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Brooklyn Mirage Relocates Boiler Room Shows, Casts Doubt on Summer Opening
People are beginning to wonder if Brooklyn Mirage will open this summer after a pair of Boiler Room events were removed from the schedule
Another day, another Brooklyn Mirage show quietly relocated. On Friday, June 20, the ticketing platform Dice began to inform stub-holders that Mirage’s upcoming Boiler Room shows on July 11 and 12 will now take place on a different stage. The shows have been moved to Under The K Bridge in Greenpoint, which has absorbed a good grip of the embattled venue’s schedule as it continues to sort out a protracted permitting problem.
Over on Reddit, where a screenshot of the announcement was posted early Friday evening (see below), minds are beginning to oscillate between making sense of the venue’s fractured show calendar, conspiracy theories, and skepticism over whether it will open at all this summer. The relocation of the Boiler Room event—where Boyz Noise, Tinashe, Toro y Moi, Theo Parrish, DJ Swisha, and more were set to perform across over two days—marks the latest of dozens of shows postponed, rescheduled, or cancelled altogether since May 1, when the venue was initially slated to crack the gates. And today officially pushes their virtual silence to a month in duration, not having issued a public statement since May 20, when Brooklyn Mirage announced on Instagram it had rescheduled all of its Memorial Day weekend programming.
Earlier this week, a Billboard report stated Avant Gardner, the venue’s parent company, had enlisted Andrew Axelrod, a hedge fund founder close to AV’s former CEO Billy Bildstein, to help secure the Department of Buildings permits necessary to finally welcome crowds into the space. At the time of publishing, the only word from Mirage was in a post to their Instagram story flashing a flyer with the rescheduled date for a pair of Gryffin shows that were supposed to be on June 26 and 27.
