As with many venues the post pandemic norm also for the Monkeys is less guests, higher cost and as such a fragile setting at the risk of breaking.
I have been out to the opening of the Monkeys way back in 2014 and have seen many great shows there. And indeed i have noted post-Covid a significant reduction in attendance.
The Monkeys is asking for support, i have joined in to do so. If you value their program and if you want this little niche to continue you may do so too.
Here is what they say:
We need to talk For those of you who know us well enough, this next part might not contain new information. But we’d like to take a minute, to introduce ourselves and our work. Our journey starts 8 years back from now. When this whole adventure started, we had to goal to create a space of (sub)-culture and live music in Hamburg. All DIY. Lots of you awesome people were celebrating, dancing and laughing with us during the last 8 years. But times change. And now we are not really in the mood for a dance through the night. Since the end of the Corona-pandemic, which on its own is a tough pill to swallow, there has been lots of repayments and rent increases. Nevertheless the higher costs in general when it comes to energy bills, fees, extra costs and many more. With all of this in mind, times are tough and we don’t really see a light at the end of the tunnel. So, what are WE doing, to develop a new program, with more open offers to new demographics. New events, new discos. And we are still open for bookings. This summer has been highly stressful and even though summer might be gone soon, we still don’t really know, how to survive the winter. But what can YOU do to help us? As said before you can book us as a location. And even if you don’t want to you can recommend us to other people you know. Privat parties, company parties, birthdays, Live-recordings, shooting music videos, film set, record recording, record-release-parties and many more. We are a great music-venue which is very versatile, when it comes to booking us. Go see us. Together we’ve had a blast the last 8 years. Your support before, during and after the pandemic has been tremendous and gave is the opportunity to keep going. And if you’d like to support us even more, then check out our Patreon: For those wondering: Patreon is an online service which allows you to support us via a certain monthly subscription. In exchange you get some perks like earlier links to buy tickets or livestreams. At the end its important to notice, that we don’t want to get rich with this. Every dime spent by you will directly float into refinancing our costs and battling new and higher costs. Every support helps us to keep going, Thank you for being there for us. Cheers, Sam, Sandra and the Monkeys’ team.
Their choice of support is via Patreon.com – here is the link:
