# Before It Was Cool: The Brooklyn Beat From Lauterbach’s

Before It Was Cool: The Brooklyn Beat From Lauterbach’s at The Garden Cinema, Sunday 1 November 2026, 18:45.

- Price: £15
- Venue: The Garden Cinema, Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London
- Get tickets: https://bookings.thegardencinema.co.uk/TheGardenCinema.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsPerformance_6208088.TcsSection_3060731
- Go to page: https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/before-it-was-cool-the-brooklyn-beat-from-lauterbachs-qa/

![Before It Was Cool: The Brooklyn Beat From Lauterbach’s](https://noky.io/images/18cb4ceff5d8aaea143fe2b02f87854c90c61b8b4a4c230267993efb14338a8a-600.webp)

Before It Was Cool is a documentary film followed by a Q&A. Filmmakers Michael West and Lia Komakhidze tell the story of Lauterbach's, an unassuming Brooklyn dive bar of the early 1980s that became the birthplace of a musical movement known as "The Brooklyn Beat." Through intimate interviews, archival footage and animation, the film uncovers this overlooked chapter of New York music history and a community of punk, indie and alternative musicians who turned competition into collaboration. When the bar suddenly closed its community scattered, but the film celebrates this pre-gentrification Brooklyn and its enduring influence.

## Dates

- Sunday 1 November 18:45 — The Garden Cinema

Written by a model, sources: [thegardencinema.co.uk](https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/before-it-was-cool-the-brooklyn-beat-from-lauterbachs-qa/)

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