I wrote a small review here about Suburbia a while ago ending with the conclusion that the place was not at all impressive. I promised myself and Andy to go and take another look at that club when we found time and preferably when there wasn’t a concert in the making.

Fate had it that yesterday I took a walk in Cismigiu with her and at one point decided to go to Basement Pub which happened to be closed; we moved on to Revenge near Lipscani (by the way, the way they renovated the area is brilliant, go and take a look if you haven’t seen it yet) and unfortunately the music was so bad that we decided to leave. In our way stood a mass of young people hanging in front of Suburbia… we decided to take a look.

All those people were standing outside because in the club there was a punk concert (Pistolul cu Capse and Chester) which required an entrance fee; despite the fact that it was quite cheap for 2 bands (which are quite good actually), only 10 RON, almost none of those people wanted to go in; we managed to thanks to the guy who sold the tickets and who let us in for free (I was actually going to pay the dude when he pushed me and Andy in).

The sound was great (at least at Pistolul cu Capse, because we didn’t get to see Chester) and the atmosphere was terrific. It was a little hot but an air conditioning machine was positioned strategically near us so we wouldn’t die of overheating. The band was great and the audience was making it all happen by singing, dancing, clapping their hands and the likes. I guess it was one of the most live concerts I’ve seen in a while.

All in all it seems that Suburbia isn’t such a bad place, at least when a good band is playing there live, the prices are good and the beer is cold. I still don’t know what kind of music and atmosphere there is when there isn’t a live concert going on but the chances of me finding out have risen after this beautiful event.

And to think that PcC were initially going to sing at another pub…

Later edit: the another pub was going to be Basement but for some unkown reason it was closed.