An art and music press The Café Space was the street facing side of the Propeller Brewery, across from the carpeted multi musician shared Jam Space on Gottingen Street. Launched in a 1999, it consisted of a matchbox stage and a temporary bar as a venture to bring print, music, coffee, beer and people under one roof.
The mobile recording studio was a sixteen channel board to Revox reel to reel operated by Micah Donovan and Malcolm Sutton and the only experience was a copy of the Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook and a half dozen live shows they hosted at the Khyber and NSCAD cafeteria. Musical performers included Rick of the Skins, Soaking üp Jagged, Slow Lover, Spinoza, Dead Roads, the Holiday Snaps, Great Balancing Act, Five foot Nine, Dusty Sorbet, Al Tuck, Organ Donair, Russian Dragons, Rajeleteje, DJ Marc, Los Yokos Locos, Captain Foreplay and the Sleeping Bag. Sandy Gribbin and Ben Stone put on the theatrical performance the Unameable with a backdrop painted by Stephen Moore on the same music stage built by Andy Munro, Noel Taussig and Galen Kuellmer. Kevin Kincaid staged another play and David Clark of NSCAD facilitated the mastering to CD with one of the few good cd burners in town at the time.
The Café was a communal effort with tremendous help from Propeller Brewery owner John Allen, Jen Crane, Malcolm Sutton, Sally Sax, Andy Munro, Victoria Kent, Michael LeBlanc, Nobu Adilman, Noel Taussig, Galen Kuellmer, Sandy Worth and all of the Performers and Musicians.
