San Francisco Nights

Last week saw my latest contribution to local pop culture history site AudioCulture published online (see here). This one was a little bit different. This time around it wasn’t a “scene” piece or a band profile, it was the history of a venue – San Fran in Wellington. A venue that has, a few times across the past couple of decades, been on the brink of terminal closure. But it always manages to survive and bounce back. It wasn’t strictly about San Fran either, because I wanted to offer a brief overview or history of the premises itself as the building located at 171 Cuba Street nears its one hundredth birthday. Which also meant there was a lot of focus on the popular nightclub known as Indigo, the building’s occupant at the turn of the century. This article sat unloved and unfinished in a "drafts" folder for more than three years as I tried to get some buy-in from a couple of people I desperately wanted to talk to, but never quite did. In the end, the "publish and be damned" option seemed the only way it would ever get to see the light of day. Anyway, click the link provided above and see what you think.