A New Face at Bar Rouge Part One
I took a trip to Bar Rouge in Dorchester on Tuesday to talk to new bar manager and local musician Jamie Pinnow about his new venture. I first asked him what excites him about the Bar Rouge project?
"I think size, the building it's allot more conducive to what I like doing than was available at Tom Browns, we're not tied to any idiots, no dogs bollocks brewing company to deal with, seems like the people are behind us as well which has been the most humbling thing about this whole experience, complete strangers wishing you luck and asking what's happening, that's what's good about it."
I had seen some facebook activity around Bar Rouge over the last few weeks, and there were several people commenting on the name 'Bar Rouge' is the name about to change?
"Initially, maybe 6 months or so I think we'll leave it as it is, if all goes well and we can buy out the lease on the place who knows, at the moment I don't really think it matters, it's not the name of a place that makes a place, it's the people who use it that create an atmosphere, the name really just sits on the wayside, if everything does go well and we go for a referb and do change the name it'll be worth waiting for."
I hadn't been in to club for a long time, in recent times it hasn't been a huge success and maybe stuck in a bit of a rut, how is Jamie going to do things differently to change things around?
"The diversity of music is one of the initial things I want to challenge, there have been the same band every other Thursday, the same DJ every week, it's a bit boring, already this month we have some rock bands playing, we have Andy Grant and his Trio coming to play which is a more laid back direction, we have Moontown coming in this Sunday, so there we have three different types of music, also we have the Jam sessions and acoustics."
Jamie as you may or may not know is also an accomplished musician himself, what future plans does he have for this part of his career?
"Well it's all going rather well, I've just signed a new record deal, and I've started work on a solo album which I've never done before, all my stuff going back 20 years, which has been done with a band or whatever, the chance came up to do this but I've had to put it on the back burner while all this is sorted out, but I'm intending to get back into the studio, maybe next month lay down a few tracks, I wanted to release a single first and work on the album later."
Part two coming soon!
Part two coming soon!
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