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ANTI-CLOCKWORK - Emergency (Stranded)
CULO - I Don't Like Today (Deranged)
RUNNAMUCKS - Stage for Disaster (Self-Released)
BLACK JACKET - It's Time to Declare Independence from Corporate Rule (Self-Released)
NAPALM HEARTS - No Reply (Self-Released)
BAD SKIN - Down (Unreleased)
THE VIBRATORS - Nightmare Town (Captain Oi!)
HICKOIDS - Git Back in the Truck (Saustex)
MDC - Maryjane for President (No Label)
DOA - The Times They Are a Changin' (Sudden Death)
THE BRISTLES - Weapons of Mass Destruction (Switch Light)
YOUTH OF TODAY - Make a Change (Revelation)
RAH - Change (Labelled)
THE BRIGADE - The Struggle Within (Fringe)
BREAKTHROUGH - Always Change (Self-Released)
GO IT ALONE - Picking up the Pieces (Rivalry)
THE UGLY - All Because of You (Bomb)
PEZZ - Never Enough (BYO)
ROLLINS BAND - One Thousand Times Blind (Self-Released)
GARDEN VARIETY - Fall in (Gern Blandsten)
THE HIVES - Civilization Dying (Burning Heart)
ROTTING OUT - Kobe Bryant Lifestyle (6/31)
RIVAL MOB - Hardcore for Hardcore (Six Feet Under)
MASSHYSTERI - Istiden (Feral Ward)
NEEDLES - Iconoclast (Lengua Armada)
AVSKUM - State Terrorism (Prank)
RIISTETYT - Mieletonta Volrivaltau (Self-Released)
BETERCORE - Punk is Verzet (Six Weeks)
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Flyer - Thursday July 8, 2010
The return of the Restarts show sees them playing Spiderfest on July 10th and Sneaky Dee's on July 11th. They have a new split CD out with MDC.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
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 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.
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.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Sunday, July 4, 2010
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THE SUBHUMANS - We're Alive (Alternative Tentacles)
VACANT STATE – Vile (Deranged)
CRITICAL CONVICTIONS – Condos (Self-Released)
LOW THREAT PROFILE – the Product (Deep Six)
THE BASTARD NOISE – Movement Two (Deep Six)
COLD WAR – Zip It Up (Deep Six)
DEZERTER – Spytaj Milicjanta (Ask a question to a cop) (Nikt Nic Nie Wie)
POST REGIMENT – Wielki Las (Nikt Nic Nie Wie)
LIFE BUT HOW TO LIVE IT – World Leader Pretend (Konkurrel)
DA – Next to Nothing (Regressive)
MASS KOTKI – Siniaki (Nikt Nic Nie Wie)
AFTER THE BOMBS – Condemned (Vex Records)
NAUSEA – Johnny Got His Gun (Black Noise)
WARVICTIMS – The Face of Extinction (Crimes Against Humanity)
RAW NOISE – Scum will Rise to the Top (MCR Company)
WARTORN – Blood Thirsty System (Profane Existence)
SLEEPOVERS - Sleepovers are Fun (Hozac)
WOVEN BONES - I'll Be Runnin' (Hozac)
FUNGI GIRLS - Turqouis Hotel (Hozac)
VANCOUGAR - Naughty (Ugly Pop)
CEREMONY - Sick (Bridge 9)
LIMP WRIST - Rainbows (Lengua Armada)
THE HIVES - King of Asskissing (Epitaph / Burning Heart)
PUNCH - We're Not in this Together (625 Productions)
INFEST - Terminal Nation (Draw Blank / Deep Six)
SUDDEN IMPACT - To Our Glorious Dead (Diabolical Force)
WHITE FLAG - Shattered Badge (Mystic)
OFFENDERS - Do or Die (Bone Crusher)
ADRENALIN O.D. - Saturday Night (Positive Force / Buy Our Records / Gasatanka)
NOMOS - The Most Dangerous Game (Deranged)
STACK - Egoism disguised as Altruism (Self-Released)
DISGUST - Just Another War Crime (Nuclear Blast)
SORRY EXCUSE - Mounting Stress (Self-Released)
THE A-TEAM - Hyde Walks Beside Me (Painkiller)
SUPERCHUNK - On The Mouth (Merge)
RIPTIDES - Mall Punks Fuck Off (Goblin)
FRENETICS - Countdown Radio (Fans of Bad Productions)
SIXXER – Manbearpig (Capitol)
SIXXER – I Used to See Stars (Capitol)
SIXXER – Sorry Me (Capitol)
SIXXER – One on One (Capitol)
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Flyer - Saturday July 3, 2010
This show was moved from Parts and Labour to the Polish Combatants Hall. Loads of people I talked to on the night were excited about the prospects of drinking Polish beer. And there was some old army uniforms as a display that made the event a little more bizarre. It didn't hurt that the last time I had been here was for an Estonia confirmation ceremony some 29 years ago. So the whole thing started off with a bizarre twist.
Bastard Noise were the final band of the evening. The Man is the Bastard logo was hung on an old bass drum skin above the drum kit like a entrance medallion. There was a lot of set up that went in to their set. They had a guirney, which I was hoping was going to get worked into the performance. No such like. Eric Wood and Sean Connell started in to what seemed like an improvised power violence jam. Then the noise effects which sounded a lot like UFO noises were added to the mix. It was brutality. I hadn't seen Eric Wood in over 25 years. I put on a Pillsbury Hardcore show back in the day, which was the origins of this band. They've come a long way....
Here is a shot of the band and the crowd.
Eric Wood on bass and vocals
Matt Carroll joins in on a song in the Bastard Noise set.
The Endless Blockade played their last show. The guitarist Ben has moved to Bermuda and so there was lots of razing him on his new digs. They added a noise mixing guy to their sound. It was fitting but I get the sense that this was nothing new. Matt was surging into the crowd and at one point someone didn't take too kindly almost resulting in a fight. But power violence can't wait for these minor conflicts and Matt had to get back to singing. The set ended in a cacaphony of noise.
The Endless Blockade played their last show. The guitarist Ben has moved to Bermuda and so there was lots of razing him on his new digs. They added a noise mixing guy to their sound. It was fitting but I get the sense that this was nothing new. Matt was surging into the crowd and at one point someone didn't take too kindly almost resulting in a fight. But power violence can't wait for these minor conflicts and Matt had to get back to singing. The set ended in a cacaphony of noise.
Here is Andy Nolan getting into the first song taking a deep breathe. He's got a mean Mike Dean stance.
Ben Edgar and their drummer Eric
And the noise mixmaster for the Endless Blockade set. He brought this guitar like noise maker out at the end of the set like a little solo performance.The Rita went on before the Endless Blockade set. That was a guy with peddles that I didn't find interest beyond the sound cannon training. Someone passed out during the set.
Abyss played next. This is the first time I got to see them. Pretty powerful in a Swedish crust kind of way. Dave from Rammer sings for them and he is a great frontman. Loads of headbanging and quickwitted banter in between songs. Here are some photos of them.
Abyss played next. This is the first time I got to see them. Pretty powerful in a Swedish crust kind of way. Dave from Rammer sings for them and he is a great frontman. Loads of headbanging and quickwitted banter in between songs. Here are some photos of them.
Disciples of Christ played first and they were from Baltimore. Someone was telling me that they may contain members of Magrudergrind. I didn' t get the camera out for their set but there was upside down crosses on the amps so you know it was on the up and up.
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