PLANET EARTH: birthplace of culture

skar23 · Post by **skar23** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 12:13 am

waaaayyy back when, in the 1980's, a very cool place called Planet Earth popped up and quickly became the gathering place of knoxville's : displaced, rock n rollers, goths, pizza lovers, dancers, romantics, punks, philosophers,etc etc etc.

New music from pioneering bands and artists such as love & rockets, cocteau twins, depeche mode, siouxie & the banshees, meat beat manifesto, danielle dax, bauhaus, smiths, severed heads, sisters of mercy......could be heard only in this venue...
Touring bands such as Sonic Youth, GWAR, Jesus Chrysler, Front Line Assembly, Grinning Plowmen, Judybats and Dessau played to packed houses here

a reunion is planned .......said reunion consisting of employees from the premiere knoxville nightspot , bands that played there, patrons of the now legendary bar/danceclub, and those that hung around just to watch the goings on.... people are planning on coming in from all the country for this event --- more information provided as it develops...

I am not planner /organizer for this event - merely a messenger

michael xi - i know you were around then.... who else was ?

LordHades · Post by **LordHades** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 12:21 am

Did you say Pizza!?!

Hardcoregirl · Post by **Hardcoregirl** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 12:39 am

Neat-o.

I was too young, but my mom hung out there and used to go see Immortal Chorus when I was 8 or 9...

CHRISTOFF · Post by **CHRISTOFF** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:25 am

Better yet did you say the smiths ..... o yeah.... gotta love the smiths......................... " have you heard the new smiths album its fuckn terif... " for all you slc punk fans

Post by **Bone** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:12 am

*raises hand*
I was there in those golden days...*sigh*

When, where is this re-union...wanna be there

tat2jay · Post by **tat2jay** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:15 am

*raises hand*

i remember going to see toad the wet sprocket there for like $3 hehe
also remember taking the wife on a date there to see immortal chorus - ahh the good old days

jjenisis · Post by **jjenisis** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:27 pm

Oh wow that was the first club I snuck into heh was a bit underage at the time but slid thru the red tape....ahhh the good ole days

Mother Mo · Post by **Mother Mo** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:35 pm

I remember all my friends going, but I stayed home with my baby girl. Not much time for socializing when you're a full time student & unwed teenaged mother, ya know?

I'm really glad they're doing it, though. It kinda started it all so long ago.

skar23 · Post by **skar23** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:18 am

I was called by one of the clubs former managers and informed of the upcoming event - i will post accurate information as to the time of the event as it becomes available - apparently the venue is set,
the "roasting room" downtown has been selected...
Brent Borrison, Susan Boudreaux/Needham, David Wyatt and a couple of others are the primary organizers.....

more to come......

LordHades · Post by **LordHades** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:23 am

Umm.. Do they serve pizza there?

Post by **Arkady** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 10:20 am

Very Interesting.

razor · Post by **razor** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:52 pm

*raises hand* yup, those were the good old days. I came in to it kinda late though as I think it was only around for a short time after I started my UT career. I think I went to maybe 2-3 events there before it turned into 121.

The days of 121 and the early Underground was some good days.

Codeine Coma · Post by **Codeine Coma** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 5:22 pm

jjenisis wrote:Oh wow that was the first club I snuck into heh was a bit underage at the time but slid thru the red tape....ahhh the good ole days

Hehe, Same here. I was there loved it, even at age 15/16. 121 was great as well.

Lavaproductions · Post by **Lavaproductions** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 9:16 pm

KnoxGothic and Lava Productions presents.....
the "Planet Earth Re-Union Party"

December 25th, 2004 11pm-3am
@ The Fairbanks
315 Mohican Street, off Kingston in Homberg Place.
(865)766-0767

DJs Brent Borrison, Lance Baird, Scott Wilkerson, and Lisa Atchley
playing the music they did back in the day.

Video of the club and people played on the big screen!
Posters of "Planet Earthlings" thoughout the club!

more to be announced later in an official post......

Lavaproductions · Post by **Lavaproductions** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 9:19 pm

skar23 wrote:I was called by one of the clubs former managers and informed of the upcoming event - i will post accurate information as to the time of the event as it becomes available - apparently the venue is set,
the "roasting room" downtown has been selected...
Brent Borrison, Susan Boudreaux/Needham, David Wyatt and a couple of others are the primary organizers.....

more to come......

Thats David White, not David Wyatt. Just for the record.

LordHades · Post by **LordHades** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 5:52 am

Umm.. You might want to change that to Lance Baird, not Lance Beard, unless he had a stage name.. or else.. Angry posts.. Angry Angry posts.. he's an evil little man... evil I say.

Beelzabetty · Post by **Beelzabetty** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:47 am

Oh yeah.... I was there,Chili was there, and my sister lived there. Literally.
Those were the golden years.
Does anyone know if Chuck Bernley will be in attendance? Just wondering.

Lavaproductions · Post by **Lavaproductions** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:24 pm

Beelzabetty wrote:Oh yeah.... I was there,Chili was there, and my sister lived there. Literally.
Those were the golden years.
Does anyone know if Chuck Bernley will be in attendance? Just wondering.

Susan is going to pass along an invite to Chuck..

miz kitty · Post by **miz kitty** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:44 pm

Haha! This is great! My older sister used to go there, and the first weekend I managed to sneak out of the house to go it closed! I made it to 121 once, and the Ace of Clubs (where Bluecats is noe I believe) a time or two, but that was it. No planet Earth Reunion for me. :-(

Scorptrio · Post by **Scorptrio** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:48 pm

Miz Kitty brings up an interesting question: are only those who were actually at Planet Earth welcome at the reunion or can those of us who missed it come to hear the stories and live vicariously through them?

PLANET EARTH: birthplace of culture

PLANET EARTH: birthplace of culture

Planet Earth Re-Union

hmmm