Skull Alley
Skull Alley is/was located in Louisville's Paristown Poine neighborhood - just off the corner of Broadway and Barrett Ave. The address is/was 1017 E. Broadway in a building renovated just for the venue and associated screen printing operation. Opened in 2008 by Jamie Prott and Allyson Lowery, the venue sought to fill a place in Louisville musical landscape as well as serve as a memorial to Dylan Prott.
After two and a half years, an almost uncountable number of shows, and achieving many goals, Skull Alley closed up shop on December 31st, 2010. The final show featured The Foxery, Young Lions, Black God (Their live debut), Reading Group and Lemuria (Who played the very first Skull Alley show in June 2008).
An indie/folk venue called Uncle Slayton's would take it's place and last roughly two years as well. Since then the space has become a rotating door of odd businesses.
Selected Performers at Skull Alley
Louisville
- Black God (Debut show on December 31 2010)
- Brother Doubt
- Cerebellum (Reunion)
- Coliseum
- Endpoint (Reunion)
- The Foxery
- Foxy Shazam
- Frontier(s)
- Hard Life (banned after playing there once)
- Head Above Water
- How To Murder
- IamIs
- Lee Van Cleef
- Mountain Asleep (First to break through the floor!)
- The New Mexico
- Nixon (last show)
- (ohlm)
- Rattletooth
- Reading Group
- Second Story Man
- Seidr
- Sick City Four
- Stonecutters
- Straight A's
- The Teeth
- Trophy Wives
- Vice Tricks (As "Parlor Tricks")
- Where We Live
- Young Lions
- Young Widows
- Xerxes
Touring / Regional
- Tim Barry (of Avail) solo and as part of the Revival Tour
- Bomb The Music Industry!
- Bouncing Souls
- Brokencyde
- Daniel Higgs
- Every Time I Die
- Grails
- Harm's Way
- Lemuria (played the first and last shows)
- Millionaires
- Native
- The Queers
- Russian Circles
- Tombs
- Weekend Nachos