THE VOGUE - 1987

The following is a list of shows that took place at the Vogue in 1987. The Vogue was located at 2018 First Ave.

Sources: The Rocket, Seattle Times, Seattle PI, Clark Humphrey's "Loser" book, Claudia Gehrke (Vogue Booking Agent)

Vogue History and 1984-1986 show listings

1988 Vogue show history

January 1987

6 - Paisley Sin

7 - Walkabouts

13 - The Blacks

14 - 4 Bad Dudes

20 - Skin Yard

21 - Variant Cause

27 - Room Nine

28 - Applied Science

February 1987

2 - Living Dolls

3 - Handful Of Dust

8 - Acme Theatrics

10 - Blue For Mary, Pure Joy

11 - Blue For Mary, Field Day

17 - Bark In The Dark

18 - First Thought

24 - Malfunkshun

March 1987

1 - Acoustic Benefit

3 - Mace

4 - Frames (record release)

11 - Blue Baboons

17 - Chemistry Set

18 - Cryin’ Wolf

25 - Soundgarden, Feast

April 1987

1 - The Naked Into, Skin Yard

8 - Faiye West & The Bleeding Hearts, Jackals

14 - Girl Trouble

15 - Napalm Beach, White Boys

21 - Catbutt

22 - Atom Age Vampire, H-Hour

29 - 64 Spiders, My Eye

May 1987

5 - Young Sires

6 - ADRD, Pan Ams, Dr. Suess

12 - Room Nine

13 - Melting Fish, Soma

19 - The RNR Project

20 - Paisley Sin

26 - Thunderhead, Wicked Babe

27 - Weather Theater

June 1987

2 - Picture This

3 - Psycotazia

9 - Ash

10 - Feast, Chemistry Set

16 - Violet Caste, First Thought

17 - Soundgarden, H-Hour

23 - Girl Trouble

24 - Malfunkshun, Crisis Party

30 - Eve’s White Horsemen

July 1987

1 - Green River

7 - Serious Dark Angels

8 - The Young Sires

14 - Atom Age Vampire

15 - The Wheel

21 - Crypt Kicker 5

22 - Skin Yard

26 - Babyteeth

28 - F-Holes

29 - U-Men

August 1987

4 - Wicked Babe, Painfully Pretty

5 - Psycotazia

11 - Splinter Party

12 - Paisley Sin

18 - Boom Boom GI, Disappearing

19 - Room Nine

23 - “Namaste” A Musical Phenomenon

25 - H-Hour, Napalm Beach, Guests

26 - Kinetics

September 1987

1 - Violet Caste

2 - First Thought, Action Buddie

8 - Shiva Dancing (SF), Death & Taxes

9 - Melvins, Boom Boom GI

13 - Sub Pop Sunday w/Swallow

15 - Crypt Kicker 5

16 - Ash, Coffin Break

22 - Kevin Evans, Urban Noise Unit, Melting Fish

23 - The Furies (SF), Vexed

29 - Chemistry Set, Swallow

30 - Bundle Of Hiss, Seers Of Bavaria

October 1987

6 - Splinter Party

7 - The Wheel

13 - Colour Twigs

14 - Weather Theater

20 - Color Anxiety

21 - Ars Divina Explosion

25 - Sub Pop Sunday w/Chemistry Set

28 - F-Holes, Always August

November 1987

10 - Coffin Break, Atom Age Vampire

11 - Mace, Opresso Libre

17 - Disappearing, Vexed

18 - Catbutt, Swallow

24 - John Sex, Oklahomasexuals

December 1987

1 - Danger Bunny, Terry Lee Hale

2 - Skin Yard, Special Guest

8 - ADRD, URU

9 - First Thought, Weather Theater

15 - Obituaries, Blood Circus

16 - Soundgarden, Special Guests

22 - Malfunkshun, Swallow

27 - Sub Pop Sunday w/Dead Moon

29 - Paisley Sin, Action Buddie

30 - The Wheel, Couch Of Sound

THE VOGUE - 1984-86

The Vogue 

2018 First Ave 

Intro from Clark Humphrey’s book, “Loser”: 

“Ex-Tugs employees Alan Lucier and Ted Ladd joined with former Wrex partner Aaron McKiernan to revive WREX as the Vogue, opened on Jan. 15, 1983. Terry Morgan and Carlo Scanduzzi helped design the space, turning the new wave video bar into a blue-neon intimate disco with DJs on the weekends, bands on the slow nights of Tuesday and Wednesday.”

Longtime Vogue booking agent Claudia Gehrke (Claude Lemon): 

“I started at the Vogue before there was live music. I came in on the ground floor as a door girl when it opened, because I lived with Upchuck, and the owners knew that I knew the Tugs crowd and wanted them to hang. This would’ve been 1983. Back then the gay scene pretty much owned the club. Aaron McKiernan was picking up the remnants of WREX. The entire place was very different before live music took over. Art shows, kinda upscale snob, mixed with some great talent behind the bar. The music sucked, but the big-screen video was one of a kind. The opening of “Thriller” on the big screen, for example, was a big deal. I was just a door girl, but I wanted to DJ. Eventually they let me DJ a Prince night. Initially the Vogue was only open weekends (for the benefit of the wealthy Bellevue 'yuppie' crowd), but they eventually expanded to Thursdays. Then I got the Wednesday slot, more of a funk-punk thing. After a while, I started railing for live music. I had to fight to have more than one band on a bill in the beginning, and then I came up with my formula for Tuesday and Wednesday, to be a little different from each other."

1984 

September 1984 

26 - Cinema 90 

October 1984

7 - Next Exit 

18 - Beat Pagodas 

 November 1984 

 8 - Fade To Black 

15 - 3 Teens Kill 4, Room 9 

 1985 

January 1985 

9 - Visible Targets 

23 - Green Pajamas 

30 - Colour Twigs 

February 1985 

6 - Life In General 

March 1985 

13 - Pop-O-Pies 

20 - True West, Rebel Blade 

April 1985 

17 - Work Party 

May 1985 

1 - U-Men 

15 - Cabaret Voltaire Video Presentation 

21 - Brides Of Frankenstein, Paisley Sin 

22 - The F-Holes 

29 - Go Four 3 (Vancouver BC) 

30 - Day For Night Fashion Show 

June 1985 

5- Grapes Of Wrath 

July 1985 

9 - Brides Of Frankenstein Video Shoot 

10 - The Vipers 

17 - Room 9 

19 - Napalm Beach 

31 - The 57’s 

August 1985 

7 - The Dripdrys

14 - Beat Pagodas

21 - Feast 

28 - Durango 5

September 1985 

25 - Paisley Sin 

October 1985 

2 - Violet Caste 

8 - Wally Danger: Fashion Show & Art Opening 

9 - Bark In The Dark 

16 - The Frames 

23 - Me 

30 - Stanley’s Wife 

November 1985 

6 - Skin Yard 

13 - Variant Cause 

20 - The Hood 

27 - Napalm Beach 

December 1985 

18 - Rebel Blade 

1986 

February 1986 

5 - No News 

12 - Living Dolls 

19 - Paisley Sin 

26 - Life In General 

March 1986 

26 - Usual Suspects 

 April 1986 

 9 - Eve’s White Horses (w/members of Napalm Beach) 

16 - Fastbacks 

23 - Room 9 

30 - Usual Suspects 

May 1986 

29 - Allright! 

June 1986 

11 - Melting Fish 

18 - Green River 

25 - Paisley Sin 

July 1986 

2 - Life In General 

8 - Cherry Bombz 

9 - Living Dolls 
16 - Fastbacks 

23 - Rhythm Pigs, Skin Yard 

30 - Half-Japanese (Baltimore), Velvet Monkeys (D.C.) 

 August 1986 

 6 - Lethal Gospel (S.F.), Vexed 

13 - Queen Annes 

19 - Shark, Hayden 

20 - The Thirty (NYC) 

24 - Bacchanalia 

27 - Room Nine 

September 1986 

10 - Green River (record release) 

October 1986 

1 - Bundle Of Hiss 

8 - Bark In The Dark 

15 - Frames 

22 - The Brittn’s 

28 - Sympathy Cards, Stanley’s Wife 

29 - Serious Dark Angels 

November 1986 

5 - Clay Alien 

12 - Life In General 

19 - Inspector Cazbo & His Secret Angels perform “The Great Galactic Rock Show” 

26 - Feast 

December 1986 

16 - Pure Joy 

17 - ADRD

CENTRAL TAVERN 1987

Central Tavern - 1987
207 First Ave S.

Sources: The Rocket, Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Clark Humphrey's book "Loser"

View Central Tavern history and 1986 show listings

View Central Tavern 1988 show listings

January 1987

2 - The Moberlys & Friends
3 - Soundgarden, Feast, Acoustic (Bundle Of) Hiss
9 - Room 9, Screaming Trees, Pure Joy
10 - Surf Trio, F-Holes, Splinter Party
14 - Tinderbox
16 - U-Men, Melvins
17 - Red Dress, Power Mowers
22 - Handful Of Dust, The Life
23 - Walkabouts, Chemistry Set, Terry Lee Hale
24 - Sea Hags, Green River, Melvins
30 - Jr. Cadillac
31 - Variant Cause, Prudence Dredge

February 1987

1 - Love Tractor, Screaming Trees
6 - Moving Parts, Never Never
7 - Joe Average, Working Stiffs
13 - Living Dolls, Acoustinauts
14 - Room 9, Pure Joy, Soundgarden, Skin Yard, Bundle Of Hiss, Ash
20 - Variant Cause, Prudence Dredge
21 - Room 9, Walkabouts, Blue Movie
25 - Rangehoods, Joe Average
26 - Living Dolls, Power Mowers
27 - Kinetics, F-Holes
28 - Always August, Moving Parts, Splinter Party

March 1987

1 - Jimmy McCracklin w/Drivin' Wheel
2 - Isaac Scott Band, Tom McFarland, David Brewer, Kim Field
3 - Jr. Cadillac
5 - Scratch Acid, U-Men
6 - Until December, First Thought, ADRD
7 - Surf Trio, Spirits West
13-14 - Jr. Cadillac
17 - Splinter Party
20 - Jackals, Renegades
21 - Living Dolls, Frames
22 - Frames
27 - Napalm Beach, F-Holes
28 - Red Dress, Acoustinauts

April 1987

3-4 - Rank & File, F-Holes, Splinter Party
5 - Mojo Nixon, Gospel Fireballs, The McGuires
9 - Jackals
10 - Colin James
11 - Variant Cause, The Life, Center For Disease Control Boys
16 - Fuzztones, Catbutt, New Age Urban Squirrels (According to members of Fuzztones and Catbutt, this show did not take place)
17 - Room 9, Walkabouts
18 - Jr. Cadillac
24 - Kinetics, Renegades
25 - Life In General, Vena Rays
30 - DOA, NoMeansNo, Crotch Rockets

May 1987

1 - Razorbacks
2 - Henchmen, Rebel Rousers
6 - The Unforgiven
7 - Chemistry Set
8 - Jr. Cadillac
9 - Moving Parts
14 - Rebel Rousers
15 - Renegades, Living Dolls
16 - Jackals, Girl Trouble
21 - Renegades
29 - Faith No More, H-Hour, Skin Yard
30 - Variant Cause, Gospel Fireballs, ADRD

June 1987

3 - Frightwig, Crisis Party
4 - Wild Seeds, F-Holes
5-6 - Jr. Cadillac
11-13 - Razorbacks
18 - Roger Rogers Experiment
19 - Crazy 8's
20 - Living Dolls ("last Seattle gig")
24 - Meat Puppets, Screaming Trees
26 - Pure Joy
27 - Variant Cause, Henchmen
29 - Refuzors 10th Anniversary w/F-Holes

July 1987

2 - Red Dress
3 - Kinetics, Plan B
8 - Dinosaur, Limp Richerds
9 - Splinter Party, Art On Fire
10 - Kinetics, The Life
11 - Jackals, F-Holes, Nights and Days
16 - Splinter Party, Art On Fire
17 - Jr. Cadillac
18 - True 2 Life
23 - Art On Fire
24 - F-Holes, Tall Tales
25 - Flipper, Melvins, The Edge (this lineup may have been scratched as both dailies have Moving Parts playing this date)
31 - Moving Parts, The Life

August 1987

1 - Firehose, Slovenly, Boom Boom GI
5 - NoMeansNo, Feast, Death & Taxes
7 - Jr. Cadillac
8 - Variant Cause, First Thought, R.B. Chop-Chop
13 - The Mentors, St. Vitus
14 - MIA, Napalm Beach
15 - Flat Duo Jets, Kilkenny Cats, Bar-B-Q Killers
21 - TSOL, Soundgarden, Girl Trouble
22 - Jackals, Jet Harris's Burns Brothers
29 - Moving Parts, Plan B

September 1987

4-5 - Razorbacks
6 - Variant Cause, Green Room
11 - Kinetics, Bloody Mary
12 - Cryin' Wolf
17 - Roger Rogers, A Man With A Box, Muffin
18 - Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper, Gary Heffern & The Cunninghams, Gospel Fireballs
19 - The Neighborhoods, Splinter Party
24 - The Furies, Walkabouts
25 - Moving Parts, Pop Mechanics, Strypes
26 - Variant Cause, Ed & The Boats
27 - Flaming Lips, Girl Trouble, Ten Foot Faces

October 1987

2 - Bleached Black, 86, Splinter Party
3 - Sonic Youth, Live Skull
4 - Daddy In His Deep Sleep
9 - Flipper, Sea Hags, Boom Boom GI
10 - Silencers, Icicle Works (The Rocket has the Rangehoods playing on this date)
16 - Jackals, Blubinos
17 - Camper Van Beethoven, Walkabouts, Chemistry Set
23 - Scruffy The Cat, F-Holes, Different Ones
24 - Redd Kross, Soundgarden, Child Support
30 - Jr. Cadillac
31 - Jr. Cadillac, Splinter Party

November 1987

6 - Moving Parts, Partners In Crime
7 - Pure Joy, Room 9
12 - Weather Theater
13 - Leaving Trains, Phantom Tollbooth, Boom Boom GI
14 - Walkabouts, Terry Lee Hale (The Rocket listed Danger Bunny, Green River, Room 9, and Walkabouts on this date, however Green River had broken up before this show occurred.)
18 - Melting Fish
19 - Leroi Brothers, Splinter Party, Renegades
20 - Variant Cause, Cryin' Wolf
21 - Soundgarden (Screaming Life record release), Screaming Trees, Ash
22 - Bundle Of Hiss, Coffin Break
25 - Splinter Party, Rebel Rousers
27 - Variant Cause, Fastbacks, Pop Defect
28 - Kinetics, Plan B

December 1987

4 - Jackals, Blubinos
5 - Je Ka Jo, Danger Bunny
11 - Tall Tales, Cryin' Wolf
12 - Opal, Chemistry Set, Room 9
17 - Duffy Bishop & The Rhythm Dogs, Variant Cause
18 - Snow Bud & The Flower People, F-Holes, Dead Moon
19 - Terry Lee Hale, Chemistry Set, Walkabouts
26 - Jr. Cadillac
31 - Pure Joy, Moving Parts, The Life

CENTRAL TAVERN - 1986

Central Tavern - 1986
207 First Ave S.

Intro from an article written by Paul Dorpat in the April 19, 1992 issue of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

"In April 1892, partners named Jamieson and McFarland opened the Seattle Bar at 207 First Ave S. The place prospered through the Alaska Gold Rush into a Pioneer Square institution where one could drink, eat, gamble, and mail a letter or find a job. The bar's second partnership, Master and Casey, changed its name to the Central Cafe in 1919, during Washington's prohibition. With the end of prohibition, the Central quickly returned to booze and developed an extensive end-of-the-bar trade, selling cheap wines at the front door to the residents of the increasingly down-and-out Pioneer Square neighborhood during the depression of the 1930s. The hard times in this neighborhood never ebbed until the late 1960s, when the preservation of the city's oldest neighborhood became a priority of those not living there. This gentrification helped uproot the thousands of fixed-income tenants living along First Avenue between King Street and the Pike Place Market. It also either closed out or cleaned up a number of their dives, like the Central. During the summer of 1971, Jamie Anderson and Bob Foster, two Boeing engineers, stripped and cleaned the Central to its bare bricks and opened it to they knew not whom. During the '70s the Central became Seattle's hip bar...the birthplace of Seattle's celebration of Fat Tuesday. The opening of the Kingdome in the mid-70s ultimately affected the temper of its neighborhoods. ... The sports crowds that periodically swooped through the district further scattered its traditions, new and old. The Central survived with an altered venue. During the mid-to-late 1980s, one of the oldest bars in Seattle [then owned by Mike and Donna Downing, who operated it from 1982 to 1990] was the stage for its newest popular music. The keepers of the Central's centennial are present owners Jim Napolitano and Guy Curtis. Curtis has something in common with the Seattle Bar's original partnership of Jamieson and McFarland, who after they sold out in 1907, moved two doors north and opened J&M Hotel & Bar. In 1990 Guy Curtis, for years the manager of the modern J&M, moved in the opposite direction."

In 1994, the Central Tavern was renamed the Central Saloon, which it remains to this day, still booking original, local live music most nights.

The first live music listing I could find was dated February 18, 1977, featuring "Chebere." I chose to start my research in 1986, the year when the Central became much more than just a typical Pioneer Square club, thanks to the efforts of booking gods Jan Gregor, Terry Lee Hale, and others.

Sources: The Rocket, Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Central Saloon website "History" page.

1986

January 1986

3-4 - Jackals (PDX), Napalm Beach (PDX)
9-11 - Jim Basnight & The Moberlys
13-14 - Rebel Blade, Vibersonics, Western Front
16 - Danger Bunny
24-26 - Jackals (PDX)
31 - Moving Parts

February 1986

1 - Moving Parts
5 - Rangehoods
6 - The Cowboys
7 - Jackals (PDX), F-Holes
8 - Moving Parts
9 - F-Holes, The Ones
10 - Living Dolls, Prudence Dredge
11 - Kinetics
21-23 - Jim Basnight & The Moberlys
28 - Fastbacks, Know Tomorrow

March 1986

1 - Fastbacks, Know Tomorrow
2 - Volume 3
7-8 - Razorbacks
9 - F-Holes, 64 Spiders
14 - Living Dolls, Prudence Dredge
15 - Living Dolls, Tall Tales
16-17 - Jackals (PDX)
21-22 - Big Daddy
28 - Moving Parts, Muggies
29 - Moving Parts, The Life

April 1986

4-5 - Kinetics, Tall Tales
11-12 - Jackals (PDX), Longhorne Seville
18-19 - F-Holes
25-26 - Matinee Idols

May 1986

2-3 - Moving Parts
9-10 - Razorbacks
16-17 - The Cowboys
23-24 - Kinetics, Spirits West
25 - Skinetics
30-31 - Dynamic Logs

June 1986

6 - Tex & The Horseheads (LA), F-Holes, Girl Trouble, L'Andrew
7 - Red Dress
13-14 - Mark Bristol Band
20-21 - Living Dolls, Broadcasters
27-28 - Moving Parts, Spirits West

July 1986

1 - Carnival Season
2 - F-Holes & Friends
3 - Soundgarden, Malfunkshun, My Eye
4-5 - Kinetics
7 - Daryl Redeker
8 - Emerald Nations
9 - Tall Tales
10 - Pop Defect (LA)
11 - Pure Joy, Room 9, Walkabouts
12 - Camper Van Beethoven (CA), Cat Heads (SF), Walkabouts
16 - Tall Tales
17 - Life In General, Handful Of Dust
18 - Slack (PDX), Fred
19 - Green Pajamas, Paisley Sin
21 - Jim Basnight
23 - Spirits West
24 - Clay Alien, Melting Fish
25-26 - Dynamic Logs
29 - The Ones
30 - Spirits West
31 - Joe Average

August 1986

1 - Leaving Trains (LA), Room 9, Jim Basnight
2 - Kinetics
5 - Denizens Of The Mighty Deep (Chicago)
6 - The Mosquitos
7 - "e", Pure Joy
8 - Red Dress, Acoustinauts
9 - Meat Puppets (Phoenix), Angst (SF)
12 - The Ones
13 - No Trend (DC), Feast
14 - Girl Trouble, Guests
15 - Jackals (PDX), Vena Rays
16 - Rank & File (Austin), F-Holes, Splinter Party
19 - Dogs & Men
20 - 4 Bad Dudes
21 - Pure Joy, Dogs & Men
22 - Lonesome Strangers (LA), F-Holes, The Ones
23 - True Believers (Austin), Spirits West, The Cunninghams
26 - Carnival Season
27 - Dos Pesos
28 - F-Holes
29 - Splinter Party, Spirits West
30 - Arms Akimbo

September 1986

3 - 4 Bad Dudes
4 - Joe Average, Green Ice
5 - U-Men, Girl Trouble
6 - Kinetics
9 - Hubris
10 - Clay Alien
11 - Pure Joy, Bundle Of Hiss
12 - Jr. Cadillac
13 - Jackals (PDX), Neon Cross
16 - Napalm Beach (PDX)
17 Crypt Kicker 5
18 - Skin Yard, House Of Secrets
19 - Living Dolls, Wild Debbies
20 - Zoogz Rift (LA), NoMeansNo (Vancouver BC), Circus Of The Stars
24 - The Ones
26 - Moving Parts
27 - Variant Cause, Life In General

October 1986

2 - Green River, Girl Trouble, Sea Hags (SF)
3 - Spirits West, Power Mowers
4 - Dayglow Abortions (Victoria BC), Napalm Beach (PDX), Cheatin' Death
8 - Young Fresh Fellows, Dogmatics
9 - Frames
10 - Soundgarden, Faith No More (SF)
11 - Walkabouts, Pure Joy
15 - 64 Spiders, Neon Cross
16 - Splinter Party
17 - Green Pajamas, Danger Bunny
18 - Saccharine Trust (LA), Napalm Beach (PDX), Skin Yard
22 - John Cale & Chris Spedding (UK/NYC), Ian Fisher, Terry Lee Hale
23 - F-Holes
24 - Kinetics
25 - Living Dolls, Pure Joy
26 - TSOL (LA)
30 - Gary Heffern, The Cunninghams
31 - Joe Average, Spirits West

November 1986

1 - Butthole Surfers (San Antonio), Green River, 64 Spiders
5 - "e"
6 - Napalm Beach (PDX), No Tomorrow
7 - Walkabouts, Pure Joy, Treeclimbers
8 - Red Dress, Acoustinauts
12 - Lifters
13 - Pop Defect (LA), Skin Yard, 64 Spiders
14 - Soul Asylum (Minneapolis), My Eye, CDC Boys
15 - Dead Milkmen (Philly)
19 - F-Holes
20 - Bundle Of Hiss, Malfunkshun, Gut Reaction (A flyer exists showing the Melvins instead of Malfunkshun)
21 - Room 9, Chemistry Set
22 - Beat Rodeo (NY), Jackals (PDX), Splinter Party
26 - Kinetics
27 - Tupelo Chain Sex (LA), Guests
28 - Jr. Cadillac
29 - Life In General, Variant Cause

December 1986

2 - Rhythm Pigs (SF), Skin Yard, Guests
3 - Durango 5
4 - Bad Brains (DC), U-Men (This show was apparently canceled.)
5 - Camper Van Beethoven (CA), Mojo Nixon (San Diego), Walkabouts
6 - Moving Parts
11 - Frames
12 - Life In General, Room 9
13 - Spirits West, Splinter Party
17 - Tinderbox
18 - Prudence Dredge
19 - Jackals (PDX), Splinter Party
20 - Kinetics, Spirits West
26 - Joe Average, The Life
27 - The Life
28 - Mentors, Green River, Malfunkshun
29 - Faith No More (SF)
31 - Moberlys, Living Dolls, The Ones