Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Wizard of Oz, Godfather I & II, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The Party, Freaks, Nosferatu, The Big Lebowski, Apocalypse Now, Suspiria, Out of Sight, 28 Days Later, Breakfast at Tiffanys, The Warriors, Casino, Goodfellas, Ghostworld, Knife in the Water, Dracula, Jason & The Argonauts, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Adventures of Robin Hood, The Others, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Royal Tenenbaums, Blue Velvet, Aguirre The Wrath of God, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Thin Man, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, Bottle Rocket, City of God, The Battle of Algiers, 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, Wages of Fear, Pride and Prejudice, The Thing, Mildred Pierce, Old School, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Snatch, Thank You for Smoking, Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me, All That Jazz
Television
The Sopranos, DEADWOOD cocksucker, 24, Family Guy, The Simpsons, American Dad, South Park, Reno 911, Padres Baseball and Fox Rox...
Books
Who reads!
Heroes
Joe Strummer, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Keith Richard
The Casbah has been open since 1989. Its first location had a legal capacity of 75 and hosted such bands as: Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Lemonheads, The Jesus Lizard, and Rocket From The Crypt.
In the beginning of '94 we moved just down the road to our larger, plusher quarters and the rest is history. Our "new" location has a capacity of 200+, there is an enclosed smoking patio, a back room featuring pool tables, pinball, the classic video game Galaga, and a full bar. There is also a music room with a full bar and a state-of-the-art 24 channel Yamaha, JBL, QSC, Crest sound system.
Some of the bands that have played at our current location include: Boss Hog, Alanis Morissette, Morphine, the Amps, The Breeders, Elastica, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Royal Crown Revue, Supersuckers, Ben Harper, Liz Phair, G Love & Special Sauce, Social Distortion, The Cult, The Strokes, White Stripes, Razorlight, Electric Six, The Arcade Fire, Radio 4, Autolux, El Vez, Juliette & the Licks, Cadillac Tramps, The Mooney Suzuki, Mouse On Mars, Dave Alvin, Mark Lanegan, Queens of the Stone Age, Gogol Bordello, Helmet, Sahara Hotnights, Dresden Dolls, DKT/MC5, The Walkmen, Ambulance Ltd., Burning Brides, Elefant, Keane, Sloan, Local H, TV on the Radio, Melvins, Von Bondies, Dramarama, Fu Manchu, Urge Overkill, Hank Williams, III, TSOL, Fiery Furnaces, The Evaporators, The Dirtbombs, The Sights, Pretty Girls Make Graves, VUE, The Pattern, The Fever, The Thrills, Adam Green, Mando Diao, Marshal Crenshaw, Shonen Knife, The Felshtones, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Raveonettes, Stella*starr, The Killers, Whirlwind Heat, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, Evan Dando, A.R.E. Weapons, Soledad Brothers, Singapore Sling, The Kills, The Black Keys, The Fall, Mates of State and local acts such as Rocket From The Crypt, fluf, Drive Like Jehu, Three Mile Pilot, Creedle, the Rugburns, Tanner, Blackheart Procession, Hot Snakes, The Album Leaf, Louis XIV, Reeve Oliver, etc..
The Casbah features live music at least 6, often 7 nights a week with cover charges usually varying from "$0 to $10". Patrons must be 21 with a valid ID. Our hours are 8:30pm-2am.
BOOKING
Please send a CD along with any other info or material you may have (press, photo, show history, crappy bio, etc) to: Casbah 2501 Kettner Blvd. San Diego, CA 92101 Please include your contact info and tentative booking dates. We receive a huge amount of demos every day so it usually takes between 3-6 weeks for us to get to yours. Please plan ahead accordingly. We are in the office only on Wednesday from noon - 2pm for booking calls. 619-232-HELL Tim Mays We can also be reached by e-mail (preferred contact method) at tenmanbren@aol.com. Please do not call or e-mail a few days after sending your package to see if we've received it - the mail and various delivery companies are pretty dependable.
How do I get tickets for The Casbah?
We now sell tickets for most shows .. at www.casbahtickets.com. You can buy tickets directly from the schedule page of our website - www.thecasbah.com. We also sell tickets for some shows at the club - these can be purchased anytime the club is open, generally after 8:30 in the evening or on Wednesday afternoons between noon-2pm, when we're there for deliveries.
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01. Hostage - Roll On 02. Virgin Tears - No Sign of Life (iPunk Remix) 03. Swen Weber - The Bad 04. Riot in Belgium - La Musique 05. Hostage vs. Digitalism - Betise vs. Pogo (DJ Krassy Remix) 06. Hostage - Gluttony (The Bloody Beetroots Remix) 07. The Chemical Brothers - Loops of Fury 08. Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry (Hostage Remix) 09. Atomizer - Rot Of The Stars (Virgin Tears Celebrity Crotch Rot Remix) 10. NubiS - Current 11. Circuit Freq - Black Chrome 12. Crystal Method - High Roller (Myagi Remix) 13. Bart B More - So it Goes 14. Teenage Bad Girl - Cocotte (Boys Noize Remix) 15. Daft Punk - The Brainwasher 16. Azzido Da Bass – Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix)
Aye up … just to keep you in the loop we are about to change line up shortly we have secured a female vocalist and we are trying out for a new bass player shortly. Stay in touch and let us know what you think as soon as we have the new members up. Its all cool our bass player/vocalist is going on to University… Don’t worry we aint going nowhere haha we will be back shortly … thanks for the support … hope to see you soon at a gig near you
We have a band mobile number now so if your bored and wanna txt us feel free its all cool the number is 07530 487447 its only a pay as you go so if it takes a while for us to respond don’t worry about it
Anyways I wont clog up your message board any more than I have to