Gig @ The Basement

I had heard so much about The Basement and how it was the new destination for live gigs, so after watching the movie, we headed there. Once we got down the stairs, this place truly was a basement. It had the ambience of being someone’s personal hangout pad with a little bar at one end, a small stage and a wooden dance-floor in the middle and some cozy lounge type seating on the other side.

We headed to the bar which had the best view of the band and while I got a Pint of Kingfisher beer, my wife was a bit more adventurous and ordered a Pinacolada. We watched the bartender prepare the drink and wondered if he knew what he was making, but when we got the final product, it tasted fine. Sure it was Vodka instead of White Rum, but what the heck, we weren’t complaining.

While sipping our drinks the band started to play and I remembered seeing these guys playing at Some Place Else long ago. I wasn’t really sure if they were Urban Reflektion or Catch 22, but the Vocalists definitely sand with both those acts. Anyway as we headed towards midnight, the band played some freakier tracks and put on some interesting covers of Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix and the like.

We were most amused though with this one young fellow oscillating between the bar and the stage in front of the band. He was like this inebriated groupie and made quite an ass of himself. But who were we to say anything when we were getting free entertainment. One of the funniest moments was when this chap came up to the bar and asked the bar tender for whiskey. So the bar tender started from the top – Laphroaig and other Single Malts, which went down to the Johnny Walker and Chivas, and still down further till it came to the Teachers Highland Cream sitting on the bar counter. Well that was expensive stuff too, but like our boy knew better. He was more caught up in the act of drinking whiskey than actually savouring the taste. Anyway the music came to an end, and our groupie followed the band into the back attaching himself like a leach while we settled the bill and thought of our next destination as the night was still young.

Well The Basement is a cosy little place and if you’re going out with a group of friends this might just be the place to hang out and listen to a band as though they were your own private entertainment for the evening.