Radio : EXD 1272 - Sunday October 8, 2023

 

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On this episode, an all music show. Lots of new releases with bands like Golpe, the Dweebs, Eteraz. Chris has programmed an upbeat 80’s punk set. And tonight’s demo feature is BRUISERWEIGHT from Montreal.

CLOSETALKERS - Cursed (Self-Released)

Oldies 

PINUPS - Screaming Fist (Triple X) 

CARDBOARD BRAINS - Stepping Stone (Brainco Worldwide) 

D.E.M. - Vengeance (Banlieue Grise) 

4'' BE 2'' - Jimmy Jones (McDonald and Lydon) 

GOLA JAJA - Dosada (Ne!)  

New Releases (Chris) 

GOLPE - Diritto Di Obbedire (Beach Impediment / Static Shock)   

EXTENSIVE SLAUGHTER - Life is a Cold Hell (Neon Taste)  

HEADCHEESE - Battle of the Bands (Neon Taste)  

THE JUDGES - The House Always Wins (Anti Fade)  

RÉGICIDE - Immortels (Mendeku Diskak)   

New-ish stuff (Rob)

IMPLODERS - Thick Skull (Neon Taste) 

CALCULATED CHAOS - Burn The Flag (Self-released) 

TRASH KNIFE - Stand Up (Self-Released)

YOUTH AVOIDERS - Street Violence (Self-Released)

COLA HEADS - Demon Let Met Go (Cursed Blessings) 

Newbies (Stephen)  

MANACLES - Vilnius Bike Punx (Ketunkolo Tuotanto)

THE DWEEBS - I'm Glad I'm Not Me (Crew Cuts) 

THE MONKEYCHUNKS - I Went To See NoFX And All I Got Was Jocks (Self-Released)

CURBSITTER - Me and My Friends (Thrash Tapes)

BESTA QUADRADA - Born to Lose (Noise Merchant) 

Undefined set (Stephen) 

ERIEZA ROYAL AND THE SUMMARY LYNCH - Women's Independence Day (Self-Released) 

THE DEADLINE - An Understanding (Self-Released)

RANK - It's Up To Us (Self-Released)

FERAL - Culture Reprimanded (Richter Scale) 

THE CAPACES - Born To Punk (Filferro) 

 

BURNT KNIVES - Cracked Statues (Self-Released)  

WARCYCLE - Erasure (Televised Suicide / Desolate) 

ETERAZ - Smash the Coward (Iron Lung)  

INTERPUNKCE - Nenáviď mě (Ultima Ratio / S Kudlou V Zádech / DIY Kolo)    

TRAUMA - Era of Excess (Bulkhead) 

Upbeat 80s punk (Chris) 

COLLABOS - L’Innocents du Village (Chaos)  

TOY DOLLS - Dig That Groove Baby (Volume)  

D.O.A. - Singin’ In The Rain (Alternative Tentacles) 

THE ADICTS - Disco (Razor)

RAMONES - Chasing The Night (Sire)

Post punk-ish 

UZU - Chafa El Hawiya شفا الهاوية (A World Divided) - from Montreal   

CHAIN CULT - We Are Not Alone (Self-Released)

NOX NOVAULA - Pray For Sleep (Bat Cave) 

THE DARTS - Intersex (Alternative Tentacles)  

THE ODDS - Don't Get Angry (S&M) 

THE MAD NOTHINGS - Yesterday's Hero (Oi the Nische) -   

DANKO JONES - What Goes Around (AFM) 

THE CHOICES - I Don't Care (Randale) 

EPAULET - Cries from Bondage (Self-Released)   

INNUENDO - Losing Again (Unlawful Assembly)  

Demo Feature 

Montréal band that just came through town playing Hold Your Ground Fest in Mississauga last week. 2023 Demo by BRUISERWEIGHT 

 

BRUISERWEIGHT - Bruiserweight 

BRUISERWEIGHT - Imposter 

BRUISERWEIGHT - Hard Times 

BRUISERWEIGHT - Killing Spree 

VOODOO GLOW SKULLS - Charlie Brown (Epitaph)

Radio - Sunday, August 28th, 2022

On tonight’s show, Rob does some compilation digging. Stephe is playing some (mostly) new finds, some post punk and a set of bands from PEI. Andre takes a look at the early days of pop punk. And, Chris has a set of new releases and a look at some classic Welsh punk: 1981-1986. We’ll be featuring a demo from a new band from Halifax called SUSPEX. Download the show here.

LAST AGONY - Propaganda Bleeds (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

New Finds… mostly (Stephe)
VIOLENT EYES - Invisible Hand (Self-Released)
SMASH THE GRANNY - Drink at Work (No Front Teeth)
F.U.'s - Death Squad Nostalgia (Self-Released)
CRIME WAVE - William Shatner's Dick (Self-Released)
GUILT PARADE - Oppenheimer's Legacy (Self-Released) 

Compilation feature (Rob)
DER KÜNFTIGE MUSIKANT - Es Ist Kalt (Ancient Monument)
DEEP THROATS - Rock and still Discharge (Only Fit For The Bin)
THE USERS - Dead on Arrival
THE DAZE - I Wanna Be A Star (Motor City Rhythm Records)
THE ALLEY CATS - Black Haired Girl (WEA MUSIKGmbH / Planet)
ZRO4 - Blood (Chameleon Records) - cc

New material (Chris)
PRIME SUSPECT - G.O.M.B. / Panic Disorder (Self-Released) 
FERAL - Left In The Dust (Richter Scale / Rust and Machine)   
CASTILLO - I’ve Learned Today (Mendeku Diskak) 
LONG KNIFE - Survival (Blackwater)  
DOLDREY - Destructive Security Command (Pulverized / Pissed Off / Iron Lung)  

Post Punk (Stephe)
EXTRANA MISION - La Extraña Misión (Cintas Taciturnas)   
PARASOMNIA - Joane Florvil (Cintas Taciturnas)
CARDBOARD BRAINS - The Rescue Crew (Guilt) 
FREAK GENES - Strange Charm (Feel It)
NO KNUCKLE - Sanitation (Self-Released)

Early Days of Pop Punk (Andre)
THE RAMONES - She’s The One (Sire)
SOCIAL DISTORTION - Hour of Darkness (13th Floor)
DAG NASTY - Justification (Dischord)
MARGINAL MAN - Pandora’s Box (Dischord)
DESCENDENTS - Good Good Things (New Alliance)

PEI Punk (Stephe)
YEAR OF THE RAT - Paranoid Panic (Bird Law) 
WROTH - Sick Note (Self-Released)
REMOTE CONTROL - AAI Pioneer (Self-Released)
WARSH - Hypocrite (Self-Released)
ANTIBODIES - Rent-A-Cop (Self-Released)

Classic Welsh Punk: 1981-1986 (Chris)
THE PARTISANS - Killing Machine (No Future)
SHRAPNEL - They Are Wrong (Hand In Hand)
IMPACT - Law of the Land (Cyanide)
SOLDIER DOLLS - Iron Curtain (Scream)
ICONS OF FILTH - Sod the Children (Mortarhate)

Canadian material (Stephe)
THE DREADNOUGHTS - Problem (Stomp)
MVLL CRIMES - Arguing with Strangers on the Internet (Cursed Blessings)
BORED STIFF - My Hometown (Self-Released)
GUNS LIQUOR AND WHORES - Casualties of Migration (Putrid Filth Conspiracy)
NO TRUST - This is important (Self-Released)

Demo Feature
Tonight’s demo feature is a four piece from Halifax called Suspex. Their five song demo features four originals and a cover by The Partisans. Hardcore punk heavily influenced by UK82. This was released on cassette by Grey Matter Tapes August 4th. 

SUSPEX - Suspected (Grey Matter Tapes) 
SUSPEX - Grit (Grey Matter Tapes) 
SUSPEX - I Don’t Give A Fuck (Grey Matter Tapes) 
SUSPEX - Dead City (Grey Matter Tapes) 
SUSPEX - Enough is Enough (Grey Matter Tapes) 

Radio - Sunday, January 24th, 2021

Back in December (14th) Aaron Cogswell went missing at sea. There is a few punks who I know are fishermen, and Aaron's mom, Lori Phillips talked about this being the fishermen's fate. This song made me think of that. 

Tonight's show goes back to the regular format, hosting archival releases (Anti-Establishment and the Stimulators), a ton of brand new material (The Chisel, Midnite Snaxx), a whack of new Canadian punk (The Fallout and Phane), a ton of oi (the Struggle Death Ridge Boys doing a 7 Seconds cover - but don't 7 Seconds have oi roots (Case in point cover of If the kids are United), some post punk (Science Man / Viagara Boys), and a demo feature of a new cover band out of Vancouver - Brutalize. Download the show here. 

THE REAL MCKENZIES - A Widow's Watch (Fat / Stomp)

ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT - Mechanical Man (Charnel House)
PERSONALITY CRISIS - Twilight's Last Gleaming (Sounds Escaping)
EXTERNAL MENACE - No Views (Beat the System!! / Lightbeat)
JUNGE FRONT - Plattenregale (Zweckfrei)
INTENSIVE CARE - Class of '84 (Punishment Block)

DOGMATICS - Drinking by the Pool (Rum Bar)
MONOMANIA - Left the Stage (Self-Released)
STIMULATORS - Loud Fast Rules (Self-Released / Frontier)
CHRON GEN - Hounds of the Night (Secret / Razor / Captain Oi!)
DEAD WOLFF - Wanted Man (Self-Released)

THE CHISEL - Come See Me (La Vida Es Un Mus / Beach Impediment)
SEX WITH A TERRORIST AKA S.W.A.T. - List of Shit I Do Not Give A Fuck About (Self-Released) 
BLEACH EVERYTHING - Cured (Dark Operative)
ROLEX - Galvanized Heart (11 pm)
MIDNITE SNAXX - Contact Contamination (Slovenly)
REAL PEOPLE - Defector (Slovenly)

BOOTLICKER - Calm Mind (Neon Taste)
45 GRAVE - Violent World (Enigma)
ARAME - Genocide Police (Yeah You! / Laja)
CHOICES MADE - Won’t Break (Self-Released)
GAME - Foundation & Empire (Quality Control HQ / Beach Impediment)

THE HACKED - Endless Game (Denim Demon / Punx Made Noise / Punk Nation / Inside Crew / Keep Hope / Scanner Bistro)  
UNWANTED NOISE - Last of our kind (Self-Released)
THE FALLOUT - Miracles for Sale (Rebel Time) 
THE SLIME - Look and See (Self-Released)
THE PAGAN OF NORTHUMBERLAND - This Can't Go On (Self-Released)

THE INSOLENTS - Caffeine (Mystic) 
JUMPIN LAND MINES - Simon Says (Smokin' Troll)
PHANE - Self Destruction (Thought Decay) 
DEAD BLOW HAMMER - Controllable (Catarina) 
 
THE STRUGGLE - It's Not Too Late (Pirates Press)
DEATH RIDGE BOYS - We're Gonna Fight (Self-Released)
ULTRA RAZZIA - Nos Chemins (Primator Crew) 
TV FREAKS - Silver Foot (Schizophrenic) 
THE JUDEX - War on Fake Psychics (Self-Released)
 
SCIENCE MAN - Into the Rift (Big Neck / Swimming Faith) 
VCR - How Low Can A Punk Get? (Murder City Video / Barfbag)  
THE STRANGLERS - Rok it to the Moon (United Artists)
CARDBOARD BRAINS - The Rescue Crew (Guilt)
VIAGRA BOYS - Upside Backwards (Push My Buttons)

Demo Feature
Brutalize from Vancouver. Covid side project made up of members from Phane and No Klasse. You can download the demo from bandcamp. Here's the video for "Liquored for Life" and the playlist that we aired is below that. Sorry we ran out of time. 

BRUTALIZE - H.S.D.L. (Self-Released)
BRUTALIZE - Murder Bees (Self-Released)
BRUTALIZE - Side Effects (Self-Released)
BRUTALIZE - Liquored For Life (Self-Released)
BRUTALIZE - ...Find Out (Self-Released)
BRUTALIZE - Foreplay Cyanide (Self-Released)
BRUTALIZE - Technology (Self-Released)
BRUTALIZE - Trench Rats (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday May 21 2017

Tonight's show focuses on music with a Freddy Pompeii tribute and lots of new material including a demo feature from a new oi inspired band out of St. John's called Lion's Share. Listen on the player above or download an MP3 of the show here.

NOMEANSNO – Victoria (Wrong)

CRUZ DE NAVAJAS – Esclavas (Self-Released)
RACE CAR - Government Funded Terror Lunch (Self-Released)
CLOUDGAYZER - Cut + Scrape (Self-Released)
VELVET SUNSHINE – Retrograde (Self-Released)
S.B.F. - Halved Snake (Self-Released)

THE SECRETS – Teenage Rampage (Other Peoples Music)
BLUE PETER – Same Old Place (Ready)
THE DIODES – Teenage Nation (Epic)
THE BUREAUCRATS – Grown Up Age (MP)
TEENAGE HEAD – Ain't Got No Sense (Inter Global Music)

LONG KNIFE - Only a Reflection (Beach Impediment)
DRUJ - White Devil (Self-Released)
LACE - Youth Hinge (Self-Released)
D-SAGAWA - Destroy Me (Self-Released)
HYANE – Systemabsturz (Self-Released)
TOTAL REALITY - Trigger Time (Self-Released)
FLUKE - War on Hate (Self-Released)

BULLET PROOF LOVERS – I Am My Radio (Ghost Highway / Rum Bar)
CONTROL FREAKS – Blowtorch Love (Slovenly)
THE BRIEFS – Poor and Weird (Dirtnap)
THE CAVEMEN – Death Row (Slovenly)
THE SAFETY PINS – We are Trash (Empty)

JUDY AND THE JERKS – Destroix (Self-Released)
FRIED EGG - Halfassed Hand (Beach Impediment)
ESPEJOS – Waiting (Self-Released)
ANTI-SEED - @nti Seed (Self-Released)
WILD ROSE - Fanatic Heart (Self-Released)

CARDBOARD BRAINS – Steppin Stone (Redrum)
THE B GIRLS – Boys are Drinking (Other Peoples Music)
ZRO 4 – Gimmie Attention (Punk History Canada)
POINTED STICKS – The Witch (Quintessence)

DROP IN – Intact (Self-Released)
FRAMECODE – They (Self-Released)
RATAAPUNK - Contra la Policía (Self-Released)
P.E.A.R.L. - Fight Us (Self-Released)
SECT MARK - Old (School) (Self-Released)
RASHOMON - Corpse Syndrome (Self-Released)
SUZI Q – Unmelted Pure Crystal Dream (Self-Released)

DESCENDENTS - No Fat Burger (Epitaph)
FRENZAL RHOMB -Storage Unit Pill Press (Fat Wreck)
FASHIONISM - One Shot (Neon Taste)

Tonight's demo feature is a new band from St. John's Newfoundland featured in the New Blood section of MRR. Recorded by Luke Mumford of GENETIC ANGRY fame, who has recorded many bands from Halifax. This recent demo can be download from bandcamp.

LIONS SHARE – Wasted Moments (Self-Released)
LIONS SHARE – Light Duty (Self-Released)
LIONS SHARE – Mental Break (Self-Released)
LIONS SHARE – War Boots (Self-Released)
LIONS SHARE – Cyber Worlds (Self-Released)
LIONS SHARE – Streets of Rage (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)

Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell – Toronto Punk photos and gigs circa 1977 – 1978

Vince Carlucci is the guitarist and co-founder of the CARDBOARD BRAINS. The CARDBOARD BRAINS were an important part of the early Toronto punk scene. They appeared in the Last Pogo, they released two eps and a live LP, they played regularly with the VILETONES and the UGLY. It goes without saying that they were an important part of Toronto’s punk scene.

The flyer

The Oz Gallery, 134 Ossington Avenue


Well Vince has been writing a book titled “I Was a Cardboard Brain”. Although it sounds like a biography on the band Vince tells me it is more about the observations of someone witnessing an explosion of music at the time. As a member of one of those bands he will have some unique stories and shared a few of them with me just before the closing night of the exhibit. Anyway, the exhibit started out as an accident. Vince was looking through his pictures for the book he is writing and a friend of his realized that he had an exhibit in his boxes. He encouraged Vince to blow these photos up and put together an exhibit. The photos capture some iconic moments the way Don Pyle’s “Trouble in the Camera Club” did.

Like Don’s exhibit, Vince’s shots are in stark black and white. And Vince speaks very highly of Don’s photos and his eye for taking a shot. For the exhibit Vince focused on the liberators of punk who made it to Toronto. The Ramones, the Dead Boys, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Blondie, and Vince has great stories that accompany each photo. The Blondie shots show how nervous she was performing to the Toronto audience. It was early in her career. The guitarist in Patti Smith’s band came in and saw the exhibit and he did the audio sync up for the movie “Blank Generation” which was the movie that the Gary Topp first started showing about this thing called punk. David Bowie playing keyboards for Iggy Pop at Seneca College just before “Lust for Life” had come out. The Ramones shot at the New Yorker , which was the same gig that Peter Gabriel of GENESIS walked out of. The stories go on.

And these icons of punk played along side our own icons. There is a great shot of Steve Leckie in leather with his hands sneaking down his pants. The photo strips of the UGLY in a rehearsal space are precious and playful making for some of the best pictures I have ever seen of the band. A live shot of the CURSE at the Crash ‘n Burn is an amazing shot and Mickey Skin said it was the first shot she has ever seen of the CURSE playing live. She was so floored with the photos that she brought her parents back and Vince was telling me of some of the amazing recollections Mickey’s mom had on the local scenesters. I wish I were a fly on the wall for those stories.


The picture of the Curse

One of two walls of punk icons, the liberators of punk.

And keeping in the punk tradition, Vince also put up a wall of flyers. Loads of flyers I have never seen before.

The last roll of photos that Vince took was of the CARDBOARD BRAINS. Vince was telling me that once he got involved in the band, his photo shooting days stopped. It’s sad really, but at least we have some incredible evidence of a scene breaking. The CARDBOARD BRAINS portrait is stunning and looks like it was in a basement rehearsal space. That’s where it always starts out. And the photo is bordered with the flyers.

So the exhibit has closed down although the restaurant, REPOSADOS LOUNGE at 136 Ossington Avenue, will continue to hang some of the shots. If you missed the exhibit some of it lives on at REPOSADOS. A 3 foot by 4 foot framed shot of Iggy lives among some of the others. I asked Vince about some of the photos that didn’t make it in this exhibit and there are others which include the BOYFRIENDS and the TOYS in the mix. Vince is working on his next showing and is getting back to his writing, but you can order prints at vxcc@sympatico.ca.

Click for a download of the show program

Flyer - the Last Pogo DVD

Flyer - Saturday November 29, 2008

Radio - Sunday, July 15, 2007

This live session was recorded on Friday June 8th, 2007 and aired on CIUT on Sunday July 15th, 2007. Here is the playlist for that radio show.

THE DIODES - Behind Those Eyes (Epic)

THE DIODES - Shapes of Things to Come (CIUT)
THE DIODES - Time Damage (CIUT)

THE DIODES - Red Rubber Ball (CIUT)

THE DIODES - Photographs from Mars (CIUT)

THE DIODES - Everything I Am (CIUT)

THE DIODES - That Was the Way it Was (CIUT)

THE DIODES - Tired of Waking up Tired (CIUT)

THE DIODES - Child Star (CIUT)

THE DIODES - Dead on Arrival (CIUT)

THE DIODES - Tennis (Again) (CIUT)

THE DIODES - Headache (CIUT)

THE DIODES - Behind Those Eyes (CIUT)

THE DIODES - Interview, Part 1 (CIUT)

THE DIODES - Interview, Part 2 (CIUT)

THE DIODES - Station IDs (CIUT)

THE DIODES - Plastic Girls (Epic)
CARDBOARD BRAINS - Living Inside My Head (Brainco Worldwide)

KORO - Hello, Mom and Dad (Sorry State)
EU's ARSE - Oi for Punk, Oi for Skin (625 Productions/Agipunk)
EUCHARIST - Frozen Minds (Mountain)
9 SHOCKS TERROR - 9th Symbol (Havoc)

DECONDITIONED - Violent Reversal (R.I. Records)
FRAGILE X - Fight (Self-Released)
FRAGILE X - Influence (Self-Released)

FRAGILE X - Self Righteous (Self Released)

FRAGILE X - DBA (Self Released)
FRAGILE X - Don't Belong (Self Released)

Flyer - Thursday, November 17 - Friday November 18th, 1983

Flyer - Thursday July 29, 1982

Flyer - Friday February 13 - Saturday February 14, 1981

Flyer - Friday February 13 - Saturday February 14, 1981

From the archives of Henry Martinuk.

Flyer - Sunday, February 1st, 1981

Contributed by CRAZYSTEVEGOOF@HOTMAIL.COM

Cardboard Brains "The White" ep

The Cardboard Brains were a big part of the Queen Street art bands for the Toronto punk scene. The band featured

John Paul Young (vocals, keyboards)

Vincent Carlucci (guitar, vocals)

Richard Miller (drums)

Paul O'Connell (bass)

Patrick Gregory (bass, vocals; replaced O'Connell 1978)

Mickel Keena (drums; replaced Miller 1978)

John Thomas (bass; replaced Gregory 1979)

Dave Richardson (drums; replaced Keena 1979)

The band originally formed in 1977 and played places like The Edge and The Horseshoe Tavern and played with bands like the Viletones, Teenage Head and The Ugly. With several line-up changes the band continued developing its unique cross of King Crimson-inspired art-punk which led to the release of a 12" 1979's four song follow-up called 'The Black EP' -- which contained the 7" single as a free bonus. That same year the band would achieve its biggest claim to fame when they were immortalized on film and record for their performance as part of the 'The Last Pogo' movie and soundtrack recording.

The band reunited for the Edge's brief resurrection and anniversary celebration April 26, 1981. Recordings from this performance were released as a live album in 1982 before the band split up for good. Patrick Gregory went on to become a member of Woods Are Full Of Cuckoos and The Lawn; Vincent Carlucci would form Station Twang with Carl Tafel of Terraced Garden fame; John Paul Young is a successful actor in many Canadian television productions and has contributed to movie soundtracks such as 'The Gate'. He has since resurrected the Cardboard Brains on several occasions for club dates in Toronto, initially to coincide with the John Paul Young And Cardboard Brains 'best of' compilation CD, and then in 2000 as a prelude to a possible new Cardboard Brains recording project.

Flyer - Friday February 8th - Sunday February 10, 1979

Flyer -Friday December 1, 1978

This was their Last Pogo show.

Flyer - Wednesday November 1 - Thursday November 2, 1978

Flyer - Tuesday, October 31st, 1978

Flyer - October 1978