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May 1998 — The Opening of Garage
История · 25.12.2005
The story of Garage — one of Moscow's first all-purpose dancing spaces — told first-hand.
Дмитрий Брауде
Garage opened in May 1998. Back then Denis Legeev and I were doing great with B.B. King, and we wanted something new. And just then this space on Pushkinskaya Square turned up. We didn't want to duplicate B.B. King — that would've been pointless anyway. We landed almost at once on the idea that here, in these cramped quarters, we should set up a bar with dancing. A kind of all-purpose space that could run around the clock. By day we'd feed people lunch here; in the evening we'd push the tables aside and folks could dance freely by the bar.
The name came about more or less by chance. We had no idea back then that a prototype existed — that very New York Paradise Garage. At the time Denis and I ran a company called Art-Design, trading all sorts of rarities from the States. It was all kept in a hangar stuffed with strange objects. The word "Garage" came up right there, while we talked about how great it'd be to gather friends and throw a proper party. It felt energetic, and we put it in the club's name. The chunk of a car over the entrance, by the way, is a keepsake from that hangar — an original Ford Firebird, an extremely rare machine.
The name came about more or less by chance. We had no idea back then that a prototype existed — that very New York Paradise Garage. At the time Denis and I ran a company called Art-Design, trading all sorts of rarities from the States. It was all kept in a hangar stuffed with strange objects. The word "Garage" came up right there, while we talked about how great it'd be to gather friends and throw a proper party. It felt energetic, and we put it in the club's name. The chunk of a car over the entrance, by the way, is a keepsake from that hangar — an original Ford Firebird, an extremely rare machine.