STN Entertainment

Rock 'n' Roll
Cathedral

hile Sanctum is one of Pontiac's
hottest dance clubs, open just over
a year, tonight marks the venue's
first foray into the hectic and lu-
crative arena of national-act concerts. The
English quintet Radiohead performs with
opener the David Gray Band; tickets for
the show disappeared long ago.
Sellout or not, though, the owners of
Sanctum (who also happen to run the coun-
try-western bar Diamonds and Spurs down
the street) waited until they were sure the
venue could handle the throngs of metro
area groovesters. They also wanted to be
certain the club could accommodate the
technical and logistical demands of a na-

tonal touring act before taking on that
responsibility.
"With a new venue like this, so many
things go into making (shows) run OK,"
says Sanctum's Kevin Duncan. "You
want to make sure all the bugs are out."
Especially when you're talking about
a building constructed for anything but
10-foot-high speakers and sweaty mosh
pits. Sanctum, like St. Andrews Hall
in Detroit, used to be a church. An all-
stone building, the owners went about
improving acoustics by padding walls
and hanging curtains to soften the
sound. The 10,000-square-foot main
floor and an upstairs balcony that rings

Above: In a Trent Reznor-like
move, Dog's Eye View's Peter
Stuart recorded his debut
album, Happy Nowhere, in a
supposedly haunted house in
Woodstock, NY.

Left: Radiohead will inaugurate
the Sanctum dance club in
Pontiac as a national concert
venue.

the lower level provide
1,500 music fans with
plenty of gawking room.
On Fridays and Satur-
days, these floors-throb to
the beat of alternative
dance music; there's a
smaller second floor space
to accommodate fans of
retro chic with '70s and
'80s grooves. Just For

Leftover Salmon

There's nothing kosher
this poly -ethnic
slamgrass band.

S un ..,5 9 . . 30 pm •

Catch them at the Blind
Pig, 208 S. First St., Ann
Arbor. (810) 645-6666.

Greenfield Village

A renovated Smith's Creek
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Depot
train
tran station
staton h as
Pd with authentic
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new passenger platform at
Greenfield Village, Dear-
born. (313) 271-1976.

Daily,
9 a. m. . 5 p.m.

Laughs, the complex's comedy club,
sits just below the main floor.
The members of Radiohead,
whose second album on Capitol
records, The Bends, is making head-
way on U.S. charts, came togeth-
er at the end of the 1980s "out of
sheer boredom," says singer Thom
Yorke. Their official debut as a
group, in the summer of 1991, drew
20 record company offers, and one
of the band's first singles, "Creep,"
became what New York Newsday
called "a worthy addition to rock's
lexicon of angst." Quite a compli-
ment.
On April 10, Sanctum and
Belkin Productions host their sec-
ond national act, recent break-
through pop act Dog's Eye View,
a.k.a. Peter Stuart. A coffeehouse
troubadour from New York City
(who honed his craft while study-
ing film in Chicago), Stuart actually hitched
onto his star in Detroit. The singer/song-
writer was opening for a band that was
opening for the Counting Crows here, met
the Crows and ended up touring with the
mega-band through the United States and
Europe. Stuart claims that crowds react
most passionately to his darker songs.
Bleak and moody, irreverent and loud,
these two bands inaugurate Sanctum's
once-hallowed ground as the metro area's
newest rock 'n' roll cathedral.

—Liz Stevens

Radiohead performs at 8 p.m. tonight
with special guest David Gray. The show
is sold out. Dog's Eye View performs with
opening act Semisordc at 8 p.m. Wed.,
April 10. Tickets are $7 in advance, $9 at
the door. Sanctum is located at 65 E.
Huron in Pontiac. Call (810) 338-1139 or
Ticketmaster at (810) 645-6666.

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Pinocchio

Golden Smog

David Mamet's drama about pow-
er and sexual politics takes the

The wooden puppet comes

stage at the Detroit Repertory
Theatre. (313) S68-1347.

Theatres presentation of

Thurs. & Fri ■ 5 8 . • 30 p • m •
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•
Sat. 5 3 & 7.30
Sun., 2 & 7: 30 p.m.

Northville. (810) 349-8110.

Recent performers at the
By-Southwest music festival in
Austin, Texas, the band --made
up of members of Wilco, the Jay-
hawks and Soul Asylum — stop
by the Majestic Theatre in Detroit,.
(313) 833-4130.

Oleanna

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the Walt Disney tale, in

Opens 2:30 p.m.
Mon.

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