The venue is a new joint partnership between myself, Bowery Presents (who book a ton of great shows in nyc and own a few venues of their own) and Four Corners Management (the folks who own Drinkers, Noche, Lucys and a few other bars around town). Over the next few weeks we’ll be revealing lots of new shows, pictures and all sorts of other information about the venue. Two things we are really excited to tell you about off the bat : the venue will feature AIR CONDITIONING (and lots of it !) and the venue will be ALL AGES with a separate bar area for those who are 21+ and would like to drink.

You can find more information about the venue at : www.utphilly.com as well as twitter.com/UnionTransfer and facebook.com/UnionTransfer. We encourage you to follow us – so you can keep up to date with our progress and get in the know about all the new shows that we’ll be bringing to Philadelphia in the fall! We just posted the first round of confirmed shows staring on September 21st with CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH (who are playing in a few weeks at XPN’s big outdoor festival!) as well as shows for the likes of RJD2, WILD FLAG, GILLIAN WELCH, BORIS, SHELLAC, WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS, WORLD INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY, MOGWAI, CSS, FRIENDLY FIRES, THE SEA & CAKE and lots more. You can get the details for all of these shows at www.utphilly.com

Tickets for the first round of shows go on sale online this Saturday (July 16th) at noon. Tickets can also be purchased without a surcharge at our box office at AKA Music (27 N 2nd Street / right above 2nd and Market Sts)

We’ll leave it at that for now. Again, lots more exciting stuff to come. Check out today’s Philadelphia Inquirer for a feature story written by Dan Deluca on the brand new room and this new partnership :
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20110712_Hot_and_cool.html

Ohh one last thing….. We are still doing shows at all of our usual spaces (including The Church!). R5 Productions will still continue to exist and we’ll be busier than ever with a new venue in our lineup !

Let’s get psyched for the fall! Up the punks (or something?)
xo/r5

Finally some Bouncing Souls ticket information for their shows at The First Unitarian Church on July 13,14,15 and 16 :

- A “Four Day Pass” (gets you into all 4 shows) and a small handful of individual day tickets ($2 off or $8 off) available TOMORROW at noon at Chunksaah.com

- A small handful of the individual day tickets ($2 off special)available Wed at 11am from R5Productions.com (online only!)

- Then the normal advance tickets (non-sale price) will be on sale Fri at 11am from R5Productions.com & AKA Music

Wednesday July 13th 7:30pm
THE BOUNCING SOULS
performing “The Good, The Bad & The Argyle” & “Maniacal Laughter”
with:
WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY
THE CREETONS

Thursday July 14th 7:30pm
THE BOUNCING SOULS
performing “The Bouncing Souls” & “Hopeless Romantic”
with:
STRIKE ANYWHERE
IRON CHIC

Friday July 15th 7:30pm
THE BOUNCING SOULS
performing “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” & “Anchors Aweigh”
with:
TIM BARRY
GODS AND QUEENS

Saturday July 16th 7:30pm
THE BOUNCING SOULS
performing “The Gold Record” & “Ghosts On The Boardwalk”
with:
BLANKS 77
THE SCANDALS

We sat down, thought about it and got in touch with both camps. Having two separate “2 band shows” at The Starlight and The Church would kind of be weird. After many phones calls, text messages and e-mails – we got everyone on the same page to agree to combine both shows into one at The First Unitarian Church!

So tonight – Thursday April 26th at The First Unitarian Church (8pm)

Lightning Bolt / Yacht / Jeffrey Jerusalem / Ed Schrader /

Doors at 8pm. First set on at 8:20

All tickets for both show will be honored (ie if you have a Lightning Bolt ticket we will take it at the church)

If you want a refund – please get in touch . Any questions : Sean@r5productions.com

Thursday April 7th’s show with Screeching Weasel has been canceled (for fairly obvious reasons).  All tickets will be refunded at point of purchase (so if you purchased them at The Trocadero – you can bring your tickets back to their Box Office, if you purchased them online – they will automatically refunded on your credit card, if you purchased them at AKA – you can bring them back there etc) . Obviously this one is far out of our control. Punk! 2011!

James Blake’s debut American tour sold out within minutes across the country. Since he only has a limited time here in the US, many of these shows have been moved to bigger venues – including Philadelphia. The James Blake show scheduled for Johnny Brendas on Monday May 9th has been moved to the First Unitarian Church. We know some of you guys who bought tickets wanting to see him in a more intimate setting are bummed, but we could not add a second show and James wanted to play to more people. The show is on the same date (Monday May 9th), doors are at 8pm, and the price of tickets is the same. All tickets already purchased will be honored. You will not have to do anything to transfer tickets. The will call list and the printed tickets that you purchased will be accepted at the First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut Street).

For folks buying “new” tickets to the church show – they will be WILL CALL ONLY. In an effort to prevent scalping for this one particular show, we are only selling will call tickets (as well as a few at AKA) starting this Saturday March 26th at noon. You will HAVE TO SHOW ID when claiming the tickets on the day of the show. You CAN NOT transfer tickets to another person’s name. After we discovered people selling tickets on Craigslist for $90, we hope you understand why….

We are trying to take just a tad bit of control in terms of what is being sold this time around. We noticed (aka got a bunch of complaints) that the people selling vintage clothes were going crazy with their space (aka stealing tables, bringing 6 clothes racks etc). So this time around we are putting all the clothing people in their own clothing land area. We’ll give you a bunch more room and free space, thus hopefully making the isles less congested and crazy. We hope you dont mind. We think it’s going to be a good thing. It’s important to note that there will be less tables made available to vintage / used clothing people – so sign up sooner rather than later

We also noticed a lot less people selling their old punk stuff (aka personal record collections, old band shirts, instruments etc). So to hopefully encourage more of that we are offering full tables for those who want get rid of their PERSONAL punky stuff for just $25! The catch….you have to get pre-approved. You dont have to fill out an application or anything, we just need to make sure you are not going to be selling other stuff by taking advantage of the deal. E-mail sean@r5productions.com to get in on the cheap cheap tables.

As always we have the personal and business tables. Business means that you are selling something that is NEW (this includes record distros, baked goods, band merch, record labels, funny t-shirts or art that you have created etc). Personal table means you are selling your old personal junk. We are also segregating these two tables this time around as well. So dont lie to us (aka sign up for a personal table to sell your weird art)

Table dimensions are 6X3 and include the space above, below and around the table. With the removal of the clothing people from the rows of tables – we hope to offer more space to other sellers. We provide the table, chairs. You provide the goods. Full check in instructions will be provided to you about two weeks before the big event.

Lots more details can be found on the registration page at :

http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/33717

Lissie had to cancel her October 21st show at Johnny Brendas (which was SOLD OUT!) due to medical reasons. Well we got the good news that she is okay and she’ll return on January 26th to play upstairs in The Sanctuary of The First Unitarian Church. All tickets from the canceled Oct 21st show will be honored at the door. You do not have to do anything! If you did not purchase a ticket for the Oct 21st show – you can purchase a ticket for the new date starting today. They are $14 in advance. Let us know if you have any questions.

Local Natives have canceled their confirmed May 7th show at Kung Fu Necktie show to play another show in New York City on that night instead. We are sad cause we never had anyone cancel a show with us just to play another show in another city 90 miles away on the same night.  We are saddened by the news.  However we are comforted by the fact that we live in a city of actual people vs 20 something trust fund kids from Idaho now “repping” Brooklyn in their $1800 railroad loft apartment. So maybe it all evens out? For those who purchased online tickets – refunds will be made automatically. For those who purchased tickets at AKA Music you can bring your tickets back to our box office for a full refund. Between now and their next Philly show – start thinking of clever insults or Philly centric items to throw at them (muslim beards, soft pretzels, snow (cause there will probably still be some on the ground come june), water ice  etc.). Didn’t anyone ever tell these guys we were the 6th Burrough like 5 years ago (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/fashion/sundaystyles/14PHILLY.html) ?