Super psyched for this new live music venue. I say new, but this is more of a rebranding.
Almost like an episode of Bar Rescue.
Remember that show?
I used to love that show!
But really, this isn't that either.
I actually liked the previous identity of this tavern.
Bayou Thunder Saloon.
This was a long, long, longtime biker bar.
But now that place is sadly gone.
And though the structure is somewhat the same.
It has been rearranged a smidge from the way it was.
The bands play in a large room off to the left of the long bar and no longer to the right.
I am glad to see this flip, because I'm not all-in-the-know, but I know the last several times I'd been here, it felt different. Like, it had changed. The biker scene was all but gone (which again, I thought was sad) but it was still under the same name.
It definitely felt like something was going on. New ownership? New direction? Something?
And so, now we know.
Bayou Thunder is now Straight Jackets.
I like the name.
I like the rebrand.
I believe they've done some more work to it since my last visit, so I'll be interested to see what that is.
It's going to be a live music venue with what seems to be a hard rock edge.
And I'm good with that.
They already hosted a Type O Negative cover band from Dallas and I missed it.
I'm pretty cheesed about that.
Hopefully they'll come back.
In May, this venue will host Powerman 5000, 12 Stones and Adema among others at Metalbug, a hard rock/heavy metal crawfish festival in the parking lot.
Should be rad.
Get your tickets.
Book your rooms.
And I hope on most nights before then and after, domestic longnecks will stay at the $3 mark.
That too, would be rad. read more