Here's the oral history of Little Brother's, courtesy of the musicians, employees and patrons who helped shape its legacy.ĭan Dougan (former Stache's and Little Brother's owner) :
For years, local rockers and concertgoers have been on the search for “the new Little Brother's,” a mantle most recently bestowed on Ace of Cups, whose owner, Marcy Mays, is intimately familiar with Stache's and Little Brother's from her time in Scrawl. Ten years after the last notes rang out at Little Brother's, Dougan's rock clubs are still revered as much as they are missed in the city's music scene. in the Short North and rebranded as Little Brother's, which hosted concerts from noteworthy locals (Scrawl, Moviola) and now-household national names, including the White Stripes, Arcade Fire, Sleater-Kinney and the Black Keys, until its final show on July 3, 2007. In 1997, when the Stache's building was torn down, Dougan relocated the venue to 1100 N. Schieber continued booking the carpeted club for a short while after Dougan bought Stache's, and then Dougan took the reins, bringing in then-fledgling grunge acts like Nirvana and Soundgarden. It was mostly a blues club, but in the mid '80s, SchoolKids Records owner Curt Schieber began booking folk, rock and punk acts. High St., across from North Campus stalwart Dick's Den, where the club “Stache and Little Brother's” (previously The Tree Lounge) had existed since around 1970, so named after the mustachioed owner and his younger brother. One year he held 13 jobs.īut in 1988, on a whim, Dougan decided to buy a rock club, and the decision changed Columbus' music scene for the next 20 years. Instead he came to town and drove a taxicab, worked at Waterbeds 'N' Stuff and hustled some money on his own. A theater major at Kent State, Dougan dropped out of school with dreams of becoming an actor. Before moving to Columbus in 1980, Dan Dougan had lived in Arizona, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Newark, Ohio.
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