Radio - Sunday, May 23rd, 2021

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Tonight's show features :

• loads of new material (Choices Made, Needles/Pins, The Fallout)
• classics from different generations (SLF, Uniform Choice, SNFU, DOA)
• a feature on early Neder punk (Nitwitz, Suspence, Kotsbrokken)
• a feature on punk songs about the Middle East (Crisis of Faith, Umlaut, World Burns to Death)
• Requests - The Runaways, Girlschool, and B.S.L., and
• a demo feature that came out at the beginning of the pandemic that is killing me because we were only just able to get it on the air tonight - Sick of Shit. 

Download the show here.

DESCENDENTS - Bikeage (SST)

RICCOBELLIS - Battlestar Galactica (Monster Zero)
THE DUBTONES - Outside (Lower the Tone)
STIFF LITTLE FINGERS - Bloody Sunday (Rough Trade / Rigid Digits)
THE FALLOUT - Can't Take It (Rebel Time)
DESTRUCTIVE - No One's Safe (Sick and Twisted)

NEEDLES//PINS - A Rather Strained Apologetic (Dirt Cult)
SLOKS - I Didn't Think You Could Take It (Mandinga)
IRMANS - Hermano (No Front Teeth/Dirty Water)
PALE LIPS - Hiding From The Moon (Rum Bar)
SWEEPING PROMISES - Falling Forward  (Feel It)

Early punk from Netherlands
THE NITWITZ - Oh Oh Oh (Vogelspin)
LULLABIES - I'm a Junk (Rock Against Records)
SUSPENCE - Crazy Sod (Neo)
VOPO'S - Dead Entertainment (Redlux)
KOTSBROKKEN - Bully Boys (Queer Pills)

CHOICES MADE - Nothing Without (Cursed Blessings)
CAPITAL DEATH - Third Level Step (Punks Before Profits)
RINGWORM - Death Become My Voice (Relapse)
SEPTIC DEATH - Daymare (Pusmort)

INFEST - My World...My Way (Deep Six)

B.S.L. - Pumpin Gas (Self-Released)
MR. NOBODY - Funny Bone (Self-Released)
UNIFORM CHOICE - Uniform Choice (Self-Released)
SNFU - Grunt Groan Rant & Rave (Rubber)

As things blow up in Israel, we see social media creating campaigns of terror on both sides being weaponized.

CRISIS OF FAITH - Struggle For Existence (Ragamuffin Soldier)
ONE BLOOD - Settler Nations (Gern Blandsten)
BAD RELIGION - Fertile Crescent (Epitaph)
UMLAUT - Intifada (Combat Rock Industry)
WORLD BURNS TO DEATH - In The Conquests of Madmen (Hardcore Holocaust)

THE RUNAWAYS - Dead End Justice (Mercury)
GIRLSCHOOL - Watch Your Step (Bronze)
UNRULED - Time is Running Out (Schizophrenic)
SAMURAI ATTACK - Actions Speak Louder Than Words (Pineapple)
KOSZMAR - Życie W Grobie (Self-Released) 

Demo Feature
Tonight’s demo feature is a band from Hamilton called SICK OF SHIT. They played at our station back on June 20th, 2017. This demo came out at the beginning of the pandemic and got overlooked as a result of everyone trying to figure out self-isolation. We have spent a long time trying to get this recording which came out last year and you can find this on bandcamp.

SICK OF SHIT - Nothing (Self-Released)
SICK OF SHIT - Drugs (Self-Released)
SICK OF SHIT - Ignorant Bastards (Self-Released)
SICK OF SHIT - Time’s Up (Self-Released)
SICK OF SHIT - Unfounded (Self-Released)
SICK OF SHIT - Eyes of the Hated (Self-Released)
SICK OF SHIT - Trapped (Self-Released)
SICK OF SHIT - Damage (Self-Released)

DOA - War in the East (Sudden Death)

Flyer - Friday, June 28th - Sunday, June 30th, 1996

Flyer - Monday June 26, 1995

Flyer - Friday, April 7th, 1995

Mr. Nobody "My Town Sucks" ep

Mr. Nobody were a hardcore band from Coburg. They had a great demo that came out and were on MuchMusic a couple fo times for a self-shot video that they did. They appeared on Bill and Ted's Great Cross Canada Adventure, which was a segment that Much Music came up with to try and capture Canadian music. I remember seeing a clip in Bubby's bedroom which is where Mr. Nobody used to jam. An interesting note about the release is that a local record store named Zap Records released this single. The songs on here are:

1. Second Coming

2. Hey Baby

3. Cockwhorin'

4. Relative Song

5. Susie the Slouch

6. Plastic Land

7. Grumble and Sulk

Flyer - Tuesday, May 24th, 1994

Flyer - Thursday, March 31st, 1994

Flyer - Saturday, January 29th, 1994

Problem Children "The Kids Next Door" CD

 

The last release by Problem Children was the "More Noize from the Playpen" cassette which came out last year.
Since then the band has been writing and touring and with that comes personnel changes.
This recording represents almost a completely new line up with the exception of the principal song writing Jamie.
Joining Jamie is Craig from Mr. Nobody who has replaced Barney Rebel on bass and Dan from Babies with Rabies has replaced Greg from Brontocurchrock on drums.
Jamie's wife Jen and Christina from HOCKEY TEETH join in on the gang vocals and the back ups are the best I have heard from this trio, which is more like a quintet now.

"The Kids Next Door" is the fith release on Problem Children Wrekords, but this one has some additional help from En Guard out of Montreal.
I think En Guard was an Entertainment newspaper with a punk focus.
Mike Pedro from the old Slither Club recorded this at his Mississauga Studio known as Rumenal, which quite a few people have used.
The subject mater hasn't veered straddling social issues with having fun.

The songs on here include:

1. Beer for Breakfast - A light hearted drinking song which fits in with other songs like "Plastic Liver" and "Beer and Guitars"
2. Fed Only Lies - This is more of a ripper which is pointed the failure of elected politicians to deliver on their promises
3. Bitter - This is a song that Jamie wrote about Barney and how they came to part ways. The middle has a dub part that Problem Children can pull off.
4. What's going On? - This is a song about cops and was inspired by a real life incident where Jamie got busted for drinking in someone's apartment who lived above a short lived show space knwon as the Fallout Shelter. He was there for a food bank benefit and jamie got into it with them and this song expresses some of what happened.
5. Hunters - A great animal rights song written about hunting
6. Borderline - a song about learning your limits specifically when it comes to anger
7. Left for Dead - Another rager where the band feels that people may have thought they broke up but they didn't. I often wondered if this became the namesake for the band from Hamilton that came out in the late 90's but members in Left for Dead didn't know about the song.

8. Fly - A song about getting away.
9. The Enemy - Judging by the liner notes, this looks to have been a favourite of the band Rabid Defiance. It does remind me a little of DOA's song by the same name.
10. Ugly - This is a song about being on the road and the toll touring takes on you.
11. You Got No Heart -
12. World Full of Assholes - Sums up eveything with a playful take on the Dr. Pepper jingo at the end
13. Believe -
14. Havin' a Good Time -
15. We Won't Go Home -
16. The Kids Next Door - Another great outsider anthem, which sounds autobographical about living in a house full of punks.

 

Here is the lyric sheet in pieces:

 

Stumble Records has put this up on i-tunes which is the only place I have ben able to find it. Go to https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/the-kids-next-door/id559587480

 

Flyer - Friday, August 27th, 1993

Flyer - Saturday, July 17th, 1993

Flyer - Friday, June 18th, 1993

Flyer - Saturday, April 24th, 1993

Flyer - Thursday August 29, 1991

Flyer - Sunday May 26, 1991

Flyer - Saturday April 27 - Sunday May 26, 1991

Flyer - Friday June 29, 1990

Flyer - Sunday March 25, 1990