Rock Rendez-Vous

This article covers the venue in Portugal. For the song Rock Rendezvous by Die Ärzte, see the album article Down with the donor pants, Invisible! .

The Rock Rendez-Vous (also Rock Rendez Vous ) was a club and concert venue in Lisbon from 1980 to 1990.

origin

Mário Guia, formerly the guitarist of the beat band Ekos , opened the concert venue under the name Rock Rendez-Vous (RRV) on December 18, 1980 in the premises of the former Cinema Universal cinema in the Santos district . Inspired by the Marquee Club in London, which he frequented, it was supposed to be a place for daily concerts of different musical styles. The first concert there was played by Rui Veloso , who was considered the "father" of the boom in Portuguese rock music since the late 70s. In 1983 the club closed again, but after a signature campaign it was reopened. Over the years it received a status similar to that of The Roxy Club or the Marquee Club in London a few years earlier for the subcultures in Lisbon .

activity

From the beginning, the RRV was designed as a music venue with a daily program, with disco operation with overarching independent music being offered on the weekend. Between the concerts and during the disco operation, music clips and films were shown that were not accessible every day in the 1980s.

In 1984 the first RRV band competition took place, the 1º Concurso de Música Moderna (CMM). These competitions became very popular, both among the interested audience, who had a meeting place here and got to know new bands, and among the bands, as these CCMs gathered a large scene audience and the attention of the country's music press at the same time. Also significant was the prospect of a profit, which consisted of musical instruments or record releases, both of which were equally difficult to obtain for independent bands of the time. A contribution to the annual CMM compilations of the RRV and own publications beckoned for the winners on the in-house independent label Dansa do Som, founded after the first CMM .

Later successful bands such as Xutos & Pontapés , Mata-Ratos or Sitiados became known through their appearances here.

Foreign bands also played here, according to the orientation of the RRV and its audience, mainly from the independent sector. Among the multitude of punk and new wave bands were Killing Joke , The Teardrop Explodes , The Lords of the New Church , Danse Society and The Raincoats , with Madeira- born singer Ana da Silva. Other names were u. a. The Meteors , The Chameleons or the Berlin band Sprung Aus Den Wolken .

The RRV could also be rented, including its professional sound and lighting systems. This enabled concerts by other bands and active people, such as various metal festivals, or punk and independent concerts, which arose through private contacts and outside of commercial organizer structures.

The End

In July 1990 the club closed after the economic distress and problems with local residents had steadily increased. The building was demolished shortly afterwards and rebuilt as a residential building with shops on the ground floor (snack bar-café-pastry shop Pastelaria Restaurante Galão 2 ). Between 1980 and 1990 around 1500 concerts with over 300 different performers took place in the RRV.

In 1994, Mário Guia and other people in charge of the Dansa-do-Som label organized another competition elsewhere under the name RRV, for the 10th anniversary of the event, and broadcast by the public television network RTP . The Sony meanwhile acquired the naming rights of Mário Guia, and so a double album was released there on 26 April 2000 under the name Noites Que Fizeram História Rock Rendez-Vous, ( "Rock Rendez-Vous, nights made history"), with the most popular Titles that were played on the disco evenings in the RRV.

Web links

• Page about the RRV (port.)
• Page about the band competitions in the RRV (port.)
• Page about the label Dansa do Som (port.)
• Rare video concert recording (Mata-Ratos 1988) on YouTube
• Rare clip from the RRV (Essa Entente 1986) on YouTube

literature

• Salwa Castelo-Branco: Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX, PZ Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2010, ISBN 978-989-6441142 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Salwa Castelo-Branco: Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX , 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2010, page 1128 ff.
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Salwa Castelo-Branco: Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX , 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2010, page 1129
4. ^ Salwa Castelo-Branco: Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX , 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2010, p. 1128.
5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 38 ° 44 '35.4 "  N , 9 ° 9' 27.1"  W.