Radio - Sunday July 24th, 2022

VICIOUS THREAT - Kid’s Health (Burning Anger / Rawmantic Disasters)  

On tonight’s show we started off with a fastcore band from Berlin with members of ECD, MVD and Turtle Rage. We like to keep the intro relevant to current happenings, so with that spirit, we played the song Kids Health. With Kids health in mind, this is a not so subtle nod to the moderna vaccine for Covid-19 being available to kids 5 and under. Later tonight I’ll be doing a set of new international releases and a set of some of my favourite, classic, Finnish hardcore. We’ve also got sets of newbies and oldies, a set up for the Big Laugh show that happened yesterday, a set on Halifax hardcore, and the demo feature by TRENCHRAID from the Sunshine Coast of BC. The band features Coleman the host for a metal show called Powerchord on CITR, who will give Chris an interview about the band.  You can download the show here. 

Newbies

BLACK DOG - Absolute Disaster (Roachleg)   

NARCOTIC VOID - Terrified Deity (Roachleg)   

VOLTAGE - Isolation (Slow Death) 

IRREAL - Punt De No Retorn (La Vida Es Un Mus)   

YAMBAG - Inclusion (11PM / Convulse)    

THE LOUSY - Shut Up I’m Talking (Sentient Ruin)  

More Newbies 

MASTERMIND - Stuck in a Rut (Quality HQ) 

FOODEATER - 3 Weeks (Futile Force) 

ULTRABOMB - I Can Make It (Self-Released)

MENTAL BLOCKHEADS - Campfire (Kill) 

BISHOPS GREEN - Working Poor (Pirates Press)

BIG LAUGH show 7/23/22 @ Expo Vintage Warehouse 

INFLUX - Leech Life (Self-Released) 

DIE ALONE - Disgrace (Self-Released) 

EXHIBITION - Bottom Feeder (Edgewood Records) 

FRICTION - Bad Dogs Bite (Homie Shit Mag)  

BIG LAUGH - No Embrace (11PM Records) 

 

Halifax

Halifax has been in the news as of late over the investigation of their mass shooter. Here’s a set of bands from Halifax. 

SNARLER - Destroyed (Decolonized) 

B.P.S. - No Conscience (Self-Released) 

ALTERNATIVE ACTION - Antitrust (Self-Released) 

HOARDER - Shit's Fucked (Self-Released) 

DESPERATE TIMES - Enough (Self-Released)

Quick Break 

T.O.A.D. - Coward Grinder (Sonic Bath) 

VICIOUS THREAT - Lions Club (Burning Anger / Rawmantic Disasters)  

DICTATORS - Stay With Me (Asylum)

SECRETS - Teenage Rampage (Bomb) 

FLESHAPOIDS - Nuke The Whales (Trashtone)

WILD GIRAFFES - Love Me (Neck) 

THE BRAIN POLICE - Kind of a Drag (Redrum) 

Crate diggin’ 

THE STIFFS - Magic Roundabout (Stiff) 

DEFAULT - Born With An Attitude (First Strike) 

THE CRIPPENS - They Froze Disney (Boss Tuneage) 

THE STEREOTYPES - Parisian (Hinterland) 

THE RINGS - I Wanna Be Free (Chiswick) 

 

Suomi Classics 

RATTUS - Paskantakaa Housuihinne (Poko) 

APPENDIX - Itsemurha (Propaganda) 

DESTRUCKTIONS - Kenellä on valta (Rock O Rama) 

KAAOS - Kohti Tuhoa… (Barabbas) 

POHJASAKKA - Armeija, Miesten Koulu (Kalama) 

OPERATION EAT SHIT - Freedom Fries Up Your Ass (Give Praise) 

THE CLIT COPS - The First Fuck is the Cheapest (Intensive Scare) 

ALWAYS NEVER FUN - Social distance (625)  

AMMO - Kleptocracy (Wallride) 

IRON LUNG - Everything is a Void (Iron Lung) 

DISPOSAL - Stress Dream (Slow Death) 

Demo Feature 

Trenchraid are from BC's sunshine coast. They just released a new demo on Slow Death. Coleman who does Powerchord on CITR gave us their origin story to introduce this demo. 

TRENCHRAID - The Hubris of Mankind (Slow Death) 

TRENCHRAID - Inhuman System (Slow Death) 

TRENCHRAID - Absolute Hell (Slow Death) 

TRENCHRAID - Dogmatic Trash (Slow Death) 

 

SPECIAL REQUEST 

HÜSKER DÜ - I’ll Never Forget You (Aggressive Rockproduktionen/SST) 

INEPSY - The Fury of Destruction (Feral Ward)

UNION OF URANUS - Revolve (Great American Steak Religion) 

BORN DEAD ICONS - Ceremony (Dead Alive)

Radio - Sunday, May 16th, 2021

Tonight's show has energized re-makes of classics by the Clash, the Sex Pistols, The Viletones, the Dead Boys, Zero4, the Undertones, Protex, Crime, and Generation X. There will be fun re-dos of the Ramones, Reagan Youth, Chain on Strength, Cro-Mags, Indigesti, The Freeze, Eskoburto, KK Urbana, the Freeze, Brotherhood, Bouncing Souls, and Cock Sparrer. Interesting interpretations of the Village People, Bowie, Violent Femmes, Tom Jones, Rolling Stones, Roy Orbison, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and White Heat. And some amazing testimonials by former guests, hosts, bands, and listeners of the show. CIUT has thank you face masks for donors of $89.50 to CIUT. Donate at www.ciut.fm. Re-love Sunday's program with a download here.

SAINTS AND SINNERS - Too Much Pressure (KB)

This is CIUT’s semi-annual fundraising drive and we are asking for you to support CIUT with a donation to keep us operating. Any donations will get you entered into a grand prize draw for one of two Everyday Electric Assist pedal bikes valued at $1,800 each courtesy of Everyday Bicycle. 

INNER TERRESTRIALS - Guns of Brixton (Mortarhate)
CHUMBAWAMBA - Bankrobber (AK Press)
Aaron Brown (Generation Annihilation) - Testimonial
ATARASSIA GROP - Mr. Brown (Self-Released)

MR. T EXPERIENCE - I Just Want to Have Something to Do (Clearview)
BLITZ - Suffragette City (Dojo)
D GENERATION - Degenerated (Chrysalis / EMI)
RIPCORDZ ID
THEE MIGHTY CAESARS - 1977 (Hangman)
THE DOGMATICS - Tell Me (Rum Bar)

SID'S KIDS - Poor Poor Girl (CIUT)
DAVE QUINTON (The Mods / Arson / Stiv Bators) - Testimonial
THE SCREWED - Screamin' Fist (Self-Released)
THE SECRETS - Pretty Woman (Bomb)

PARANOID VISIONS - The Great Rock'N'Roll Bungle (Self-Released)
2 MINUTE MINOR - True Till Death (ZAP)
SPENCER MACK - Testimonial (We Gotta Know)
SPASTIC PANTHERS - Hard Times (Wasted Wax)

HOT WATER MUSIC - True Believers (Shouting Street Audio)
THE TRANZMITORS - Nervous Breakdown (Deranged)
THE HELLACOPTERS - Gimme Shelter (Polar / Psychout)
DEVIL DOGS - Backstage (Crypt)
COFFIN LIDS - Sonic Reducer (Vivid Sound / Bomp)

THE HARD TOMS - Walk on by (Self-Released)
Chris LeBonte - Hard Toms
MSI - Macho Man (Bucko-05 / Schizophrenic)
BLUE COLLAR CRIMINALS - Kiss Off (Self-Released) 

DESKOMUNAL KAOS - Panico (Self-Released)
CUTRE - No al sistema (Self-Released)
Jose (La PUS) - Testimonial
BLIND PIGS - Idiots at Happy Hour (Sweet Fury / Amanecer)
RATOS DE PORAO - Mucha Policia (F.O.A.D. / Roadrunner)

PHONE JERKS - Don't Ring Me Up (Resurrection / Wanda) 
TJ CABOT AND THEE ARTIFICIAL REJECTS - Testimonial
BOOJI BOYS - Family Entertainment (Cruel Noise)
ALIENATION - Waste of Time (Warthog Speak) 
WORD ON THE STREET - The Deal (Self-Released)

POLKAHOLIX - White Wedding (Monopol)

THE ANALOGS - Powies Sie (Lou and Rocked Boys)
Berislav Sabolic (No Hope No Fear) - Testimonial
MODERN DELUSION - Piss On Your Dogg (Crapoulet / Doomtown) 

ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES - Science Fiction - Double Feature (Fat Wreck)

Radio - Sunday, November 29th, 2020

As covid numbers increase especially in our provinces run by conservative governments, I came across a song that fit the mood from a province under a lot of scrutiny, Alberta. 

Tonight's show features retrospective looks at punk, contemporary looks at punk, introspective looks at benefit compilations, and a fantastic demo out of Kitchener. Download the show here.

TOTAL WOLF - I'm Sick (Wasted Wax)

THE HAMMERSMITH GORILLAS - It's My Life (Raw / Damaged Goods)
THE REACTION - The Kid's Arrived (Supreme Echo)
THE EX-PRODUCERS - Hole in the Head (Spit)
THE MEDIA - Getting High (Tearaway)
SEMA 4 - Capital City (Pollen)
NO ALTERNATIVE - Johnny Got His Gun (Subteranean)

Feature on the "In Solidarity with the Refugees of Moria camp" compilation. The refugee camp was burned to the ground. 160 Greek bands pulled this comp together to fulfill the basic humanitarian requirements for these refuguees. Here are five songs from that compilation to give you an idea of the powerhouses supporting this cause. 

CHAIN CULT - The Uninvited (Unity)
BADMINDSECTORS - Doctor (Unity)
RADIO SECT - State of Emergency (Unity)
DATA FRAGMENTS - Falsified The Facts (Unity)
HEKATE - Days Of Wrath (Unity)

JIFFY MARX - She’s My Witch (Snappy Little Numbers)
THE SECRETS - All the Girls (Bomb)
DOTS - I Don’t Wanna Dance (With You) (Self-Released)
MONITORS - Trouble (Boo Wit Productions)
KARKKI & THE CAR KEYS - I Don’t Wanna (Self-Released)

THE ESSENTIAL LETDOWNS - Radio Hater (Self-Released)
XYLITOL - I Have Free Will (Thrilling Living)
FUCKED AND BOUND - Zero Fucks (Atomic Action / Void Assault)
OZHOG - ублюдки (Self-Released)
KRIEGS LEGION - Wheel of Misfortune (Askania / Oldschool)



WALL BREAKER - Chaos Magic (Self-Released)

Feature on the "Know Your Enemy, Volume II" compilation is a compilation out of the Philippines pulled together in opposition to a Terrorism Act that was brought in by the current administration to crack down on opposition groups, be they political parties, media outlets or punk bands. 116 Filipino bands represented on this compilation from home and in the diaspora. 

NAMATAY SA INGAY - Ang Talim Ng Galit (Know Your Enemy)
CHOKE COCOI - Gera (Know Your Enemy)
KUCHIYO - Disturbing The Peace (Know Your Enemy)
DOGS BREATH - Hog Tied (Know Your Enemy)
KANTA KANTA - Ang Talim Ng Galit (Know Your Enemy)
MATERIAL SUPPORT - Terror Prone Nation (Know Your Enemy)

BIPOLAR - Fist Fight (Slovenly)
PODIUM - Podium (Slovenly)
THE FADEAWAYS - Sick and Tired (Secret Mission)
UNKNOWNS - Teenage Terrorist (Punk History Canada)
FREDDIE WILLIAMS AND PLUTONIUM BABY - Radio Dies Screaming (Area Pirata)

WAIVERS - Mindless (Self-Released)
VSK - Krieg In Den Stadten (Twisted Chords / Black Cat tapes)
BLEEDING OUT - Perpetually Finite (Profound Lore)
DURER - Gym Bodies - Empty Vessels (Visions Press)
ALGARA - Potestad Para Hablar (La Vida Es Un Mus) 

X - Delta 88 Nightmare (Fat Possum)
NOPE! - We put the fun in fundamentalist dogma (Self-Released)
THE PREVARICATORS - Jesus H. Falwell (Disrupted) 
CLOSEDOWN - Closedown (Self-Released)

Demo Feature
BACK BREAKER are a working class, anti-fascist, anarchist street punk band from Kitchener with four releases and this one came out at the beginning of the year called “By Any Means Necessary”.

BACK BREAKER - Boot Boys (Self-Released)
BACK BREAKER - Anti-Fascist Oi! (Self-Released)
BACK BREAKER - Pull the Fucking Trigger (Self-Released)
BACK BREAKER - Union Made (Self-Released)
BACK BREAKER - Guilty (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)

Flyer - Sunday, February 5th, 2017

Radio - Sunday, January 29th, 2017

Mary Tyler Moore passed away this past week. Although she’s not a punk she did represent a modern independent woman in the work world. The show took place in Minneapolis and Husker Du covered the theme song on their “Makes No Sense At All” ep in the mid-80’s. The song was like an unofficial anthem for Minneapolis, which is why it was so appropriate for a band from them to cover the song. With all the tributes to Mary Tyler Moore this week I found myself thinking about this cover.

HUSKER DU - Love is All Around (SST)

This coming Sunday at the Garrison is a benefit for Freddie Pompeii, a guy we are trying to keep alive. Freddie has been diagnosed with cancer and we all know that medical bills are more expensive in the States. So a bunch of his friends who make up the first wave of the Toronto punk scene are getting together to play a show and we are going to start off with a few of them, starting off with Freddie’s first punk band the VILETONES. This is “Danger Boy”.

VILETONES - Danger Boy (Razor)
THE CURSE- Somethin' Ya Can't Tell Your Mother (Other Perople’s Music)
TYRANNA – Unfaithful (Rave Up)
ZRO4 - Downtown Boys (Unreleased)
THE 'B' GIRLS - 'B' Side (Bomp)
THE DIODES - Mercenary Flight (CBC)
BATTERED WIVES - Bad News (Bomb)
THE MODS - Troubled Times (Other Peoples Music)
THE SECRETS - Teenage Rampage (Bomb)
THE UGLY - Do You Wanna See Me (Other People’s Music)

Download of the interview with Alex Kress here

Alex Kress is a photographer from Toronto by way of Edmonton who put out a great new photo book on the Toronto punk scene called “Feeding Time: Split Seconds in Toronto Punk – 2015-2016”. We spoke with Alex a few weeks back about the book. We start off with the namesake for the book.

S.H.I.T. - Feeding Time (Static Shock)
ALEX KRESS - Interview (CIUT)
STRANGLED – Leader (Crude City)

Check out Alex’s Instagram account at @snapsecondskin

Top 10 – January 2017
10. BAD NOIDS - My Friend Greg (Feel it)
9. DECRANEO - Siamesas (Crapoulet)
8. DENY THE CROSS - Blast Pound Strafe Stab Kill (Tank Crimes)
7. SEX PRISONER - Shoulders Straight (a389 / Deep Six)
6. GOD’S AMERICA - A Minced Oath (Deep Six / Regurgitated Semen)
5. ORNITORRINCOS - Igrejinha Über Alles (Thrash Unreal)
4. LIQUID - Going Down the Tubes (Yeah You)
3. ANCIENT FILTH - Crisis Cycle (Self-Released)
2. MONGOLOID - American Nomad (Deranged)
1. BRUTAL YOUTH - Todd Serious (Stomp)

BIB - P.M.F. (Deranged)
NADSAT - Esclavo del placer (Self-Released)
YOUTH AVOIDERS - Face Up To It (Destructure / Build Me a Bomb)
RAPTUS DI FOLLIA – Insomnia (Incredible Noise / Dirt Fi)
URBAN BANDITS – We Don’t Belong to the Stairs (Twisted Red Cross)

Tonight’s demo feature is a new band from Vancouver featuring members from a lot of other bands from there. You can download their demo from bandcamp.

POLICY OF TRUTH – Intro / Leech (Self-Released)
POLICY OF TRUTH – Authority Abuse (Self-Released)
POLICY OF TRUTH – Speakers Corner (Self-Released)
POLICY OF TRUTH – I.M.F.H. (Self-Released)

BEAMAN – Z’s Up (Failed Orbit)

You can download an MP3 of the show here. 

Radio - Sunday, February 28th, 2016

Freddy Pompeii is one of the nicest folks I have met in the punk rock scene. Cleave first told me he was coming to town when he first went to Philly to talk about a Secrets reunion show. This must have been a year or so ago. So we had been planning to talk to him for a while now. We arranged for a studio 3 session that he wound up being too sick to make. I had given up trying to get this interview. My life was a little crazy at the time, but thanks to the encouragement of Greg Dick and Mickey Skin nursing him to health and getting him to the radio station, it happened. This interview took place on November 26th, 2015, but because we had just aired a studio 3 session with the other guys in the Secrets we saved this for Oscar Night. Freddy tells us about how “Screaming Fist” was written and this was the first time I had ever heard this story. Freddy sets some historical inaccuracies about the Viletones in this interview. He tells us stories about New Rose like the time Mick Jagger bought a ton of things in the store to give out at a benefit show that the band was sentenced to perform. And we get into the Secrets which was different territory not discussed in the interview with John, Bryant, and Cleave back in November. You can download that interview here.

THE VILETONES – Does She Jump (Other Peoples Music)
Interview with Freddy Pompeii (CIUT)
THE VILETONES - Screaming Fist (Vile)
Interview with Freddy Pompeii (CIUT)
THE VILETONES – Rebel (Vile)
Interview with Freddy Pompeii (CIUT)
THE VILETONES - Aushwitz Jerk (Distortions)
Interview with Freddy Pompeii (CIUT)
THE SECRETS - Diddy Wah Diddy (Bomb)
Interview with Freddy Pompeii (CIUT)
THE SECRETS - Suzie Peroxide (Bomb)
Interview with Freddy Pompeii (CIUT)
THE SECRETS - Teenage Rampage (Bomb)
Interview with Freddy Pompeii (CIUT)
THE VILETONES – Possibilities (Vile)
FIGHT FUCK OR DANCE – Pakistan (Self-Released)
ZOOM – Subway Surfing (Ugly Pop)

I read about BLOODRUST in the March 2016 issue of MRR under the demo section. The review was written by Robert from Conquest for Death who’s opinion I trust. He describes the band as fast and straight forward hardcore and likens them to bands like AUS ROTTEN which clinched it for me. BLOODRUST are no clone. They hold their own. Check out their demo at bandcamp.

BLOODRUST – Intro (SPHC)
BLOODRUST – The Hollow (SPHC)
BLOODRUST – Slip (SPHC)
BLOODRUST – Anxious (SPHC)
BLOODRUST – Not a Tragedy (SPHC)
BLOODRUST – Modest Spiderwebs (SPHC)
BLOODRUST – Sincerity for Sale (SPHC)
BLOODRUST – Disease of Desire (SPHC)
BLOODRUST – Low Pressure System (SPHC)

Radio - Sunday, December 13th, 2015

Tonight's show started out with a session recorded a few weeks back with the reunited Secrets. Gary Topp brought the Secrets back for a one off show back in November and we recorded a couple of songs with the group without Freddy Pompeii as he was very sick. But we did interview Freddy which will be aired in the new year. However we did speak with John Hamilton (Keyboards), Chris Haight (Guitarist), Bryant (Bassist), and Cleave Anderson (Drums). We covered all kinds of details about the Secrets starting out with their roots in Zoom, the Viletones, the Diodes and some other bits and pieces. You can hear the interview in the player above or download the show as an MP3 file here. 

THE SECRETS - Schoolgirl Hitchiker (CIUT)
THE SECRETS – Interview (CIUT)
THE SECRETS – Interview (CIUT)
ZOOM - Sweet Desperation (Ugly Pop)
THE SECRETS – Interview (CIUT)
THE SECRETS – Zoom (Bomb)
THE SECRETS – Interview (CIUT)
THE SECRETS – Suzie Peroxide (Bomb)
THE SECRETS – Interview (CIUT)
THE SECRETS – All the Girls (Bomb)
THE SECRETS – Interview (CIUT)
THE SECRETS – Teenage Rampage (Bomb)
THE SECRETS – Interview (CIUT)
THE SECRETS - I'll Cry Tomorrow (CIUT)
ENGLAND`S GLORY - Shattered Illusions (Hozac)
HOT NASTIES – Get away from me (Self Released)
THE SUBTRACTIONS - Social Rules (Hozac)
THE EDGE - Death to AOR

Here is my top 10 for December 2015 in reverse order. 

10. L.O.T.I.O.N. - Ultimate Wound Kit (Toxic State)
9. DON GATTO - No Turning Back
8. LATEX - Losing Game (World Gone Mad / Sensual World)
7. BEYOND PINK – Det Har ar Punk (Emancypunx)
6. BOIDS – Don’t Need your TV
5. ANTI-CORPUS - Forma Practica de Luta ep - Abuso- Um fenômeno Patriarcha
4. DISGUSTI - Into The Long Night
3. FAST ASLEEP - Outside the Fence (Deep Six)
2. ANCIENT FILTH - Torture in the USA (Self-Released)
1. G.L.O.S.S. - Masculine Artifice

Tonight’s demo feature is a band from Singapore that ranked in Robert of Conquest for Death’s Top 10 in this month’s MRR. You can download the demo from https://mildshag.bandcamp.com/releases

MILD SHAG – Rat Race (Self-Released)
MILD SHAG – Ain’t No Such Thing (Self-Released)
MILD SHAG – Son of a Copper (Self-Released)
MILD SHAG – Birdbrain (Self-Released)
MILD SHAG – Born Dead (Self-Released)
MILD SHAG – Fight On (Self-Released)

The Secrets studio 3 session

It's rare you get to meet people that inspire you. Usually you hear a radio interview with someone or see an interview on TV or the internet, but it is rare that you get to be part of that conversation. I have been into punk for a long time and as I have gained an appreciation for the homegrown local scene I have come to recognize that the Viletones and the Diodes were some of the pioneers of that scene. That is a given, especially after reading Treat Me Like Dirt or Perfect Youth or Trouble in the Camera Club. But the first band that grew out of that scene and became part of a second wave that is described as part of the second wave is a band named the Secrets. The band got their name because they technically had formed while the Viletones were still a band. They were practising in secret. And they initially started out as a jam band. In fact when they first started playing they were known as the Secrets Review. And they shared the stage with all the folks who were singers in that first wave. They performed as a stage band and had many of the greats like Mickey Skin and Lucas and Zero come up and sing....while they worked on original material. And the material was not what you would expect from guys who wrote the Viletones and Diodes material. The key difference was that it had a back beat. This had something to do with the musicians backgrounds. Freddy had been a do wop singer back in Philly. That influenced a song like "Zoom". 

John and Chris performed in R and B bands prior to their band Zoom, which Don Pyle has argued is the first punk band in Toronto to release a record. There are songs on the Secrets LP that are bar blues numbers and more new wave inspired. But the music reflected the time when bands like the Clash started toying with reggae and rockabilly. The Secrets were out of the gate early and they shared the spotlight bring the scene together at a time when it was falling apart. Gary Topp put together a reunion show for the Secrets getting Freddy Pompeii to come back for the first time in decades. Cleave told us about this reunion a year earlier and we began planning to record a session. Freddy's trip to Toronto led to him getting strep throat and so he wound up missing the session. he was hopped up on antibiotics trying to get better for the show they had in Hamilton later that week. So Chris, John, Bryant and Cleave came in to record a session but recorded the only two songs that Freddy didn't sing on. "Schoolgirl Hitchhiker" and "I'll Cry Tomorrow", which appeared on the "No Pedestrians" compilation. We also got to speak to these guys in three parts. Interview part 1, Interview part 2, and Interview part 3. 

This session was recorded by Ian Wilkinson. The session was videotaped by Aldo Erdic and Candy Nichols.

Flyer - Saturday, November 14th, 2015

Radio - Sunday, November 8th, 2015

Busy show tonight starting with a studio 3 session from October 6th with the Lightmares form Sudbury. You can hear the entire show above or here.

LIGHTMARES – Money Woe (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Aquarian Eyes (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Like Dreamers Do (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Everything Avenue (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Soup (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Hearsay (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – These Trying Times (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Paint a Dirty Picture (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Sweat of a Hero (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – Interview (CIUT)
LIGHTMARES – So Free (CIUT)

Interview with Freddy Pompeii of the Secrets
THE SECRETS - Shout (Other People's Music)
FUCK FIGHT OR DANCE – Pakistan (Self-Released)
THE UGLY – Screw the System (Ugly Pop)
ROYAL HEADACHE – Electric Shock

Myanmar holds the first election in years that may get them out of this military dictatorship they have been living under. So we started with some bands from the "Anthology on Myanmar Punk". 

GHOST RIDER – (Tian An Men '89)
THE ANTS – (Tian An Men '89)
SUKARAME – Grin
UNITED BLOOD - We Always Remember You
MILLIISI KECOA - Ini Bukan Arab, Bung!
The last three bands are from Indonesia as the world's largest ecological disaster is a manmade fire used to clear the forests to make way for a Palm Industry.

Top 10 – October 2015
10. SPM - Washed Up At 18 (Floorpunch)
9. ANIMAL CRIMES – TAPE II - V.O.T.D.
8. THE VAPIDS “Punitive Damage” ep - Thin Skin
7. SEEIN’ RED “Riot” ep - D.O.M. (Way Back When)
6. NO PROBLEM “Kid Killer” ep - Never See the Sun (Deranged)
5. DERBE LEBOWSKI “Broken Glass” LP - Home Coming
4. NIGHT PROWLER “Stalin’s Boots” - Nam
3. ANINOKO “Aircon” ep – Aircon (Aklasan)
2. MUSCLES PLANT – Regret
1. AJAX – Priced ep – Nothing (Static Shock)

Tonight's demo feature is a new band from Chicago reviewed in the October issue of MRR. You can download the demo at their bandcamp page. We didn't have time to squeeze in the last song.

BITCHIN’ REALITY - Buzz Off (Self-Released)
BITCHIN’ REALITY - W4W (Self-Released)
BITCHIN’ REALITY - What Reality? (Self-Released)
BITCHIN’ REALITY - $cam (Self-Released)
BITCHIN’ REALITY - JungleJuice (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, September 6th, 2015

Tonight's show features some theme sets, an interview with Ralph Alfonso about the upcoming Diodes gig, and a demo feature by Chokehold. You can listen to the show on the player above or take it with you as an MP3.

BRUTE FORCE – WMC (Self-Released)

THE JIM TABLOWSKI EXPERIENCE - Bill Murray Would Be Pissed (Crapoulet)
PIERRE AND BASTIEN – Cancer (Pouet! Schallplatten)
XAXAXA - 2 milioni trkalački kamenja (Moonlee)
OPEN LETTERS - Bad Poise For Life (Kingfisher Bluez / Gipper Tore)
UNFUN – Arson (Dead Broke)

MALOKIO – Formiche (Self-Released)
UNCLE RAY – Poison (Self-Released)
THE AVENGERS – I Believe in Me (Dangerhouse)
THE SLITS – I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Island)
VICE SQUAD – Propaganda (Riot City)

Ralph Alfonso – Interview (Live)
THE DIODES - Time Damage (CBS)
TEENAGE HEAD – Let It Show (Attic)
THE SECRETS - All The Girls (Bomb)
THE UGLY – Screw the System – (Ugly Pop)
JOHN COOPER CLARKE – Innocents (Rabid)

THE STRANGLERS – All Day and All of the Night
45 GRAVE – Party Time (Enigma)
THE GERMS – Lion's Share
HUGH DILLON AND SWAMP BABY - Someone's Gonna Die Tonight (Velvel)
CIRCLE JERKS – Shit Hits the Fan (San Andreas)

I came across this old Chokehold demo that I didn't know existed and it is great. It is called “The Whole World is an Addiction”. Here is some of it....

CHOKEHOLD – Insecurity (Self-Released)
CHOKEHOLD – Bottom Line (Self-Released)
CHOKEHOLD – We Stand Alone (Self-Released)
CHOKEHOLD – Born to Die (Self-Released)
CHOKEHOLD – Sign of Hate (Self-Released)
CHOKEHOLD – Time to Say (Self-Released)
CHOKEHOLD – For the Child (Self-Released)
CHOKEHOLD – Everybody (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, August 23, 2015

Here is tonight's show and playlist.

NO PROBLEM - Killing Game (Taken by Surprise)

This set contains some re-issue, some songs that fit into a theme about the anniversary of the Hiroshima / Nagasaki bombings that ended WWII, and a new release by an old band. 

SQUATS – We Hate School (LaVida Es Un Mus)
DVA MINUTA MRZNJE - Moderna Omladina (No Plan)
THE LOOKOUTS - Living Behind Bars (Don Giovanni)
TOXIC REASONS – Limited Nuclear War (Sixth International)
SUBHUMANS – Hiroshima (SST)
UPRIGHT CITIZENS - Bombs Of Peace (Skvaller)
THE BUSINESS - Here's Johnny (Randale)

THE BRASS - American Ghetto (Self-Released)
GOOSEBUMPS - Sun Dog (Katorga Works)
HANK WOOD AND THE HAMMERHEADS - In Space (Toxic State)
IVY - Werkhouse (Katorga Works)
VCR - Bad News (Self-Released)

GLITTER - Perfect Day (Calgary Cassette Preservation Society)
STRAY SHEEP - Life is Beautiful – Work (Self-Released)
THE CHAIN - Steppin Out of Line (Self-Released)
ZERO - Losin it (Self-Released)
WILD SIDE - Nothing Held Back (Self-Released)

FUCK YOU PAY ME - Steubenville City Limits (Tank Crimes)
TORSO - No Commonality (Self-Released)
G.L.O.S.S. - Outcast Stomp (Self-Released)
COCHINA - Complejo de Salvador Blanco (Self-Released)
PRETTY BOYS - Gorm Shelves (Self-Released)

NOMAD - 遺命
HJAMBLODNING – Mediaslav (Self-Released)
ORDEN MUNDIAL – Gusanos (Discos Basura)
COKE JAW – Process (Self-Released)
JUANITA Y LOS FEOS - Se ha Acabado (La Vida Es Un Mus)
NUBILES - Red Shift - Kansas City (Self-Released)
FASHIONISM - Quit Looking at the Time (Unreleased)

DUSTIN HOFFMAN - Major Asshole Inc - Slovenia
LOS CAIDOS - Resignarse (Self-Released)
RIFIUTO HC - Non Omologato - Torino, Italy
MIND CONTROL – Stuck (Self-Released)
ALIENATION - Here we are at the Dog Beach (Self-Released)
LET GO - The Connection (Self-Released)

Punk from South Africa featured on a compilation called "Stop Apartheid Now!" 

WILD YOUTH - Record Co's (Kids of the 80's)
SURF OR DIE – Moral (Kids of the 80's)
GAY MARINES - Your Gen. Makes Me Sick (Kids of the 80's)
RIOT SQUAD SA - Security System (Kids of the 80's)
LEOPARD - Boys & Bitches (Kids of the 80's)

DOGMATIST - All You Can Be (Adult Crash / Raw Birth)
CULTURE SHOCK - Stark Raving Mad. (Self-Released)
AJAX – Nothing (Static Shock)
ONE BY ONE - One By One-Not The Same (Lost Time)
FREEDOM - My Stance (Lost Time)
NEW VISION - Where It Ends (Self-Released)

THE SECRETS – Suzie Peroxide (Bomb)
THE DIODES – Mercenary Flight (Epic)
EMERGENCY – State of Emergency (Step 1)

Tonight's demo feature is a new band from Toronto and the demo can be downloaded from their bandcamp page. 

CHLORINE - Power (Self-Released)
CHLORINE - Buried Alive (Self-Released)
CHLORINE - Retribution (Self-Released)
CHLORINE - Human Weakness (Self-Released)
CHLORINE - Creatures / Mutants (Self-Released)