Mid-City Lanes Rock & Bowl

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Lonely Planet review

What we have here is the unlikely marriage of live music and bowling. Owner John Blancher books quality artists to play, and two-stepping to hot zydeco while bowling pins crash is an unreal experience. Add perky teenage bar staff and unusual side acts like lip-synching black Elvis impersonators, and you realise that Blancher is a genius of the absurd.

Blancher claims he was on the road to visit a religious shrine when he had an epiphany to buy the bowling alley.

Hurricane Katrina flooded the building, but the club, luckily, is upstairs. With the surrounding neighbourhood a ghost town, Rock & Bowl feels even more surreal than ever.