Uncut: Q&A with Someday Lounge "Ringmaster," Noah Mickens

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WW: What's your name name? ("proper name" I guess.) What's your role at Someday Lounge? Booker, owner....
Can you give some background on the opening of the club? Who's behind it? How did that space come to be?
What's your personal background with venues and music?
Is there an ideal behind the Someday Lounge? It seems extremely eclectic, but definitely tilted towards a leftfield crowd...
Do you feel like you're in a state of competition with other bookers in town? Or, are you filling a hole? What is that hole?
What can you tell me about the "virtual stage?" This is something unique here. From a cynics perspective, that seems antithetical to running a profitable club, let alone one that's already catering to an avant crowd.
What are the artistic boundaries of the Someday Lounge? Say, for example, you had the chance to book the Shins (or the Decemberists or pop whatever): would you take it?
This question is hard to put simply, but I'll try: when I look at the Someday Lounge's calendar, it strikes me that acts that would normally be in places like the Food Hole or warehouse theatre spaces are performing in a place that seems, well, establishment: clean, heavily designed, and so forth. How do you bring those vibes together? Or, am I way off in that impression?
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