Words can’t convey — at least at the moment — how unhappy I am to have to report this, but Tick Tick has just announced they are ending their booking operations, effective pretty much immediately. They will have one final show, Monday, April 27 at The Monkey House. Once I’ve had a few minutes to wrap my head around this, I’ll try and weigh in with some parting thoughts later this afternoon. But for now . . . sigh.

Here is the farewell letter, in its entirety, that they posted this morning on their website:

Dear everyone,

Tick Tick Booking is officially entering retirement. 

Please join us on Monday, April 27 at the Monkey House for ourfinal show and going away party, featuring Son of Salami, BlackFeelings, Ponytail, Think About Life, and DJs Drew Stock and MikeDevice. 

When we started booking bands in Burlington three years ago, ourvision was to bring the music we wanted to see and the city we lovetogether.  Burlington’s location in the northeast made it seem sensibleto ask our favorite bands to stop here.  And they did, and peoplestarted showing up to see them, and we kept asking bands that said yes,and so we asked our dream bands, and they said yes too. 

We are proud to have connected Vermont to so many other placesthrough our shows, and we are grateful that we’ve been able toexperience so many wonderful happenings with you all, as Burlingtondevelops a fuller and more viable underground music scene.   

The three of us are looking forward to relaxing and moving on toother projects.  Nick Mavadones will continue to be the lighthouse ofBurlington music on his blog, (AngioplastyMedia.wordpress.com) and willtry to maintain regular sleeping hours.  Julia Lewandoski isghost-writing a novel and gardening.  Dale Donaldson II is drawing andgiving drawing lessons to a nine-year-old, and considering art school. Graham Keegan will continue to run Tick Tick Printing as a business andis thinking of moving to La-La-Land. 

We consider everyone that has played music, designed something,done a thankless job, hung posters, told someone to come, carried a PA,let us borrow stuff, promoted us on the radio, let us use their space,hosted a band, never came but said something nice, paid extra at thedoor, paid at the door, bought t-shirts, or just showed up, a part ofTick Tick.  So thank you.   

We would like to thank, first, EVERYONE, and then this short list:

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Dan Bolles is a culture coeditor at Seven Days. He joined the paper in 2007 as its music editor, covering Vermont's robust music, comedy and nightlife scenes for a decade before deciding he was too old to be going to the Monkey House on weeknights to...