to concerned members of the local music community

[goodcrack]

editor's note: I had Jeremiah (owner of Box Awesome) sign off on this letter before I posted it publicly to make sure he was OK with its content.

An open letter to the local music community:

I'm writing to you today with conflicting feelings in my heart. Mostly, I'm sad and confused. For reasons we're not exactly clear of yet, the landlord for the building that acts as the home to Box Awesome is no longer interested in having us as a tenant. We've been asked to leave the building and the landlords along with their lawyers are trying to find ways of forcing us out. In recognizing that we're still dealing with this as a legal matter I don't want to speculate about a possible motive for the landlord's decision, but I know that we have a court date within a few weeks and a judge will decide either then or at a later court date when and if we have to leave the building before the end of our lease.

That said, there are still plenty of unknowns. There are a few things that we do know.

1. Box Awesome will not reside at 815 O St. for a limitless amount of time. If we are able to make it through our lease we'll be considering alternative venues for Box Awesomer.

2. In order to deal with the matter, we will have to incur some legal fees to address the issue just to find out what our options are in the immediate future.

I know this might be a wtf type of moment for many of you. It was for us as well. We were under the understanding that our landlord/tenant relationship was on stable ground. Our assumption is that there are other reasons behind the request but it's not something we can speculate on at this point as I mentioned above. We believe that Box Awesome has been one of many integral components of a thriving recent music community and we are interested in continuing to be a part of that growth. Where that might take place in a venue the size of what Box Awesome is now, we're not certain. But it's something we expect to get back to as soon as it makes sense.

In the meantime, we're going to have to deal with a few lawyers and judges and what not, so here's my plea to everyone that cares about what Box Awesome represents. We will need to figure out how to either pay some lawyers or allow ourselves to be harassed without recourse if we can't pay those legal fees.

If you are in a band and are interested in being a part of a series of benefit concerts to help with some of these legal fee issues, please feel free to contact us. If you have any other fundraiser ideas in particular please feel free to make suggestions. I have some ideas of my own I'll be offering up. Our preferred email address is boxawesome at gmail dot com. Thanks for your time and feel free to post comments of support or any questions you might have regarding this matter. Thanks for your time.

[Nick_V]

[morkus dalorkus]

oh man...thats lame.

[prodigalfriday]

Shit!

Very smart to be upfront and reasonable about it. That's the kind of cool head that can get through this.

I would help run and organize a rummage sale fundraiser thing.

[Bombfish]

That location is cursed. Jesus.

So like.... Box Awesome Bourbon Theatre FTW??

If Remy wants help he's got my axe, as it were.

[Nick_V]

Jeremiah and J-Buck, if you guys need an extra hand for grunt labor, cleaning up, moving out or whatever, you know where to reach me. Seriously.

[prodigalfriday]

Everybody: you know it's a pain in the ass to have your own garage sale. You are too busy to have one of your own. Start a pile now for what you're going to donate to the rummage sale.

You ladies and gents who like to bake cookies and snacks should think about what you've been wanting to impress people with.

[Nick_V]

I've got a bunch of music-related stuff that I'd be willing to put up: posters, t-shirts, CDs... I'll go comb through my stuff again. Do you think this sort of thing would fit in the downstairs auxilary lounge?

[goodcrack]

Been talking through PM with prodigalfriday and we're definitely going to set something up. I'm guessing a more publicly exposed area on a Sunday might be our best idea. If anyone has a space they'd be willing to offer for a one day garage sale, perhaps June 7 or 14, please holla at me.

[prodigalfriday]

June 7th or 14th! Sunday sale.

I think having it at the actual BOX is a bad idea because you'd want to give people time to drop their stuff off on Saturday and don't want to fuck up any show-having.

[goodcrack]

yeah, I'd rather have it in a more public place. As I mentioned in a PM, I have June 7 and 14 as Sundays, I'm open to either.

[prodigalfriday]

Yep! June 7th or 14th. I'm hoping for the 7th. Anybody know somebody with a parking lot near there?

[prodigalfriday]

It would have to be totally fine with whomever is legally responsible for the space, of course.

That is an idea, though, to do a red ink studios sort of thing.

[Wheely McSlain]

Full-on bummer, man.

The Box is life.

[mo_feezy]

bummer.