Wednesday, February 1, 2012

A book about life at Luna Lounge

From the EV Grieve inbox...


Brooklyn, New York: February 1st, 2012 - Former Luna Lounge co-owner, Rob Sacher, has a brand new book, Wake Me When It's Over, a story of his life as a New York club owner filled with stories about meeting, partying, or working with many iconic bands of the alternative and indie rock world.

Among the people and bands about whom Rob has written are stories about Ray Davies of The Kinks, Debbie Harry of Blondie, Rick Danko of The Band, Joey Ramone, The Psychedelic Furs, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Bjork of The Sugarcubes, The Strokes, Interpol, Longwave, Marty Willson-Piper of The Church, Elliott Smith...

Rob is self publishing his book through his own DIY imprint and is raising promotion money through Kickstarter ... The funding campaign ends on February 29th. The official release date of the book is March 1st.

Rob has been in the business for more than thirty years and owned two clubs before Luna Lounge, the Mission and the Sanctuary. He grew up in Brooklyn in the 1960s, is a musician and songwriter too.

Here's the Kickstarter page, which includes a video of Rob talking about the project...
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5 comments:

  1. glammaFebruary 1, 2012 at 9:06 AM

    good luck! i'll definitely buy a copy!

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 1, 2012 at 12:11 PM

    Gawd I miss the Luna Lounge. Thinking about it reminds me how much has changed around here. Bummer.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 1, 2012 at 6:49 PM

    Luna Lounge was one of my favorite places. You can simply take a chance on a band since there was no cover. If they were not great, you simply hung out in front and played foosball. Most of the times, the bands were great. They did a great job booking bands, but then again, NYC had better music back then. The height of the power pop era.

    So sad when it closed. The WB location sucked. A club not in Manhattan is just not going to be the same.

    What was the name of the bouncer? Nice guy.

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  4. KurtFebruary 1, 2012 at 8:54 PM

    "What was the name of the bouncer? Nice guy."

    Tall, black guy with thin dreds, right? It's not coming to me...I'll ask my friends that worked there, They'll know for sure.

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  5. Rob SacherFebruary 3, 2012 at 4:59 PM

    Valentino was our door guy. Thanks for your support and interest in my book. You can read excerpts here:http://wakeme.net.

    Rob
    :)

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