Lily Pad shuttered after noise complaint
The Lily Pad , an experimental music and performance venue in Cambridge's Inman Square, has cancel ed its weekend events after receiving a cease and desist order from the Cambridge License Commission yesterday. Owner Gill Aharon said he will contest the order at a Monday morning meeting of the License Commission.
Aharon said he believes the order results from noise complaints he alleges were made by a neighbor of the Cambridge club. ``He's been calling virtually every night, so now there's a record of complaint," Aharon said. ``The police came [Friday morning] at 1:30 a.m. We were closed. I was playing ping-pong." Attempts to reach the neighbor were unsuccessful.
The cease and desist order made reference to ``numerous noise complaints" and noted that the Lily Pad, which opened March 1 in the space previously occupied by the Zeitgeist Gallery , did not have a music license. Aharon said he was never told he needed such a license, but that he'd apply for one if necessary.
``I'll do whatever [Cambridge] wants as long as we can keep going," Aharon said. ``I don't want to battle the city." 