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I think American Standard were from New Jersey and part of the straight edge scene. This new club was in Little Italy in a basement level near a Blockbuster video and was later run by Jeff Cohen before becomng a gay club called El Convento Rico.
This flyer was designed by Noxious Art.
Courtesy of Noxious Art archives.
This is another Asexuals show and this one took place at Lee's Palace. Presented by Elliott Lefko and atwrok supplied by Noxious Art.
The Doughboys were supporting the "Whatever" recording. Courtesy of Noxious Art archives.
This show might have been an Elliott Lefko presents because he did book the Silver Dollar and Noxious Art did flyers for Elliott.
I am not sure the year is right, but this flyer appears courtesy of Noxious Art archives.
Jim Carroll did one of his spoken word performances. It felt like a member of a modern day beat movement which saw folks like Henry Rollins and Jello Biafra doing spoken word tours. Ths flyer is courtesy of the Noxious Art archives. Note the autograph by Jim Caroll on the flyer artwork.
This was a later period version of the band and may have been the period where the band co-existed with the Doughboys. Noxious Art made this flyer.
This would have been one of No Means No's shows and it would have been after "Sex Mad" and before "Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed". No Means No were always great. This flyer courtesy of the archives from Noxious Art.
This was the first appearance in Toronto of the Henry Rollins group. It was the first year after Black Flag broke up and I remember Jill heath working the door. I didn't have enough money to get in and she let me in anyways. I wasn't sure what to expect and I think "Hot Animal Machine" was about to come out so that was the material performed at the show. I went to the matinee show. Circus Lupus were the band that morphed out of Mike Marley and the Sailors and would become Rocktopus after Jonathon Cummings moved to Montreal to join the Doughboys. This flyer is courtesy of the archives of Noxious Art.
I remember giong to this show. At the time I had no idea that Dez Cadena had played in Black Flag prior to seeing the posters. I remember noticing that Dez did not look very punk, but that was also trye of other members of Black Flag so it wasn't really a surprise. The show took place in the back room at the Cameron House, which is the norm for this place.
This flyer was provided to the blog thanks to the archive of Noxious Art.
Rebel Music is put together by people involved in our local Rock Against Racism movement. This group took their cues from the British organization and was motivated to start up to oppose the Klan who were trying to organize in Toronto. Interestingly the main interview is with Steel Pulse, who are a British reggae band that wrote a song called "Ku Klux Klan". Steel Pulse were part of the British RAR movement and shared stages with the Clash and the Sex Pistols when they first started. They payed a show in Toronto on May 8th, 1981 at the Concert Hall and James was able to talk with the drummer after the show. They spoke about the two tone scene and the Brixton riots among other things. The zine also features a well researched piece on the local reggae scene in Toronto which profiled Leroy Sibbles, the Twentieth Century Rebels, Truth and Rights, Bloodfire, One Love, and DJs and record stores on where to find reggae in Toronto. It is an amazing resource. The cover was made by Noxious Art.