| Club Red | |
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| Background information | |
| Founded | 2005 (Closed 2021.) |
| Location | Mesa, Arizona, USA |
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Club Red was a venue based in Mesa, Arizona, active from 2005 to 2021.
Club Red was opened in 2005 by local businessman Kim Commons at a Tempe strip mall at University Drive and Price Road. It featured dual stages, an adjacent sports bar called The Red Owl, and hosted a large variety of artists and bands, ranging from rock, punk, and metal show to long-running local hip-hop night The Blunt Club.
In 2014, Commons moved Club Red two miles east to its current location at University Drive and Alma School Road in Mesa, where it took over an 8,100-square-foot property featuring two different theaters. Picking up where it left off, save for a few opening weekend issues, the new Club Red offered the same mix of shows.
The venue continued to flourish after Commons died of a stroke in June 2015. In recent years, it’s hosted numerous raves and dance parties, including annual events like the Bubble Bobble foam party.
It was a well-known haven for heshers and metal bands, though, and offered shows by such famous names as Ensiferum, Alestorm, Tyr, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Decrepit Birth, and local thrash-metal legends Flotsam and Jetsam.[1]
After shutting down operations in March 2020 due to The CO-VID19 Pandemic, Club Red would close it's doors in March 2021.[2]
Selected Notable Performers at the Venue[]
- Baroness
- Black Wizard
- Bongzilla
- Church of Misery
- Crowbar
- Eyehategod
- Goatwhore
- Karma To Burn
- Khemmis
- Kylesa
- Lord Dying
- Monster Magnet
- Mothership
- The Obsessed
- Red Fang
- Saint Vitus
- Sierra
- Saviours
- The Sword
- Un
- Voivod
- Windhand
- Agent Orange
- Black Flag
- Helmet
- Loudness
- Napalm Death
- Phobia
- UFO
- Uli Jon Roth
- X