Bum Alley was Mad Classy before they became Mad Classy.
Mad Classy was not a music genre. Mad Classy was not a
music venue.
Who were Mad Classy?
Sharkweek, Chango & JE
Where?
at Barcelona bar in Austin
Texas back in 2008-2018 every single Sunday night.
The coolest
people in Austin at the time could all be found there Sunday nights.
Mad classy took a hole in the wall venue that no
one cared about and turned it into THE PLACE to be If you were a producer or artist here for SXSW.
Everyone who got to be a part of that will never forget it. It was something g really special.
Thank you Sharkweek, Chango and JE!
(Aka:
Shane Cook, Jason Balle and Justin Emerson) and of course Garrett and Stahl!
Check out our first Flyer. “Why does it say
Bum Alley?” Because that’s what we were going to go by and we were going to call the event Mad
Classy. Mad Classy is the
one that stuck.
What are you
girls doing tonight?
“Mad Classy of course! Because it’s better then sex” What? Wdym? Is Mad Classy a place? “No. But you should come and just see for yourself. It’s at Barcelona on 6th and Brazos every Sunday night”
Skrillex walked into Barcelona during SXSW hoping Mad Classy would let him play.
Hey, where you going? “I’m going to hang out with Mad Classy and Parson. They are at the Dumpster Rave climbing trees”