Sloss Furnace Birmingham

[ycartrob]

Anyone know what the Sloss Furnace is? I see where it's where they hold their main stage for the city stages in mid-June, but are they using it for another festival on the 3rd or solely MMJ? Anyone?

[harristrensky]

haha i cant find anything on this place. i know there is someone up in birmingham who can help us out. i need info!

[SMc55]

Found this ticket info:

http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/262855

The place was a genuine furnace - a steelworks. Now they do ghost tours there  :o

[corey]

It's a great venue. I saw Tenacious D there several years ago and I also saw Counting Crows there. It's more or less a big slanted concrete slab with a roof. The sides and back are "open". So we'll be covered if it rains.  :)

[SunflowerZen124]

Sloss Furnance is friggin' scary! :o  I've only been in there once, and I'm never going again...at least during Halloween.  What's even scarier about it is that it suppose to be REALLY haunted...not just a haunted house.  

I am so excited to go see them play though!

[EC]

Yay!  I just bought my Sloss Furnace tickets!!  ('wiggum, check your pm box)

Please nobody get ghosty on me there.  Seriously.  I get freaked out.  

[size=10]woo hoo[/size]
keeping my enthusiasm to a minimum. :)

[corey]

I don't think we'll be near the ghosty parts. There will be a big backdrop type of thing that will cover all of that stuff.
There is a train that runs VERY close to the stage. It blew it's whistle right in the middle of the Tenacious D show and it kind of freaked them out.
:)

[Melly]

Sloss Furnace used to employ, like, the whole town of Birmingham. When y'all come here, you'll see all sorts of references to what used to be the Steel industry. (Check out the statue of Vulcan, god of steel) on the hilltop overlooking the city. The Slosses were some influential family, I think. Decendants are still bigwigs in the city. Sloss Furnaces (not to be confused with The Furnace, a strip club) is tranformed at Halloween into Sloss Fright Furnaces, but the rest of the year there are metalwork artists studios there, metal arts and photogrpahy workshops are held often, there's a historical museum thing, and a part of it has been turned into a venue for black tie fundraising events. Like Birmingham, Sloss is, um, unique.

[Melly]

UUUUUGGGGHHHH! Did y'all pay a $6 service charge to ticketmaster on a $15 ticket???? anybody know if we can buy tickets anywhere in person?

[EC]

(I paid it.  Maybe it's so that they can have the special window for tickets pre-bought?)

[Drunkre]

I'm gonna be in Birmingham on Wednesday night, so I'm just gonna go to Publix and buy them from the Ticketmaster stall there.  Hey, Melly, I'm moving to B'ham in May.  Know where there's any jobby-jobs?