Flyer - Thursday, March 9, 1989

Various Artists " Ontario: Yours to Discover" cassette

Side A

1. NOMIND – Strontium Dog

2. NOMIND – Intro to Big Bad Bugs

3. NOMIND – Big Bad Bugs
4. B.S.L. – Human Prey

5. B.S.L. – Subject to Change

6. B.S.L. – Pumpin' Gas

7. VISIBLE MINORITY – St. Mary

8. VISIBLE MINORITY – Dope Deal

9. VISIBLE MINORITY – Doing What Comes Naturally

10. VISIBLE MINORITY – Doing What Comes Naturally continued

11. DEATH OF GODS – Do Wah / Reflections

12. DEATH OF GODS – Forced Beliefs

13. M.S.I. – Our Fight

14. M.S.I. – Infection

15. M.S.I. – You

16. MISSING LINK – Cutting Edge

17. MISSING LINK – Barba Death

18. MISSING LINK – Man to Man

19. BLACK DONNELLYS – Poor People of Poland

20. BLACK DONNELLYS – Challenger

21. GODCORP. - Trail by Fire

22. SONS OF ISHMAEL – Ohio (Live)

23. SONS OF ISHMAEL – Intro to Man and His Penis Sceptre (Live)

24. SONS OF ISHMAEL – Man and His Penis Sceptre (Live)

25. SUBVERSION – Violence is Violence

26. SON OF HAPPY – Sweaty Ears (cuts off)

Side B

1. SUCKING CHEST WOUND - Untitled

2. SOCIAL SUICIDE – Local Yoko

3. SOCIAL SUICIDE – Sportshunstmen

4. NUNFUCKERS – Burning Chemicals

5. NUNFUCKERS – Spoiled Brats

6. NUNFUCKERS – Ziffco Punx

7. HYPE – Scum Tongue

8. HYPE – Insecurity

9. NEGATIVE GAIN – Live or Die

10. NEGATIVE GAIN – What’s the Reason

11. PROBLEM CHILDREN – Energy

12. PROBLEM CHILDREN – Breakfast of Champions

13. PORCELAIN FOREHEAD – The Gameshow Riff

14. PORCELAIN FOREHEAD – Gnawin’ On

15. PORCELAIN FOREHEAD – The Viewing

16. HONEST INJUN – Say It Now

17. HONEST INJUN – Wasteline

18. FLAG OF TRUCE – What Does It Take

19. THE TRAPT – Fool on the Hill

20. THE TRAPT – Someday’s Punk Rock Sucks

21. HAKENKREUZ – Jack Palance is the Anti-Christ

22. GUILT PARADE – Jesus Janitor

23. GUILT PARADE – Frustrated Americunts

24. GUILT PARADE – Religion in American Life

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Flyer - Friday May 13th, 1988

MRR Scene report - Canada scene report in May 1988

There are a couple of scene reports in issue #60 of  MRR. 

The first report was written by DAC and  is on Winnipeg. They talk about the Beach Mutants, Artificial life, Dangerously Americanized Canadians, and Corups Vile.  

Simon Harvey writes the Toronto scene report. Simon was doing a zine back then called Breach of Discipline and he writes about the closing of Ildiko's and the opening of the Slither and the Silver Dollar.  He writes of releases by Sons of ishmael, Hype, Sudden Impact, DOG, and Problem Children. Simon writes about the break up of Godcorp., Son of Happy and a list of new bands and zines active in the city.

Flyer - Friday April 22, 1988

Various Artists "Northern Assault" cassette

Walter Glaser wrote a review for MRR of the Northern Assault cassette comp. This was the first release by Craig caron of Schizophrenic Records. This appeared in issue #57, which came out in January 1988. Click on image to enlarge it to a readable size.

Flyer - Friday August 14, 1987

The artwork for the top of the flyer is from the "Choke on Thus" LP which was released in 1987. This would have been the second time Rhythm Pigs played Toronto. The first was at the DMZ in 1985 when "An American Activity" was out and they were playing most of the songs from the first LP which included the "Peanuts" theme song.

Problem Children "On The Air" ep

The Problem Children were from Dunnsville and were a three-piece. The band featured Jamie Problem on guitar and vocals, Barney Rebel on bass and vocals, and Gary Indiana on drums. The Problem Children started up their own record label called Problem Children Wrekords to put out this 5 song ep. I think this may have been the only thing to come out on the label. They wrote a song about Dunnville called "The Pit Between Two Signs". The songs found on here include:

1. On the Air - this is a song based in a real life story about how a CBS rep approcahed Problem Children about signing but the band would never have signed as is evidenced by the band putting this record out on their own label.

2. Stayin' Young - The band plans on stayin' young

3. Energy - this is about how punk rock has embodied the original wild spirit that rock 'n roll had when it forst started out. This is the difference between music that is important and music that is forgettable.

4. 1 to 24 - a song about a party animal

5. The Pit Between Two Signs - a song about Dunnville which uses the phrasing from the signs at the town's limits as a chorus

 

So this record is long out of print but you can find it on the "Hate You" release of rarities and unreleased songs, Stumble Records has this available at https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/hate-you!-unreleased-rarities/id562560929.

Zine - Confuzed #1

This is the first issue of Confuzed fanzine, which was a punk fanzine around in the late 80's in Toronto by Joel Robinson. In reading through the interviews I can trace back that this first issue came out after the summer of 1987.

The first interview in the zine was with a straight edge band I met in Kent, Ohio called Youth Inc. They were from Cleveland and so I put on a show with them and the bands from Kent, Ohio called false Hope and Hyper as hell. Joel interviewed Youth Inc., which was a great name for a straight edge band back when they were all using outh in their names. This show took place on May 30th, 1987.

Two seperate interviews with Jamie and Gary of Problem children were put together as one interview.

Joel Interviewed Chi Pig of SNFU at the Latvian House show on December 3rd, 1986. "If You Swear, You'll Catch No Fish" had jus come out so fish make it into the layout.

There was also an interview with Andy Kerr of Nomeansno.

Glenn Slater of MSI did a brief interview as only he can.

Flyer - Friday April 24, 1987

Flyer - Friday March 20, 1987

Flyer - Wednesday, March 18th, 1987

Sons of Ishmael return home to put on a show at the Meaford Arena and they bring Dunnville's Problem Children in to play. Tim's younger brother, Rob, is playing in Flecks of Drool.

Flyer - Friday March 6, 1987

The bass player, Alisdiar Jones, made this flyer. Other flyers can be viewed at http://homepage.mac.com/alisdairjones/PhotoAlbum85.html.

Flyer - Friday February 6, 1987

Flyer - Saturday January 24, 1987

The Nils play Hamilton.

Flyer - Friday January 2, 1987

Flyer - Friday November 21, 1986

Flyer - Thursday June 19 - Sunday June 22, 1986

Flyer - Thursday, June 12th, 1986

MRR Scene Report - Toronto, June 1986

Steve Beaumont does his first Toronto scene report for MRR. Steve wrote about a couple of shows at the Starwood. Some local bands that get mentioned include Social Suicide, Hype, Problem Children. Steve also refers to some touring bands like Death Sentence and S.C.U.M. Steve also mentions the releases of the first Sudden Impact LP, the Living Proof LP, the Problem Children LP, the Sons of Ishmael ep, and the Negative Gain LP. There is also a healthy list of zine and promoters at the end. This appeared in issue #37, which came out in June 1986. Click on image to enlarge it to a readable size.