The Palace is closing down...

Post by **Friday** » Thu May 24, 2007 3:58 pm

It's been coming for a long time but it looks like this is finally it for The Palace...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/ ... 49051.html

Post by **system** » Thu May 24, 2007 4:00 pm

bye bye to a good portion of my teens and twenties spent in that cavern.

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Thu May 24, 2007 11:40 pm

Christ! This means all the fuckwits who are safely contained there every Saturday at Twister are going to be loose on the streets!

Jinx · Post by **Jinx** » Fri May 25, 2007 1:34 am

and Bass station ferals will have to find a new home

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Fri May 25, 2007 11:30 am

Hardy wrote:Christ! This means all the fuckwits who are safely contained there every Saturday at Twister are going to be loose on the streets!

Not to mention the big brother rejects!

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Fri May 25, 2007 12:21 pm

I never liked the palace.... It had sooo much potential but I thought it was generally pretty shit.

shepherd · Post by **shepherd** » Fri May 25, 2007 2:13 pm

ugly building and an average venue - i could understand ppl being upset if the espy closed down but the palace was a pretty shit venue that scored so many gigs by virtue of being the only player in the 1000-1500 capacity space.

Post by **Friday** » Fri May 25, 2007 4:04 pm

shepherd wrote:ugly building and an average venue - i could understand ppl being upset if the espy closed down but the palace was a pretty shit venue that scored so many gigs by virtue of being the only player in the 1000-1500 capacity space.

same way i feel about it basically. but the other options in that capacity range are metro and possibly qbh and the palace would be my first preference out of those three....

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Fri May 25, 2007 6:27 pm

Stray wrote:
Hardy wrote:Christ! This means all the fuckwits who are safely contained there every Saturday at Twister are going to be loose on the streets!
Not to mention the big brother rejects!

Get your shotguns drawn people... things are about to get ugly on the streets of Melbourne

Andrez · Post by **Andrez** » Sun May 27, 2007 4:37 pm

...zounds... good luck!!

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Tue May 29, 2007 4:48 pm

I don't see any problem.

Got to see most of the winning presentation the other day, all the developments look dope.

Really really really good for the area.

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Thu May 31, 2007 5:16 pm

Friday wrote:
shepherd wrote:ugly building and an average venue - i could understand ppl being upset if the espy closed down but the palace was a pretty shit venue that scored so many gigs by virtue of being the only player in the 1000-1500 capacity space.
same way i feel about it basically. but the other options in that capacity range are metro and possibly qbh and the palace would be my first preference out of those three....

really? i reckon Metro and qbh are pretty rad venues.

shepherd · Post by **shepherd** » Thu May 31, 2007 11:07 pm

lzikins - metro is good but the main room really has max capacity of about 1100 comfortably

QBH - not sure what it's like now ... used to seem a bit odd.

nic · Post by **nic** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:46 am

jbs wrote:I don't see any problem.

Got to see most of the winning presentation the other day, all the developments look dope.

Really really really good for the area.

by the time that proposal is 'rationalized' there will be no public space and a token tree. ARM are good but the massive commercial pressure will fold most of the 'public realm' features initially flaunted.

anything is better than the palace however, filth. just keep it low and walkable

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:18 am

shepherd wrote:lzikins - metro is good but the main room really has max capacity of about 1100 comfortably

QBH - not sure what it's like now ... used to seem a bit odd.

Yeah but it has levels, and so does QBH. So you can still see down to the main DJ booth.

though it has been a while since i have been to both venues...