Pyramid Closed for Good but No Return Post Punk Society will continue

The Pyramid Promoters: moments after we removed the last of our things from Pyramid’s basement.

It’s hard to write what hasn’t already been written, especially trying to consume into a short blog post what Pyramid Club has meant to us, to many of you, and to NYC’s counterculture in general. So instead I’ll take this brief time to offer it, and Q (also known as DJ TM8), a thank you for being our home since 2015.

No Return Post Punk Society before Pyramid was a happy hour dive bar party. We were residents at Arrow Bar (before it closed), Arlene’s Grocery (before they let go of all of their daytime DJs), and then made guest appearances at Ottos and other lower east side dives. A friend, and regular of our happy hour parties, was leaving the city and I had decided to throw her a surprise going away party at Pyramid Club. After the party Q offered me a regular spot. Scrambling for another DJ I brought on another of our regulars, who many of you now know as The Maldic!on (who had only DJed one set previously), and shortly after had Alex Von Nihil introduced to me.

And that’s how we became what we are now. If it weren’t for Pyramid, who knows where we’d be. But now it’s time to look towards the future.

Tomorrow we will be looking at a new venue that has taken on two of Pyramid’s upstairs 80s parties and apparently hosts a vast basement space. If it checks out I will meet with the owner next week and continue to plan. Things are difficult with covid restrictions being as they are but once things open up we plan to have a new venue in place. We know Pyramid Club, the place, may be gone, but the people and the spirit live on and we look forward to seeing you in the future.