The Demics "Talk's Cheap" 12'

The Demics were the best known band from London, Ontario. London is a city two hours west of Toronto. Keith Whittaker was the singer and was most well known in the band. Rob Brent was the guitarist, Iain Atkinson the bassist, and Nick Perry the drummer. The band first played a loft party in front of 250 people on December 23, 1977. Jim Weatherstone replaced Neil Perry on the skins. The Demics started playing in Toronto with the Viletones, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, and the Dead Boys and by late 1978 had recorded their first EP. The recording was done by some sound engineering students at fanshawe who did the recording as a project for school and they set up the label Ready Records to put out the recording. "New York City" is the hit of the 12" that started getting loads of airplay and an anthem in it' own right. Songs like "Oh Well" were 43 seconds in length and proved that the Demics could right a punk song as well.

1. I Wanna Know
2. You Tell Me
3. Talk's Cheap
4. New York City
5. Oh Well

The Engineer was Kevin Doyle and the 12" was produced by Andrew Crosbie and Angus MacKay for Daily Productions.