Based in Greenville, NC The Spazz started off as a house/venue where we held tri-monthly shows. Lasting for nearly 5 years we branched that out to an actual store-front space. Keeping our name, as well as the ethics from our earliest incarnation, we continued to remain an all-ages space created by the people for the people!
As a straight-up D.I.Y. community-reliant venture, our goal was not for personal profit, but to have a spot for touring and local musicians to showcase their goods, while exhibiting work from local artisans. Doing this for awhile we knew the ropes. Gas cash (on occasion a minimal cash guarantee), food (often), beer/bevs(sometimes), and a place to crash were offered to all artists invited to perform. Being a college town (East Carolina University), even on an off night for shows we, most often than not, saw a good amount of folks out to support the acts.
The original Spazz got praise amongst touring bands for it's intimacy with the audience and the over-all energy it allowed and we applied that to that space. Working with bands of all styles and genres we prided ourselves on our eclecticism. The Spazz was created solely out of love for live music and the necessity to have an outlet for local and touring bands being consistently overlooked by the few or non-existant venues in town.
Per usual the majority of door-take (ie. donations) went to the acts performing that night. You'd be very hard pressed to find an act we've hosted that didn't have an enjoyable experience.
IN OUR FRIENDS CATEGORIES I'VE LISTED SOME LOCAL SEMI-LOCAL BANDS THAT PLAY THE AREA REGULARLY. IF ANY OF THEM WORK WITH YOUR SOUND CONTACT THEM AND SEE IF THEY'D BE INTERESTED IN PLAYING WITH YOU.
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BANDS THAT HAVE PLAYED HERE
a contrail to follow (Atlanta)x4 Adam Lee & The Dead Horse Sound Company (Missouri)
Adam Thorn & the Top Buttons (Greensboro)
A Decent Animal (Charleston, SC) Ana Lola Roman (Brooklyn)
A Thousand Knives Of Fire (NJ)
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade (MA) Acirema (Wilmington)
Act Like Actors (Hickory) Ad Astra Per Aspera (KA)
Adam Gnade (NY)
Adam Lee & The Dead Horse Sound Company (Kansas City)
Adrenochrome (NC)x2
Adventure (NC)x4
Alex Atchley Experience (TX)
Alexander The Great (Indiana)
Algebra Of Need (Philly)x2 The American Black Lung (AZ)x2
Amphetamine Virus (Seattle)
Analog For The Death (Raleigh)x3
Another Statistic (Utah)
Arielle Bryant (Greenville)x4 Arrah & The Ferns (IN)
Arms & Sleepers (MA)x2
Army of Kashyyyk (Baltimore) Arum Rae (VA)x4
A-Sharp (Greenville)
The Assdroids (Germany) Astpai (Austria)
The Atlantic Notion (Wilmington)
Attached Hands (FL)x3 The Attack! (FL)x2
Audibel (NY)
Audrey Ryan (NYC) Aunt Dracula (Philly)x2
The Avenger (NC)
A Stained Glass Romance (NC)
A Step Behind (TX)
Awesome Heroes (Greenville)x3 Bad Dudes(Los Angeles)
Bananas N' Blow (Greenville) Band Marino (Orlando)
Barcode Youth (NJ)
Barkitecture (VA) Battlemaster (Richmond)
Bearathon (PA)
Beloved Binge (Durham) Benefit Friends (MA)
Bezoar (NY)
Big Attack (Philly) x2
Big Bear Cat & The Special Friends (NC) Big Digits (PA)
Birth Rattle (NC)x5
Bizzart (CA)
Black & Blue (NC)
Blacked Out (Greenville)x5
The Black Hands (NC)
Black Meat (GA)
Blackpowder Fuzzbox (Washington,D.C.)
Black Skies (Raleigh)
Blag'ard (Chapel Hill)x2
The Blank Tapes (San Francisco)
Blonde Girls (TX)
Blue Destroy (Greenville)x4
The Blue Hour (GA)
Boo & Boo Too (KA) Bottom of The Hudson
Boyzone (Raleigh)x2 Branta (Seattle)
Brava Spectre (CN)
Brave Horatious (SC) Brooks Chambers (Austin)
Brothers (NC)
The Brothels (Wilmington) The Bronzed Chorus (Greensboro)x3
Buckettovsissors (Germany)
By The End Of Tonight (TX)
Caleb Lionheart (NY)
Call It Arson (Connecticut)
Colossus (Raleigh) The Can Kickers (CN)x2
Canvas:The Human (NY)
Can't Face The Falling (RI) CANTWELLGOMEZANDJORDAN (Durham) Captain Ahab (Los Angeles)
Captain, We're Sinking (PA)
Carol Bui (Washington, D.C.) The Carrots (Austin) Cars Can Be Blue (Athens)
Cars Will Burn (Philly)x2 Casket Architects (NY)x3
Cash Slave Clique (VA)x2
Casados (Chicago) Casper & the Cookies (Athens) Caspian (TN)x2
Cassette (Miami)x2
Cassettes On Fire (FL)x2 Caverns (Washington, D.C.)
Cheeky (Long Island) Child Bite (Michegan)
Christopher Knight (Greenville)
Citified (NC)x2 Civil Twilight (South Africa)
Clang Quartet (Chapel Hill)
Claws Of Paradise (Brooklyn) Clipd Beaks (CA)
The Club Of Rome (Atlanta)
Coaxial (CA)
Colors In The Air (NY)
Confused Little Girl (FL)
Consider The Source (NYC) Constants (Boston)
Constrictor (VA)
Consular (Miami)
Containers (NY) Coquette (GA)
Cougar Den (Wisconsin) Cough
Countermind (MD)
Crafting A Disaster (Greenville)x2 The Creeping Nobodies (Canada) The Cush (Vermont)
Da Bears (Philly)
Damnesia (Athens) Dan Deacon (MD)x2
Danial Michael (Raleigh) Dark Inside The Sun (Winson-Salem)
Darkroom (NY)
Darlings (NY) DD/MM/YY (Canada) The Dead Popes (FL)
Dead To Society (Durham) The Death Set (Brooklyn)x2 Debate (Brazil)
The Deep & Holy Sea (FL)
Deleted Scenes (Washington,D.C.)
Diamond Studs (Durham)
Die Benny (Atlanta)
Die Rote Kapelle (PA) Digshoveldig (NC)
Dinosaur BBQ (Vermont)
Disco Banshee (Greenville)
Divided Like Saints (GA)
Dodger (FL) Doug Cheatwood & the Bastards Of Fate (VA)x3 Downtown Brown (Detroit)x3
Drew Swinburne (CA)x2 Dropsonic (Atlanta)
Drums Like Machine Guns (MD)x2
Dynamite Arrows (Brooklyn)
Dynamite Plan (NY)
Eagle Ager (Baltimore)
Ear PWR (NC)
The Ear Is The Brain (FL)
Earth Stood Still (NJ)
Earth Stood Still (NY)
Ecstatic Sunshine (MD)
Electric Purple Anti-Freeze (NC)x2 Elevado (GA)
Electromatic (Greensboro) Eleki Bass (Japan)
Elstun Gunn (NC)
Eilijia (GA) The Emotron (GA)x3
The Escapist (VA) Everthus The Deadbeats (Indiana)
Except After Sea (PA)
Exitbox (NC)x4 Evan Greer (Boston)
Fake Gimms (NJ)
Fat History Month (Boston)
Ferocious Eagle (Portland, OR)
Fierce Perm (WA) Fingers Cut Megachine! (CA) Fishboy (TX)
Flash Electric Beauty Machine (VA)
Flasper (Portland)
The Flight Out (GA) Foot Village (Hollywood) For A Minor Reflection (Iceland)
Forbes Graham (MA)
Formaldehyde (NY)
Free Kisses (Toronto)
French Kiss Coma (SC)x3
From His Blood (NC) Fucoustic (Austria) Future Islands (NC)x3 Ghetto Pony (Montreal)x2
Gifts From Enola (VA) Giant (NC)x2
Giants (Chicago)
Gillian Carter (FL)
Godatom (NC)
Google Earth (Richmond)x2 Gowns (CA)
The Graboids (VA)x2
Gray Young (Raleigh)x2
The Groves (Cary) Gruk Guitar Bomb (NY)x2
The Gunpowder Treason (TN)
Gutty & Moist (San Francisco) Hammer No More The Fingers (Chapel Hill)x4 The Hanks (CA)x2
Haze (Greenville)
Hazerai (Chapel Hill)x2 Health (CA)
Height (MD)
Height Of Fashion (Washington,D.C.)
The Heist & the Accomplice (SC)
Hermit Thrushes (PA)
Hey Hey (Philly)x2 Hill (FL)
Hi-Rollers (Greensboro)
Holy Ghost (Philly)
Horsefang (VA)
The Holy Mess (PA)
The Homewreckers (Rocky Mount) A Hotel Nourishing (Buffalo, NY)
Hot John Stockton (Greenville)x4
Howard's Dilemma (PA) Howlies (Atlanta)x2
The Hufton Brothers (Chapel Hill)
Human Smoke (Richmond)
Husband & Wife (IN)
The Huxtables (Brooklyn)
I Love You (Missouri) Imperial China (Washington, D.C.)
Impure Jazz (Indiana)
In Black & White (MA) In Defence (Minnesota)
In Heaven & You (Washington, D.C.) The Independents (SC)x2
In Endeavors Italya (KY)
Insects With Tits (Richmond) Instrumental Quarter (Italy) Insurrect (Ohio)
The International Drive (NC)
The International Grapevine (VA)
In The Age Of Terminal Static (Seattle) Irata (Greensboro)x4
Iron Sides (Greenville)x5
Iron Sides & the Gospel Years (Greenville)x4
It 's Latin (FL) Jack Wright (Philly)
Jacob Tyler Wolfgang (Iowa) Jason Cimon (Brooklyn)x2
Jason Crumer (Chapel Hill) The Jason Forrest Band (Germany)
The Jean Marie (Miami)
The Jefferson Plane Crash (Richmond)
Jekylnhyde (PA)
Jews & Catholics (NC)x2
Jinxed At Twelve (Washington,DC) Joe Jack Talcum (Dead Milkmen)
Jonas Sees In Color (NC)
Jones (MD) Joan Barrett's Bass Drum of Death (Missouri) johnnytwentythree (Ohio)
The Judy Experience (San Francisco) Juiceboxxx! (WI) Kayo Dot (MA) Kenny Creech
Ketman (MA) The Kickass (Greenville)x2
Kidcrash (Olympia) Kilo (Philly)
King Kong Ding Dong (Philly)
King Of Prussia (Athens) Kiss Kiss (NY)
Lanterns (CA)
La Cacahouette (NY) La Otracina (Brooklyn)x2
Ladycop (Brooklyn)
Lanterns (CA)
Last Year 's Model (NY)
The Late Virginia Summers (VA)
L.C. (Greenville)
The Legion of Supervillians (NC)x6
Lese Majesty (NY) The Leftovers (Maine)
Libyan Hit Squad (Orlando)
Lidia Stone (Brooklyn)
Lindsay Holler & The Dirty Kids (SC)
Line In March (NC)x3 The Lisps (Bronx, NY)x3
Locks (Chicago)
Lolita Bras (NY)
Long Legged Woman (GA)
Lonnie Walker (Greenville)x4
Lonnie Walker & The Roadstops (NC)x3
Lonnie Walker & The Baby Angels (NC)x5
The Lost Americans (NY) Look Mexico (FL)
Lost Hands Found Fingers (Ohio)
Love Craft(Winston-Salem)
The Love Language (Raleigh)
Lovers & Killers (Baltimore)
The Lucy Grace (Boston)
The Luxory Flats (NY)
Mad Happy (FL)x2 Magic Jewels (Austin) Make A Rising (Philly) Mans. (Illinois)
Maps (TN)x2
Martha Ann Motel (Raleigh)
Master/Slave (San Francisco)x2
The Matadors Of Shame (Michigan) Mathematicians (NY)x2
MC Homeless (Ohio) The Meltdowns (NJ)
Men As Trees (Michigan)
Mendicant Friends (NY)
Meneguar (NY)
Mental Floss (NC) The Menzingers (PA)x4
Meth and Goats (Iowa)
MICS (MA)
Middle Finger Response (Greenville)
Migrations (NC)x3
mikingmihrab (Philly)
Million Billion (CA)
Million Dollar Sunset (NC)x4
Mincemeat or Tenspeed (PA)
Minivan (Seattle) Minmae (Portland)
Misfortune500 (Athens)
Missile Command (Atlanta)
Miwagemini (NY)
Mommies (VA)
Monarch (VA) The Monologue Bombs (NC)x5
Monolith Zero (Richmond) Mose Giganticus (Philly)
Moss Of Aura (NC)x5
Mossyrock (Brooklyn) Mothernight (NJ) Mothguts (NJ)x2 Motion Turns It On (TX)
Mountain Kitty (Greenville)
Mourning Electra (Philly) Mouser (Athens)
Mouthbreather (Richmond)x3
Muadvelice (Nashville)
Mumpsy (FL)x2 My America Is Watching Tigers Die! (Delaware) My Left Uterus (FL) Mystechs (Chicago) Nakatomi Plaza (Brooklyn)
Narwhalz (Richmond)
The Natalie Fight (MI) Nathan Asher & The Infantry
The National Rifle (Philly)x3
Nat Turner & The Slave Rebellion (NC)x4
NetworkOfTerror (NC)x2 The Never (NC)x2
New Orleans Is A Dead Museum (CA) The New Threat (FL)
New Thrill Parade (CA)
The Nice Jenkins (VA)
Nineteen Nineteen (MA)
Niou (NC)x3
Nolan Smock & the Charming Youngsters (NC)x3
Northern Valentine (Philly)
The Nothing Noise (Chapel Hill)
Now Soon Nowhere (Philly)
Nyos (Greensboro) OCDJ (NJ)
Oicho Kabu (SC) The Old Haunts(Olympia)
Oliver North (MA)
One Big Love (NC)
One Wins Choice (NJ)
Outclassed (PA)
Organ Failure (TX)
Osceola (Washington, D.C.) Paleface (Brooklyn)x3
Paparazzi (MA)
Parsley Flakes (Chicago) Pattern is Movement (PA)
Paulie Think (Chicago)
People (Brooklyn)
Perestroika (Baltimore) Peter & Craig (Philly)
The Pixel Panda (Kansas City)
Pixie Saytar (Ireland)
Pillow Fight Fight! (Seattle)
The Pixel Panda (Kansas City)
The Plural MC (Baltimore)
Poingly (Brooklyn)
Ponies & Flowers (SC) Pony Pants (PA)
Poor Richard's Rose Parade (NC)x2
Portal Display (NC) Prabir & The Substitutes (Richmond)
The Preacher's Gun (SC)
Pretty & Nice (Boston)x2
Princess & the Criminals (Greenville)x5 The Protomen! (Nashville)x2 Pyramids (Delaware) Quiet Hooves (Athens)x2 Quiet Life (CN Ra Ra Riot (NY)x2
Rapid Cities (NJ)
Rat Jackson (Chapel Hill)
Ray Evanoff (SC) Rebecca Ryskalczyk (Buffalo, NY)
Rebekah Todd (South Africa) Red Collar(NC)x2 Redliners (FL)
Red Rocket (PA)
Relay (Philly)
Remote Islands (Philly) The Republic Tigers (Kansas City)
Revival (Washington,DC)
Revocation (Boston)
Richard Benjamin (Greenville)x2 Rick Johnson Rock & Roll Machine (Michigan) Rifle Recoil (VA)x2
Robert Inevitable & The Static (CA)
Roberta Sparrow (Chicago) The Robot Ate Me (Portland)
Roman Gabriel Todd's The Beast Rising Up Out Of The Sea (Alabama)x2
Romeo Is Bleeding (NC)x3 Royal Bangs (TN)
Rudolph Lyrics (NC)
Russian Spy Camera Athens)
Ryan Power (Vermont) Ryfylke (Oslo, Norway)
Sakrament (Greenville)x2
Sailboat! (Philly)
The Sammies (NC) Sarah Johnson (MN)
Sarah Stebb (Greenville)x3 Satanized (Philly) Screaming Females (NJ)
Sean Moore (FL)
Seizure 17 (Philly)x2
Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound(?)
Sexytime Explosion (CA)
Shams (Richmond)
Shannon Murray (Minnesota) Shellshag (Brooklyn)
Shiloh (NC)x2
Shin Kick (VA)
Ships (Chapel Hill)
SHITAGODDAMN (FL)
Shopping (Chicago)
The Shotdowns (Raleigh)x2
The Sibling Project (NC)x2
Sick Electric (Providence) The Silent Years (NY)x2 Skeletonbreath (Brooklyn
The Skies We Built (Chicago)
Sleepsound (Durham)x2 Snakes Say Hisss! (NY)
Snake Vision (NJ)
SNMNMNM (Chapel Hill) Social Junk (KY) Soul Cannon (Baltimore)
Space Bastard (NC)x3
Space Bop (CN)
Spark Is The Diamond (Philly)
Sphiux (Greenville)
Sphinx (Asheville) Spidermums (Kansas City)
Spinnaker (FL)
Spirit Molecule (Greenville) Spitzer Space Telescope (Boston)
Stamen & Pistols (Washington,DC) The Steal (UK)
A Step Behind (TX)
Still Pink (Norfolk)
Street Sharks (NC)
Street Smart Cyclist (PA) Stuck Lucky (TN)
Study of the Sirens (NC) The Subliminator (GA) Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Athens)
The Sunshine Will (NJ)
The Sunshine Fix (CA) Summerbirds In the Cellar (FL)
Sunset Greets The Moon (NC)
Suzy Wong & the Honkeys (NY)
Syphilis Sauna (Seattle)
System & Station (OR) Syscrusher (Michigan) Tarantuloco (Greensboro)
Taste Of Silver (MA) Tavo Carbone & 2/3 Skeleton (Vermont) Team Robespierre (Brooklyn) Teenage Rehab (KY)
Teen Wave (NC)
Tenebre (CA) Tereu Tereu (VA) Thank God (SC)x2
THEANTI! (Indiana) These Are Powers! (Brooklyn)x3
These United States (Washington, DC) The Show Is The Rainbow (Omaha) They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Canada)x2
This Flood Covers The Earth (CA)
Threads Of Fate (Rocky Mount) Thunder In The Valley(Minnesota) Thunderlip (Wilmington)
Thus Spoke! (NC)
Tigershark (VA)
Tim Byrnes (Manhattan)
Tin Kitchen (NJ) Tiny Whales (Boston)x2 Titus Andronicus (NJ) Total Abuse (Austin)
Toof (Austin, TX)
Tooth (Durham)x2 Tourette (France)
Towers (Philly) Trigger Effect (Montreal)x2
Trophy Scars (NJ)
Tron Valdez (Raleigh)x2
Truman Sparks (VA)
Twance Cop (Richmond)
Tyger Beat (FL)
Tyler Rivenbark (Greenville)
Underground District(NC) Ungdomskulen (Norway)
The Unholy Four (Chapel Hill)
Unicorn Basement (MN)
Union Palace (NC)
Universal MC's
Univox (Philly)
Unspeakable (Greenville)
Urisk (NC) UUVVWWZ (Omaha) Vals (Netherlands)
The Vaginal Vigilante (NC) Vampire Hands(Minnesota)
Velouria (Philly)
Vendetta Rising (Greenville)
Victims Of Public Education (New Bern) Videohippos (MD)x2
Villains (Raleigh)
The Vinyl Strangers (GA)
Virgo 9 (Durham) The Wading Girl (VA) Waking Lights (NJ)
Wanko Honcho (Raleigh)
The Wayward (Richmond)
We Are Action! (FL) We Vs. The Shark (Athens)
Werewolf Unit x2(MD)
Werewolves (MD) The Western Civilization (Houston) We Vs. the Shark (Philly) What Made Milwaukee Famous? (TX)
What's Good (Jacksonville)
When I Escape (Greenville)
Where the Buffalo Roamed (NC)x4
The White Tripod (NC)x4 Wildcat Revival(Alabama) Wildildlife (San Francisco)x2
The Winter Mission (NC)x4 The Woods (FL)
Wolverines (Raleigh)x2 Woman's Worth (San Francisco)
Worn In red (VA)
The Worst (NC)x4 WYE OAK (Baltimore) Yellow Crystal Star (FL)
Yip Yip (FL)
Young Hearts (NY)
Yourself and The Air (Chicago) Zechs Marquise (El Paso, TX)
Zesty Man Ranch (Greenville) Zombie Bazooka Patrol (TN)
728B (Greenville)
IF YOU 'VE PLAYED THE SPAZZ AND DON 'T SEE YOUR NAME THEN LET US KNOW AND WE 'LL GET YOUR NAME ADDED!!!
Movies
WORK FEATURED ON OUR WALLS BY:
The Alex
Sam I AM
Benny Boeldt
Big Bear Cat
Britni Dawson
Garrett Mills
Jenna Robinson
Jennifer Benfield
Josh Brookshire
Josh Mischief
JuPru & Steggy
Nutchild
Sketch-zula
Stephen Atkinson
Thorbjorn
Veronica
WeaponJae
William Island & THE MEGA AWESOME SPAZZ TAG ABOVE THE STAGE BY THE MAGNIFICANT CHASE!!!
and basically all of our patrons made their mark on our walls. Thanks guys!
Television
DID YOU MISS THIS??? (THANKS JOHN!)
Heroes
ARTISTS THAT HAVE BEEN EXHIBITED HERE:
Terasia Lemelle
Chris Pitts
Jae Thomas
Michael Hill
Benny Boeldt
Jon Greene
Noah Green
THE SPAZZATORIUM Tonight Fri Nov 20th @ Lucky's in downtown Greenville, NC: FUTURE ISLANDS, LONNIE WALKER, HEIGHT, & THANK YOU. More info here = http://lnk.ms/4WcmvPosted at 10:32 PM Nov 20 view more
About me: WE ARE NOT CURRENTLY BOOKING ANY NEW SHOWS DUE TO US NOT HAVING AN ACTUAL VENUE IN THE GREENVILLE, NC AREA. A HOUSE SHOW HERE AND THERE BUT NOTHING SUBSTANTIAL. I CURRENTLY LIVE IN THE PHILADELPHIA AREA AND WILL ON OCCASION SET UP A SHOW @ THE SPAZZ HAUS OR ANOTHER VENUE IN GREENVILLE. HOWEVER, UNTIL TRUSTWORTHY & RELIABLE FOLKS ARE THERE TO RUN SHOWS I'M SHYING AWAY FROM SETTING ANYTHING FOR TOURING BANDS .
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CALL:
JEFF @ 252-531-6783
We WANTED TO BE a completely donation-based community space that was host to both conventional and performance art.
Our gallery and performance space was located in the historical downtown section of Greenville and we loved to feature paintings, sculptures, photographs, music, and non-conventional performance art on a regular basis. Right now the dream is on hold because we did not set out to be a club but Greenville's narrow idea of a performance space does not allow us to exist in a legal sense. However, stay updated by adding this profile as a friend and we'll let you know any significant events happening around town.
THANKS TO THE HUNDREDS OF ACTS THAT CAME THROUGH OUR MANY INCARNATIONS OF THE SPAZZATORIUM AND TO ALL OF THE SUPPORT FROM THE FOLKS OVER THE YEARS. IT WAS A HELLUVA RIDE! SOMEWAY, SOMEHOW, SOMEDAY WE WILL BE BACK. UNTIL THEN MAKE THINGS HAPPEN AND DO-IT-TOGETHER. ANY ADVICE QUESTIONS HIT UP THAT NUMBER ABOVE.
We just wanted everyone to know that we have revamped our MySpace page & given it a facelift!!!
Stay tuned to our bulletins & blogs for information regarding new releases, special events, and exclusive coupons only available to our MySpace friends!!!
ECMV is still Greenville's only INDEPENDENT record store!!! And, we are proudly your headquarters for the best in our areas local music and we still have the largest selection in new & used cd's, dvd's, vinyl, & blu-ray!!!
i know a few people that are trying to play spazz in the fall i dont know how your booking process is but i gave them your info on here and gave them your number jeff. ones a funk/psyc band from boone. ones an indie rock band from raleigh. and ones a punk hardcore band from wilmington. im sure they'll be contacting you sometime soon. if your interested. take care.
Thank you for everything you do Jeff! We love the Spazz and everything it represents. Such a great show, and such a good talk last night. We fucking love you and Laura, and everybody else that keeps this place alive!!
