Goodbye Blue Monday is an unpretentiously weird bar/café/internet hub that sits on the border of Bed Stuy and Bushwick (the management is now terming this ‘Bushstuy’). While this fact would otherwise remain unremarkable, what makes GBM worth checking out is its position in the local, national and international music scene as a go-to place to book a quick gig in New York (every musician for miles knows this).
The bar hosts nightly free music of all varieties—I saw a weird progressive freejazz group, followed by a more traditional upright bass and saxophone duo, a few Tuesdays ago. The bands/shows the club books are as eclectic and eccentric as the interior decorating, which is mostly a randomly arranged mishmash of retro collectibles, thrift store furnishings and nostalgia-inducing signage (flotsam and jetsam, anyone?). I’ve seen everything from indie rock to solo acoustic singer-songwriter stuff, sad bastard to glitchy noise at GBM. Once my band even played a show there on a second outdoor stage, while a strange mixture of circus/cabaret thing happened in the front room.
Anyway, it’s nice to know that this somewhat under-the-radar little gem is right here in our neck of Brooklyn. Definitely worth stopping by, sipping a Red Stripe and watching whatever happens to be going down on stage.
Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11221
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That’s great and all but what does it have to do with CH? I mean, I could see if it was just over the border in Bed-Stuy but…
Yeah it’s kind of random.
I for one live on the corner of Dekalb & Washington & this is like 18 blocks down the street from me. I like to know whats going on around. Its like a 15 min. walk. Big deal. Thanks for the info FiftyFifty_g.
Brien, do you have those ACME rocket-powered skates that are always getting Wile E. Coyote in trouble? Because that is definitely NOT a 15 minute walk from where you are. You know how long those avenue blocks are once you cross Bedford?
MES, ok, ok ! … 20 or 30 min walk. my point was that it sounds like a cool place that is not up in Yonkers or over in Jersey.
By the way, I gotta get me a pair of those skates. Thanks for the idea.
PS. MES, Yahoo maps says it is 2.14 mi.
My point is just that is kind of “so what” post. It’s not exactly right over the CH border, it’s just over the Bed-Stuy border going into Bushwick. Why not talk about stuff going on in Williamsburg, too, while we’re here? Or Carroll Gardens? Both neighborhoods are the same leisure stroll away.
Besides, I happen to like Goodbye Blue Monday. Sadly, I learned nothing more about this spot that I didn’t already know except that the writers band played there. Whoopdeedo!
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