Crystal ballroom in Portland. It’s upstairs and that will never not be hilarious to me. Beautiful venue though.

Check out Paradisio in Amsterdam.

Milwaukee has dome pretty cool old historic venues I’m sure there’s since cool stuff out there:

The big 3: Pabst Theater Riverside Theater Turner Hall Ballroom

Smaller venues: Cactus Club The Bacroom Lineman’s

The show producers Cercle had a series of techno DJ events at some amazing locations:

• Arènes de Nîmes, France: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MobY_vR7-g
• Centro Ceremonial Otomí in Mexico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coloJDqNBRg
• Omnia Bali in Indonesia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h96MGcsi7GQ
• Marina Bay Sands in Singapore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29LwM9Xa6l8
• i360 in Brighton, United Kingdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AvC05kXS9I
• … etc… check their youtube account…

Vancouver - Commodore Ballroom

The petrill music shell and ravinia. I have not been to the salt shed but that looks like it will be neat.

Red Rocks in Colorado is a breathtaking venue. https://www.colorado.com/articles/5-ways-to-fall-in-love-with-red-rocks

Toronto:

• Lee’s Palace
• Hard Luck
• History
• Mod Club
• Bovine Sex Club

The one that is the best to make a weekend trip out of is the Stone Pony Summer Stage. It is an outside stage next to the beach in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

Try Tavastia (Hellsinki, Finland)! Have been to a few amazing gigs there

I’ve been volunteering at Milwaukee’s Summerfest this year and it’s a pretty cool place. Multiple venues from the largest the AmFam Amphitheater to several smaller stages.

The only issue I really have with it, is with the stages all outdoors the sound quality is really bad for the most part. A couple of the bands have had a good Front House engineer that made the best of it though. Last night Kaleo finished out the Miller Light stage and they actually sounded pretty good. Never thought I’d listen to an Icelandic Blues band. Vertical Horizon was on earlier… Instamatic is just not the same without the Professor though. (FYI: Neil Peart was on the drums for the studio recording of that song.)

An outdoor amphitheater that actually sounds great is the Riverbend on the east side of Cincinnati, right on the Ohio river. I’ve seen several concerts there back when I lived in that area. Santana, Live (the band), and even the Cincinnati Pops under Erich Kunsel played there and it always sounded great. The best was probably the Pops playing the 1812 Overture… They used REAL F$%$KING CANNONS! It was awesome.

I’d say my favorite venue is the gorge in Washington state (USA). The shows can vary, but the venue is amazing.

Will probably update as I think of more/add common genre family tags. If other Ottawans (the like between three or five of you I know are here) see this and want to add something, particularly for the defunct list, let me know.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada🇨🇦

Active
House of Targ
Dominion Tavern
Rainbow Bistro
Irene’s
Gabba Hey (active-ish, kinda sorta)
Cafe Nostalgica
Overflow Brewing Company
Bronson Centre (usually slightly bigger, by my definition, acts)
Avant Garde Bar (may need to phrase as Avant-Garde Bar sometimes)
Jazz@248 (also search Jazz 248 or Jazz248)
The Twenty Seven Club
Meow! That’s Hot
Minotaure (technically Hull but I’m adding it)
Live on Elgin

Defunct
Cafe Dekcuf
Barrymore’s
Brass Monkey
Ask a Punk (noted there might be some newer stuff tagged with this anyway)
Pressed Cafe (there was actually a series on local cable called ‘Live at Pressed’, if memory serves)
Zaphod Beeblebrox (also search just Zaphod’s)
Cinqhole
Glue Pot Pub (there’s also one in Australia you may get footage from)

@History in Toronto

Can very much agree. In the past couple of years I’ve seen Strumbellas, Band of Horses, Paul Weller, Echo and the Bunnymen…

Superb venue.

The only place I know is one called La Traviesa, in a town Torredembarra, in Catalonia, northern Spain. I just checked and to my surprise there is quati a bunch of videos on youtube.