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.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

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THE VIBRATORS - Oil (Captain Oi)

SLICK 46 – City Bye Night (Longshot)
RIOT99 – Destroy the City (Longshot)
THE LURKERS – Come and Reminesce (Captain Oi!)
GERM ATTAK - Burn the City (MCR Company)
DECEIVING SOCIETY - Nothing (MCR Company)

DEMICS – New York City (Ready)
NIRVANA – Molly’s Lips (Geffen)
POISON IDEA – Punish Me (Taang)
JOY DIVISION – Transmission (Rhino / WEA)
GERMS – Richie Dagger’s Crime (Rhino / WEA)
HICKEY – Treadle of the Loom (123 Go)
HUGH DILLON AND SWAMP BABY – Who the Hell Do You Think You Are? (Velvel)

HOUSE OF COMMONS - Live for Today (Artcore)
IMPEDERS OF PROGRESS - What Will Define U (Self-Released)
DARGE - Meu Desepero (MCR Company)
LEGION666 - Witchcraft (Yellowdog)

FUGAZI – Stacks (Dischord)
YOUTH OF TODAY – Wake Up and Live (Revelation)
LOOK BACK AND LAUGH – Sinkin’ Ship (Lengua Armada)
DISOBEY – Twenty two (Spastic Fantastic)
ZEROPTION – Reign of Terror

ATTENTION – fries with Spice and a Coffee please (Self-Released)
KING KHAN AND THE BBQ SHOW – Invisible Girl (In The Red)
NEGATIVE GAIN – Situation All Fucked Up (Self-Released)
VILETONES – I Don’t Care (Other Peoples Music)
MSI – Back in Control (B.Y.O.B.)

ZLODZIEJE ROWEROW – Kazay inny wszscy rowni (Refuse)
DEAD STOOL PIDGEON - Adrift (Crucial Response)
SPES EREPTA – Horizonty prachu na cestach strachu (Refuse)
THESE HANDS ARE FISTS – Better Die on Your Feet (Refuse)
MAINSTRIKE - It Won't Last (Crucial Response)

Demo Feature
THE LOVE BELOW - Nothing is Private (Self-Released)
THE LOVE BELOW - Video Nasty (Self-Released)
THE LOVE BELOW - All's well that Ends Well (Self-Released)
THE LOVE BELOW - It's Not a Tumor (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, March 1, 2009

63 MONROE - Weekend Punks (Rave Up)

VIOLENT MINDS - Know It All (Parts Unknown)
LIVING DARKNESS - Streets of Bodies (Self-Released)
HAVE HEART - Something More Thank Ink (Think Fast)
VITAMIN X - On a Rampage (Havoc)
MEANWHILE - Above Our Heads (HG Fact)

63 MONROE - Interview (CIUT)
URANUS - Ballad of Gilligan’s Island (Trilogy)
63 MONROE - Interview (CIUT)
DEMICS - New York City (Ready Records)
63 MONROE - Interview (CIUT)
EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS - Get Out of Denver [Live] (Captain Oi!)
63 MONROE - Interview (CIUT)
63 MONROE - White Christmas (Speed City)
63 MONROE - Interview (CIUT)
63 MONROE - Fuck Your Mother Later (Rave Up)
63 MONROE - Interview (CIUT)
N.F.G. - Hijack Victim (Rave Up)
63 MONROE - Interview (CIUT)
63 MONROE - Last Exit (Speed City)
63 MONROE - Interview (CIUT)
63 MONROE - Two Minutes Thirty Eight (Speed City)

Radio - Sunday, August 10, 2008

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The Screwed are a punk band puled together featuring legends in the early Toronto punk scene. The original idea was to be a jam band that would play songs from 1977 and that lead to a CD release of covers of songs that came out in the year. Cleave Anderson, the drummer from Tyranna, the Way Outs, Battered Wives and so many other great bands came up with the idea. he convinced John Borra of Neon Rome fame and Steve Koch of the Viletones and Demics fame to play bass and guitar in this band. They recruited Steve Saint from the Sinisters to sing.

The band has started doing originals and songs from the early local scene. This session was recorded and played live on the show and what you are hearing in this session is pumped up from the downstairs studio into a channel on our braodcast board. The live session is followed up with an interview with the band trying to capture some of the significance that these folks played on the scene, but also the things that they are doing now like the various themed nights at clubs in Toronto with singers from the first wave of the Toronto scene. Here is the set list based around our discussion.

THE SCREWED - Pretty Vacant (Self-Released) cover of the Sex Pistols

Studio 3 Session
THE SCREWED - Suzie Peroxide (CIUT) cover of the Secrets
THE SCREWED - New Rose (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - Green Haired Girl (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - The Shaggs (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - Barbra (CIUT) cover of the Modernettes
THE SCREWED - New York City (CIUT) cover of the Demics
THE SCREWED - Your Generation (CIUT) cover of Generation X
THE SCREWED - Somebody's gonna get their head kicked in tonight (CIUT) cover of the Rezillos
THE SCREWED - Screamin' Fist (CIUT) cover of the Viletones
THE SCREWED - Disgusteen (CIUT) cover of Teenage Head

Show listings by Gena Maldezy

THE SCREWED - Career Opportunities (Self-Released)
THE SCREWED - Interview with Steve Saint (CIUT)
COSMIC SAINTS - Lemonade (Unreleased)
SINISTERS - Private World (Unreleased)

NEON ROME - Magical Summer of ’85 (New Rose)
THE SCREWED - Interview with John Borra (CIUT)
NEON ROME - Windowsill (New Rose)

THE SCREWED - Interview with Steve Koch (CIUT)
VILETONES - Don’t You Lie (Live at the Edge, 1979 with Sam Ferera (bass) and Tony Torcher (drums). Recorded for Q107)
THE SCREWED - Interview with Steve Koch (CIUT)
VILETONES - We Say Yeah (Live at the Edge, 1979 with Sam Ferera (bass) and Tony Torcher (drums). Recorded for Q107) This is where Screamin' sam gets his name Screamin' from.

THE SCREWED - Interview with Cleave Anderson (CIUT)
BATTERED WIVES - Giddy (Live at the El Mocambo, 1978)
THE SCREWED - Interview with the entire band (CIUT)
THE SCREWED WITH CHEETAH CHROME - Sonic Reducer (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - Interview with the entire band (CIUT). There was a scatch on the CD that this interview was transfered from so this part of the interview skips a little.

Some originals recorded at a different session not used in the broadcast:

THE SCREWED - Clarence Jonkers (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - Gettin' Beat Up (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - Red Line Man (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - Green Haired Girl (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - The Shaggs (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - Vivienne and Malcolm (CIUT) 

Radio - Sunday February 13, 2005

NO SLOGAN – Arm the Victims Now (Southkore)

BLOOD I BLEED – Paper Cuts (Podruido)
THREATENER – Meth Crawl / Nothing Stranger (625 Productions)
RUNNING FOR COVER – Bricriu / Yoke (Out of Limits)
HUGE LIZARD – Four Years and Still Fucked Up (Self-Released)
CHUCK NORRIS – Pick Up Your Skate (Distorted Riffs / Circle Pits)
S.T.R.E.E.T.S. – Come on Everybody Grab Your Skate Let’s Go / Corey Webster (Hit the Deck)
MORTAL COMBAT – The Streets (Self-Released)
DEATH TOKEN – Self-Infliction (Splid af Vinyl)

LOST SOUNDS – I Sit I Watch I Wait (In the Red)
TYRADES – Dance Like a Maniac (Broken Rekids)
CARBONAS – Push Me (Die Slaughterhouse)
REATARDS – Teenage Hate (Empty)
TEEN CRUD COMBO – Days of Yore (Deranged)
JET BOYS – You are Lukewarm, more Blitzkrieg Bop (Demolition Derby)

TARPIT – The Cycle (Collapse)
LITTLE RASCALS – Rascal Crew (Collapse)
GET REAL – Cutting Loose (17 cm)
YOUTH OF TODAY – A Time We’ll Remember (Caroline)
JUDGE – Warriors (Revelation)
URBAN BLIGHT – Quit (Self-Released)

BOB BURNS AND THE BREAKUPS – I Got Soul (Dingus)
FURY OF A THOUSAND ZEUSES – Ludicrous Speed (Dingus)
HOLY SHIT – Social Suicide (Self-Released)
THE GATECRASHERS – Kyukusha O Yonde Kadasai (Moshstache)
DEAN DIRG – Rock’s the Drug (Jugend Band)
THE DIVIDED LINES – Bye Bye Birdie So Long! (Know)

PAGANS – Dead End America (Crypt)
THE MODERNETTES – Celebrity Crack Up (Zulu)
THE DEMICS – The News (Linus)
BUZZCOCKS – Breakdown (Mute)

FUCKED UP – Generation (Slasher)
NEW BOMB TURKS – Tattooed Apathetic Boys (Crypt)
TEEN CRUD COMBO – Wash dish (Black Lung)
JED WHITEY – We Used Your Record as a Beer Coaster (Busted Heads)
THE OBSERVERS – State of Decay (Vinyl Warning)
FEEDERZ – Have you Never Been Mellow ? (Broken Rekids)
FEAR – Fuck Christmas (Slash)

LECSA-PUNK – Mienk A Fajdalom (Maloka)
ACCUSED – Buried Alive (Sub-Core)
APOCALYPTIC CHRIST – Bomb the World (Less Art)
DESTRCUTION’S END – No One’s Safe (Mike Fitzgerald’s Records)
DFA – Chad (Flowerviolence)
R.K.L. – Why? / Tell me the Truth (Mystic)
HATED PRINCIPLES – Cops from Hell (Gothic Gospel)
DEATH OF THE SUN – Just Now (Devour)
NO DICE – No Dice (Self-Released)

EASIES – Circle (Self-Released)
EASIES – Yungalism (Self-Released)
EASIES – Gutu-Gutu (Self-Released)
EASIES – Killer (Self-Released)
SIDE OF STRENGTH – Track 1 (Self-Released)
UNDER PRESSURE – Gospelfuckers (Podruido)

THE POLIDICKS – Anyway (Wounded Paw)

Zine - Smash It Up, December 1980

 

Smash It Up was a Toronto punk fanzine. This issue came out in December 1980. This issues starts out with a report about local bands by Randy Swagger, which included information on the Points, the Sharks, the Government, the Demics, Martha and the Muffins, the Civilians, Teenage Head, Blank Generation, the Spoons, the B-Girls, the Secrets, True Confessions, the Viletones, Tyranna, and the Bop Cats.

The first interview is with the Slits where they wind up talking about Sid Vicious death, which had just happened.

There is an interview with Martha Johnson at a Hamilton show, where she sheds some light on how crappy it is to be signed to major label. I wish she had more space to elaborate.

There is an article on Ultravox which was done around a show they played in Toronto supporting "Vienna". I didn't realize that Midge Ure was in the Rich Kids and was offered the guitarist spot for the Pistols when Steve Jones left. This all seems weird talking about him as a guitarist in light of Ultravox being a synth band.

There is a review of a Joan Jett and the Blackhearts show with lots of photos.

There is an amazingly designed piece on a Siouxsie and the Banshees show on November 18th, 1980 at the Music Hall.

There is part one of an interview with Bangkok who were a new band that featured Mickey Skin of the Curse on vocals.

There is a back page ad for Edge Records which I am guessing had something to do with the Garys and were reported to have been releasing the Sharks record.

 

Thinks appears thanks to the archive of Dhaibid James, host of Moondog Ballroom, also on CIUT 89.5FM.

 



The Demics LP

Hypnotic Records, a label owned by Tom Treumuth, with a re-recorded version of "New York City". A lot of people think this was a shittier version of the song. Chris Spedding produced this recording. Steve Koch was in this version of the band. The Demics broke up shortly after the release to internal tensions within the band. The songs on this release are:


1. I Won't See You No More
2. Blueboy
3. New York City
4. The Grey and the Black
5. The 400 Blows
6. Talk, Talk
7. The News
8. The Least You Can Do
9. Lucy
10. All Gone Wrong

Download of this material can be gotten at O' Canadarm! - http://ocanadarm.blogspot.com/2007/01/demics-canada.html

Zine - Smash It Up

This is another issue of Smash It Up that came out somewhere in the fall of 1980. The editorial on the second mentions that this is the eigth issue to come out in the year so I imagine it would have been out in September or October. The cover is in Russian and in true Smash It Up fashion fills a need to play with the name of the publication. It was a provocative thing to do given that 1980 was the height of the Cold War being played out through a nuclear arms race. The zine plays up like a Russian issue that has been translated. The circulation of the zine was somewhere between 25 and 50 copies and was sold for $0.20 a copy.

This issue starts out with an interview with Gary Numan at the Holiday Inn, which was more like a shrug off. On the same page is a playlist and a list of new releases that had just come out.

The next feature is a piece on heavy metal with brief descriptions of bands like Sabbath and Priest and Saxon and KISS.

The next piece is about a band named the Civilians and they were about to release a record on Star Records (the label that put out the first Forgotten Rebels LP). The Garys thought they were too metal so they never booked them.

There was an interview with the Demics just after the album had been released. One of the big concerns by that record gets asked which is about the album sounding too overproduced.

There is a piece on the Sharks that took four attempts to get. The inteviewer spent some time trying to interview the band (four times) and there are some answers but different members in some of those times. But at the end the interview read a bit like the Tyranna interview that followed. I liked te Tyranna interview better.

There is a review section on punk films and one of those was a showing of a film named Crash 'n Burn about the club in Toronto that was shown in an art gallery. There was reviews of "D.O.A.", "Punking Out", "The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle" and some reggae films like "The Harder they Come" and "Dread, Beat and Blood". There is also a big piece on a film which had the Clash in it called "Preacher Man".

There is also some great record reviews which includes one of the Talking Heads "Remain in Light".

The back cover had a neat poster photo of a band named the Feds that promotes a new single and a show for November at the Edge.

Thanks to Dhaibid James of Moondog Ballroom for loaning us the issue to scan.

Flyer - Monday December 31, 1979

Flyer - The Demics and Zro4

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.

Flyer - Tuesday September 4, 1979

Flyer - Thursday August 23 - Saturday August 25, 1979

Flyer - Wednesday August 1st - Saturday August 4th, 1979

Flyer - Wednedsay August 1 - Saturday August 4, 1979

Flyer - Wednesday July 11 - Saturday July 14, 1979

Flyer - Friday, June 29th, 1979

Flyer - Friday June 29, 1979

A show at the Pulon Theatre whoch would become the Royal Theatre as part of the festival chain of rep cinemas.

Flyer - Friday October 27, 1978