Radio : EXD 1224 - Sunday, October 30th, 2022

Welcome to Equalizing-X-Distort for the night before Hallowe’en, so most if not all of tonight’s show has a tie in to tomorrow. Near the end Andre does a beatdown feature. And a Kamloops band named HEADCHEESE will be tonight's demo feature. Download the show here. 

THE FERTILIZED EGGS - Trick Or Treat Smell My Feet (Dirtbag Distro)  

Dirtbag Distro Halloween Mixtape #3 Highlights (Chris)

HAZMAT & THE TOXIC WASTERS - Graveyard Shift 

SKOTOS - Concealed Carry 

PARADISE TAX - Sneaker Wave  

STEREO JOY - Dionysus  

ORRENDO SUBOTNIK - Peso Morto 

 

Dirtbag Distro Halloween Mixtape #3 Highlights Part 2 

TOTAL SHAM - Bloodsucker  

BILLIAM - It’s Spooky 3  

GHOST BEEF - Mutants Run This Town  

DUMPSTER RATS - Monster Mash  

SILICONE HEARTBEAT - Slime City 

Emissions Hallowe'en (Dave Stevenson) 

LONG KNIFE - Scum (Black Water / Beach Impediment) 

YDI - Haunted House (Southern Lord) 

THE PROWL - Wicked Annabella (Self-Released) 

CRUCIFUCKS - You Give Me The Creeps (Alternative Tentacles) 

GHOUL - Proud To Be Creepsylvanian (Tank Crimes) 

DIE KREUZEN - Halloween (Touch and Go) 

PART 1 - Black Mass (Pusmort) 

BATTALION OF SAINTS - I Wanna Make You Scream (Taang) 

M.O.D. - Man of Your Dreams (Caroline) 

POISON IDEA - Getting The Fear (American Leather) 

Toronto post punk (Stephe) 

NASH THE SLASH - Blind Windows (Cut Throat)

TBA - Through My Fingers (Smash) 

JOLLY TAMBOURINE MAN - Sweater in Sri Lanka (Assembly Language) 

MARK MALIBU AND THE WASAGAS - Wasaga Showdown (Boppa Do Down) 

NEON ROME - The Magical Summer of 85 (New Rose)

Rob’s set 

THE SOFT BOYS - Wading Through A Ventilator (Delorean)

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY - Release the Bats (4AD / Missing Link)

UNWOUND - Murder Movies (Kill Rock Stars)

BORN AGAINST - Well Fed Fuck (Vermiform)

SHOTMAKER - Drown (GAS Religion)

Vancouver new wave (Stephe) 

THE BRAINEATERS - I, Braineater (Wrong World)

ZELLOTS - Vampire Love (Supreme Echo) 

FEMALE HANDS - Stop All Biology (Quintessence) 

UJ3RK5 - Booty Dread (Quintessence) 

SI MONKEY - Get Rigid (Friends) 

Beatdown set (Andre) 

BULLDOZE - The Truth (Self-Released) 

NEXT STEP UP - Karma (Gain Ground) 

IRATE - Awakenings (Self-Released) 

WORLD DEMISE - Can’t Relate (Flatspot) 

SWEAR TO GOD - Six Feet Deep (Self-Released) 

SUNAMI - Feds Watchin’ (Creator-Destructor) 

Demo Feature 

Headcheese are a band from Kamloops that we heard a few weeks back in one of Chris’ sets. They have a full length out on Neon Taste. On the label’s site they have tagged their release with comparisons to White Pigs and Brutal Knights.

HEADCHEESE - I Can’t Win (Slow Death) 

HEADCHEESE - Loss Prevention (Slow Death) 

HEADCHEESE - I Wanna Be Special (Forces) (Slow Death)

Radio - Sunday, August 10, 2008

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The Screwed are a punk band puled together featuring legends in the early Toronto punk scene. The original idea was to be a jam band that would play songs from 1977 and that lead to a CD release of covers of songs that came out in the year. Cleave Anderson, the drummer from Tyranna, the Way Outs, Battered Wives and so many other great bands came up with the idea. he convinced John Borra of Neon Rome fame and Steve Koch of the Viletones and Demics fame to play bass and guitar in this band. They recruited Steve Saint from the Sinisters to sing.

The band has started doing originals and songs from the early local scene. This session was recorded and played live on the show and what you are hearing in this session is pumped up from the downstairs studio into a channel on our braodcast board. The live session is followed up with an interview with the band trying to capture some of the significance that these folks played on the scene, but also the things that they are doing now like the various themed nights at clubs in Toronto with singers from the first wave of the Toronto scene. Here is the set list based around our discussion.

THE SCREWED - Pretty Vacant (Self-Released) cover of the Sex Pistols

Studio 3 Session
THE SCREWED - Suzie Peroxide (CIUT) cover of the Secrets
THE SCREWED - New Rose (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - Green Haired Girl (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - The Shaggs (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - Barbra (CIUT) cover of the Modernettes
THE SCREWED - New York City (CIUT) cover of the Demics
THE SCREWED - Your Generation (CIUT) cover of Generation X
THE SCREWED - Somebody's gonna get their head kicked in tonight (CIUT) cover of the Rezillos
THE SCREWED - Screamin' Fist (CIUT) cover of the Viletones
THE SCREWED - Disgusteen (CIUT) cover of Teenage Head

Show listings by Gena Maldezy

THE SCREWED - Career Opportunities (Self-Released)
THE SCREWED - Interview with Steve Saint (CIUT)
COSMIC SAINTS - Lemonade (Unreleased)
SINISTERS - Private World (Unreleased)

NEON ROME - Magical Summer of ’85 (New Rose)
THE SCREWED - Interview with John Borra (CIUT)
NEON ROME - Windowsill (New Rose)

THE SCREWED - Interview with Steve Koch (CIUT)
VILETONES - Don’t You Lie (Live at the Edge, 1979 with Sam Ferera (bass) and Tony Torcher (drums). Recorded for Q107)
THE SCREWED - Interview with Steve Koch (CIUT)
VILETONES - We Say Yeah (Live at the Edge, 1979 with Sam Ferera (bass) and Tony Torcher (drums). Recorded for Q107) This is where Screamin' sam gets his name Screamin' from.

THE SCREWED - Interview with Cleave Anderson (CIUT)
BATTERED WIVES - Giddy (Live at the El Mocambo, 1978)
THE SCREWED - Interview with the entire band (CIUT)
THE SCREWED WITH CHEETAH CHROME - Sonic Reducer (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - Interview with the entire band (CIUT). There was a scatch on the CD that this interview was transfered from so this part of the interview skips a little.

Some originals recorded at a different session not used in the broadcast:

THE SCREWED - Clarence Jonkers (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - Gettin' Beat Up (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - Red Line Man (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - Green Haired Girl (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - The Shaggs (CIUT)
THE SCREWED - Vivienne and Malcolm (CIUT) 

Flyer - Saturday, April 2, 1988

Rear Garde #24

Issue Number 24 of Rear Garde featuring interviews with Schooly-D, A Neon Rome, the Wailers, Nomeansno, UIC and other great features. The issue was published on April 1988.

Flyer - Saturday, January 16, 1988

Flyer - Wednesday, October 7, 1987

Flyer - Saturday October 3, 1987

Flyer - Saturday October 3 - Sunday October 4, 198

Flyer - Thursday, August 20, 1987

Flyer - Saturday, July 4, 1987

Flyer - Bored with Civilization

Flyer - Have a Good Time

Flyer - Saturday, May 9, 1987

Flyer - Start Humanity

Flyer - Thursday, April 9, 1987

Zine - Mute Elation

Mute Elation was a punk fanzine from Toronto. This issue looks like it came out at the end of 1986 based on some of the gigs that they covered and when those happened in Toronto. This was not the first issue as content alludes to continuing of features and written pieces in previous issues. There is a significant amount nof content dedicated to writing in the form of poetry and fiction writing and even an interview with a writer. But there is also lots of punk and post punk content. I really like that the issue starts out with a scene update on Toronto, which provides a snapshot of some things happening at the time. This report mentions the Forgotten Rebels, the Dundrells, The Daleks, The Purple Toads, Ameoba Quiche, and Bratty and the Babysitters.

There are extensive multi page reviews on gigs at the time starting out with Iggy Pop who played the Concert Hall on November 9th, 1986. The Rebels opened up that show and the reviewer is quite harsh on them. Iggy Pop's back up band doesn't fair much better, but Iggy gets credit. The review is followed by a review of the "Blah Blah Blah" LP.

DOA played at the RPM on October 2nd, 1986. I actually went to that show and took photos which I posted on the EXD blog. The review complains about the hardcore kids slam dancing and that wasn't such a big part of the show. The RPM was a huge place and there didn't seem to be the scale where kids could slam so it wasn't as bad as the reviewer makes it out to be. But the show was not the best DOA show I had ever seen either.

There is a glowing show review of a Shreikback show which sees a full page photo repeated on the back cover. This is also accompanied by a review of their Big Night Music" LP. Lou Reed played at Kingswood which was the outdoor venue at amusement park known as Wonderland out in Maple. There is also a show review of a Psychic TV show that took place at the Diamond Club (August 11th). The reviewer was disappointed by this show.

The main feature of this issue is an interview with Blair Martin of the Raving Mojos. It was after the Mojos had broken up and Blair had some great insight into a number of things. Blair writes about how the Brits re-interpreated the Ramones version of punk with a little too much theatre and as a result got the speed confused for wanting not to sing. Blair talks about being the original drummer for the Androids and filling on for Teenage Head for one tour on drums. It is an amazing piece. Blair had assembled a band with members of Youth Youth Youth, Living Proof, and Mick Slick, but I don't think they played out.

There is other local content that features a piece on Richard Carstens who I know as the guy who wrote most of the No Mind album. He was the guitarist in Funhouse, Afhaken, and Madhouse and at the time was playing in Sun Zoom Spark, which is the band that Alisdair from No Mind played in. Richard also writes some pieces in this issue. He wrote one of the only interviews I have read about Neon Rome. This is the band that John Borra of the Screwed started out in. The first half of this interview is a made up story by the singer about how the band met. The other interview I read in Nerve about Neon Rome had a similar fiction telling pattern. The interview does disclose that their album ad been recorded by the time and that Comfort Sounds had recorded it.

There is a piece on a new U.I.C. album titled "Our Garage", a review of Fifth Column's "To Sir with Hate", and a funny interview with Erica Ehm, who was a VJ on Much Music at the time. Great time capsule on Toronto.

This piece is courtesy of Dhaibid james archives. Dhaibid hosts Moondog's Ballroom on CIUT.

Flyer - Friday, December 19, 1986

Flyer - Saturday, November 22, 1986

Zine - Nerve #28

This is Nerve #28 which features R.E.M. on the cover, which came out in September 1986. The issue also featured pieces on the House Martins, Ikons, Neon Rome, the CASBY Awards, and Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. There are regional reports on Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, London, and Montreal, music and show reviews and columns.

Flyer - Friday June 20, 1986

Neon Rome played their set behind a white sheet. At the end they did an encore playing "Anarchy in the UK" where the singer whipped a glass at the ceiling smashing it to bits as the first chord was struck and then at the end proceeded to cave the drum kit in by pulling the sheet down on the drummer.