I am very aware of the Knitting Factory these days because The Mighty Handful have played there a bunch of times.
Back in the 1980’s when we were East Village dwellers we made frequent trips to the Houston Street Knitting Factory to hear John Zorn, Joel Forrester, the Microscopic Quintet, Jonathan Richman, and Zeena Parkins (pictured left).
That’s my version of the Knitting Factory.
Yesterday my dad told me that he read in the Times that they’re opening a place in Williamsburg and “someplace else really weird,” he said.
Well, that someplace else really weird is: Boise, Idaho. Also Spokane, Washington.
So, in addition to venues in Boise and Spokane, the Knitting Factory is coming to 361 Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
“We don’t have to be the biggest kids in New York City to be the Knitting Factory. What we do have to have is a pipeline that brings us the most exciting new music from the cities where the newest, most exciting new music is being created,” owner Jared Hoffman told the New York Times.