NYC

Feature Submission- Willy Moon by Nina Robinson

Willy Moon by Nina Robinson/ The Hell Gate- image is copyrighted, not for use without permission- to license this image go here.

Third Man Records recording artist Willy Moon backstage and on stage at Piano’s, NYC, February 2013 View Nina’s gallery.

Andrew WK- Home For The Holidays

Andrew WK by Rebecca Smeyne/ The Hell Gate- image is copyrighted, not for use without permission. To license this set go here.

We had a feeling this was too good to be true… we hate when we’re right sometimes. Andrew WK will not be in Bahrain as a cultural ambassador on behalf on the State Department over the holidays. His abruptly canceled trip still has not been given a reason from the State Department, all the details from Pitchfork are here.  Pity, we were really looking forward to Andrew spreading his message of positive partying to Bahrain. Could this have lead to peace in the Middle East? We’ll never know, but we do know what Andrew WK’s NYC apartment looks like. Rebecca Smeyne photographed it back in June, perhaps he’ll be here for the holidays.

Feature Submission- Spiritualized Live from Terminal 5 NYC, Chirstopher McLallen

J Spaceman of Spiritualized, Christopher McLallen/ The Hell Gate-image is copyrighted, not for use without permission

J Spaceman live from Terminal 5 NYC May 7, 2012. Set is viewable here and available for licensing.

What’s In a Name

We find ourselves explaining where we got our name from… a lot.

No, we are not Death Metal or Goth freaks- The Hell Gate is an actual bridge in Astoria Queens- a unique, beautiful, gothic style railroad bridge  & synonymous with the East River view to take we have on life from Queens NY.
We chose not to go down the Donald Trump school of naming routes (random use of latin) or name ourselves or play the bullshit bingo option of using a variation on “stock” “pic” “foto” etc etc – the fodder stock school of no imagination.

A beautiful photograph of the Hell Gate bridge from the 1940s  is in the  link here, you’ll have to scroll down a bit to get to it – the actual website of the  NYC Municipal online photo gallery is currently down because so many people logged onto it yesterday .