Radio - Sunday, October 26, 2014

Tonight was our bi-annual fundraising show where we ask you to donate funds to the radio station to help meet operating costs. So played some punk songs about radio. Toronto is also on the eve of a municipal election so we played some songs about the electoral system. Hallowe'en is also on Friday so we had some songs about Hallowe'en. Chloe was in to talk about the women takeover of EXD next week. And Ken Stowar talked about the merits of EXD. you can here the show on the player above or download it here. 

SHIT FROM HELL - Mayor on Crack (Ugly Pop)

SAFETY WORD - Public Humilation (Self-Released)
FASTIC - Politician Holocaust (Self-Released)
THE REBEL SPELL - Ten Thousand Years (Rebel Time)

TEENAGE HEAD - Let's Shake (Attic)
PF COMMANDO - Raggare (Ugly Pop)

FORWARD - Resist (Prank/HG Fact)
COKE BUST - Sent In Circles (Refuse)

Here is some love and hate about radio.
WILD YOUTH - Radio Youth (Self-Released)
THE SCROTUM POLES - Radio Tay (One Tone)

NO SIR, I WON'T - Radio Shit (Self-Released)
BARON SAMEDI - Radio Sucks (Polze de la Mort) 

Here are some Hallowe'en numbers.
STRANGLERS - Peasant in the Big Shitty (United Artists)
MARTHA AND THE MUFFINS - Saigon (Dindisc)

COUNT BARKULA AND THE EAST VAMPIRES - East Vampires (Self-Released)
VCR - Scream (Self-Released)
MISFITS - Hybrid Moments (Caroline)
THE MASKED MEN - Right Here with you (Dirtnap)

There was a shooting this week at Parliament Hill. Here are a couple of songs about the issue

TOTAL ABUSE - Masked Killer (Past Present Medium)
HASSLER - Cannon Fodder (Beach Impediment)

BURNING LOVE - Karla (Southern Lord)
CHEAP TRAGEDIES - Zodiac (Mad at the World)

CRAMPS - Dames, Booze, Chains, Boots (Big Beat)

UNDERTONES - Mars Bars (Sire)

Radio - Sunday, December 15th, 2013

A big snowstorm hit Toronto this weekend and after much snow shovelling this NoMeansNo song "'Til I Die" soke to me with the opening lyric "I'm gonna Shovel snow til I die".

We started off the show with a dedication to Greg Dick for the loss of his father, Martin, who passed away last week. He was from Hamilton and "Picture my face" was a song that Martin knew. We had to keep it Hamilton. The rest of the set was by bands from Belfast because Greg let us know about this film on Belfast called "Good Vibrations". This Friday "Good Vibrations" will be showing the film for a week at the TIFF Lightbox. You should try and see it.

After that I played a set based on my top 10 picks for October and a set of runners up.

There was a set of new material mostly of the grind / power violence nature.

Then a set of galloping hardcore inspired by Discharge, Japacore, and kang.

D'Arcy finished up the show with a preview of the top 10 for 2013. We wil be going through it in two weeks. You can listen to the show on the player above or download it here. Here is what was played.

NOMEANSNO - 'Til I Die (AntAcidAudio)

TEENAGE HEAD - Picture my Face (Teenage Head)
VICTIM - The Teen Age (Good Vibrations / Overground)
THE XDRERAMYSTS - The Heat is on (Polydor)
STRIKE - Running past (Good Vibrations)
the OUTCASTS - Magnum Force (Cherry Red)
THE YOUNG LIONS - Goodnight Belfast (Schizophrenic)

SICK/TIRED - Warm Beer (Self-Released)
HELVETIN VIEMARIT - Vihaan Työtä (Terrortten)
GREY NURSE - Asleep (Self-Released)
DEALBREAKER - Here lies... (Cricket Cemetary)
HERO DISHONEST - Systeemi ei lepää (Peterwaulkee)
CHRISTER PETTERSSEN - For those about to thrash (Self-Released)
NEIGHBOURHOOD BRATS - Break Down The Walls (Deranged)
GOVERNMENT FLU - Random Acts (Refuse)
POISON PLANET - Death Of Ideas (Refuse)
CRIMINAL DAMAGE - Anxiety (Feral Ward)
VENGEANCE - Buy the record (Search for Fame)

CHEAP ART - Hate this Party (Fastercore)
HIGGS BOSON - 6 6 Sick (Self-Released)
THE FLEX - Repressed (Video Disease)
WASTOIDS - Brown Sugar, Brown Liquor (Deranged)

NO QUALMS - Squander / Follow Me (Give Praise)
BASTARD SWINE - Pigs Eating Pigs (Give Praise)
CAGEDGRAVE - Filthy Streets (Self-Released)
ALTERED BOYS - Choosing Sides (Give Praise)
STOIC VIOLENCE - Waste of Life (Katorga Works)
ANCIENT HEADS - Fight Back (Give Praise)

DEVIL'S HAND - World Gone to Shit (Grave Mistake)
BATTLESCARD - Speed chaos (Self-Released)
LAUTSTURMER - Bedtime for Humanity (Unrest)
UHRIT - Rantojen Miehet (Tuska ja Ahdistus)
CRIATURAS - Anti Autoridad (Residue)
INEPSY - Fast Way To Die (Feral Ward / Ineptik Records)

HARD SKIN - You Still here? (JT Classics)
LIFE - Enduring freedom (Punk Bastard)
SLANG - Glory outshines doom (Pizza of Death)
INSTITUTION - Vansine (D-Takt and Raw Punk)
TV FREAKS - Salvation / Nothing (Schizophrenic)
VALLEY BOYS - Autopilot / Feel like shit (Beach Impediment)
HASSLER - Apathy (Beach Impediment)
FUCK YOU PAY ME - Fuck You Pay Me (Self-Released)
BIRD DEATH - cHEST pAIN bLUES (Self-Released)
BURIAL - More to Come (Hardware)
RAD - You're Next /Strike the Spine / Simple (Sac)

LEATHERFACE - Not a day goes by (Roughneck)

Radio - Sunday, October 20th, 2013

Tonight's show featured Colin Brunton and Kire Paputts who are about to theatrically release their new film "The Last Pogo Jumps Again". The new film fills in the back story to the original film, The Last Pogo and tells in a more a comprehensive manner some of the stories stories of the early Toronto punk scene. Treat Me Like Dirt should be required reading before seeing this film, but you will still get a lot out of the film. The film will be screening at Toronto's oldest cinema, the Big Picture (1035 Gerard Street), on Friday November 1st for a week. Colin and Kire re-live the experience of putting the film together and tell us some of the stories behind this labour of love. Upon seeing the film in the theatre my reaction was this is a complete telling of the Toronto punk scene, this is an accurate telling as it captures some of the hard stories to tell and damn is there a lot of great music from this city. You should see it and you can hear the interview above or download an MP3 file here.

DEMICS - New York City (Ready)

Interview with Colin Brunton and Kire Paputts (CIUT)

FORGOTTEN REBELS - In Love with the System (Star)

Interview with Colin Brunton and Kire Paputts (CIUT)

THE DIODES - China Doll (CBS)

Interview with Colin Brunton and Kire Paputts (CIUT)

TEENAGE HEAD - Tearin' me Apart (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, January 13th, 2013

Down in Baltimore next weekend there is a a389 Records Anniversary bash that LEFT FOR DEAD are playing. There is all this talk of a warm up show taking place somewhere in the city on Wednesday or Thursday so keep your ear to the ground. So we started out the show with a set that showcases bands at that fest. There is also a tribute to the film on the Boston scene called "All Ages". And the demo feature is a new local band called Valley Boys. Click the player above or download the MP3 file here.

LEFT FOR DEAD - Who d'you know? (No Idea)

a389 fest
INTEGRITY - No One (Victory)
VILIPEND - The last stand of the Hopeless Romantic (a389)
GEHENNA - Swarm (a389)
WEEKEND NACHOS - The fine art of bullshit (Deep Six)
SICK FIX - The Toll (a389)
DESPISE YOU - Tired of Trying (Theologian)
LACK OF INTEREST - What's Wrong (Slap-a-Ham)
PICK YOUR SIDE - This is not a Test (Regurgitated Semen)

THE FIX - Cos the Elite (Touch and Go)
EXECUTE - Japanese song title
ROCK 'N ROLL BITCHES - Broad Daylight (Ugly Pop)
TEENAGE HEAD -Little Boxes (IGM)
DEMICS - I wanna know (ready)
TESTORS -Time is mie (Windi-an)

BLOTTER - All dogs go to war (Self-Released)
BLOODKROW BUTCHER - Anti-You (Self-Released)
SELF ABUSE - Senseless Violence (Self-Released)
DIRTY WORK - Dirty Air (Self-Released)
PISSHEADS - Kill Hippie System (Self-Released)
SWINGBACK - On my way out (Self-Released)

CONDITION - Smouldering Wreckage (Man Decisive)
EFFLUXS - Final Injustice (Rust and Machine)
VITAMIN X - Burn em down (Havoc)
ASILE - Choisie demourir (Rust and Machine)

ESKOBURTO - Maldito Pais (Munster)
UGLY PARTS - Waste (MMR)
SCHOOL JERKS - Outcast (Grave Mistake / Bad Vibrations)
NERVOSAS - Incinerator (Meth Mouth)
DEAD KENNEDYS - Triumph of the Swill (Alternative Tentacles)

FLUX OF PINK INDIANS - Background Noise (CRASS)
PAGANS - Don't leave me alone (Crypyt)
MINUTEMEN - Sell or be sold (SST)
GORILLA ANGREB - DeKommer ud om natten (Kick 'n Punch)
DICKS - Young Boys Feet (Alternative tentacles)
REAGAN YOUTH - New Aryans (New Red Archives)
GASRAG - Chernobyl (Self-Released)

KONTRA ATTAQUE - Respeto (Self-Released)
GUILTY BYSTANDERS - Hardcore Alphabet / It's Okay with my mom (Self-Released)
TRAGETELO - Tragelelo (Lengua Armada)

Tribute to All Ages
THE FREEZE - Boston not L.A. (Modern Method)
DYS - More than Fashion (X-Claim)
SSD - The Kids will have their say (X-Claim)
JERRY'S KIDS - I Don't Belong (Taang)
THE F.U.s - Green Beret (Lost and Found)
GANG GREEN - Have some Fun (Modern Method)
LAST RITES - Wasted Time (Taang)
ANTIDOTE - Something Must be Done (Hellbent)

JIMMY VAPID - Superman-Garbageman / Big in Toronto / Dollar Store Microphones (Surfin' Ki)
THE CAPITALIST KIDS - We are each ultimately along in the universe (Toxic pop)
TRANZMITORS - Concrete Deprtession (La Ti Da)

Demo Feature
VALLEY BOYS - Modern World (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Eyes on Fire (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Feeding Time (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Feel like shit (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Pills (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Rich Kids (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Side Effects (Self-Released)
VALLEY BOYS - Auto Pilot (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday December 9th, 2012

Ivan Roberts-Davies guest hosted the show. He brought in quite a lot of great new material that I have been looking forward to hearing like Flipshit and Deformity and mixed them up with some classics like Big Boys and Red Kross. There was some new mexican releases like Morbo and Rayos X.

THE STATICS - the Story (Ugly Pop / Squelchtone)

THE CHIEFS - Knocked Out (Dr. Strange)
MORBO - Que Soddo no Serie Original (Cintas pepe)
VAURIO - Jaahyvaiset Mailmalle (Propoganda)
SICK THINGS - Sleeping with the dead (Chaos)
BIG BOYS - Assault (Gern Blandsten)
RED KROSS - Everyday there's someone new (Bootleg)

THE NARCS - R.O.T. Blood (Cowabunga)
FLIPSHIT - Watch your mom (Reel Time)
DEFORMITY - Drench (Always Restrictions)
HARHAA - Exploit to the Fullest (Self-Released)
INSERVICIBLES - El Miedo te Dessparra (SPHC)
RATAS DEL VATICANO - Botrachalias Vagabundo (Cintas pepe)
FRUMPIES - Tommy Slitch
RAYOS X - Auxilio (Mata-la-Musica)
PAINTED SHIP - Frustration (BFD)

The Statics were a punk band that started up in the summer of 1979. They were from Port Credit and played a place called the New Port Hotel. In 2001 Squelchtone and Ugly Pop teamed up to release a single of long forgotten recordings. Over the past few months, the drummer Ross Johnson has been in touch with us and Dean Stilles of the band and the agreed to do an interview. This was recorded a couple of weeks back for tonight's program. Most of the songs have been recovered from original recordings spanning 1979 through to 1981.

THE STATICS - Interview (CIUT)

THE STATICS - Bomb the Boats (Live)
THE STATICS - Interview (CIUT)
THE STATICS - Holiday in the Sun (Live)
THE STATICS - Interview (CIUT)
THE STATICS - Little Boxes (Live at the New Port Hotel)
THE STATICS - Interview (CIUT)
THE RENTS - Rebel Like Me (Unreleased)
THE STATICS - Interview (CIUT)
THE STATICS - Bonerack (Live)
THE STATICS - Interview (CIUT)

THE STATICS - Rebel Like Me (Ugly Pop / Squelchtone)
THE STATICS - Interview (CIUT)
THE STATICS - Mr. Bill (Ugly Pop / Squelchtone)
THE STATICS - Interview (CIUT)
THE STATICS - Governmental Boredom (Live)
THE STATICS - Interview (CIUT)
THE STATICS - Nazi Storm Trooper (Live)
THE STATICS - Interview (CIUT)
THE STATICS - Suzie Can`t Dance (Live)
THE STATICS - Interview (CIUT)
THE STATICS - Mephastofolous (Live)
THE STATICS - Interview (CIUT)

THE STATICS - Something Else (Live)

The demo feature is Concrete Asylum from Halifax and their demo "City Sick" which you can get from bandcamp. The band features a member from Word on the Street, but Concrete Asylum take influences from the noisey speed merchants of the Mid-80's UK scene in bands like Ripcord or the Electro Hippies. This is great stuff.

CONCRETE ASYLUM - Parasites (Self-Released)
CONCRETE ASYLUM - Lost in the Crisis (Self-Released)
CONCRETE ASYLUM - Thought War (Self-Released)
CONCRETE ASYLUM - Ripped Off (Self-Released)
CONCRETE ASYLUM - Concrete Asylum (Self-Released)
CONCRETE ASYLUM - Always gotta hassle me (Self-Released)
CONCRETE ASYLUM - You're spit to me (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, October 28, 2012

This program started out with a set of Hallowe'en songs written or performed by Canadian hardcore bands. That was followed up by a set up power violence and noise rock inspired bands which included the new Column of Heaven LP and the Veuve SS 12". We followed that up with a set of bands featuring women in the line up and included Sick Fix from Baltimore, and Criaturas among others. The next set featured a rare Polish band called Abaddon and a request from last week for Personality Crisis. We did a Black Flag inspired set with the new School Jerks and new Off! because they were in town last week. We finished up with a get up and go set that featured this incredible Japanese hardcore band named Think Again, after the Minor Threat song. Tonight's demo feature was a new Toronto group called Spearhead which features members of Total Trash, Snakepit, and Foxmoulder. Here is the playlist and you can also download the show.

TEENAGE HEAD - Disgusteen (Attic)

SNFU - Cannibal Cafe (BYO)
STRETCH MNARKS - Bad Moon (Headbutt)
BLACK DONNELLYS - Freddie's Revenge (Audio Fellatio)
SONS OF ISHMAEL - Hallowe'en Party (Sell-Out Activities)
THE SWARM - November First (No Idea)

COLUMN OF HEAVEN - Buried Secrets / Barghest Jugend (SPHC)
EYEHATEGOD - New Orleans is the New Vietnam (A389)
BURNING LOVE - Tremors (Southern Lord)
DISABILITY - Tooth (Self-Released)
VEUVE SS - Discipline (Self-Released)
MAKABERT FYND - Ett Kok Stryk (Sorry State)

SICK FIX - The Toll (A389)
CRIATURAS - Los Elijidos (Lengua Armada)
RAD - Geekonomics/ So say we all
THE TANGLED LINES - Battle (Refuse)
THE WARD - the New Dykes (Self-Released)
UTAH JAZZ - Contact Low (Feral Kid)
RACKULA - G20 (Schizophrenic)

ABADDON - Rewolucja (Warsaw Pact)
PERSONALITY CRISIS - The Advocate (Workers Co-operative)
DOA - Bring out your dead (Sudden Death)
UNRULED - Screams of Fear (Schizophrenic)
BOOK OF BLACK EARTH - Road dogs from hell / See demons (Inimical)

GOVERNMENT FLU - Role Model (Refuse)
SCHOOL JERKS - Crux (Bad Vibrations / Grave Mistake)
BLACK FLAG - I've Heard it before (SST)
OFF! - I got news for you (Vice)
NOOSE - Lex Talionis (React)
THE FORUM - Mercy for Now (Harsh Pizza)

BRAIN KILLER - Re-educated / Trying to remember (Vinyl Rites)
JOINT DAMAGE - Poison II / Damp (Sorry State)
THINK AGAIN - My War (Even Worse / Way Back When)
CITIZENS PATROL - Sick (Way Back When / Too Circle / Spastic Fantastic)
UNHOLY THOUGHTS - Sleep (Way Back When)

Demo Feature
SPEARHEAD - Contra (Self-Released)
SPEARHEAD - More World Wars (Self-Released)
SPEARHEAD - Pet Shop (Self-Released)
SPEARHEAD - Sword and Sorcery (Self-Released)
SPEARHEAD - Gas the Dancefloors (Self-Released)
SPEARHEAD - A Raid (Self-Released)
IN SCHOOL - Acid Burn (Self-Released)
IN SCHOOL - Apocryphal Scum (Self-Released)
IN SCHOOL - Knocked Out (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, August 26th, 2012

You can listen to the show by clicking here.

BORN WRONG - Enjoy this show (Schizophrenic)

BORN WRONG - Interview (CIUT)
BORN WRONG - No Etiquette (CIUT)
BORN WRONG - Interview (CIUT)
BORN WRONG - Always Here to Help (CIUT)
BORN WRONG - Interview (CIUT)
BORN WRONG - Promise of the Godless (Rebel Time)
BORN WRONG - Interview (CIUT)
BORN WRONG - Burn a Debt (Rebel Time)
BORN WRONG - Interview (CIUT)
BORN WRONG - Party Banter (CIUT)
BORN WRONG - Interview (CIUT)
BORN WRONG - Another Enemy (CIUT)
BORN WRONG - Interview (CIUT)
BORN WRONG - Wage Slave (CIUT)
BORN WRONG - Interview (CIUT)
BORN WRONG - Torch this Place (CIUT)

NEON PISS - Look Homeward Angel (Deranged)
TSOL - Abolish Government / Silent Majority (Posh Boy)
STEEL POLE BATHTUB - Train to Miami (Boner)
SS DECONTROL - Glue (X-Claim)
SUDDEN IMPACT - To Our Glorious Dead (Fringe)

THE GENERATORS - Down in the City (Acetate)
TEENAGE HEAD - Disgusteen (Attic)
TOXIC REASONS - Stuckin a Rut (Sixth International)
ZODIAC KILLERS - Come on and Die (Rip Off)
WHITE FLAG - Hot Rails to Hell (Bootleg)

MODERN LOVERS - Pablo Picasso (Beserkley)
JOHNNY THUNDERS AND THE HEARTBREAKERS - Chinese Rocks (Jungle)
SEX PISTOLS - Submission (Virgin)
MOTORHEAD - Killed by Death (Metal-15)

WIRE - Mannequin (Harvest)

MRR Review - Magic Christian "Let's Shake / Teenage Head" ep

This is a review of the Magic Christian ep which appeared in the August 2012 issue (#351) of MRR.

Radio - Sunday, September 18th, 2011

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SLANDER - Upside Down (CIUT)
SLANDER - Interview (CIUT)
SLANDER - No Slander Reunion (CIUT)
SLANDER - Interview (CIUT)
SLANDER - Tearin' Me Apart (CIUT)
SLANDER - Full Time Fool (CIUT)
SLANDER - Let's Shake (CIUT)
SLANDER - Ain't Got No Sense (CIUT)
SLANDER - Interview (CIUT)
SLANDER - I Want Your Woman (CIUT)
SLANDER - Interview (CIUT)
SLANDER - The Pigs (CIUT)
SLANDER - Interview (CIUT)
SLANDER - I Need You (CIUT)
SLANDER - I'm a Believer (CIUT)
SLANDER - Interview (CIUT)
SLANDER - Still the One (CIUT)
SLANDER - 8 Days a Week (CIUT)
SLANDER - Interview (CIUT)
SLANDER - Ghetto (CIUT)
SLANDER - Interview (CIUT)
SLANDER - Jail Bait (CIUT)
SLANDER - Interview (CIUT)
SLANDER - It's Over (CIUT)

Radio - Sunday, June 5, 2011

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FROSTBACKS – I Hate the Bloody Queen (True North)

MUTATED EARTHLINGS - Pock Marked (Absolute Underground)
CRYSTAL MESS – Touch of Death (Self-Released)
THE ROLE MODELS – Our Scene (Absolute Underground)
CLASS OF 1984 – Gig Shoe (Bullitt)
DEATH SENTENCE – Nightmare (Lazy B)

TIMMY'S ORGANISM - Scum Revolution (Hozac)
THE SHRAPNELLES - HIV (Hozac)
WAX IDOLS - All You Human (Hozac)
DALAI LAMAS - I want You (Hozac)
THE PEOPLE'S TEMPLES - Led as One (Hozac)

WARHEAD – This World of Confusion (HG Fact)
FRAMTID – Curse (Self-Released)
FLOWERS OF FLESH AND BLOOD – A Bitter Pill (Tuneless)
URINARY TRACT INFECTION – Fake as Fuck (Schizophrenic)

DEVIL DOGS - Backstage (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
TEENAGE HEAD - Brand New Cadillac (Attic)
THE DIODES - Red Rubber Ball (Epic)
SOULSIDE - Ex- Lion Tamer (Sammich)
NIPDRIVERS - Have You Ever Been Mellow (Taang!)

THE SHIRKS – On Time (Grave Mistake)
DEAN DIRG – Cause I Can (Hardware)
ORDER – Nazo Nazo (HG Fact)
THE LOGJAMMERS – Hit 2 (No Patience)

FUCKED UP - Generation (Schizophrenic)
A.P.B. - Know My Name (N.R.K.)
THE TOASTERS - Teenage Tease (Bomb)
DEAD END -  Government vs. You and Me (NRK)
POINTED STICKS - Apologies (Bomb)

Demo Feature
TIED DOWN – Out of the Kitchen (Self-Released)
TIED DOWN – Tally (Self-Released)
TIED DOWN – Get Radified (Self-Released)
TIED DOWN – Anatomy (Self-Released)
TIED DOWN – Double Life (Self-Released)
TIED DOWN – Fifteen (Self-Released)
TIED DOWN – Native American Apparel (Self-Released)
TIED DOWN – Tied Down (Self-Released)
TIED DOWN – Anxiety (Self-Released)

“Trouble in the Camera Club” by Don Pyle, 8-1/2 x 11”, 300 pages

This is an incredible coffee table book on the Toronto punk scene through the excitement of the eyes of a fourteen year old first going to shows. Shot originally as keep sakes or momentos, these photos capture a new time in music for Toronto, which was Toronto’s first wave of punk. The book begins with some photos of the RAMONES first show in Toronto on September 24th, 1976 at the New Yorker. A botched attempt at filming the RAMONES leads to Don saving up to buy a 35 mm camera. Don also joins the yearbook club at Runnymede Collegiate, which gives him access to a darkroom, chemicals for developing film and the how to on DIY photographs. At one part of the book Don recalls that he bought “black and white film by the foot and he would wind his own canisters so that he could squeeze in more shots per roll. At times this would cause the sprockets to disengage.” This description captures the frugal nature of punk in describing the lack of resources but the determination to make these keepsakes nonetheless. The DIY practises as applied to photography out of necessity are captured. This kind of insight goes a long way and in some ways captures the essence of punk. That and the stories about the context behind the photos of these shows that took place in Toronto between 1976 and 1980. Don recounts these stories with incredible detail as only a music fan could.

“One afternoon I was flipping through the delete bins in the back of a Yonge Street record shop when this music came on over the stereo. In a wave of goose bump rush I hurried to the front to confirm what I already instinctively knew – it was the first Ramones album.”

Don also captures what it is like as an underage teen when going to shows.

"The first “bar” show I went to was the Crash ‘n Burn where my worries about being asked for ID disappeared as the door person took my money without question or a second notice.”

Nobody I know captures that nervousness, but most of us experienced it. This also describes the difference between bar show and those bigger concert hall shows that were all ages.

The story of the Toronto punk scene begins with some old movie houses, namely the Roxy and then the New Yorker, which housed the first shows when not screening John Waters or Alejandro Jodowsky films.

Don also adds to the punk rock archeology going on about the Toronto punk scene with a band called the HATE.

“The Hate performed one of the most memorable gigs I witnessed at the Turning Point as the singer Angie Ignorant stormed the stage with his cock impaling a photo of Pierre Trudeau, urine spraying the audience from what looked like Pierre’s mouth.”

Trouble in the Camera Club has some of the most accurate descrptions of the early Toronto punk scene releases. Here is Don’s review of the first VILETONES ep.

“Screamin’ Fist”, the first song on the first single by the Viletones is perfection in it’s goose bump inducing heaviness – the bass playing sixteenths on one note, then one big chord, a furious drum roll and then the whole band pounding one dirty chord. The record’s dynamic production and intensity were never matched again.

Don goes on to write about TEENAGE HEAD, the CURSE, the UGLY, the CARDBOARD BRAINS, the POLES, and the DEMICS with critical ear as only a music fan could. The accuracy of the description makes me think that Don missed his calling as a music reviewer, but this would just be one of his many talents.

“So many people have a desire to be given a finite defintion of punk, but so much is left out of the true story. Imagine a thousand embers sparking at once but all separate from each other, it became a movement, the thing that got called punk.”

Some of the early punk bands that Don got to see included XTC, the SLITS, the UNDERTONES, GANG OF FOUR, and BILLY FURY. Some photos that made it in the book include the CLASH, the RAMONES, BLONDIE, IGGY POP, and the DEAD BOYS.

Don also pays tribute to the flyer.

“Posters stapled to wooden telephone poles and handbills put up in the couple of used clothing shops were coded transmissions that could only be comprehended by those tuned to the same frequency. Cheap photocopies were the new thing.”

There are a lot of flyers used in the layout. Lots I have never seen before giving another added layer of historical relevance to this book. Photos, flyers and ticket stubs along with the stories make for the best scrapbook I have ever seen on the Toronto punk scene. In this Don’s reflections are more than mere artifact. He provides analysis. Sometimes it is favourable as in the VILETONES review already expressed and other times critical.

“In retrospect, I see aspects of how conservative punk was. Long hair and wide pants were not allowed, women were rarely equal and “faggots” were often reviled even though the origins of the scene were in gay discos and with homo art cliques. In so many cases, the new gestures and poses playing out were still firmly rooted in traditional images of rock stardom and bad seed mythology, despite the cleansing effect we dreamed punk would have on the old vision.”

Don pulls no punches making this a trusted account of the times. It is one of the most accurate records I have read of the period and it is easy to read because Don is so excited by his discoveries in music, which happened to coincide with punk. I couldn’t put it down and although the photos are spectacular don’t cheat yourself out of the insight provided by Don’s recounting of the times. This appealed to the historical musicologist in me.

I also noticed that the price is the same in Canadian as it is in American prices reflecting the strength of the Canadian dollar. We are on par with the Americans. Subtle but reflective of the unintended case made about our punk scene. (www.ecwpress.com)

Radio - Sunday, April 20, 2011

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This was our fundraising show and there was a lot of special guests that came in. ZA special dedication went out to lasha and Jimmy on their new baby boy Zenon. We spoke with Don Pyle, Tank, Zero, Mickey Skin, Cleave Anderson, Rude Van Steenes, Marcel Lefleur, Pete Jones, the Blue Demon, Dhaibid James, Pete Mahoney, and Greg Benedetto. Thank you to all who pledged and helped us reach our goal in the "Love Your Radio" campaign. We appreciate it and are looking into an echo chamber.

LORRAINAS – Johnny (Self-Released)

TYRANNA – Johnny (Boppa Do Down)
ZRO 4 – Disgusting (Unreleased)
THE CURSE – I Accuse You (Other People’s Music)


THE VILETONES – Screamin’ Fist (CIUT)
TEENAGE HEAD – Little Boxes (Sonic Unyon)
DREAM DATES – The Mess You’re In (CIUT)


999 – Action (Captain Oi!)
ARSON – Coho Coho (CIUT)


CAREER SUICIDE – Dicta-Flag (CIUT)
CAREER SUICIDE – Jonzo’s Leaking Radiation (Deranged)
TOTAL TRASH – (CIUT)
KEEP IT UP – Keep It Up (Feelin’ It)
ENVISION - Support your Scene


BLACK FAXES – Upon the Vine (CIUT)
JOHNNY ONSLAUGHT – I Kick My Bike and it kicks Me Back (Unreleased)
CURSED –
BRUTAL KNIGHTS – I Do Nothing (Deranged)
GORILLA BISCUITS – Start Today (Revelation)
SCREAM – It Came Without Warning (Dischord)


JFA – I Don’t Like You (Placebo / Alternative Tentacles)
DOA – The Enemy (Sudden Death)


TRAGEDY –


DISFEAR – Get It Off
- Brick Wall
- Fucked Up

Flyer - Saturday July 31, 2010

Sunday, May 23, 2010

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SEX PISTOLS – God saved the Queen (Warner Brothers)
SEX PISTOLS – Is the Queen a Moron? (Virgin)
SEX PISTOLS – Friggin in a Riggin’ (Virgin)

THE STRANGLERS – Peaches (United Artists)
MARTHA AND THE MUFFINS – Monotone (Virgin)
TYRANNA – Revenge (Boppa Do Down)
TEENAGE HEAD – Teenage Beer Drinkin’ Party (Attic)

ANTI-FLAG - Summer Squatter Go Home (NRA)
GOB - Open Your Eyes (Mint)
BOUNCING SOULS - Ole! (Epitaph)
CLOSET MONSTER - Suburbia (Underground Monkey Operations)
GOOD RIDDANCE - Last Believer (Fat Wreck Chords)
GOB - Marching Song (Mint)

TASMANIANS - Baby (Eva)
KINKS - Everybody's Gonna Be Happy (PYE)
PLAYGUE - I Gotta Be Going (Crypt)
STANDELLS - Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White (Tower)
GIN GILLETTE - Train To Satanville (Killdozer)

UNRULED - Lost Cause (Schizophrenic)
BAD BRAINS - Banned In D.C. (Roir)
GO! - Holy Roller - (Epistrophy)
LIMP WRIST - Back In The Days (Lengua Armada)

BANE - Superhero (Equal Vision)
TRUE COLORS - One Chance (Powered)
YOUTH OF TODAY - Youth Crew (Live At The Bridge In Toronto - Bootleg)
THE FIRST STEP - When Things Fall Apart (Rivarly)
BURDEN - Chosen Path (Dead Serious)
NO FX - Straight Edge (Epitaph)

Demo Feature
ABYSS – To Conquer a Corpse (Self-Released)
ABYSS – Accursed Followers (Self-Released)
ABYSS – The Final Blood Bath (Self-Released)
ABYSS – Purity Negation (Self-Released)
ABYSS – Unburied (Self-Released)
ABYSS – Coven of the Blood Stalker (Self-Released)
ABYSS – Splatter House (Self-Released)

Sunday, April 4, 2010

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CITY SWEETHEARTS - Hot Ten (P Trash)

MARGARET THRASHER - Airport Violence (P Trash)
BEYOND PINK - Work Out to Kill (Emancypunx)
MAX AND THE MAKEUPS - Day In Day Out (Puke 'n Vomit)
THE HORNEY BITCHES - Suck 'n Swallow (Trigger)
THE CURSE - Teenage Meat (Other Peoples Music)

TRIAL - Seems / Serene / Reflections (Equal Vision)
PLANET X DANGER - What I Despise (Self-Released)
UNRESTRAINED - Face Fear (Bloody Knuckles)
DEFEATER - Beggin' in Slums (Bridge 9)

CHINA WHITE - Solid State (New Underground)
WHITE FLAG - Middle Class Hell (Gastanka)
DOA - The Enemy (Alternative Tentacles)
VANDALS - Big Brother vs. Johnny Sako
NUNFUCKERS - Snap (Self-Released)

KRAPPY DRACULA - A Good Flying Bird (Self-Released)
EVAPORATORS - The Bombs in my Pants (Mint)
BAD TASTE - The Day the Sky Exploded (Feral Kid)
EMPTY VESSEL - Textbook Execution (Blind Spot)
CRITICAL CONVICTIONS - Anomie (Self-Released)
AK47 - They Killed Radio Raheem (Ransom)

TEENAGE HEAD - Let's Shake (CIUT)
MOLESTED YOUTH - Shining Light (CIUT)
HOMOSTUPIDS - Cave Man (CIUT)
HOSTAGE LIFE - Sons of Hostage Life (CIUT)
RAMMER - Throat of Hell (CIUT)
SNAKEPIT - Hipsterectomy (Self-Released)

CURSED - Reparation / Promised Land (High Anxiety)
VIOLENT ARREST - Heretic (Deranged)
BLACK FAXES - Animam Edere (Self-Released)
VILE NATION - Don't Miss It (Way Back When / Even Worse)

INFEST - Where's the Unity? (Drawing Blanks)
AVAIL - Connection (Catheter Assembly)
NEUROSIS - Pollution (Lookout)
DROP DEAD - Fucking Assholes (Selfless)

Demo Feature
SLOBS - Memory Lapse (Self-Released)
SLOBS - No Escape (Self-Released)
SLOBS - Chronic Disease (Self-Released)
SLOBS - Hope for Nothing (Self-Released)
SLOBS - Done Caring (Self-Released)
SLOBS - Write Offs (Self-Released)

Colin Brunton in MRR

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This interview with Colin Brunton was done on our radio show initially. Colin Brunton is a filmaker who made the movie the Last Pogo. The Last Pogo captured the early Toronto punk scene as they were getting kicked out of their digs at the Horseshoe Tavern. Many from that era consider those shows at the death of punk in Toronto. It was a significant event nonetheless. the show featured performances by the Ugly, the Secrets, the Mods, the Viletones, the Ugly, and Teenage Head getting the plug pulled by the Fire Department. The interview was conducted by Greg Dick of the Dream Dates and was printed by Maximumrocknroll in the April 2010 edition. Copies of this issue are available and copies are available at http://maximumrocknroll.com/subscribe/.

Sunday February 21, 2010

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DOA - Donnybrook (Sudden Death)

DOA - Billy and the Socreds (Sudden Death)
THE CLASH - Working for the Clampdown (Epic)
HANSON BROTHERS - Duke It Out (Alternative Tentacles)
DEAD KENNEDYS - Jock-O-Rama (Alternative Tentacles)
ANTI-DOGMATIKSS - Olipisme (Tralla)

TEENAGE HEAD - Love for Sale (MCA)
MINUTEMEN - Lost (Reflex)
NOT FUNNY ANYMORE - Sky Hook Coat Hanger (Jigsaw Laboratories)
PEGBOY - Fields of Darkness (1/4)
SHOTMAKER - Nick’s Question (Kung Fu / Manticore)

LION OF JUDAH - Astral Peace (Universal Peace)
NOW OR NEVER - Taken for Granted
RAH - It Won’t Last (Labelled)
DEATH THREAT - High for Now (Triple Crown)
H2O - Here Today Gone Tomorrow (Self-Released)

JERK WARD - Knowledge (Supreme Echo)
TUTU AND THE PIRATES - Wham Bam Son of Sam
ULTRATUMBADOS - Auto Gesto (Southkore)
SCHOOL JERKS - Rent Boy (Cowabunga)
THE LADIES - Trashed (Cowabunga)

MEDICATION - Didn’t Wanna Know (Hozac)
MYELIN SHEATHS - Do the Mental twist (Hozac)
MICKEY - She’s so Crazy (Hozac)
KING KHAN AND THE BBQ SHOW - Shake Real low (In the Red)
THE FIRE JACKS - Tell that woman (Sin)

THE CLASH - Clash City Rockers (Bootleg)
CHUCK RAGAN - California Burritos (Side One Dummy)
GREG GEFFIN - The Highway (Epitaph)
TIM BARRY - Shoulda outta (Suburban Home)
SARAH BLACKWOOD - Trainwreck (Stomp)

Demo Feature
RESIST CONTROL - Modern Times (Self-Released)
RESIST CONTROL - Kill the News (Self-Released)
RESIST CONTROL - Pale Imitation (Self-Released)
RESIST CONTROL - Broken Eggs (Self-Released)
RESIST CONTROL - Kleptocracy (Self-Released)
RESIST CONTROL - Fallin Apart (Self-Released)
RESIST CONTROL - No Solutions (Self-Released)
RESIST CONTROL - Recipe for Success (Self-Released)
RESIST CONTROL - Short Lease (Self-Released)

Sunday, January 17, 2010

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THE VILETONES – Screamin’ Fist (Other Peoples Music)
Interview with Liz Worth
THE RAMONES – Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Sire)
Interview with Liz Worth
TEENAGE HEAD – Little Boxes (Sonic Unyon)
Interview with Liz Worth
THE DIODES – Noise (Polydor)
Interview with Liz Worth
THE POLES – CN Tower
Interview with Liz Worth
THE VILETONES – Rebel (Other Peoples Music)
Interview with Liz Worth
THE UGLY – Alley Cat (Other Peoples Music)
Interview with Liz Worth
THE CURSE – Shoeshine Boy (Other Peoples Music)
Interview with Liz Worth
THE FORGOTTEN REBELS – Third Homosexual Murder (Other Peoples Music)
Interview with Liz Worth
THE DEMICS – New York City (Ready)
Interview with Liz Worth
THE B GIRLS – Fun at the Beach (Other Peoples Music)

Treat Me Like Dirt

Liz Worth interviewed as many first wave Toronto punks as she could find. She organized their story telling into chapters based around event and ways to describe the scene. The result is an anecdotal story telling by the characters that made up that scene. It is brilliant because punk is an oral history and Liz uses their quotes to retell their stories. She doesn't re-write or paraphrase or even use rock journalism techniques. Instead she gathers quotes by the folks involved in the incidents and has them tell the story. There is always more than one story teller so they go back and forth and you get a perspective on the folk lore and legends of Toronto. Gary Topp, Colin Brunton, Steve Leckie, members of Teenage Head, members of the Diodes, members of the Ugly, and loads of other unsung bands that made up the scene. She hads done an incredible job here of bringing the stories back to life. And Gary Pig Gold of the Pig Paper assists in the editting and Ralph Alfonso publishes this on Bongo Beat Records so this has more than gone through the first wave filter of fact checking. You can be assured that the stories in here are accurate.

Radio - Sunday, May 31, 2009

click here for a mp3 downloadTHE UGLY - Disorder (Other People’s Music

THE UGLY - Disorder / To Have Some Fun / No Place to Go (CIUT)
THE UGLY - Murderous Adventure (CIUT)
THE UGLY - You Gotta Be Mean (CIUT)
THE UGLY - Cruel Ones (CIUT)
THE UGLY - So In Love With You / Hey Little Rich Girl (CIUT)
THE UGLY - Alley Cat (CIUT)
THE UGLY - Interview (CIUT)
DREAM DATES - Heart Attack Rhythm (Ugly Pop)
THE MODS - Reign of Terror (Other People’s Music)
THE UGLY - Hell Time (Other People’s Music)
SUPER STITIONS – Suddenly Last Summer (Self-Released)

THE UGLY - Hey Little Rich Girl (Other People’s Music)
THE MODS – Between Four Walls (Other People’s Music)

THE UGLY- Stranded (Self-Released)
THE UGLY - Lust for Life (OPM)