Sunday, September 5th, 2021

On tonight's show, we feature new GAUZE, new THE SLIME, new STRONG BOYS, new CONTROL FREAKS, new JIMMY VAPID, and new REAL SICKIES. We pull out classics by NO EXIT, EBBA GRON, G.S.M.F., and ASTA KASK. We have features on Canadian Crossover, Women singers, and SENILE DECAY. Download the show here. 

NO EXIT - Decisions (Self-Released) 

NAZI DOGS - Down in Afghanistan (Wanda)
JIMMY VAPID - Total Commitment (Self-Released)
PORNO PATROL - Insane Asylum (Destiny)
UNSANITARY NAPKIN - Speak Up For Women, You Don't Speak For Me (Self-Released)
GAUZE - 言いたかねえけど目糞鼻糞 (XXX)

RESISTANCE 77 - Advance Factory Units (Rot / New Face)
THE DRONES - City Drones (Valer / Energy / Cherry Red)
KLEENEX - Hedi's Head (Rough Trade)
THE REZILLOS - I Can't Stand My Baby (Sensible)
EBBA GRÖN - Till Havs (Mistlur)

THE SLIME - We Shine (Self-Released)
GORDON SOLIE MOTHERFUCKERS - More Than Just Alive (River on Fire)
LIFE'S HALT - Get in the Pit (Youngblood)
R.A.M.B.O. - No Circle Pits in Heaven (625 Thrashcore)
NEGATIVE GAIN - When The Pounding Stops (Pusmort)
STRONG BOYS - Bad Blood (Self-Released)

SISTER SUZIE - Claws (Reta / Surfin' Ki)
THE BEATERSBAND - C’mon Let’s Go (Out Loud)
CONTROL FREAKS - FBI (Dirty Water)
SO WHAT - Razor Blade (Just Add Water)
GAUNT - Jim Motherfucker (Anyway / Datapanik)

Canadian crossover
S.C.U.M. - Exit Death (Psyche Industries)
FAIR WARNING - Do You Know What You Do (Self-Released)
SUDDEN IMPACT - Caught Up (Fringe / Marquee)
BEYOND POSSESSION - Never Nothing New (Death)
FRATRICIDE - Poison Control (Heart First)

ARTIFICIAL DISSEMINATION - Witch Hunt (Seminal)
JINGO DE LUNCH - Fuck You (Megalomania / Boss Tuneage)
KAMIKATZE - No Dogs No Masters (Drachenwerkstratt Krachpunk / Contimination)
BEYOND PINK - Det Har Ar Punk (Emancypunx)
SLOA KNIVAR - Hjärtat Stannar (Skrammel)
DEAD HERO - Falsas Promesas (Discos Peligrosos)
VICE SQUAD - How The Other Half Lives (Last Rockers)

THE DEAD MILKMEN - Labor Day (Restless)
F.Y.P. - Patridiot (Recess)
RENDER USELESS - Cranked (Self-Released)
REAL SICKIES - Love Is For Lovers (Stomp)
ASTA KASK - Varför (Skvaller)

Demo Feature
SENILE DECAY - from Mississauga had a crossover feel to them. Put out this cassette called “Comatose Until I Croak” which came out in 1986. The band played a few shows, the most memorable was at the University of Guelph for the Peace Festival. Greg Saffert (guitarist) and Colin O’Shea (Vocalist) have passed on. Nick Popovic (bassist) continues to play in a number of tribute bands which include MOTORHEADACHE, SONS OF SABBATH, and CRAZY BABIES. Ian Pettigrew drew the artwork for the cover.

SENILE DECAY - 3 Ring Government (Self-Released)
SENILE DECAY - Brutes Enforce Ignorance (Self-Released)
SENILE DECAY - Confusion (Self-Released)
SENILE DECAY - It’s Not Important (Self-Released)
SENILE DECAY - No Morality for Me (Self-Released)
SENILE DECAY - Poverty Kills (Self-Released)
SENILE DECAY - Senile Decay (Self-Released)
SENILE DECAY - Sunday Driver (Self-Released)
SENILE DECAY - Why (Self-Released)

CANCEROUS GROWTH - Late For The Grave (Ax/ction)
PSYCHO - Done Nothing (Ax/ction / Manic Ears)
DAYGLO ABORTIONS - Germ Attack (Sharpe / God / Unrest)
RED TIDE - Incubator Slide (MRR)
THE FREEZE - Nazi Fun (Modern Method / Taang! / Schizophrenic)

Radio - Sunday, August 15th, 2021

   

Tonight’s show starts out with a critique of the Tokyo Olympics by a band from Japan. Highlights for the rest of the show include a cover of DEVO, brand new CONTROL FREAKS, classic Montreal hardcore (NO POLICY, FAIR WARNING, and ASEXUALS), and some acapella straight edge. WARFARE STATE from Brockville are tonight’s demo feature. Download the show here.

FORWARD - Tokyo Olympics (540 / Break the Records / Japan Support Ltd / Todo Destruido)

THE NAZI DOGS - Mongoloid (Self-Released) 

F-X - Slag (Southern) 

THE MEKONS - What Are We Going To Do Tonight (Virgin / Superior Viaduct) 

LAUGHIN' NOSE - Switch Style (Let’s Rock) 

DOORS & FOURS - Feeling Dead (Self-Released) 

BRAD MANNERS - Bury Me as Far From Them As Possible (Self-Released) 

NEEDLES // PINS - Of Things Best Left to Chance (Dirt Cult) 

WORDPLAY - 8.5 (Self-Released) 

THE LIVING END - Bloody Mary (Self-Released) 

MENTIRA - Desmotivacion (Iron Lung) 

MURO - Sedicion (Adult Crash) 

PUS - Eres Una Pose (Self-Released) 

S.H.I.T. - Hidden in Eternity (Iron Lung) 

G.I.S.M. - Choke (Beast Arts / Dorma / Relapse) 

THE CONTROL FREAKS - Don’t Trust (Dirty Water) 

THE RIP-OFFS - Zodiac (Pure Filth / Rip Off) 

THE ROUTES - Broken Goods (Action Weekend / Bickerton) 

BOG UGLY - I've Seen It Vomit (Toadstool)
F-MODELS - It's Not Right (T.M.I.) 

NO POLICY - News or Propaganda (Psyche) 

FAIR WARNING - Blood on the Bumper (F.W.) 

ASEXUALS - 3 Chord Politics (First Strike) 

HYPE - Superpowers (Reuben Kincaide) 

CHRONIC SUBMISSION - Nuclear Threat (Schizophrenic / NRK) 

RMBLR - Move Over (Wanda / Spaghetty Town) 

RADIO REJECTS - Biff Tannen (Self-Released) 

VAMPIRE LEZBOS - So What (Ed Gein Productions) 

SON OF BRONTO - Corporate Nations (Self-Released) 

THE ALMIGHTY TRIGGER HAPPY - Died Trying (Bad Taste / Fearless) 

SENDO FOGO - Brazil Debacle (Self-Released) 

CHINPIRA - Never Give Up Never Say Die (F.O.A.D.) 

KOMA - Impossible Altar (La Vida Es Un Mus) 

EKULU - Pick Your Fight (Cash Only) 

JUD JUD - X Tune Down Song X (Lost Frog) 

Demo Feature 

WARFARE STATE were from Ottawa. They featured Katie Whitaker who I would go on to be in a band with called Countdown to Oblivion. Katie would go on to play in Brutal Knights and Legion666 and Pete Beudoin would go on to play in Born Dead Icons and more recently Dekoder. This band would go on to have a split with Nema from Ann Arbor, Michigan. This is a ten song demo they recorded in 1995. 

WARFARE STATE - Mon Pays (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - J’ai Donc Je Suis (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - Privilege (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - Pavlov (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - Human or Not (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - Mockery (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - Infection (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - How Many (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - One Nation (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - Earth (Self-Released) 

MAD MEN - Wax World (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, July 21st, 2013

Genetic Control were a hardcore band from Montreal around between 1983 and 1985. They were one of Canada's best hardcore bands which is evidenced in how sought after the "First Impressions" single is today. Many tributes have been paid to the band one of which was the bootlegged dedication record to Tim Yohannon which contained the song "Love Rat" by the band. In fact I think one of the reason's why "Primitive Air Raid" is so good is because of their song "Suburban Life" which in my opinion is the best song on the compilation. The band is now scattered across the country, but every few years they get together to play amd for some big name people. They opened for Flag at this year's NXNE and I was able to speak to the two Robs who play guitar and Doug-O on bass (Saturday June 15th). We spoke about their songs, their recordings, the sows they played, the bands they played with, the scene and their beloved practise space known as the Bleury Beach Club or the BBC for short. The interview was long and thanks to Eric Betlam for cleaning up the audio quality and spending a couple of hours with me cutting it down so that we could fit in the openng song "1984" and some brief underlying recordings by the band. This band deserves a re-issue and maybe a collected discography but here is a bit of their story.

GENETIC CONTROL - 1984 (Generic)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
S.C.U.M. - Home away from home (Psyche)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview
FAIR WARNING - You are the Scene (Self-Released)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - I'm Eighteen (Unreleased)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Big Takeover (Unreleased)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Love Rat (Generic)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Brave New World (Generic)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - 1984 (Generic)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - First Impressions (Unreleased)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Urban Cowboy (Generic)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Licence to Kill (Unreleased)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Gilligan's Island (Unreleased)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Meet Billy (Unreleased)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Rockin with Seka (Unreleased)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Subruban Life (Generic)

Radio - Sunday, January 10, 2010

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GODCORP. - Trial by Fire (Self-Released)

GODCORP. - Priests of Profit (Self-Released)

FAIR WARNING - Search For (Sonik's Chicken Shrimp)

BLACK DONNELLYS - Take a Ride (on the Bleeding Railroad) (Audio Fellatio)
SUDDEN IMPACT - First Time There (Marquee)
GODCORP. - Killing, Death and Mutilation (Self-Released)

GODCORP. - Mask (Self-Released)
SONS OF ISHMAEL - Posse Comitatus (Over the Top)

GODCORP. - Man with Porridge Function (Self-Released)

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)

Radio - Sunday, August 2, 2009

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STEF AND THE STUDS - We Don’t Need the English (Schizophrenic)

ABLE DANGER - Beef on Weck (Feral Kid)
NO TIME LEFT - Rapid Transit to Nowhere (625 Productions)
RUNNING FOR COVER - Collapse / On Nature / Worldview (625 Productions)
THEY LIVE - Game Over (625 Productions)
COUNTDOWN TO OBLIVION - Four Alarm Fire at Lockport Gambino Ford (Ugly Pop)

SCHOLASTIC DETH - Cheetos (625 Productions)
HOMOSTUPIDS - Apeshit (Parts Unknown)
86 MENTALITY - Terror boys (Grave Mistake)
xBxRx - Pigs Wear Blue (Polyvinyl)
LIFE LONG TRAGEDY - Hey Death (Deathwish)

DEEP SLEEP - Let Go (Grave Mistake)
DRUNK DRIVER - Secret Eater
BOYS CLUB - Gotta Get Right

ULTIMO RESORTE - Violencia (La Vida es un Mus)
GRB - Lo que hace el dinero (Tralla)
SUBTERRANEAN KIDS - Mucho Tiempo (Tralla)
ANTI-DOGMATIKSS - Olimpisme (Tralla)
DESTINO FINAL - Volver (La Vida es un Mus)

HAZARDOUS WASTE - Fed Up (Schizophrenic)
MICRO EDGE - United We Skate (Self-Released)
SUDDEN IMPACT - Freaked Out (Marquee)
FAIR WARNING - Skating (Sonik’s Chicken Shrimp)
BEYOND POSSESSION - Skater’s Life (Melodiya)

PSYCHED TO DIE - New Hampshire Man’s Quandry (Firestarter / Grave Mistake)
URBAN UNREST - Nothing For Me (Rabbit’s Foot)
DISCO ASSAULT - My Fate (Schizophrenic)
SCHOOL JERKS - Nothing Else (Riff Raff)
NO SLOGAN - Killed By Gentrification (Desobediencia)

THE ZERO BOYS - Dingy Bars Suck (Secretly Canadian)
CAUSTIC DEFIANCE - Tell Me why
F.U.’s - Civil Defense (Lost and Found)
LIFE SENTENCE - Problems (Legends of Hardcore)
BLANK STARE - Words are Loud (Refuse)

Demo Feature
RAH - The Truth (Labelled)
RAH - Keep Walking (Labelled)
RAH - Not Now, Not Ever (Labelled)
RAH - Good Intentions (Labelled)
RAH - Change (Labelled)
RAH - All I Know (Labelled)
RAH - Think Again (Labelled)
RAH - It Won’t Last (Labelled)

Zine - EXD, VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2

This issue came out on April 2007. This issue feature Die Brucke from Halifax. We also got to interview Jill Heath one of the most important show promoters from the early Toronto hardcore scene. Aaron Brown interviews Joey Shithead from DOA. Greg Dick reviews the Mods reunion show. there is lots of reviews and show listings.

Radio - Sunday, April 8, 2007

BEYOND POSSESSION - No Religion (Melodiya)

THE BUSINESS - Can't Take Much More (Captain Oi!)
LOWER CLASS BRATS - See You Go (Dirty Punk)
UK SUBS - Riot (Dirty Punk)
INSTANT AGONY - Ripped Off (Self-Released)
CHAOS UK - All or Nothing / Hearts of Noize (HG Fact)
DISCHARGE - Always Restrictions (Captain Oi!)

BLANK STARE - Cowards (Refuse)
NOTHING DONE - Washing My Time / Creation for Destruction (Not Just Words)
HATRED SURGE - Wolf in it's Clothing (625 Productions)
IRON AGE - Decrease the Peace (Next Level)
DEATH CYCLE - O, Say, Can you See ? (Lifeline)
HAYMAKER - Another Friend to the End (Deranged)

S.C.U.M. - Go To War (Psyche)
FAIR WARNING - Problems (Sonik's Chicken Shrimp)
PILGER - PH Decontrol (Go Down Fighting)
7 SECONDS - These Boots are Made for Walking (Pazzafist)
MINOR THREAT - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone (Dischord)

GENTLEMEN JESSE AND HIS MEN - I Don't Wanna Know (Douchemaster)
MEERCAZ - Unlust (Point Wrex)
CARBONAS - Satisfy Me (Die Slaughterhaus)
CLOROX GIRLS - Novicain (Bachelor)
KING KHAN & THE BBQ SHOW - Too Much in Love (In the Red)

DUSTHEADS - Save our Souls (Don Giovanni)
TEENAGE HURRICANES - Saturday Bedroom Rock and Roll (Self-Released)
THE CONVERSIONS - The Worms (Namennago)
NITAD - En For Mycket Art re Forfa (Deranged)
LARM - Mouthful of Teeth / Move to Russia (Way Back When)
REPERCUSSIONS - Bomb the Pulpit (540)

GENETIC CONTROL - Love Rat (Sonik's Chicken Shrimp)
RIBZY - Slander (Vinehell)
JFA - 1-10 (Alternative Tentacles)
PLAIN WRAP - 104 (Grand theft Audio)
THE ZERO POINT - Going Mad! (Self-Released)

Demo Feature
NO EXIT - (Self-Released)
NO EXIT - (Self-Released)
NO EXIT - (Self-Released)
NO EXIT - (Self-Released)
NO EXIT - (Self-Released)

Interview: Sudden Impact

SUDDEN IMPACT were a hardcore band that existed from the early to late 80’s. Technically they were from Newmarket but Newmarket didn’t really have a scene so most of their shows were in Toronto. I always thought of them as a Toronto band. And they stood out from the pack because they played heavier music. I would later come to find out thatthey were big time skate fanatics, but they were our first crossover band. And they would play with bands that were part of that scene like SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, S.C.U.M., FAIR WARNING, and D.B.C. They may not have played with D.R.I. or C.O.C. but they should have. SUDDEN IMPACT released a demo that I wound only find out about much later and it was called “Freaked Out”. It is one of my favourite recordings by the band. I knew them from their “No Rest From the Wicked” days, which was their first full length. I will always know them for songs like “Keep on Truckin’” and “Sudden Impact” which were circle pit anthems to me. This interview was done back in December of 2006 when they got back together to play a couple of reunion shows. I tried to get this into MRR, but I guess I have submitted too many pieces to them as of late and they want to focus on newer bands. But SUDDEN IMPACT were one of my all time favourites from the T.O. H.C. scene. Marquee Records has recently compiled a couple of CDs that collect all of SUDDEN IMPCAT’s material so if you are looking on tracking down their stuff check out www.marquee.com.br.

Introduce yourselves and tell us what you play in SUDDEN IMPACT ?)
Steve (S): I’m Steve and I play bass.
Scott (SC): I’m Scott. I play drums.
Mike (M): Mike. Guitar.
Reid (R): My name is Reid. I play guitar as well.
Johnny (J): My name is Johnny and I play with myself.
When did SUDDEN IMPACT form ?
J: After Mike joined.
Sc: ’84.
And how did the band get together ? How did you meet each other ?
Sc: It was hanging out. It was all the same guys just hanging out and digging fast music and getting a band together.
So was it like going to shows and seeing each other … ?
Sc: Yep. We also knew each other from skating.
R: Oh well we didn’t see each other for a long time and then we would go and see shows and it was like ‘Oh how you doin’ ? Haven’t seen you since such and such skateboard park.’
Sc: It’s weird. The way we met was through a pair of van shoes and an independent trucks shirt because back then nobody had Vans. If you had Vans you ordered them from California. So if you a saw a guy with Vans you approached him. You knew he was a skater. And that’s how we met those guys. I think we met at DEAD KENNEDYS. We met Boris (MICRO EDGE) and those guys the first time.
At the Concert Hall ?
Sc: Yeah.
Were you guys all from the same area or just part of the Toronto scene ?
Sc: Sort of. We were north. Me and Steve were in Newmarket. Johnny was in Aurora. Mike was in the city and Reid was in the city.
J: I lived in Aurora only for a year. I was from the city. I actually met all those guys way previous to me living in Aurora. We used to all sort of hang out. All that stuff you were saying with MICRO EDGE for about the Record Peddler and that stuff because I started hanging out there when I was 14. And I started working there when I was 15. I met Mike through that and hung out with the CHRONIC SUBMISSION guys a lot. I played in a little goof band that we made for high school in Aurora with Travis from the SADIES and we just did BLACK FLAG and VENOM songs just to fuck with everybody at our school.
What were you called ?
J: It was called BRAIN HAMMER after one of the SPINAL TAP records. We did a couple of original songs that were really bad and a couple of covers. We did our thing and I hung out with Mike and his brother Jim and we were friends with Scott and I used to go see SUDDEN IMPACT play all the time and things weren’t working out with the other singer and I used to help them move gear and stuff. Actually that was the only time I moved gear because after I got in the band I never moved it again (laughter). Then they just asked me one day if I wanted to come and try out and I was like ‘Wow. This is crazy.’ And I was all nervous and we went and did it and it just kept going for years after that.
Reid. Were you in MICRO EDGE at the time or did SUDDEN IMPACT form after ?
R: This was after that.
Okay so there weren’t two bands going simultaneously.
R: No.
The rest of you, were you in any bands previous to SUDDEN IMPACT ?
M: I was in QUARANTINE.
J: Weren’t you in the SURF or something. A garage band.
Sc: INTENSE YOUTH.
You were talking about setting up some shows up north. Can you tell us about that ?
S: We just had a practise space in Aurora right down the street and we just … we were the first guys to have shows there ….you know innocent bystanders. We played some gigs there. So we decided to put on some shows there. We started postering all over. We postered the hell out of the city and we somehow dragged a bunch of Toronto kids to see these shows.
So it was mostly kids from Toronto that came up to this?
S: No it was mostly locals that didn’t really have a clue….
Sc: And the bands came with their entourages.
J: What was that place called again ?
S: It wasn’t called anything.
J: Wasn’t it above Mr. Subs on Yonge Street ?
Sc: It was by the sub shop.
J: Yeah. BLIBBER AND THE RAT CRUSHERS played there.
S: Great hall. It was a thrift store most recently. It’s still there. If it’s still empty maybe we’ll go back there one day. So we brought up bands. We had DIRECT ACTION, MICRO EDGE, YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH, and all these guys did these things …. And Newmarket ….we didn’t know anybody in Aurora. We weren’t there then. It was just like ….
Sc: It was so close. It was convenient.
S: Yeah.
Sc: It was a ball.
S: But it was crazy. The MICRO EDGE kids would come up on the subway just to practise. All the way up there because it was so hard to find a place. Anyway, you wouldn’t call it a scene because it was just a couple of people.
How the hell would they get up there?
S: GO bus. The old GO Bus.
Sc: GO bus and skateboard.
S: The whole deal about living up there is you could get down to the city no problem. But if the show was any good you would have to ditch half way through. If the band was really good you knew you were going to miss the last GO bus. You knew you were going to hitch hike home on Yonge Street, which was …. You know you were going to be up all night.
Sc: Or you would go to Finch and pass out on the bench and catch the first bus in the morning.
J: I can remember one time I was friends with this band called TERMINAL RAGE and nobody ever had any money. They would go home to Don Mills. They would go and jam before they would go and play and we would get on the street car with drums and amps and guitars and everything and move it down on the TTC. Rolling amps from Yonge Street to Larry’s Hideaway and stuff like that. Just rolling them right down the street.
That is crazy.
J: It was the only way. Nobody had a car.
What was the idea with the band when you first finally got together in a jam space and said what do you want to sound like ? Did that kind of a decision take place ?
Sc: We wanted to be fast. We wanted to sound like VENOM.
Initially? Because the demo sounds a lot faster and as years progressed you got a lot heavier sounding.
J: I think it was sort of like just looking at everything from a progression that based on musical abilities. Also based on different styles of music that came out that we went ‘Wow. This is great.’
M: Everybody had their influences so it all sort of came together. Whenever we tried and played a cover it always sounded like SUDDEN IMPACT.
J: When you hear landmark records that change things drastically like CORROSION OF CONFORMITY “Animosity”. That was a huge record that added the whole metal and punk mixture to the whole thing. You know, stuff like that. We picked up on all kinds of things.
Sc: BLACK FLAG.
J: BAD BRAINS.
Sc: I was telling Reid that I remember the first time Steve brought home METALLICA “Kill ‘Em All”. I hadn’t heard it. I had never even heard of them and I couldn’t believe it. We were just ‘Holy shit’. It was amazing.
J: The other night I was talking with Reid about remembering to go and play a show in Quebec City and we were all messed up. We roll out of the van at whatever time it was cranking LL COOL J’s “Radio” which was one of the first rap albums I had ever heard. We were totally into it and all these Northern Quebec punkers were looking at us going ‘What the hell are you listening to?’ We just always really had a very diverse musical experience and I think it all expanded and made us do whatever it was that we did.
But essentially you guys were a crossover band.
Sc: True. In the beginning.
In the beginning?
M: I would say no.
I would agree. But later on you kind of became known for ….
Sc: As Johnny was just saying it evolves with new bands coming out and new sounds coming out.
J: And you know when you listen to a lot of stuff that was traditionally a lot more punk there is so much metal in it. Like listen to Daryl Jennifer from the BAD BRAINS or Rocky George from SUICIDAL. Like that’s as metal as you can get. It’s the early stuff but still there was more of a punk thing it just came out in different ways I guess.
What was the idea behind the name of the band? Was it a Clint Eastwood reference ?
Sc: Reid came up with the name.
R: At the time it was …. Steve and me talked about this. I think it was at the Turning Point. We just had names. Our songs were really short and they are fast and they are done and over with and it’s sudden and they make an impact. And that was it. But most of the bands at the time had these two word names. NEGATIVE APPROACH as an example. They would tag two things together that would cancel each other out. And I guess the movie was out at the time. It just seemed appropriate. There was no deep thought about it.
What was the first gig you guys did?
Sc: We were just talking about this. We think it was JFA at the Turning Point.
Do you know roughly what time it might have been? Like what year maybe?
S: It was ’84. I know that. I think Mitch had something to do with putting it on. He made up the flyer. We went out again postering.
Did he do many shows?
S: No. Jill must have been involved. I forget how that thing worked. I remember going nuts. Go to every record store putting a flyer in between every third record and it worked. Because JFA … nobody knew who JFA were. How many singles would have come into the Peddler? You might have had three copies of the record. So it was all fully word of mouth and they packed the Turning Point and it was a good gig.
Where did you start playing out after that? Was it mostly the Turning Point? Was there other places? The Upper lip was around. Where would you have played?
R: We played Larry’s. We played the market.
S: Remember those hardcore matinees? Where were they?
J: The Bridge / Ildiko’s. Quoc Té. Everywhere. El Mocombo.
Sc: The Silver Dollar.
Did you do much touring? Did you play much out of town?
R: We played a lot in Montreal, Quebec. We always played Quebec. That was the real stronghold for us. And little places that we could go to for weekend shows. Kingston, London. Anywhere that was within reach of the weekend. Windsor, Detroit, Rochester. Buffalo.
S: No big U.S. stuff just cross border towns that we could head down and hit.
J: We all had jobs so we all had to work. Sometimes we could get away for 3 or 4 days. Sc: The longest we ever went away was for three weeks. That was when we went right out to St. John’s.
Was there much of a scene back then because I was talking to some people who said there was certainly a period where nothing was happening in St. John’s and it sounds like roughly in that era. Did you play to anyone?
Sc: They were good shows.
S: Well they had brought DOA out there and that was the big deal because that was a big leap from the days of SLIME and all that stuff.
Did you play with anyone from out there?
S: No. So the PUBLIC ENEMY guys ….
Did you play with SCHIZOID out there?
S: No they were long gone.
Because they came out here ?
S: Yeah they moved out here.
R: Turned out to be a lot of our roommates.
S: Yeah. So anyway we just popped in for a couple of shows. Big shows. They did a good job and then carried on.
And you played the east coast all the way out and back I guess.
S: As much as you can you know.
Did you play with NIEGHBOURHOOD WATCH?
S: Totally.
I was going to ask you about the Montreal gig. There was a story about Steve getting locked in Foufounnes.
R: Oh. Something always happened. We would go away for the weekend and somebody would disappear.
J: We played a show with FAIR WARNING and we used to party a fair bit at the time and Steve got excessively drunk and went into the bathroom.
S: I fell asleep in the bleachers.
J: No you fell asleep in the toilet stall and you woke up and it was dark and you couldn’t find the door to get out and then you finally found the door to get out and it was locked and you couldn’t get out and we never got him out until the next day.
Sc: He set off the alarm or something.
S: So yeah I’m freaking out because I had been into eating chips and checking out the bar and having a not bad time and then I thought ‘Wow. They’re going to open up so I got to put on some anger like ‘I got locked up. How the fuck could you do that?’ Putting on an aggressive front and the guy was like ‘Oh it happens all the time.’
So that happened quite a lot at Foufounnes because it was like a fortress there with the gates and stuff.
S: Yeah. It’s got those rolling garage doors.
J: Do you know what that means in English? Didn’t it mean the assholes electric? That pretty much described it.
Was that the show that appears on the new discography?
J: That show that we did I think that was the first or second show that I had ever sung with them. I think the first one was when we opened for DISCHARGE at RPM. I think that was the first show that I did with SUDDEN IMPACT. And that show was like the next day. It was all pretty bizarre.
I wanted to ask you about the “Freaked Out” demo. First off where did the name come from?
Sc: It was one of the songs.
J: Scott wrote the song about this guy that he worked with.
Sc: The guy was just a psycho.
J: It’s kind of just about a crazy man.
S: You don’t know what you are doing at the time. It just happens right.
R: It’s actually a very humourous song. It is like the in joke for the band. Johnny has been changing the words lately.
J: We’ve been having a lot of fun with it.
S: You’re not supposed to have to explain things 20 years later.
Where did you record it?
Sc: Accusonic.
So was Brain involved with it?
R: Yeah.
Was he involved with all your recordings?
R: Yep.
J: Except for one little demo that we did in a jam studio for that video that we did. He didn’t do that, but we actually ended up going on his label. He never really had a label. He just sort of had the NRK thing going on and then he made Diabolic Force.
I was going to ask about Diabolic Force. So was Diabolic Force …
J: Yeah. Diabolic Force first started with SACRIFICE. The first one he did. And then SLAUGHTER. It kind of progressed from that.
Are all these releases on the Marquee label?
Sc: Yeah.
J: I just think SACRIFICE is there.
Sc: No they’ve got a brand new batch of releases. The SLAUGHTER boxset.
J: But I think they did other recordings.
Is the Diabolic Force connection out of the whole discography release?
J: Yes and No. I mean we just sort of did it. Somebody asked us to. The guys from SACRIFICE … I got an e-mail from Joe Rico asking us about this thing that this label in Brazil is doing and they seemed hyped on Toronto stuff and they liked what they heard about us and they wanted to put it out. And we are like ‘Wow somebody still cares 15 years later. Let’s go fir it’. We were hoping to get a free trip to Brazil out of it or something.
Not yet?
J: We’re still working on it.
Well the second one is about to come out so maybe. Cross your fingers for that.
J: So buy our record and help us get to Brazil.
Is “Gonzo” a TED NUGENT cover? Is it a song about him?
J: “Gonzo” is a TED NUGENT song. We just changed all the words around to make it more about being young and goofy and punk rock.
Is there stories behind songs like “Steamy Loafs” or “Paint Fumes” or “Cat’s Lives”?
M: They all have stories.
Do they?
J: I think Scott wrote a lot and his wife Michelle.
Sc: Yeah. Some of the first stuff. But Mitch wrote those ones that you just mentioned.
How many years between “Freaked Out” and “No Rest for the Wicked”? What was the gap between that?
Sc: Three. Two.
J: That is where Mike came in. They had another guitar player for a bit, James, and there is a couple of songs on the first discography that me and Mike came in after that. Well you tell him Mike.
M: Yeah we recorded that at … where did we record that?
Sc: That was in a house.
M: In North York. I remember that $250. That was a lot of money at the time.
Do you know whereabouts?
R: I grew up in North York and I could probably walk by and nail the house but I couldn’t remember the address.
I just wonder who it might have been ? Like a punk guy or …
R: No it was an old engineer guy. It was his studio in the basement. It was his hobby and ….
Sc: The price was right.
S: We just kept selling those cassettes. The “Freaked Out” cassettes. We’d get some money and we were smart enough somehow or Reid was to save the money, buy more cassettes, sell more cassettes. The guys at the Peddler said ‘Okay you guys sell enough cassettes.’
R: We sold about 400 or 500 tapes. The next step was ….
S: Record something. If we like it maybe we’ll put it out. That’s how it happened.
Was there any other songs from that session that might not have got released or is everything that was ever recorded on the LP?
Sc: I think that was everything. There could be some lost thing.
My thoughts in listening to the demo and then listening to the LP is that you started getting into more serious issues. Like it seemed like there is some more happy go lucky themes on the demo. On the record there is things like “Terrorist Attack” and “To our Glorious Dead” which sound like an anti war song. Was that the case? Was the lyrical side also developing with the music side?
Sc: Yeah it might have. I don’t think it was intentional though.
J: A lot of the songs you are talking about I didn’t write, but knowing them intimately I think a lot of them when you actually sit down and read the lyrics and think about what they are about you would be surprised from the titles that there is a hell of a lot of play on themes. A lot of it is mostly personal stuff. Things in our own little world or our own little environment that we were part of. You write about what you see.
Sc: “Terrorist Attack” is still true today I think.
J: We weren’t really heavy handed and we weren’t really super political. We basically seemed to be about doing whatever you want. Have some fun.
I was going to ask about this song “Terrorist Attack” actually. That song would have a different meaning in today’s world. What was the song originally about?
Sc: I wrote it. It was just stuff that was going on in the news. It was just good material for songs.
J: ‘In the wrong place at the wrong time’. That’s really what it is.
The song “Bent” was a song against straight edge.
J: I know the meaning behind that one, but I don’t know if he is going to have the balls to tell you.
I’m wondering if it is about not being straight edge. Did you guys get coined as straight edge because you were skaters?
Sc: No. It was about a guy who was trying to be straight edge and I guess after a certain amount of times realized that wasn’t for him and that was about it. I didn’t even write it. Mitch wrote it.
“Keep on Truckin’”. Is it a pit anthem?
Sc: A what?
A song about being in the pit. When I listen to the song, when I would be in the pit and you would be playing that song ‘keep on pushing on going further, get out of my way I just gotta get past’. It’s kind of like a song about being in the pit.
S: No it’s just about doing your own thing and people are telling you to do something else and you don’t know why you are doing it so you can’t stop it so you just ‘Keep on Truckin’ and doing your own thing. I want what I don’t need when I need to not want more makes no sense but it’s just that you’re driven.
J: Didn’t Jim write that song?
What was the inspiration behind “To Our Glorious Dead”? It’s a slogan on a war memorial downtown.
Sc: Mitch wrote it.
So is it an anti-war song?
Sc: I think it’s basically saying it’s a waste of life. Mitch wrote it. You’d have to ask him.
“No Rest for the Wicked” ? It’s a great catch phrase. It’s used all the time by people. What’s the song about?
R: It’s actually turned. ‘No Rest For the Wicked’ is the term but we twisted that to ‘No Rest From the Wicked’.
Oh. Okay. I’ve always been getting it wrong all these years. Why did Mitch leave the band?
J: He went on to be an underwear model didn’t he?
Sc: He was getting pretty good at mountain bike racing. It was taking up a lot of weekends. We were jamming and basically he was into biking and we were into jamming. We were starting to do pretty good and he wasn’t showing up to practises and so we just got another singer.
J: You ever hear of the BLACK FLAG jam policy. There was endless jamming. Well that’s the way we were. We practised at least three times a week for two hours at a time. Minimum. If not 4 or 5 times. We were just relentless with jamming. It was just endless.
Sc: Yeah. It was funny too because Mitch. No one had talked to him and he came to practise one time and Johnny was practising with us.
J: Yeah. That was a great one. I go I think I’ll go stand in the hallway for a minute.
Sc: But now we talk to Mitch all the time by e-mail. It’s cool. There is no hard feelings or anything.
Do you want to tell the story about how you got involved with the band?
J: Well I kind of did, I think earlier. We were all part of the same scene. We hung out. We went to shows together. Mike was living with Brian at the time and we were hanging out a lot and Mike’s brother, Jim, and Scott. I had just moved to Aurora and all of a sudden there was other guys that I could hang out with up there and it is just kind of evolved. They asked me to do it and I said ‘Yeah’ and I couldn’t believe that they still wanted me to hang out.
Do you want to tell the Sammy Hagar story about Mitch?
Sc: Mitch moved to California and the rumour was that he worked in Sammy Hagar’s shop.
Does he still work there?
Sc: No.
The first CD of the discography “No Rest from the Wicked” is a collection of all the early stuff and you have a new one coming out as well.
J: It’s the “Freaked Out” demo, the “No Rest” album, they did a recording with James O on guitar which some of the songs appeared on “It Came From the Pit”. There was 5 songs recorded on that.
Are the other three on here?
J: I think there is one missing.
S: Then there is live stuff so it starts with Mitch and it ends with Johnny raging his first show.
J: Yeah. That was sort of the thought process behind it.
Yeah…it brings us along chronologically. The next one is called “Split Personality”?
J: Yeah.
And is it part of this Punk Classic series.
Sc: Classic Core.
And when is it expected out?
J: We just sort of finished putting the compilation together. We have a little bit of an artwork thing to do with it. It should be out in the spring.
Will it be the “Split Personality” art cover ?
J: Yeah. Pretty much. It’ll be a take on what we did with the “No Rest” stuff on the new one. It wasn’t exactly the same but it’s pretty close.
And what else is going to be on it ?
J: Some live stuff that we had and the album. The live show is a show that we played with VOIVOD at the El Mocambo.
Sc: It says something about how our music changed because the first one is 32 songs and its an hour or whatever and this new one is 18 songs and it is about the same amount of time. It shows that our songs started to get a lot longer.
Yeah. As you developed as musicians.
J: Yeah. It is the influences. I think everyone developed as musicians. Everybody was young when they started and when they got older they learned how to play. If you listen to a lot of that music the two minute song turned into a three or four minute song.
When did you guys break up ?
J: Which time ?
I imagine the last time.
J: We did our last show in ’90 or ’91. We kind of had a few little weird versions of the band and in ’91 we played with SNFU and then broke up.
Sc: We had Dallas from the SADIES play bass for a while. We had a guy Chris sing for a while. We had another guitar player. What was that guy’s name ?
J: He was a MONSTER VOODOO MACHINE. Jason. He’s in another band right now.
Sc: But this was kind of core.
S: These five guys played together last in ’89.
Sc: So then after a few years we decided to get together and we would go up north to my cottage on the weekend and jam and have a blast and fun and so we started doing that.
J: We just started calling it the fat, bald, and grey session because it was pretty much where we are at. He’s got a cottage on Wasaga Beach so we would just go up there and have fun. Get drunk and roll around in the snow. Play really loud music to nobody.
S: We did that in ’99. We first realized that everyone had computers. From being computer phobic to all of a sudden we were in touch. We started challenging each other. Come on let’s play a show. Yeah right. Okay if we are going to do it we are going to go up to the cottage and we are going to have a turkey. We are going to eat and drink like maniacs and we did it ever since.
Party like rock stars. And no one complained when you were playing up north.
Sc: No it was pretty dead up there in the winter time.
J: I have a story about that. We went out on a midnight romp walking around and we come back and Steve was extremely drunk and passed out and me and Boris turned him into Cheetoh man. We stuffed Cheetohs in every orifice of his body.
Sc: That’s not the same night we got stuck in the snowbank at 5:30 in the morning.
J: We have lots of weird stories like that.

Radio - Sunday, May 28, 2006

PISSCHRIST - Tiba Masa (Putrid Filth Conspiracy)

BANJAX - Track 1 (MCR Company)
LEFT FOR DEAD - Kept in Line (Deranged)
TERMINAL STATE - Hit Me (Hate the 80s)
DOOM - War Crimes (MCR Company)
BRUTAL KNIGHTS - Beyotch Island (Deranged)
BLACK SHEEP SQUADRON - I'll Never get it (Deranged)
DISKONTO - Vagt Motstand (Crimes Against Humanity)
TRANZMITORS - Bigger Houses, Broken Homes (Deranged)
TEEN CRUD COMBO - Study tall (in the Study Hall) (Deranged)

MARKED MEN - Fix My Brain (Swami)
THE VICIOUS - Prisoners (Wasted Sounds)
CRIMINAL DAMAGE - The Power of Fools (Feral Ward)
THE FATALS - Livin' My Bed (Profet)
LOTTIE COLLINS - Runaway to the Mexico (I Dont Feel a thing)
RAT TRAPS - People Die Everyday (Your Permanent)

FORGOTTEN REBELS - Untitled Track (Other Peoples Music)
HOT LIVE GUYS - Robbin' a Bank (Dionysus)
DREAM DATES - Search and Destroy (Zurich Chainsaw Massacre)
VANILLA MUFFINS - Sugar Oi! C´mon (Zurich Chainsaw Massacre)
SEX PISTOLS - The Greatest Rock n Roll Swindle (Virgin)
THE PROFESSIONALS - Mods Skins Punks (Captain Oi!)

CARDIAC ARREST - Get Away From Me (Underestimated)
FORMALDEYHYDE JUNKIES - PCP Funtime (Fashionable Idiots)
CAREER SUICIDE - Hapless (Deranged)
DEAN DIRG - Everyone Back Off (STD)
ARMY OF JESUS - Book Bomb (Criminal IQ)
THE FIRST STEP - No way to Live (Rivalry)
CONFESSION - No Luck Street (M.S.M. 1279)
ZEROPTION - Rain of Terror (Self-Released)

BRAIN EATERS - Last Date (Super Electro)
SUBHUMANS - Death to the Sickoids (CD Presents)
FAIR WARNING - 6 OClock Blues, Part 2 (Self-Released)

Demo Feature
BOULEVARD TRASH - Whats going On ? (Self-Released)
BOULEVARD TRASH - Case of the Fits (Self-Released)
BOULEVARD TRASH - Inertia (Self-Released)
BOULEVARD TRASH - Runnin' with the Tribe (Self-Released)
BOULEVARD TRASH - Liberation (Self-Released)
BOULEVARD TRASH - Trash, Trash, Trash (Self-Released)
BOULEVARD TRASH - Lindsay's Song (Self-Released)

RIOT 99 - California is Burning (Unreleased)

Sunday, March 19, 2006

THE SPINOFFS - Takeout Boy (Black Market)

SAINT BUSHMILLS CHOIR - Black & Tans (Profane Existence)
TOY DOLLS - The Death of Barry the Roofer with Vertigo (S.O.S.)
KNUCKLEHEAD - Bill Jones Curse (Stumble)
BLUNDERMEN - Alternative Ulster (Unreleased)
STIFF LITTLE FINGERS - Suspect Device (Rough Trade)

RAMONES - Daytime Dilemma (Sire)
ISENGARD - Storm of Evil (Vinyl Maniac)
VENOM - Black Metal (Earmark)
YO-SHI - Title in Japanese (Devour)
RAMMER - Butcher (Blue Fog)

TRANZMITORS - Look What Your Doing (Ugly Pop)
MAGAZINE - Touch and Go (Virgin)
MEMBERS - Flying Again (Virgin)
ALTERNATIVE TV - Action Time Vision (Debtford Fun City)
RICHARD HELL AND THE VOIDOIDS - The Kid with the Replaceable Heart (Radarscape)
AVERSIONS - Black Alibi (Die in Style)

MINORITY PARTY - Fuck It Up (Self-Released)
GRIMPLE - Bushanomics (Prank)
DRI - Reagonomics (Death)
NEGATIVE GAIN - Dark Places (Pusmort)
CHRONIC SUBMISSION - Cops Aint Tops (Self-Released)
SUDDEN IMPACT - Bent OK (Self-Released)
FAIR WARNING - Frayed Nerves (Self-Released)

THEY LIVE - Game Over (625 Productions)
MAD BUTCHER - Title in Japanese (Keloid Records)
TETSU ARREI - Starting Over (HG Fact)
CLUSTERFUCK - I Hate the Nutmeg State (Wintermute)
TYRADES - I am Homocide (Shit Sandwich)

ANGRY ANGLES - Things are moving (Shattered)
SUPERCHARGER - Im Beat (Rip Off)
THE LIDS - Distracted (Rip Off)

Demo Feature
MARGARET THRASHER - Hell No We wont Go (Self-Released)
MARGARET THRASHER - Posing Hard in Moral Superiority (Self-Released)
MARGARET THRASHER - Gentdefecation (Self-Released)
MARGARET THRASHER - Fuck Your Face (Self-Released)
MARGARET THRASHER - Song One (Self-Released)
MARGARET THRASHER - Pussyfooters Theme (Self-Released)
MARGARET THRASHER - Damaged Three (Self-Released)

BRUTAL KNIGHTS - Vehicle Party (P-Trash)

Radio - Sunday, July 3, 2005

BOOMTOWN RATS - The Elephant's Graveyard (Polygram)

June 2005 Top 10
LORDS OF LIGHT - UFC (625 Productions)
ANFO - Odio al Sistema (Odios Los Discos)
PAINT IT BLACK - Labor Day (Jade Tree)
DROP IT - Counting Sheep (Western Front)
SAY GOODBYE - Misanthropy (Western Front)
KIROTTU - Uusi Vietnam (Panikkia)
VOORHEES - Drag Racist (Hermit)
BROKEN BONES - Advertisements from Hell (Dr. Strange)
TO WHAT END ? - Kasserad (Crimes Against Humanity)
MIGRA VIOLENTA - Otra Derrota (I Deal)

HYPE - O Canada (Reuben Kincade)
CHRONIC SUBMISSION - Kill the Press / Pantyhose / Plastic Punk / Streetcar Windows / Baby Killer (Self-Released)
YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH - Domination (Fringe)
DIRECT ACTION - Liberty (Bitzcore)
SUDDEN IMPACT - Caught Up (Self-Released)
TERMINAL STATE - Gun To My Head (Self-Released)
OCTOBER CRISIS - Everyday (Psyche Industries)
GENETIC CONTROL - Suburban Life (Psyche Industries)
FAIR WARNING - You Are the Scene (Self-Released)
ASEXUALS - Be What You Want (Psyche Industries)
DOA - I Don't Give a Shit (Sudden Death)
SUBHUMANS - Death to the Sickoids (Sudden Death)
STRETCH MARKS - Foreign Policies (BYO)
SNFU - Get Off Your Ass (BYO)
PROBLEM CHILDREN - Thrashing With Your Parents (Psyche Industries)

REAL SHIT - Myour enji Bokujinkea (Kangaroo)
RUINATION - Got Myself a System (DeadAlive)
THE CLOROX GIRLS - Don't Take Your Life (Smart Guy)
THE STOCKYARD STOICS - USA / Adolescent Chemistry (RRRR)
PAINTBOX - Koku (Ugly Pop)
HOMO MILITIA - Nict Nie Jet Peffekcyyy (Nowy Targ)
THIS BIKE IS A PIPE BOMB - Imperfection (Troy)
FUCKED UP - Dance of Death (Deranged)

MISERY - Almighty Dollar (Profane Existence)
BALLAST - But After the Gig (Reprise) (Profane Existence)
HIRETSUKAN - Wellwisher (G7 Welcoming Committee)
RYTMIHAIRIO - Ison Gin armoilla (unknown)
ACCUSED - Life Kills On (Condar)

Demo Feature
CARDIAC ARREST - Cliche (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Last One Standing (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Love for Life (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Res Dig Mot Overhotem (MOB 47) (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - I'm Paranoid (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Vegetarian Garden Party (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Automatic Middle-Finger Erection (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Cardiac Arrest Anthem (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Symptoms (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Fortress Home (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Not a Man (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - A-Z and Back (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - Abolition of Work (Self Released)
CARDIAC ARREST - I've Had it With Authorities (Self Released)

REGULATIONS - We Know What To Do (Havoc)

Flyer - Saturday February 21, 1987

Flyer - Saturday August 9, 1986

Reuben Kincade, the guy who managed Hype, did a show for Fair Warning at the Bridge. Sudden Impact opened. I think Count Down Zero were from Montreal.

Zine - Subject to Change #1

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This is the first issue of Subject to Change. Subject to Change was done by Glenn Salter and represents the first issue after Deathcore, a zine he used to do before getting more into hardcore and straight edge. Glenn interviews Crippled Youth, Sons of Ishamel, Attitude Adjustment, Dag Nasty, Fair Warning, 7 Seconds, Youth of Today, and the Asexuals. There are written pieces on Larm and Fratricide.

Scene report - Flipside 49

Issue 49 of Flip Side Magazine had a scene report on Canada. Loads of pictures of bands from late 1985 early 1986. the section was pulled together by Ugly Parasite fanzine and features photos of Death Sentence, Hype, Sudden Impact, October Crisis, Fair Warning, Trapt, Bill of Rights, Direct Action, BFG, DOA, House of Commons, Sons of Ishmael, No Mind, SNFU, and Nomeansno.

Flyer - Saturday, May 10th, 1986

MRR Review - Fair Warning "You Are the Scene" LP review in MRR

A review for MRR of the Fair Warning LP. This appeared in issue #33, which came out in February 1986. Click on image to enlarge it to a readable size. Thanks to Operation Pheonix Records for doing the PDF archives of the early issues of MRR.

Fair Warning "You Are the Scene" LP / CD

The LP was originally self-released in 1985. The band was often compared with bands like SSD and DYS from Boston. Sonik's Chicken Shrimp released a CD version with loads of extra tracks 20 years after the original release. The songs on here are :

1. Time & Place

2. Second Chance

3. Blood on the Bumper

4. Skating

5. Do You Know What You Do?

6. Frayed Nerves

7. Six O'Clock Blues, Part 2

8. Caught in a Trap

9. Wake Me Up

10. Problems

11. Could Be Worse

12. Bag Ladies

13. You are the Scene

14. Six O'Clock Blues, Part 1

15. Open Your Eyes

16. A Man and His World

17. Say No More

18. Pain in My Brain

19. Remember the Days

20. I Will

21. Am I Guilty?

22. Consequences

23. Search for....

24. United Thrashers of Canada

25. Days of Loneliness

26. Problems

27. Death by Injection

28. Skating

29. Time for a Change

30. Bag Ladies

31. Video Victims

32. Fight as One

Flyer - Saturday April 6, 1985