do people still play Ice rinks? And how should i write 'Ice Rink' anyway?

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I mean it seems to me that the Ice Rink as venue was strictly limited to the smallish timeframe (1979-1995?) when medium-sized towns were waiting for medium-term investment by some medai/construction partnership to knock a hell-o-dome, creating a venue a band like Mettalica were more inclined to play in... but my opinion is undoubetedly crassly uninformed and based on scant first-hand experience; educate me.

― james porter (james porter), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I only ask because the other day while scouring the racks of my favourite local budget secondhand record store i came across a Iron Maiden 12" from their 7TH TOUR OF A 7TH TOUR tour, which listed my home town's alarmingly destitute Ice Rink as a date. This kind of blows my mind.

― james porter (james porter), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, and i also only ask because i'd really really really really like to see Wiley live. In an Ice Rink. Maybe.

― james porter (james porter), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

bands still play the Arenas here.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The first or second-best show I ever saw was in an ice rink: The Clash at the Cape Cod Coliseum, August 1982.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember ice skating to "Shaddup You Face".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

If you're going to play an ice rink you should use the ice:

http://yesmuseum.org/images/RickOnIce.JPG

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Wiley

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i would love to play an ice rink. it seems so awesomely prog rock

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i would love to see a band play on ice. that would be very ice theatre of new york.

[sorry. fallout from 13 years of competitive skating. i cant help myself.]

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw Fugazi play at an ice rink in Burnaby, BC (just outside of Vancouver) just a few years ago.

Metallica and Black Flag played my local roller-skating rink (at different times) in the early '80s.

― mike a, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i guess some suit someplace realised that you could build bigger than an Ice Rink, i mean on what level are they the pre-history of ARENA rock? Could you have one without the other? It seems there'd be plenty of bands with the sort of fanbase that'd fill the average icerink but not an arena, why don't they?

Are the acoustics terrible?

Has the universally and justifiably bad press for Wakemen's lame Knight Myths on Ice car crash of a project put everybody else off? Why did it's rep take ten years to sink down to band management/booker level?

I guess the whole thing seems aggressively Eighties...

Am i looking too hard or not hard enough at all this??

― james porter (james porter), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

PLAYING AT ICE SKATING RINK IS NOT FUN IT IS COLD IT HURTS TO BREATHE & SING & DID I MENTION IT IS COLD? ALSO ICE SKATING RINK KIDS ARE ASSHOLES

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Runrig used to play in Inverness Ice Rink a lot when I was growing up. The only other people I remember playing there were Julian Cope (didn't make the main ice rink, just the function room of the Ice Rink - the ignominy of it!) and Terrorvision.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I have some "hilarious" footage somewhere of the 30+ minutes leading up to this one show a band I was in did at an ice rink where me & other band members & some other folx are behind the plexiglass wall watching rink employees build a "stage" out of tables out on the ice and preparing for our imminent demise.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

there was already a top boy or eskimo rave at streatham ice rink. wileys already done it. along with all the others. it was last christmas i think. didnt go, it sold out real quickly.

actually it might never have actually happened. dont know whether it got banned or not.

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember an album "Dead Kennedys live at the roller rink" and the visual picture of them playing while the audience go round and round and round...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 17 June 2004 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.officeops.org/

this place does rock shows with a roller rink built inside.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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