Brooklyn Mirage Quietly Cancels More July Shows

By Michael Gonik

Brooklyn Mirage is well on its way to scrubbing yet another month’s worth of programming from the books.

After relocating a two-day Boiler Room event (now at Under The K Bridge), and pulling the plug on their four-show Black Coffee residency, the venue has now moved a pair of sold-out Excision shows to The Great Hall, another Avant Gardner venue with roughly half of Mirage’s capacity. The Canadian producer and DJ’s events were to take place at Mirage on July 17 and 18, featuring eight supporting artists.

Performers and the DICE ticketing service once again handled the relocation announcement, not the Brooklyn Mirage, which hasn’t made a public statement since the cancellation of its Memorial Day weekend shows and may have abandoned communicating with ticket-holders altogether. The Excision shows landing at The Great Hall wipes a tenth week from the Brooklyn Mirage calendar, which was supposed to begin on May 1 with a performance from Sara Landry, but was canceled just hours before doors after the venue failed a safety inspection. By the end of that month, the venue fired CEO Josh Wyatt in an attempt to correct course and reportedly enlisted the aid of longtime Avant Gardner backer Andrew Axelrod, founder of the Axar Capital hedge fund, to sort out its seemingly unending permitting issues.

There is still one show listed on the venue’s docket for the next two weeks—the already rescheduled date for the All Day I Dream event on July 12. But there’s absolutely no reason to believe that won’t get pushed or cancelled entirely as well.