A venue page is more than an address list. Each place becomes a hub for the bands that played there, the dated show evidence, surviving PA/live recordings, and any real poster or flyer that eventually turns up.
Version 1 now carries permanent place records for catalog-supported hubs, poster-backed venues, and unresolved city/county leads.
An early Ayre Rayde anchor in the surviving catalog. The first entry is year-only; a later exact date gives the location a stronger chronological foothold.
Open venue record →Open show evidence →Open physical-audio trail →One of the densest venue trails in the research catalog. Entries connect AM/FM, Ayre Rayde, Chuck Brown, E.U., Hot, Cold Sweat, Little Benny and others. The catalog also uses the spelling “Crystal Skates” on some entries.
The catalog ties this venue to multiple generations and bands, making it useful for tracing how the circuit overlaps rather than studying artists in isolation.
A major bridge between the venue archive and the college-performance timeline. Surviving entries span multiple bands and more than a decade.
The research catalog contains a very large Metro Club trail. Backyard Band alone has repeated dates across the 1990s, while Proper Utensils and Northeast Groovers add more connections.
A later-era venue anchor that helps keep the archive from stopping at the classic decades.
Open venue record →Open show evidence →Open physical-audio trail →A 1983 I AM GO-GO working collector entry places Shady Groove and Mass Extinction in Reston but does not name the room. Separately, Old School Go-Go lists a 1980s Shady Groove Reston recording made with a handheld recorder and running under 30 minutes, without naming the year or co-bill. The archive keeps these as separate leads until a flyer, tape label, newspaper listing or audio match connects them.
Open venue record →Open show evidence →Open physical-audio trail →The catalog gives us a dated Hot, Cold Sweat performance in Calvert County, but not a venue name. It stays a place-level record until a flyer, tape label, newspaper listing or other evidence identifies the room.
Open venue record →Open show evidence →Open physical-audio trail →A permanent place record anchored by a located historical poster in the I AM GO-GO research trail.
Open venue record →A permanent place record anchored by a located historical poster in the I AM GO-GO research trail.
Open venue record →A permanent place record anchored by a located historical poster in the I AM GO-GO research trail.
Open venue record →A permanent place record anchored by a located historical poster in the I AM GO-GO research trail.
Open venue record →A permanent place record anchored by a located historical poster in the I AM GO-GO research trail.
Open venue record →A permanent place record anchored by a located historical poster in the I AM GO-GO research trail.
Open venue record →We do not need to finish a venue biography before using the evidence.
Add the performance to the place immediately.
Keep it in chronology without inventing month/day.
The show can exist before the promotional artifact is found.
Keep city/county/campus evidence separate until the actual venue is identified.
Follow another trail without leaving the I AM GO-GO archive.
See documented performances connected to Go-Go places.
Sound trailFollow live-recording evidence tied to venues and dates.
ArtistsOpen the artist pages behind venue appearances.
ContextSee how these places fit into the wider Go-Go story.