Get Your Ass to the Bar-A Call to Arms. . .

What do you do on Wednesday night? Really, does much of anything happen on Wednesday night? Nothing. Well it does now!

Wednesday nights at Westchester Sports Bar and Grille is the night for original rock in Westchester. This includes new bands just starting out, established acts, and just some of the best talent that Westchester and New York have to offer. for good measure throw in an occasional National act, It is a simple idea, but so cool-rock out to something new and different. To make it happen, however, it needs everybody there, it needs everybody getting the word out!

If you are a musician in and around Westchester, if you are in a band writing and playing your own music, then you need to support these shows! Get in touch with us to play, but do not stop there-come and check out the scene. Support these gigs-come and have a beer, hang out, see what the other acts are doing. And help get the word out-tell your friends and fans about this place-about these Wednesday night shows.

There is no other place in Westchester where original music is played. Yeah, there might be a nook or cranny where an occasional act sets up for a night, but not every Wednesday. Not in a huge room with a good sound and light system.

The Wild West has been searching for such a venue for awhile and we are ecstatic about this place. That said, I know these shows are not guaranteed. The venue owner is going to watch the room, the crowd, and the receipts and act accordingly. Those into this scene need to claim it! If we don't show up and make this place our own-it will disappear. Have no doubt, this is a limited time offer and it will not last. If rockers, metalheads, punkers and all other riff raff in Westchester do not step up to the bar and come out on Wednesday nights for these shows, the venue will sure enough start having karaoke nights and cover bands, and we will have no one but ourselves to blame.

Come down this Wednesday, check out the two or three bands, hang out-take a break mid-week. And do spread the word-tell both your MySpace and regular friends. This is something different and deserves your attention.

To play on a Wednesday night, get in touch with us at the Wild West, FeastofNoise.com or the people over at the Westchester Sports Bar and Grille. And see you there this Wednesday night!

Bob Schaffer
October 20th, 2007

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I Might have seen the Future and it is a Sports Bar

This past week I have been making calls, trying to find a venue to do the next batch of shows, tied to the Feast of Noise 'Rocks' CD Compilation. The calls continue and we are hoping that November is the month we finally put something together.

In the course of those calls, however, I did find something totally unexpected-a new venue in Yonkers-the Westchester Sports Bar and Grille. I went and checked it out that same night. My first night over there and three local original bands playing. Three local original bands-that is amazing up here in Yonkers. Down in the city that is a typical night at many a place. It was simply great to see three bands doing their thing in a Westchester venue!

Add to this that the place is big. Perhaps a 100 feet wide by 300 feet deep and that is just the space for the bands. Then there is a whole other side which is the 'sports bar and grille', a place to relax a bit, maybe watch a game and get some food. We may not be talking rocket science but it was so nice to see a place that is interested in music-rock music right here in Westchester, able to do other things.

Did I mention that the PA is right there-set up, ready to go. For the bands coming in, they do not need to worry about a PA. It is always a challenge getting a sound system in there. In The Westchester Sports Bar and Grille, the stage is big and with some basic lighting, the PA is there, and the bar is elevated. And the crowd was there-not too bad for a Wednesday night. and the space is there for bigger crowds. There is room for growth.

So in my travels around Westchester, the Westchester Sports Bar and Grille at 320 Yonkers Avenues looks very verry promising. Hopefully, it continues to bring in the original talent, and who knows maybe brings in some national and regional rockers. We shall have to see, and have no fear, I will be reaching out to them to see what wild west promotions and Feastofnoise.com can offer and do with them.

Bob Schaffer
October 5th, 2007

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