LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS (The Wyld Stallyns & Soundcheck), Plus Silent 9 Updates!!

Today's post is mostly devoted to newly announced events at Shooters Downstairs Lounge, who unveiled announced a pile of upcoming concerts (primarily from cover bands) through early December via a series of Facebook event pages launched on Friday, so what should you know from these new dates, and a show missed from another band playing there? 

Not counting the Generations and Bone Yard shows on October 13th & 20th (which the bands in question already announced), the next new shows will see local classic/hard rock cover quartet Soundcheck return to the Dennis Street nightclub on Friday, October 27th & Saturday, October 28th! Yes, Shooters has been hosting DJs on Saturdays over the fall season, but it looks like they're pausing that experiment for one week, as two separate Facebook event pages (here and here) were posted for both nights. Based on the advertising, the split event pages appear to reflect a Halloween theme on Saturday the 28th, but this isn't the Halloween party at Shooters, details forthcoming. Last seen at Shooters a month ago, hopefully Soundcheck (one word) deliver the classic and hard rock goods to send out the month with, and one assumes that costumes are welcomed on the Saturday! That said, they're not done at Shooters for 2023 after that weekend.

The guys will return to the lounge for one night only on Friday, December 1st in the last of the new Shooters announcements. The holiday season will be in full swing by then, so consider warming up with Soundcheck's rocking covers then! All three shows are 9:00 PM affairs with 19+ age limits and no cover charges. Visit the above links and the December 1st Facebook event page for more details on their three upcoming Shooters dates!

Next up, the Halloween party at Shooters will take place on Tuesday, October 31st when they welcome local funk/hard rock sextet The Wyld Stallyns to the stage! After rocking The Whisky Barrel over Halloween weekend last year (albeit without publically promoted Halloween ties), The Stallyns will topline a legit Halloween party with a costume contest, drink specials, late hours for the on-site kitchen, and more. Fans may recall their old sister band The Elements playing multiple Halloween events (often in themed sets), but hopefully The Wyld Stallyns' wide-ranging and fan-friendly covers find a willing audience to cap off the spooky season! Just a shame that Halloween is a Tuesday this year given many attendees' work and school hours. Also, The Stallyns will return to Shooters on Friday, November 10th for a standard concert, so if the Halloween trappings do nothing for you, keep that in mind for a traditional night out!

Like with Soundcheck, expect a 19+ age limit and 9:00 PM start time for both dates, and there is no announced cover charge for either, but have cash on hand on Halloween just in case. Visit the official Facebook event pages linked here & here for more details!

The other upcoming shows at Shooters are either already announced by the band in question (i.e. Bone Yard) or not from hard rock leaning bands (Lime on November 3rd), but I did want to bring up newer classic/hard rock cover quartet Silent 9, who return to Shooters on November 17th. You may have seen Facebook "stories" and posts in the past day that show them performing at The Rockstar Bar, a venue that hasn't hosted a public concert since June of last year, so what's going on? Well, despite not posting on their Facebook page in over two weeks, this distinct new band did indeed play at The Algonquin Hotel's dormant upstairs nightclub last night, in a show that was advertised on their website but not elsewhere. This was the Searchmont Ski Runners' fall social, which served as a fundraiser for the alpine ski racing non-profit group. Yes, this was publically attendable with $35 tickets.

I profusely apologize for missing this show on the SMS, but alas, I never thought to look on Silent 9's website for shows that Facebook never listed. The Rockstar Bar proper did not acknowledge the event either, having not announced any events in well over a year, and a teased re-opening in the spring did not occur as planned. One would assume that Algonquin Hotel staff would have announced a formal re-opening, so was the fall social a one-off booking? It seems like it, but we'll let you know when/if they truly announce that they're back. As for Silent 9, they did share one non-story video that you can watch on Facebook, and it's a 51 seconds-long montage of clips from their sets last night. The vertical camera angle and hacked up nature of the covers isn't ideal, but everyone sounds good in the video, and it is nice seeing The Rockstar Bar open again with a good sized crowd!

Everything looks about normal from how the venue looked pre-pandemic and during their 2021-2022 return, if only for a night. Don't miss Silent 9 at The Esquire Club over Halloween weekend, give their SSR fall social video a watch below, and apologies again to Steve!

That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and notes on the site next week! Thanks everyone!