Flyer - Start Humanity

Flyer - Friday April 24, 1987

Flyer - Monday, April 20th, 1987

Missing Link "Murder Music" cassette

Missing Link released a cassette in 1987 that was recorded on April 18 and 18 at Northwest Sound. Loads of songs and a different recording than the ep. The folks in the band were Dave Coath on vocals, Mark Holman on guitar, Terry Wachter on bass, and Chris Langstaff on drums. Below is the lyric sheet inside the cassette.

The songs on here are:

1. Murder Music

2. Dead to the World

3. Cutting Edge

4. Fortunes Wheel

5. Barbadeath

6. One Man Parade

7. Man to Man

8. Nosebleed

9. Looking Ahead

10. My Big Chance

11. Punker Than Thou

12. Stupid Morons

13. It Is As I Planned

M.S.I. "More Stupid Initials" ep

MSI were a band from Toronto that started off with some folks in the original D.O.G. line up wanting to do a straight edge band. Glenn Salter was the original guitarist and he was good friends with Derek Emerson. They used to do a metal zine together. But they were now heavily influenced by the New York scene and at the time the straight edge revival was happening and they were pretty much all straight edge so they started a band. They got Paul Morris the current guitarist from Sons of Ishmael to play bass and John Rankin to sing. This was recorded at X-It Studios on december 18, 1986, which is a place the band used to practise. The studio space had just put in a recording studio and MSI were one of the first bands to record there. The band covers the Wizard of Oz cartoon theme on here with 8 originals. The logo and cover artwork was designed by Brain Walsby.

Steve Spinali from MRR reviewed the ep as "This platter of HC/thrash has that tinny, garage-laden sound that I've always loved, and the good news is that MSI has a good command of their style. Not remarkably original, but the three all-out thrashers make for an entertaining ride. (from Maximum Rock'n'Roll #51, August 1987)".

The songs on here include:

1. The Generic Straight Edeg Song
2. Satan Hellfuck
3. Addict
4. Shopping Mall Massacre
5. The Wizard of Oz
6. Back in Control
7. Midway
8. Choice
9. Deep Inside

Flyer - Friday April 17, 1987

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

Flyer - Sunday, April 12th, 1987

Flyer - Friday April 10, 1987

Flyer - Thursday, April 9, 1987

Flyer - Tuesday April 7, 1987

Zine - The Pig Paper #30

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Flyer - Thursday April 2, 1987

Zine - Still Thinking #2

The second issue of Still Thinking starts out with an interview with Alice from CHUMBAWAMBA (pre-Tub Thumbing days). Alice provides into Chumba`s approach as punks and asks the important question `Where are the women at in the punk scene?"

MALHAVOC are interviewed in their horror metal phase. James talks about influences which includes Flemish painters and industrial music. So this is insight into what the direction they would start going. And at the time they were working on a release with Diabolic force, which never came out. 

DEATH OF GODS were a hardcore band from Mississauga, also known as D.O.G. The band split right when their cassette came out and half the band left to form M.S.I. The group that stayed recruited new members  and would go on to self release an ep. They had a New York hardcore sound at a time when that sound was being carved out by Straight Ahead and Youth of Today. Locals liked them for that. But this interview has them not taking the interview too seriously and you miss the appeal of the band. Nonetheless one of the few interviews they would do before calling it quits. 

There is a scene report from Arizona on the Pheonix scene. The report is written by the drummer of YOUTH UNDER CONTROL. He writes about the bands at the time which included DESECRATION and LAST OPTION. And he writes about some of the zines, but Hippycore, which was the most well known zine to come from Pheonix, was not in that list. Odd because Jack from Desecration was a big part of the zine and Joel would go on to work for Profane Existence. 

ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE SYSTEM, from L.A., get interviewed. This anarchist band were in the process of releasing a 12" on Mortarhate. They talked about how direct action can work and were advocating for an anti ripoff promotion collective which targeted Goldenvoice. 

DESPERATE MINDS from Kamloops played in Toronto and had just released an ep. Sean, the singer was interviewed and talked about an organizing collective called K.I.D.S. which sounds like it was inspired by B.Y.O. and Positive Force.

There is an interview with an industrial band called VAROSHI FAME. And that was followed by an interview with DARREN COPELAND, a teen from Mississauga who did experimental music. This started reflecting the DIY alternative scenes and the influences of the zine contributors at the time. Even industrial reviews started showing up in the review section. 


One of the only interviews I read with DEAD MILKMEN and one of the funniest. The jokes about the Philly scene are hilarious. DEAD MILKMEN have great insight into politics. This was at the time when they were working on their second album. And they didn't do well on their Canadian punk trivia. 

There is a few fun pieces too like the "Radio Moscow" piece which is a made up story of spins and conspiracies reflecting Cold War mentalities at the time. There is a mock interview with DURAN DURAN which is also pretty funny. 

More humour and more industrial coverage.