6 Responses:

1. bodyfour says:

   10 years ago at 5:07 am

   I'm pretty sure the first time I was in the building was to see Battery play. It was one of the times I visited SF before moving.. probably around June 1998(?) I think it was nominally a Bound event back when that club was @DNA... wasn't that on Wednesdays?

   Unfortunately I don't have much of my archived email from that period, so I can't pin it down more than that. Maybe someone else can dig up some more details.

2. inoah says:

   10 years ago at 11:10 am

   Was it always called DNA Lounge? For some reason I had the impression you gave it a new name.

   • jwz says:

     10 years ago at 12:34 pm

     It's been DNA Lounge since 1985. Before that it was a bar called Chaps, since 1977. It may have had other names between 1977 and 1985, but I've never been able to get a real answer on that.

     • kavavita says:

       10 years ago at 6:06 pm

       Dear god. You're scaring me, jwz. I didn't want to do the math and realize I've been going to DNA for 17 years. Aiyee! That would be half my life.

3. hafnir says:

   10 years ago at 3:18 pm

   The pre-jwz DNA dekonstrukt events:

   Thu June 17, 1999 - Guest DJ Raoul Roucka (aka Noisex)
   Sun July 4, 1999 - Guest DJ Scott Beebe (aka Savak)
   Sun August 8, 1999 - Guest DJ Tenebrae (aka Lefthandeddecision)
   Sun September 5, 1999 - Savak and FAV Live, with Guest DJ Tony D (aka Sult Villonaud)
   Sun September 19, 1999 - Dance Night
   Sun October 3, 1999 - Urceus Exit with Landscape Body Machine Live
   Sun October 17, 1999 - Dance Night
   Thu October 28, 1999 - VNV Nation with Gridlock Live
   Sun November 7, 1999 - Guest DJ Da5id Din (aka Informatik, Din_fiv)
   Sun November 21, 1999 - Dance Night
   Thu December 2, 1999 - In Strict Confidence with Pulse Legion Live
   Sun December 19, 1999 - Dance Night
   + one night in January 2000 with Guest DJ Fernando

   Looks like you already listed all the proper live shows except Savak with FAV. I still have video of all these shows (except I'm not 100% sure about the ISC/Pulse Legion one). Last week, Noisescape showed a clip from the 1999 VNV show at DNA (pretty much the same as the clip that's been online since that show, except re-digitized with better equipment).

4. caroline_blind says:

   10 years ago at 11:24 am

   HAHAHAHAH! So THAT's the ONLY time I'd ever been to the DNA Lounge before I worked here- JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, 1998! Seriously, the first time ever. And the last before Casey brought me in.