Chess Club

Chess Club is a 100-capacity independent music club in Austin, Texas, hosting multi-band showcases and regular lineups of local and touring indie, punk, rock, and metal acts. It sits in the 100–300 capacity range on BANDANA.

Its own listing points to indie, punk, metal and rock bills and touring bills and local bills. Programming shifts night to night, so check the venue's calendar and confirm fit when you send a date request through BANDANA.

Send a date request through Chess Club's free BANDANA booking form — it only offers nights the venue has open, so you're never asking for a date that's already gone. The request lands in the venue's BANDANA booking inbox and the venue replies to you directly. BANDANA doesn't take a cut and can't promise a yes.

Chess Club is listed at about 100 capacity (100–300). Layouts change by event, so confirm exact stage, production and door details with the venue when you send a request.

Yes — Chess Club currently shows 52 bookable nights in the next 60 days, counted from the nights it takes bookings minus dates already marked closed on its BANDANA calendar. You can widen the window up to six months out on the directory.

Open dates are usually set and kept current by BANDANA, based on the booking nights each venue publishes on its own site, and re-checked on a weekly pass. A venue that claims its BANDANA listing can edit its own open dates, close nights and add shows at any time.

Austin, Texas location, room capacity, a shot of the venue's homepage, a link to its own website, a live count of open dates and a booking form. Direct booking contact details are visible to signed-in BANDANA users only.

Yes. Browsing the listing and sending a date request through BANDANA is free for bands — no card, no trial period, no booking commission.

Browsing is open to anyone. A free BANDANA account is needed to see direct contact details, and a request only reaches Chess Club once the sender is signed in — submit while signed out and you'll confirm it by clicking the link BANDANA emails you.

It goes straight into the venue's BANDANA booking inbox tied to the date you picked, and the venue replies to you directly. You can send one request per venue per week, so follow up by replying to your BANDANA booking notification rather than submitting again.

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