Moe's Alley

My favorite place to see music in Santa Cruz! An intimate venue, you can be comfortably close to the stage/artists. There's a great patio, so you can be outside & still enjoy the music. All kinds of awesome artists come through, happy to have this place in the hometown!

In all the years that I lived in Santa Cruz I never been to Moe's Alley up until last week. My friend and I went to watch Anuhea who is an awesome vocalist from Hawaii. This is a fun venue with a full bar. The staff is friendly including the security. Typically bouncers at other bars think they're the s**t just because they can control who goes in and out.

This is a small venue that showcases independent and up and coming musicians. With that said tickets are typically very reasonable ranging anywhere from $10-$15 per person. Because it's a small venue the stage is quite small too, which is fine because you get to experience an up close and personal show.

Very convenient parking. You have to park your car across the street on the back portion of the lot of where Toys r' Us is located. But it's a small street and you can be at the bar within seconds of parking your car.

I guess the crowd varies depending on the act. At least when I was there the crowd is very cool and friendly. Talked to a lot of people there for the Anuhea show and everyone was so super friendly. I would love to go back and watch other shows  there.

So Moe's is cool n' all, but what gives with starting the bands soooooooooooo late?
2 hours late, really? how the heck can anyone try to be there to catch the whole gig.
I know there are lots of stoners who can barely make it up off the couch to get there, maybe you are being polite for them or maybe it's the scheduled run-up-the-bar-tab time?
Either way, pleez get a handle on it, I KNOW it's not the band's fault.
Moe's is otherwise cool, nice lil patio, good beer decent prices, plenty of parking.