Tewligans

Around 1980, Tewligans was a biker bar, but moved over into a newer format, including punk and new wave acts. Located in the same spot on Bardstown Road as The Cherokee, and later Cahoots.

There is a Facebook group dedicated to the place that you should check out: [1]

Louisville bands that played there:

• Bush League
• Cinderblock
• Evergreen
• Crain
• Drinking Woman
• Kinghorse
• Lather
• ModernHeirs
• No Comply
• The Telephone Man
• Rodan
• Enkindel
• Endpoint
• Sunspring
• Brain Dead
• Spot
• Solution Unknown
• Squirrel Bait
• Stutter
• Indignant Few
• Undermine
• The Uninvited
• Your Food
• The Babylon Dance Band
• Jill Thorpe and the Beat Boys
• Bollocks
• The End Tables (w Chile Regeaux)
• Common Law Cabin (lineup: chile regeaux (vocals), Wayne Piatt (of the Uninvited), Wink O Bannon (guitar)

National Acts that played there:

• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Fugazi
• Circle Jerks
• 10,000 Maniacs
• R.E.M. (under fake name)
• Mighty, Mighty, Bosstones
• U.K. Subs
• Smashing Pumpkins
• Pearl Jam
• Tesco Vee's Hate Police
• Johnny Thunders (of the New York Dolls) 1984 & 3/1/86
• Shakin Pyramids (Ireland)
• Hellbillies (Chicago)
• Bad Brains
• Flock of Seagulls
• They Might Be Giants
• Jonathon Richman
• Hasil Atkins
• Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper
• Afghan Whigs
• Eleventh Dream Day 3/13/1993 (w/ some Lvl members incl. Wink O'Bannon)

Links

• https://www.courier-journal.com/story/entertainment/music/2017/06/23/punk-rock-puri-piece-louisvilles-music-scene-lives/419281001/