Oneida

Bobby Matador and Kid Millions, founders of Oneida, met like this, “We both grew up in northwest Connecticut, but we didn’t know each other until we attended the same boarding school in New Hampshire. The first time we played together in a band was when we were in the second grade. We didn’t really know each other, but we knew about each other. A group of senior students asked us to play in their Grateful Dead cover band. They were called “Four Winds.”
One of their most curious stories is about the club they used to rehearse and record: “There was an abandoned club on Fulton Street in Clinton Hill. He had been the scene of some sort of shooting or robbery several years earlier and was unlicensed. It was Wild West territory for that sort of thing, and it had been left in a disastrous state. I met a guy who said, “Oh yes, I have a place I can rent to you.” We had a 1,700-square-meter nightclub for $300 a month. At the time, I wondered, “Shit, can we afford this?”