high school when I honestly think I chickened out. A bunch of my friends actually did it and I kind of regret not sticking with it now but the idea of relying on a talent that could be ended so swiftly with a broken finger scared me. So, here I am… working in ticketing!
Profilin’: Paul H.
Over the holiday weekend, feelings of togetherness and all that warm stuff seemed to overcome our desperate young hearts at the dinner table on the eve of Thanksgiving. It was a consensus around the office that what we were most thankful was you! Yes, you; our confidant, customer and fellow member of the music mafia.
In our third company profile feature, it’s our pleasure to introduce you to our tech guru, Paul H. Paul is the affable problem solver around Front Gate Tickets these days. He fixes our phone lines (when we can’t figure out how to set our own passwords) and navigates the difficult world of networking our printers. When we forget our email passwords he’s there to save the day… but he does SO much more… meet PAUL H.!
1) What do you do at Front Gate Tickets?
I’m a Systems Administrator! I help the developers keep everything running and sane, while also fixing everyone’s desk computers, phones, and being the go-to guy for any technical advice. That’s the basics, though the challenges change every day. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
2) What are some bands that you’re really digging right now?
I’ve been listening to A LOT of the new Los Campesinos! album, “Hello Sadness”. It’s not quite as awesome as their last couple, but has the same energy that their previous endeavors had. Other than that, Mike Doughty’s new album is also pretty great, but is a little too Soul Coughing to someone who started listening to him solo.
3) What’s the best show you’ve ever seen?
It wasn’t the largest, and wasn’t the most important, but my best experience was seeing The Futureheads at Emo’s indoor stage about six months ago. They were on tour with The So-So Glos and Young the Giant (!), and for their encore they brought everyone on the tour out and we all sang along to “Hounds of Love” in a huge chorus. Glorious.
4) What’s your absolute fave movie and why?
True Stories! It’s the story of a small, fictional, Texas town in the 1980s, as told by David Byrne with music from the Talking Heads. Starring Byrne and ridiculously young John Goodman, it’s just awesome and inspirational without being sappy, and is infused with intense surrealism in any scene. If you have a chance to see it in a theater (The Alamo Drafthouse here in Austin played it for one of their events), take it! It just might change your life. Also, if you didn’t grow up in Texas, it’s a great primer for how the chip manufacturing industry affected this state in the 70s and 80s. – (This movie is totally awesome. – Shrie S.)
5) If you could hang out with one band/artist or music industry mogul who would it be?
Ted Leo. That might seem random, but he’s a witty political guy who is an enormous nerd. In the same vein, David Byrne. It’d be hard to choose.
6) Would you care about sharing an interesting tidbit about yourself?
I’ve only ever lived in capitals, moving to Austin from Washington, DC about 5 years ago. I’m not sure if that’s a tidbit or a factoid, so if you can be more specific I’ll totally answer something else.
Blog post created by Richard R., the intern
Profilin’: Natalie D.
You TOTALLY love us and want to grab a beer sometime… when we’re not busy selling tickets to the raddest shows around, building kick-ass websites for our sweet clients and coming up with new and groundbreaking ticketing technology! BUT, alas you don’t really know us. And we certainly don’t get into cars with strangers.
But hey, maybe we could make this work. We see a future here… so sit back, relax and let us continue to introduce ourselves to you. Ya know, so we can grab that beer.
In our second company profile feature, we call your attention to the girl that’s hipper than the zipper, Natalie D. Ever wonder who injects the fun into our festivals? If you guessed Natalie, you’d be right. By learning more about our girl below, I’m sure you’ll be able to come to the same conclusion in no time at all.
1) What do you do at Front Gate Tickets?
I am the Account Coordinator in the Festivals department, so I work on a smorgasbord of festival-related things. I try to help clients and patrons have the best festival experience ever.
2) What are some bands that you’re really digging right now?
I’ve been watching way too much “Felicity” on Netflix, so I’ve mostly been listening to sad and sensitive musicians of past and present. Elliott Smith is in that rotation pretty heavily- Felicity definitely would’ve been upset by his untimely demise. I have also really enjoyed Other Lives’ “Tamer Animals,” Laura Marling’s “A Creature I Don’t Know,” Active Child’s “You Are All I See,” and Gotye’s “Making Mirrors.” Please listen to Gotye, he’s amazing (http://soundcloud.com/gotye). Also, I will never remove Sun Kil Moon’s “Ghosts of the Great Highway” from my earholes. That is the greatest record ever recorded.
3) What’s the best show you’ve ever seen?
It’s a tie! First, the Arcade Fire at Emo’s Outdoor (R.I.P.) in January of 2005. It was right after they released “Funeral,” so they had all this fresh band energy, and I had fallen in love with the record over Christmas. Seeing them in such a small space right before they clobbered over America was a special thing. Close second would be The Dismemberment Plan at The Starlight Ballroom in Philly on their reunion tour in January of 2011. I danced on stage during “The Ice of Boston,” and if you know anything about the Plan, you know that dancing near Travis Morrison while he’s singing about black ice will beat out every other experience of your life.
4) What’s your absolute fave movie and why?
“I was told there’d be no math on this exam.” I’m not going to pretend I have some lofty “Lawrence of Arabia” favorite. My favorite movie is “Reality Bites,” and it will be forever.
5) If you could hang out with one band/artist or music industry mogul who would it be?
My answer would be no musician ever, as the experience of meeting them always disengages you from their music, no matter how cool that person is. Ian Mackaye is the only exception to that rule. My actual answer is Chris or Josh from Barsuk Records. They have the best taste in music of all time. Any label that signs Nada Surf and the Dismemberment Plan are shooting arrows into my heart.
6) Would you care about sharing an interesting tidbit about yourself?
My great-great Grandfather invented the zipper, and I spent all 13 years of my public schooling trying to convince people of that interesting fact. It just sounds too fake. Also, if I had a time machine, I’d gun it to 88 and stop my GGGF from selling patents so recklessly. I’d be real awesome at being rich.
Blog post created by Richard R., the intern
Profilin’: Lauren L.
As we continue to make your acquaintance through the interwebs, we find it necessary to introduce you to some of the people at Front Gate Tickets that really make this proverbial train “go!” In our inaugural company profile feature, we highlight our lovely Account Manager, Lauren L. With a keen sense of humor and impressive musical muscles, she can make even the most prude swoon. But hey, if you don’t take my word for it, learn more about our ace in the hole below:
1) What do you do at Front Gate Tickets?
I’m an Account Manager in the Venues and Promoters department, so I set up and support ticketing for my clients and make sure they have everything they need to have a successful event.
2) What are some bands that you’re really digging right now?
Most recently I was blown away by the new Youth Lagoon album, The Year Of Hibernation. It’s just a really beautiful, cohesive album, and I’m really looking forward to their show at Emo’s on 11/7. I’ve also been loving this resurgence of the R&B sound in indie releases, with artists like The Weeknd and Frank Ocean. I’ve had Ocean’s nostalgia, ULTRAmixtape in heavy rotation since it got released this past February.
3) What’s the best show you’ve ever seen?
A couple years ago I got to see Ryan Adams at the Paramount Theater from the second row. He is one of my all time favorites, and it just felt like his set was tailored specifically to me. He even played my favorite song, “Desire,” off his Demolition album. More recently though, I went to a show at Stubb’s this past march with Local Natives and GAYNGS co-headlining. There’s not much that can top dancing and singing to two of your favorite bands with about 20 of your best friends. It was a really great night.
4) What’s your absolute fave movie and why?
As cliché as it might be, working in the music industry, I’d have to say Almost Famous. The first time I saw that movie I was so affected by the idea that music could be my profession. I grew up with my mom playing all the music that movie revolves around, and that just made it all the more personal. I also identified with William, probably to an embarrassing degree.
5) If you could hang out with one band/artist or music industry mogul who would it be?
Janis Joplin was my first musical obsession. I remember hearing Pearl and being totally engrossed by her raw emotion and musicality, though I definitely couldn’t have articulated that at the time. I think if she had lived she would have some real wisdom to share, and we’d probably have a pretty fun time together in Austin.
6) Would you care to share an interesting tidbit about yourself?
I know every word of Salt-N-Pepa’s “Whatta Man,” and it may or may not dictate my standards in a guy.
Blog post created by Richard R., the intern
