A Night With Tommy Genesis
38 minutes after we arrive at No Vacancy on a Thursday night, we're allowed to enter the venue. The bouncer warns us not to take photos until we're in the bar, and we proceed upstairs, filing into a small bedroom where a lone blonde reclines on a twin bed. She launches into a practiced monologue about the unearthly realm we'll be entering as she pulls a lever; the bed slides away from the wall on a hidden track to reveal a staircase beneath. I briefly wonder if the only reason we'd been forced to wait so long before entering is for the setting and resetting of this gimmick, charming but probably overwrought for a sold-out album release party....