The Big Bop will lock it's doors forever January 31st 2010 after 29 years.

The Big Bop started in 1985 as a DJ nightclub. But by the time Richmond Street super-clubs were up and running in 1993, the venue fell on hard times. Dominic bought the building in 1996 and turned it into a live music hall consisting of three venues: Kathedral, Reverb & Holy Joes.

"We found a business with the all-ages crowd and that’s what The Big Bop ended up being known as: an all-ages venue." Many International acts have graced all three stages of The Big Bop, as well as the many local acts who treated the place as their second home. Muchmusic favorites like Billy Talent and Alexisonfire crafted their art within the big purple building.

Dominic sheds some light on his future plans: "Now what’s happening is that I’m taking my act to the west end at Kipling and Dundas. It will be a similar idea, with a single-storey venue about the size of the Reverb.”

* If you would like to keep up-to-date with the new venue opening Spring 2010, email: therockpilenightclub@yahoo.ca. Please include 'Mailing List' in the subject line.

What will happen to the building?: "We sold the building in 2006, and I just kept leasing from the new owner. Now he has a tenant coming here, a big furniture store from the States." The building is considered historical, so no one can knock it down to make way for a condo tower.

The Big Bop wants to thank all the people of Toronto, music lovers and musicians who have supported not only our venue, but music over the years!

Special thanks to: The Staff, Ratch, Long & Mcquade, Steve's, The 3tards, The Lonely Vagabond, The Misfits, The Creepshow, Dirty Bird, Dayglo Abortions, Down With Webster, The Matadors, R.E.D, L.A. Guns, C-P Concert & Promotion, ATG Concerts, We Got The Movement, S&S Productions, DJ Lazarus, Eye Weekly, Now Magazine, CMW, Ewan Exall, Subspace Fetish Night, Supernova & the many, many more we didn't have time to list!

Cindy Parreira
Booking Agent/Talent Buyer
Publicity/Concert & Promotion
THE BIG BOP CONCERT HALL
Kathedral - Reverb - Holy Joes
651 Queen ST W
Toronto, ONT
M6V 2B7

PHONE: 416.504.6699 (Monday to Friday, 4-7PM)
EMAIL: cpconcerts_booking@yahoo.ca