The Sofistifucks studio 3 session

We have been trying to schedule the Sofistifucks for a session a few times. This was the third and final attempt. Alex, the drummer, had been my contact so we had been corresponding back and forth with proposals and cancellations and re-schedulings and finally a session happened. The Sofistifucks have been around for a while. My first introduction to Alex was at a NXNE show at Dundas Square. I think Devo was playing. He was handing out flyers for a Sofistifucks show and had only a few. I reached out to get one and he wouldn't let me have one. Maybe because I had a Toronto FC jacket on. To be fair I didn't look very punk. It was that snub that made me reluctant to get in touch with them again. But I read about a full length in MRR called “...And then they came for me” which came out in the fall. You can hear some of it at http://thesofistifucks1.bandcamp.com/album/then-they-came-for-me. Listening to that release peaked my interest and the band was also interested given they had a studio recording, which was technically their second.

Paul, the guitarist, reminded me that we had met before during a studio 3 session for Sick Error which was recorded at the other CIUT location on St. George Street. I started remembering more and more as we recorded and then spoke in the interview. In the interview he also talks about how he and Alex came to meet which was through some opposition work to Rob Ford so I guess something good came out of Ford's term of office.

The other half of this band is made up of some Halogonian imports. Downey (the singer) and Jakob (the bass player) are both originally from Halifax. They didn't move here together, but something about a past shared scene in a strange big city can bring people together. Downey's lyrics are pretty deep and everytime I ask him about a song he has to take a moment to figure out how to frame the background or context so as to get the meaning. You really should listen to the interview. I got a lot out of it. The songs are deep and intense and really match the band's sound. We recorded the following songs in tonight's session:

1. Chuc Mung Sing Nghat / Loved / Vincible
2. Hostage Situation
3. Guts
4. Momento Mori
5. Vincible
6. Nuclear Serenade
7. Terrible
8. CC AE 217
9. Self Discharge

The band also did some IDS for the station and the radio show.

1. Turn the Dial ID
2. You put the I back in CIUT ID
3. You put the I back in CIUT, part 2

Aldo and Candy were on hand to film the session and here is some of what they caught for Punks and Rockers.




A full set of photos from the night lives up at https://www.universallibrary.org/details/SofistifucksStudio3Session.

Flyer - Friday November 20, 2009

Sunday, November 8, 2009

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Thank you to everyone who pledged and became "Friends of 89.5". It was close but we made it. Here is the playlist from last night's show.

TIME TO ESCAPE – Cost of Living (Grave Mistake)

DESTINO FINAL – Que Vas a Hacer (La Vida Es Un Mus)
HARDA TIDER – Amradet (Not Enough)
BITE DOWN – Sinking Ships (Crucial Response)

KREIGSHOG – Trapped (Heart First)
ASPIRIN – Buchiyabure (Schizophrenic)
YHTEISKUNNAN YSTAVAT? – Porojan Maa (Roku)

FAIR WARNING – You are the Scene (Sonik’s chicken Shrimp)
BAD CHOICE – BDS (Self-Released)
KEEP IT CLEAR – Way It Is (Self-Released)
EATING GLASS – …to the Vultures (High Anxiety)

YOUNG LIONS – National Security (Schizophrenic)
THE ACTION – TVs on the Blink (Sudden Death)
DOA – Taking Care of Business (Sudden Death0

SICK ERROR – Lonely Hell (Self-Released)
BURNING LOVE – Internet Exploder (CIUT)
EVERYTHING FALLS APART – First Time (Self-Released)

NITAD - Brun utan sol (CIUT)
TYRANNA – Test Tube Babies (CIUT)
THE UGLY – Cruel Ones (CIUT)

BEAT NOIR – Postponed (Self-Released)
DESECENDENTS – Hope (SST)
SCOTIA WIDOWS – Amish Sluts (Self-Released)

SONICS – Psycho (Norton)
RIP OFFS – My baby Yeah (Rip Off)
LEATHER UPPERS – She Digs Death (Famous)

FORTUNE TELLER – Tell Tales (Self-Released)

Flyer - Friday October 30, 2009

Flyer - Sunday October 11, 2009

Sunday, September 27, 2009

SICK ERROR – Entitlement (Self-Released)

EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS - Writing on the Wall (Captain Oi!)
THE PURPLE HEARTS - What Am I Gonna Do (Captain Mod)
OXYMORONS - Beware, Poisonous (Helen of Oi!)
RESTARTS - Still Bored (Self-Released)
CHAOS UK - Marvelous (Anagram)

SICK ERROR interview

MINOR THREAT - Bottled Violence (Discord)
THE DETECTORS - No Way (Self Released)
VICIOUS CYCLE - Pale Blue Dot (Deranged)
MOTORHATE - Welcome To Civilization (Alerta Antifascista)

HJERTESTOP - Traet Af Drugs (No Way)
BOIKOT - Insert Coin (Self Released)
URBAN BLIGHT - Cut Back (Slasher)
DIE BILANZ - Punkrocker (Plastic Bomb)
2LHUD - Am Strand Von Korn (Nix Gut)

THE FORCE WITHIN - The Force Within (Good Boys)
MOLESTED YOUTH - Internetz (Self released)
IMPERIAL LEATHER - Pets in Heat (Profane Existence)
GEWAPEND BETON - Alles In De Fik (Crucial Attack)
BEYOND PINK - Walking Bajamaja (Emancypunx)

LEFT FOR DEAD - Pulling Teeth (No Idea)
YAPHET KOTTO - Fact or Fiction (Ebullition)
FINISTERRE - Ums Ganze (Accalaim)
THE ITALIAN STALLION - Pistolendiktat (musikzimmer)

SLICES - I Melt for No One (Home Invasion)
MUDLARK LP - Klunk (Schizophrenic)
BAD CHOICE - Lash Out (Self-Released)
IMMORAL SQUAD - Representative (Choking Hazard)
NITAD - Sen ar du dod (No Way)
ASPIRIN - Oshitukerareta rinri (Schizophrenic)
BUNNY SKULLS - Bunny Skulls (Punks Before Profits)

Demo Feature
CHEAP TRAGEDIES – The Target Shoots Back (Self-Released)
CHEAP TRAGEDIES – Going Going Gone (Self-Released)
CHEAP TRAGEDIES – My Boss Ain’t No Jewish Carpenter (Self-Released)
CHEAP TRAGEDIES – True Life Drama of a Bastard in Love (Self-Released)

Flyer - Sunday August 23, 2009

Flyer - Saturday August 22, 2009

Sick Error demo

Gena from DISGUSTING BODY has a new band. She has teamed up with some guys from ABJECT FAILURE and some other lesser known bands from around here.The first song “Entitlement” starts out with what could be a brooding power violence intro and breaks out into something more like GORILLA ANGREB or MARGARET THRASHER in sound.Mid-paced rudimentary punk. The band credits some of your basic pillars like BLACK FLAG, but the singer has a fascination with the scenes in the Philippines and Indonesia. (Sick Error c/o Gena Meldazy / 200 Palmerston Avenue / Toronto, ON / M6J 2J4 / Canada / e-mail: sickerrorhc@gmail.com / www.myspace.com/sickerror). The songs on here are:

1. Entitlement

2. Spit It Out

3. Bent

4. Lonely Hell

5. Meltdown

6. Future Options

7. Fuzzy Spots

VOLUME 9, ISSUE 3

This is a zine done by EXD related to activities pertaining to the radio show. This issue features interviews with In Time, Molested Youth, and Death is Easy who all did Studio 3 sessions for us. There are also some reviews and a flyer page of recent shows.

Radio - Sunday, June 7, 2009

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CITY SWEETHEARTS - Timeless (Self-Released)

Studio 3 Session
CITY SWEETHEARTS - Wrong Direction / Timeless / Just one Night (CIUT)
CITY SWEETHEARTS - War in my Head / Boy with Guitars / I’m a Mess / Savage (Fun Things) / Can’t Stop Shaking / Nice Legs (The Monks) (CIUT)
CITY SWEETHEARTS - Interview (CIUT)
CITY SWEETHEARTS - I’m a Mess (Red Lounge)
CITY SWEETHEARTS - Interview (CIUT)
CITY SWEETHEARTS - Can’t Stop Shaking (Unreleased)

THE FASTBACKS - In the Summer (Cargo)
JOSIE COTTON - Johnny are you Queer? (Quality)
411 - Those Homophobic (Workshed)
FLAG OF DEMOCRACY - Commercial Success (Rave)

CANADIAN RIFLE - Climbing Down from the Crane (Residue)
MARGARET THRASHER - Weight (P Trash)
NITAD - Du ar kord (Self-Released)
DEAN DIRG - Prefab Passion (Deadbeat)
SACRED SHOCK - Closed Doors (Residue)

COCKNEY REJECTS – Oi Oi Oi (Captain Oi!)
NARCOLEPTIC YOUTH - McAnarchy (Taang!)
THE POGO - I Hate You (Self-Released)
STRIVER - Asepticized (Self-Released)
THE HUSSY - Drinking Song (Fistful of Records)

Demo Feature
SICK ERROR - Entitlement (Self-Released)
SICK ERROR - Spit It out (Self-Released)
SICK ERROR - Bent (Self-Released)
SICK ERROR - Lonely Hell (Self-Released)
SICK ERROR - Meltdown (Self-Released)
SICK ERROR - Future Options (Self-Released)
SICK ERROR - Fuzzy Spots (Self-Released)

Flyer - Friday May 8, 2009