Cyclone Warehouse was a venue for
Underground art located in the Butcher Town area of
San Francisco
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, California, between Potrero Hill and Hunter's Point. It was known for hosting eclectic events, and formerly served as headquarters to a loose collective of artists and artisans.
The space was founded in 1992 by Troy Shelton, Nicolas Desbons, Todd Martinez, Dan Hersey, Mark Reitman, Jason Price and Geordie Stevens, a group of students from CCAC and SFSU. They built the space primarily from found materials.
Neighbors
The space was one of 15 bays in a larger warehouse - a mix of artists studios and small business workshops. Some of those neighbors have been "The Cave" (a rock venue in the 1990s run by Beky Bonk), Phase (seminal noise venue), Seemen (robotics artist), Ovarian Trolley (on
Candy Ass Records), Who's on Third Studios, The Lodge, and Bay Area Metals (recycling center).
Hosted artists
Cyclone Warehouse hosted a long list of memorable events. Punk shows, industrial art, house/techno parties, dance performance, theater productions, circus, cabaret, and puppets were all part of the repertoire:
*T.V. Homicide
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Survival Research Laboratories
Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) is an American performance art group that pioneered the genre of large-scale machine performance. Founded in 1978 by Mark Pauline, the group is known in particular for their performances where custom-built mac ...
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Cyclecide Bike Rodeobr>
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Mia Zapata
Mia Katherine Zapata (August 25, 1965 – July 7, 1993) was an American musician who was the lead singer for the Seattle punk band The Gits. After gaining praise in the emerging grunge scene, Zapata was murdered in 1993 while on her way home fr ...
Benefit
*Big Top 23
*Captain Ricks Cabaret
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Seven Year Bitch
7 Year Bitch was an American punk rock band from Seattle, Washington. The band was active between 1990 and 1997 and released three albums over that time. The band formed at the same time as the emergence of the riot grrrl sub-genre, which is a ...
*Victims Family
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Steel Pole Bath Tub
Steel Pole Bath Tub was an American rock band, formed in 1986 in Bozeman, Montana, United States, by Mike Morasky (guitar/vocals) and Dale Flattum (bass/vocals).
Band history
Morasky and Flattum moved the band to Seattle, Washington, where ...
*Woodpussy
*Idiot Flesh
*Hickey
*All You Can Eat
*Shella
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Seemen
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Neurosis
*Ovarian Trolley
*The Chasm of Spasms
*The Islais Creek Fair
*Cookie Mongoloid
References
*Wisner, Heather
"Night & Day" SF Weekly. May 19, 1999. Accessed May 15, 2007.
*Tudor, Silke
"Night Crawler" SF Weekly. March 1999. Accessed May 15, 2007.
*Anonymous
"Berkeley Blog"Mention of the Shellac show on the CSUA blog. Accessed May 15, 2007.
*Spelletich, Kalman
seemen.org. Accessed May 15, 2007.
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1992 establishments in California