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The Metropolis - 1983

The Metropolis - 1983 shows

207 Second Ave S.

From Clark Humphrey's book Loser: "In mid-1983, Gordon Doucette and French college dropout Hugo Piottin co-founded a very cool all-ages space in Pioneer Square. The Metropolis was cooperatively run with a healthy DIY spirit.During its nine-month life it was more like a community center than a commercial club. People volunteered to mount shows, create and distribute posters, run the door, serve pop, and clean up. Doucette's then-girlfriend Susan Silver helped run the place; she and Doucette advised Hugo on what bands to book... It was a tall, spacious room with a wooden floor, a sandbox in the center, galvanized walls, and good acoustics. The space closed when developers of a condo next door pressured the landlords to kick it out. The last show was on March 6, 1984."


April 1983

1 - Red Masque, Mad Dash 

May 1983

13 - Face Ditch, Colour Twigs 
20 - Applied Science, Beat Pagodas, Ultra Violet Catastrophe
21 - Mr Epp, Room 9, Young Pioneers
27 - Moving Parts, Memory 
28 - Shockabilly (NY), Face the Nation 

June 1983

3 - Hurricanes, Alley Gators
4 - Mutabaruka (Jamaica), Earl "Chinna" Smith & The High Times Players (Jamaica), Sundance
10 - Memory, Room 9 (Note: Jah Wobble was originally scheduled to play this date but apparently canceled)
11 - Fastbacks, The New U-Men 
17 - Visible Targets, Septimus 
18 - Whipping Boy (Palo Alto), Double Cross
24 - Gun Club (LA), U-Men 
25 - Really Red (Houston), Mr. Epp, Fastbacks
26 - Sundance
30 - Rebel Truth (Sacramento), Eye on You

July 1983

1 - Slidin' Spades, Hiccups
2 - Moral Lepers (Vancouver BC), Noh Special Effects (this date/lineup is from Rocket, PI has this show on 7/16)
4 - Personality Crisis (Winnipeg)
6 - DJ Night w/Helene Silverman & Robert Newman
8 - Rank & File (Austin)
9 - Red Dress, Chains Of Hell Orchestra
13 - DJ Night w/Norman Batley
15 - Accused, Mr. Epp, YBGB 
16 - Scissors, Radio Moscow (The PI has Moral Lepers and Noh Special Effects on this night)
20 - DJ Night w/Wayne Foster & Steve Marcus
22 - Bad Brains (DC), Aerobic Death, Life in General
23 - Hurricanes, Slidin’ Spades
27 - DJ Night w/Bruce Pavitt
29 - Wipers (PDX), Young Pioneers
30 - Barbara Paige & The Reggae Allstars

August 1983

2 - Animal Slaves 
5 - Red Masque, Cinema 90, Room 9
6 - John Cale (UK), Memory, Napalm Beach (PDX)
8 - Alan Vega (NY), Moberleys (canceled?)
12 - Animal Slaves, Color Twigs, U.V.C.
13 - Student Nurse, Mad Dash
19 - Beat Pagodas, U.V.C.
20 - 3 Teens Kill 4 (NY), Moral Lepers (Vancouver BC), Chains of Hell Orchestra
21 - Asiyah Jah
24 - CH3 (CA), Rejectors 
26 - Life In General, Slidin' Spades
27 - Red Masque, MOEV (Vancouver BC), Strength Through Joy

September 1983

2 - Scream (DC), U-Men, Sharing Patrol
6 - Personality Crisis (Winnipeg), YBGB, Silly Killers
9 - Modernettes (Vancouver BC), Fastbacks, YBGB
10 - Visible Targets, Chains of Hell Orchestra
15 - Vancouver 5 Benefit - Altered, Student Nurse, Chains Of Hell Orchestra, Sympathy Cards, Deranged Diction 
17 - Mad Dash, Beat Pagodas 
23 - Red Dress, Student Nurse
24 - 54/40 (Vancouver-ish BC), Room 9, Michael Layton
25 - Shockabilly (NY)
30 - Emerald Street Boys, Exposure

October 1983

1 - Los Popularos (Vancouver BC), Young Pioneers, Circle Seven
6 - Street Kids Benefit w/ Shanghai Dog (Vancouver BC), Fastbacks, 10 Minute Warning, Silly Killers, Moral Crux
7 - Rock Against Reagan w/Deranged Diction, Circle 7, Death of Marat, Altered, Sharing Patrol
8 - Poison Idea (PDX), Accused, Rejectors
13 - Arousing Spirit
14 - Sleeping Dogs, Rejectors, Noh Special Effects
15 - Room 9 (possibly canceled), Bam Bam, Tse Tse Force 
16 - Circle Jerks (no-show), Hüsker Dü (Minneapolis), Malfunkshun, Deranged Diction 
21 - The 45s, Slidin’ Spades (Both the Rocket and Seattle PI have these bands playing this date, however, a flyer exists which has Martyr Corps, Extreme Hate, and Truth Decay on this date.)
22 - Colour Twigs, Cinema 90
27 - Violent Femmes (Milwaukee), Probes, Altered 
28 - Ultra Violet Catastrophe, Chains Of Hell, Death Of Marat
29 - Halloween Party w/Red Masque, Dark Show, Enstruction, PMA, Tse Tse Force

November 1983

4 - Red Dress, Tse Tse Force, Pop-A-Tears
5 - The Accused (?), Truth Decay, Boot Boys, Spluii Numa
11 - Bam Bam, Room 9, Young Pioneers
12 - 10 Minute Warning, U-Men, YBGB 
16 - Shanghai Dog (Vancouver BC), Enigma, Aerobic Death 
18 - The Neats (Boston), Chains Of Hell Orchestra, Memory
25 - Bohemia (Minneapolis), Tse Tse Force
26 - D.O.A. (Vancouver BC), Fastbacks, Spluii Numa, Richard Peterson (This is the lineup on the flyer. The Rocket has Napalm Beach on the bill but not Spluii Numa or Richard Peterson)
30 - The Replacements (Minneapolis), The Accused, 10 Minute Warning 

December 1983

1 - A Western Family (The Rocket lists only “Live Music & Art Show” on this date)
2 - Video Night w/ Accused, Chains of Hell Orchestra, Husker Du & more 
3 - Sado Nation (PDX), Mr. Epp, Spluii Numa, Boot Boys (A flyer exists which has Capitol Punishment instead of Sado Nation. There is a different flyer w/Sado Nation on it)
8 - Kate Bush Video Presentation
9 - Accused, U-Men, Fastbacks, (The Rocket adds Mr. Epp to this bill)
10 - Red Masque, Altered (The Rocket adds Surfers to this bill, but according to review in local 'zine Disgorge & flyer info, Alice Moving played)
11 - D.O.A (Vancouver BC), Industrial Waste Banned, Rejectors, Truth Decay 
16 - Butthole Surfers (San Antonio), Ten Minute Warning, Deranged Diction, Extreme Hate
17 - 54/40 (Vancouver-ish), Colour Twigs, Grapes of Wrath (Kelowna, BC), A Western Family  
18 - Wipers (PDX), U-Men, Circle 7, Altered
20 - Next Exit Record Release Party
23 - Room 9, Junco Run, Bundle of Hiss, PMA
30 - Condemned to Death, Spluii Numa, Detonators, Aerobic Death
31 - Young Pioneers, Room 9, Fred, The Nurse, Baba Yaga (Art Beat may have performed as well)

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