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Fireside bowl concerts4/16/2024 ![]() ![]() John Benetti, a talent buyer for House Call Entertainment, who booked the current summer series and grew up attending and working shows at Fireside during its heyday, said it was both a reunion and a reinvention of the space, which has a quintessentially midcentury look after its 2004 renovation. It was an intergenerational mix of musicians, some of whom had played at the old Fireside and some of whom were playing there for the first time, but recalled their old days as patrons ripping tiles off the ceiling during particularly rowdy shows. ![]() On the bill were The Hundredaires, Days Off and The Blind Staggers. Those who remember the old days and those who had heard the lore came out to see the new Fireside last week. 122 reviews of Fireside Bowl 'I can kind of see why they stopped having all ages shows here-I mean sooner or later some 14-year-old kid was gonna OD in the bathroom and theyd probably have to shut the place down altogether-but I have to admit, I do miss it. FIRESIDE BOWL - 25 Photos & 121 Reviews - 2648 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, Illinois - Bowling - Phone Number - Yelp. Even Fall Out Boy, with a dreadlocked Pete Wentz, rocked so hard the walls would drip with condensation. Most famously, the Alkaline Trio, Shellac, Tortoise, Sleater-Kinney, Ted Leo, the Dismemberment Plan and Los Crudos, a seminal hard-core punk band that defined Spanish-speaking punk music in Chicago and beyond, all played there. ![]() “Everybody during the ’90s that did any touring at all, that was remotely independent or underground, played the Fireside,” said Martin Sorrondeguy, lead singer of Los Crudos, a Latino punk group from Pilsen and a Fireside regular. 2646 West Fullerton (773) 486-2700 Sun - Thur 6PM - 12AM Sat 6PM - 1AM Facebook Official Website. ![]()
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