07/07/2023
A note to our amazing community-
As we head into another weekend on
Andra Lång, we’d like to make a post of two purposes. One of heartfelt thanks to all of you who have supported us and come in for a beverage or some chow, everyone who’s bought a ticket and attended a show, all the bands who have shared their amazing talents with us, and anyone who’s spreading the word, or sent words of encouragement about what we’re doing here in Göthenburg. It’s heartening to hear about and feel the love from all over the world for this place and we don’t take it lightly.
Secondly, this is a call to action for our community to keep supporting, where you can, your favourite bars, venues, labels, restaurants, record shops, bookers, and bands.
Though the pandemic is largely out of sight and out of mind now, its effects have carried on and your favorite establishments are still navigating the consequences to daily lives and livelihoods. It is becoming a sad and frightening trend for places like ours to be forced into closing their doors in response to these operational hardships and though we are doing our best to push forward and keep the good fight going, the grim truth is that so many of us little guys in live music are shouldering crushing financial, mental and emotional strain of rising costs, staff shortages, prolonged periods of low ticket sales and sparse attendance.
We need your patronage now, more than ever so that we can continue making musical memories with you long into the future.
Each of you is instrumental in the survival and future of our rich and varied local musical landscape and we are proud and inspired daily by the talent that surrounds us and comes through our doors. It's a gift to be able to share that with you, and we want to be here doing that for a long time to come. Every ticket sold, every beer poured, it all matters. Especially now.
Thanks for your time, and again, for supporting The Abyss in any way that you do.
Upward and onward for the heavy underground! 🖤