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Asylum Reunion

Asylum Reunion Returns Saturday

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After 2 long years, Asylum Reunion returns Saturday, November 27, 2021.

If you were there, you still talk about it. We all have stories, we can’t escape sharing those stories when one of us cross another’s
path. Name another decade where you could go to a big room club, be yourself, no cell phones, living in the moment, listening to a melting
pot of music with an eclectic group of people. You can’t. We always do our best to capture the setting and feel of those days with the music,
video, and venue location. This year the Reunion takes place at Bar Granada, Dayton’s Premium Tequila Bar & Live Music Venue. Located at 5
W. Monument Ave, right on the river. (Corner of Main & Monument).

Matt Freeman, Eric Heilman, Doug Collins & friends will host the evening, providing an eclectic mix of Industrial, 80s, and 90s Alternative Dance from artists including Basement Jaxx, Beastie Boys, Beck, Bjork, The Breeders, The Chemical Brothers, The Cure, Daft Punk,
Depeche Mode, Fatboy Slim, Front 242, Garbage, Josh Wink, KMFDM, Lords of Acid, Massive Attack, Meat Beat Manifesto, Ministry, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Nitzer Ebb, Notorious B.I.G., ODB, PJ Harvey, Prince, Prodigy, Rage Against the Machine, Rammstein, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Skinny Puppy, Sneaker Pimps, Stabbing Westward, Underworld, Violent Femmes, White Zombie and more.

 Preparty at The Barrel House
417 E 3rd St, Dayton, OH 45402
from 7-9PM | 21+ Welcome

Event Details:
80s 90s Industrial Electronic Alternative Dance powered by
Matt Freeman (ASYLUM)
Eric Heilman (ASYLUM, PARALLAX)
Doug Collins (ASYLUM)
& friends

Bar Granada
5 W. Monument Ave, Dayton, OH 45402
9:30 PM DOORS | 21+ WELCOME
$10 COVER

Remember Dayton’s Hottest Club of the 90’s at the Asylum Reunion!

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How many of you remember wild nights at the Asylum, Dayton’s Alternative dance club that was on Patterson Road in downtown Dayton?   Or more likely, how many of you don’t remember much of what happened there?

According to club DJ Matt Freeman, the Asylum opened circa 1993 and closed in 2005 (under the club name Fusion).  You’ll have your chance to relive those glory days for one night only, on Friday Nov 23rd at the Asylum Reunion, being hosted at Therapy Cafe, located at 452 E 3rd Street in Dayton.

We asked Freeman about the upcoming event:

What are a couple of your best memories?
MF: The memories of the Asylum are endless. If you were a part of that time, you know how easy it is to still share stories with a fellow club goer even after being closed for over 13 years. I recently met up with Chris Maloney, who worked there for almost the club’s entirety. We have only met up a handful of times in the past years, and we always have a conversations starting off “Remember that time at the asylum?…”. It was such an important part of so many people’s formidable years, it’s the conversation that will never die. Maybe it was the fact the venue brought straight edge kids, goths, punks, b-boys, ravers, college students and outcasts together and it all just made sense. You’d hear techno, industrial, hip hop, disco, 80s wave and it all simply worked. No cell phones, rarely a camera, it was what it was, and you had to be there to experience it all so you never wanted to miss a night. There was a sense of urgency to always be in attendance. 
What can folks expect at the reunion?

MF: We do our best to recapture the days of dancing, being social, and sharing memories of that time. We will have the infamous dance cage, which was at one time hung above the crowd at Asylum, live video mixing including photos & video from the Asylum, and two of the club’s longest running DJs, Matt Freeman & Eric Heilman. Music for the evening will include a mix of 80s, 90s, and early 2000s alternative / dance featuring Nine Inch Nails, Massive Attack, Depeche Mode, Fatboy Slim, Blur, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Armand Van Helden, Daft Punk, Faithless, KMFDM, Lords of Acid, The Prodigy, Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, Portishead, Moby, The Bucketheads, Garbage, Beastie Boys, New Order, Ministry, Wink, Orbital, Meat Beat Manifesto, as well as  dance tunes  featuring Beastie Boys, Björk, Blur, The Breeders, The Cure, Daft Punk, Depeche Mode, Fatboy Slim, Filter, Front 242, Garbage, KMFDM, Lords of Acid, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, Meat Beat Manifesto, Ministry, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Nitzer Ebb, Portishead, The Prodigy, Rammstein, Sheep on Drugs, Sisters of Mercy, Skinny Puppy, Sneaker Pimps, Underworld, and the list goes on…

What do tix cost and can they buy them in advance?
Cover: $5 (NO ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE)*
18+ welcome w/ proper ID
Doors open at 9PM
Therapy Cafe, 452 E. Third St. Dayton Ohio, 45402.
*This event will hit capacity so plan to arrive EARLY, as last year’s reunion hosted close to 300 attendees.
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