Greetings!!!

goodbye blue monday was first incorporated in 1984 because i just plain-old loved Kurt Vonnegut and his writings. i was a writer who didn’t want to write, so i did contract “art-on-the-run” till opening up Scrap Bar in 1986 (scrapbar.com) and when that place hit, i didn’t have to think about writing for another ten years.

i resurrected the GBM name after many years (about 1999) as a warehouse business until it opened four years ago as a retail store that morphed into a coffeehouse/venue six months later. In a short time, in what was considered the middle of nowhere, Goodbye Blue Monday established itself as a place that offers a platform for new ideas in art, music and other aspects of the creative process.
it’s also the most beautiful room you ever saw, believe you me.

and it’s where you can see live music anywhere in the world every day that we’re open by hitting the link at the left where it says GBM Cam.
i like to say that i build environments so i don’t have to write, but now i like to write.
i write and write and write…there’s loads of notes here (i don’t call them blogs anymore) and at myspace.com/scrapbar, down here in the links on the left.

Goodbye Blue Monday’s been profiled or mentioned in almost every major New York publication including the New York Times, the New Yorker, NY Magazine (three times and counting), The NY News, Village Voice, AM New York, The Gothamist, the “L” magazine, New York Press along with a gazillion music and art blogs – are you getting the picture? no matter. there’s a PRESS link just below this place if you’d like to see a bunch of it.
They even wrote about us in other places like Washington D.C, Chicago and The City of Angels in California.
Oh, and we were awarded the Best Place to Hear New Music in NYC by the Village Voice for 2007. That’s in all of New York City.
And we’re “out there”. (out here!)

our stage is your stage. come. join us.