Anaheim’s all-ages membership Chain Response introduced that it’s going to formally shut its doorways this month.
“For nearly 30 years, Chain Response has proudly fostered the alt-music scene by creating an area for a group that the skin world ‘simply didn’t get’,” the Instagram publish mentioned. “Out of your native bands gaining their footing at their first reveals, to the common-or-garden beginnings of big acts you now love, we’re grateful to have held a spot on this scene for so long as we did.”
“This name wasn’t made shortly. We wrestled with it and have in the end made the choice to shut our doorways,” the publish continued. “We wish to thank each band, fan and attendee of our reveals. We wish to thank the scene that supported us for nearly three many years. We wish to thanks for the friendships and recollections made in our particular membership. Thanks for supporting us via the years and after we wanted it most. CHAIN REACTION FOREVER.”
The ultimate present will likely be spearheaded by Rancho Santa Margarita-based band Actions and Militarie Gun, who will carry out with Underbrook on Dec. 18 and Cherdomingo on Dec. 19. Tickets for the reveals might be bought at allages.com.
This isn’t the primary time the 250-capacity membership has introduced plans to shut its doorways. In 2020, Chain Response introduced it might shut as a result of it had been unable to host dwell music for seven months as a result of coronavirus pandemic. The proprietor on the time and Fearless Information co-president Andy Serrao mentioned that even with help from a Small Enterprise Administration (SBA) mortgage, it might not be ample to remain afloat till the estimated lifting of restrictions, which was estimated for 2021-2022.
Information of the closure in 2020 sparked a firestorm of assist from bands similar to Orange County rock band Stick To Your Weapons, who rallied fellow bands Terror, Knocked Free, Counterparts, Rotting Out, and 12 months of the Knife to provide you with methods to maintain the venue from going below. One of many concepts included partnering with Costa Mesa-based hockey-inspired attire firm Violent Gents and Anaheim’s Blackcraft Cult clothes firm to create specialty T-shirts that followers might buy in assist.
Orange County rock band Thrice additionally jumped in on the time to promote its personal $25 Chain Response-themed shirt by way of its on-line retailer, that includes a photograph of the band performing on the membership and the slogan “Chain Endlessly.”
The attire and venue crossover is just like the most recent collaboration between Dixon Flannel Co., primarily based in Tempe, Arizona, which introduced a daring blue, black & white plaid Chain Response flannel final week on its Fb web page.
“Some venues simply hit completely different. Chain Response has been the heartbeat of Southern California’s underground music scene for many years,” the publish mentioned. “All-ages. No boundaries. Simply uncooked, loud, stunning chaos the place punk, hardcore, and group collide. We teamed as much as put that power right into a flannel. Constructed on grit, creativity, and the individuals who really feel at house the place the group sings again. Rep the scene. Put on the story.”
The venue opened in 1996, tucked away in a strip mall off Lincoln Avenue, and was first often known as Public Storage Espresso Lounge earlier than altering its identify to Chain Response. The all-ages location didn’t promote alcohol till extra not too long ago and provided younger music followers, sometimes ages 15-20, a spot to congregate. Younger followers might typically be seen skateboarding within the parking zone earlier than reveals with locals and vacationers alike.
“I’ll always remember being a young person telling my mother and father I used to be gonna be hanging out at Buena Park mall, however as an alternative I used to be going to Chain to find bands because it was all ages,” one consumer commented on the publish. “I noticed White Chapel, Animosity, Suicide Silence, Winds of Plague, As Blood Runs Black, Keep on with Your Weapons…and so forth. RIP Chain Response.”
Chain Response grew to become certainly one of Orange County’s venues for catching rising native, nationwide, or worldwide hardcore, metallic, punk rock and ska bands. A number of artists who’ve since landed in mainstream music bought their begin and constructed their followings on the venue, together with bands similar to Avenged Sevenfold, Younger the Large, Fall Out Boy, Rise Towards and Yellowcard, who caught the ear of a scout at Capitol Information and signed them after their Chain Response efficiency.
“Fall Out Boy. The Used. Sugarcult. Pinhead Gunpowder. Cobra Starship. Circa Survive. Yellowcard. Movement Metropolis Soundtrack, Health club Class Heroes. Straylight Run. The Academy Is… Senses Fail. Rx Bandits. The Matches. I had some unbelievable intimate nights of music on this room. We are going to miss you, Chain,” one other consumer commented.
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