page_title: 688 Club
section_title: List of performers
hierarchical_section_title: 688 Club / List of performers
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a logo for 688 Club.
context_page_description: The 688 Club was a popular alternative music venue in Atlanta, Georgia, located at 688 Spring Street, near the intersection of Spring and 3rd Streets. The 688 Club opened in May 1980 and closed in November 1986. The club was operated by Steve May. The club was co-owned by Tony Evans, John Wicker, and in its final years by Mike Hendry. Cathy Hendrix served as the club's music director. During its brief lifetime, the 688 played host to hundreds of punk rock, new wave and alternative rock bands, many of whom would later become well known.
  During the early 1980s, the 688 Club was the primary place for up-and-coming bands from Atlanta and Athens, Georgia, to get noticed. Among the groups that regularly played there were R.E.M. and Pylon. The club spun off an independent record label, 688 Records, which survived for a time even after 688 Club had closed. Dash Rip Rock's self-titled debut LP was the first album released by 688 Records.
context_section_description: A partial list of notable bands and artists that appeared at the 688 Club between 1980 and 1986:
  10,000 Maniacs
  999
  8 Eyed Spy (Lydia Lunch)
  The Accelerators
  Alex Chilton
  The Bangles
  The Basics
  Billy Idol
  The Black Crowes (as "Mr. Crowe's Garden")
  Black Flag
  Bo Diddley
  The BoDeans
  The Bongos
  The Brains
  Glenn Branca
  Bush Tetras
  Butthole Surfers
  Cabaret Voltaire
  Certain General 
  Chris Wood & The New Restraints
  Chubby Checker
  The Church
  Circle Jerks
  The Creatures
  The Cretones
  Dash Rip Rock
  Dead Kennedys
  D.N.A.
  Dreams So Real
  Dream Syndicate
  Drivin' N' Cryin'
  Echo & the Bunnymen
  Einstürzende Neubauten
  The Exploited
  The Fall
  Fishbone
  The Fleshtones
  Flipper
  A Flock of Seagulls
  Gang of Four
  The Go-Go's
  The Golden Palominos
  Guadalcanal Diary
  The Gun Club
  Human Sexual Response
  Hüsker Dü
  Iggy Pop
  INXS
  Jason & the Scorchers
  The Jesus and Mary Chain
  Jim Carroll
  Joe "King" Carrasco
  John Cale
  Johnny Clegg and Savuka
  Jonathan Richman
  Kevin McFoy Dunn
  Let's Active
  LMNOP
  Love Tractor
  Lyres
  Marianne Faithfull
  Marshall Crenshaw
  Meat Puppets
  The Method Actors
  Minutemen
  Mr. Crowe's Garden
  New Order
  The Nightporters
  Now Explosion
  Oh OK
  Oingo Boingo
  Pete Shelley
  Peter Tork
  The Plague
  The Plastics
  The Psychedelic Furs
  Public Image Ltd.
  Pylon
  Ramones
  Raves
  Raybeats
  Red Hot Chili Peppers
  R.E.M.
  The Replacements
  The Residents
  The Restraints
  Richard Hell and the Voidoids
  Robyn Hitchcock
  Rodney Crowell
  RuPaul
  Saccharine Trust
  Samhain
  The Side Effects
  Siouxsie and the Banshees
  The Smithereens
  Sonic Youth
  Specimen
  Stan Ridgway
  The Stranglers
  The Swimming Pool Q's
  The Swinging Richards
  Timbuk 3
  Translator
  Uncle Green
  The Vapors
  Vietnam
  Violent Femmes
  Wall of Voodoo
  Wee Wee Pole
  XTC
  X-Teens
caption: 688 Club logo
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