Tewligans
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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)