ClubsScape: The Glass is Still Half Full
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The Empty Glass Cafe, at 410 Elizabeth Street, presents the dowdiest visage. To call it a Cafe, with the connotation of la vie Parisienne, is almost a wink and nod of a joke. Yet the club is important to the city, aside from it being the sine qua non establishment for some of Charleston’s booziest creative wonks. It is a fecund place, too, where generations of fine young area bands have learned their sound. And touring bands booked here are consistently, ambitiously variant. The fact you will hear very few of them on your average radio is a comment on the perfidy of most radio music. Still, while I hear on the street the club plans to spritz up a bit, one does feel the need to splash on Purell after departing its catacombs. In that regard, the Glass is spiritual kin to, say, a Glasgow pub on the edge of the edgy side of town.
