The St. Louis music scene’s first major casualty of the COVID pandemic was the Ready Room. The venerable venue at 4195 Manchester Ave. in The Grove converted an old garage into a thriving midsize venue suitable for hosting countless punk, indie, and hip-hop shows over its existence (some personal favorite shows include of Montreal, Jenny Lewis, Guided by Voices, the Beths, and Japandroids). But with the prescience to realize how unknown the future of the concert industry was at the time, owner/founder Mike Cracchiolo decided not to renew his lease and the Ready Room shut down for good that May. Their neighbors down the block, Grove cornerstone Atomic Cowboy, toughed it out into the next year but shuttered their doors in the winter of 2021.
And now, unbelievably, the Ready Room is back—and this time, its new location is in Atomic Cowboy’s old location, 4140 Manchester Ave. Much like the old Atomic Cowboy, the Riverfront Times reports that the new Ready Room will be both a concert venue and a restaurant, and it will be multiple venues in one, with a large outdoor pavilion and a small indoor cocktail lounge, plus a private event space upstairs.
The new venue debuts this Sunday with Portland classic rock/stoner metal band Red Fang. The venue has set up a website at thereadyroom.com that takes you to a Tixr.com ticket sales page though, weirdly, only one show is available through Tixr while others are through Ticketweb, eTix, Eventbrite, and even Do314. They’ve also established a Facebook page, though not all events are listed there as of yet. With that confusion in mind, we’ve gathered all of the upcoming Ready Room shows we could find into one list. See you there? | Jason Green
Upcoming at the Ready Room:
08.07.22 | Opening night with Red Fang | Tix
08.19.22 | Voodoo Grateful Dead | Tix
08.20.22 | My Posse in Effect: A Tribute to the Beastie Boys feat. The Steve Ewing Band and DJ Mahf | Tix
08.30.22 | Richie Kotzen | Tix
08.31.22 | The Collection | Tix
09.09.22 | Vista Kicks | Tix
09.12.22 | Dragged Under | Tix
09.13.22 | Crywank and Chastity w/ Todd Moved to Portland | Tix, Tix
09.16.22 | Leftover Salmon w/ One Way Traffic | TIx
09.17.22 | Black Knife, Traffic Death, and Blackwell | Tix
09.19.22 | Melt | Tix
09.24.22 | Horror Section w/ Starter Jackets
09.27.22 | A Wilhelm Scream | Tix
10.08.22 | Randall King | Tix
10.12.22 | Melt-Banana | Tix
11.01.22 | Wheatus | Tix
11.12.22 | Chris Colston | Tix
