The Cure Lounge
1481 S Shelby St, Louisville, KY 40217
Previously known as Club 21 and The Pour House. The building itself was founded in 1887 as a package/grocery store, and bar, and has had many different names through the years.
The Cure Lounge was at the corner of Shelby and Burnett in Schnitzelburg, in the same space as The Pour House and some other sometimes/sometimes not venues. So named for the Robert Smith fronted band, The Cure Lounge has leaned into that image of the outcast or loner, a hub for fringe culture, including music, burlesque, live arm wrestling events and karaoke, all in the heart of the Germantown.
The venue saw a number of shows including LDB Fest in the spring of 2017 among other events. Midwest Blood Fest was also hosted at the event on one occasion. At least one ediition of PRF BBQ Louisville was hosted there. Elliott Turton was for a time the main booker and soundman at The Cure though others would fill in. Duncan Cherry and Floyd Freels were also involved with The Cure.
In April 2018 it would be announced that The Cure Lounge would be closing on May 18 2018 due to a lease dispute. The last known show at the Cure was on May 10 featuring Shi along with touring bands Sierra and Irata. It would re-open as 21st in Germantown, a prohibition themed bar leaning heavily into the Bourbon Trail and heavy metal crowd.
Selected Performers at The Cure
Louisville
- The Archaeas
- Asm A Tik
- Baby Bones (First show)
- Bathroom Laws
- Black Kaspar
- Blind Scryer
- Blood Planet
- Bon Air
- Boner City
- Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue
- Bungalow Betty
- The Decline Effect
- Foxbat
- Godking
- GRLwood
- Hanoi Jane
- The Jereactors
- Kids Born Wrong
- Knocked Loose
- Los Dolores
- Memory Gloss
- The Mighty Auroch
- Mosquito
- Mutual Kingdom
- Neighbor
- (ohlm)
- Opposable Thumbs
- Parlour
- RON
- Savage Master
- Shawn Sleeps Naked
- Shi (One of the last performers there)
- Shutaro Noguchi
- Slow Joe Crow & The Berserker Blues Band (Reunion)
- softcheque
- Stonecutters
- Ten Wet Dollars
- Transgression
- Twenty First Century Fox
- Tycoons of Teen
- VAMT
- Vice Tricks
- White Woolly