Radio - Sunday, August 5th 2018

Tonight's show is guest hosted by longtime punk DJ Chris Iler, who co-hosted Fast 'n Bulbous (CHRY), Imperfection Hours (CFRC) and did a label called "Fans of Bad Productions". Chris had the idea to do a label profile on Supreme Echo, this great label in Victoria doing some incredible archival work starting out with a Polish compilation called "Victim of a Safety Pin". Jason Flower, of MPA is the person behind this label and some other great projects that started out as a tape label known as Break Even. Chris and I talk glowingly about Jason and his many projects. You can download the show here. 

DEADLOCK – Victim of a Safety Pin (Supreme Echo)

RETSEPTI - Nu Matyueb (Supreme Echo)
NORTHERN HAZE – Qailaurt / Quviasuk (Supreme Echo)
TWITCH – I am the Wizard (Supreme Echo)
THE NEOS – Ripped Off (All Your Ears Can Hear)
JERK WARD – UFO (Supreme Echo)
MEXICAN POWER AUTHORITY – Everyone is Guilty (Supreme Echo)

SPHEX – Leaving this Crazy City (Supreme Echo)
THE DISHRAGS – London’s Burning (Supreme Echo)
TRITON WARRIOR – Satan’s Train (Supreme Echo)
RONNIE AND NATALIE WITH STUMPWATER – 6 Times (Supreme Echo)
ZELLOTS -Vampire Love (Supreme Echo)

VENDETTA – Modern Rockers (Supreme Echo)
THE STIFFS – Dad’s a Pig (Supreme Echo)
WASTED LIVES – Allegiance (Supreme Echo)
PLAN NINE – I Ain’t No Robot (Supreme Echo)
KARRION – Necro Nightmare (Supreme Echo)
MISSION OF CHRIST – To Oblivion (Supreme Echo)

BAD BRAINS - Send You No Flowers (Caroline)
THE CLASH - Pressure Drop (Epic)
ELVIS COSTELLO - Watching the Detectives (CBS)
GUTFULL – My Culture is not a Costume (Self-Released)
THE TUTS – Wannabe (Self-Released)


Gutfull and the Tuts I found out about on a remote broadcast by MRR for Decolonize Fest which you should check out. 

Tonight's demo feature is a new band from Halifax called Zygome. You can find their demo on bandcamp.

ZYGOME – Walking through a Dream (Self-Released)
ZYGOME – 6th Extinction (Self-Released)
ZYGOME – Mental Murder (Self-Released)
ZYGOME – The Power Shifts (Self-Released)

MRR Feature - Supreme Echo Records

This is a feature article on my good friend Jason Flower. I know Jason as the singer from Mexican Power Authority which is a band from Victoria that I released a collection of their first three releases on. The travels that Jason talks about in this article took place after MPA went on hiatus and Third World Planet had broken up. Think of Jason as Canada's answer to Luk Haas. Jason came back and released the "Victim of a Safety Pin" compilation, the Jerk Ward 12", the "All Your Ears Can Hear" compilation and a few other releases mentioned herein and it sounds like he has a few things still in the cooker. You can read more about this piece in the November issue of MRR.

Sunday February 21, 2010

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DOA - Donnybrook (Sudden Death)

DOA - Billy and the Socreds (Sudden Death)
THE CLASH - Working for the Clampdown (Epic)
HANSON BROTHERS - Duke It Out (Alternative Tentacles)
DEAD KENNEDYS - Jock-O-Rama (Alternative Tentacles)
ANTI-DOGMATIKSS - Olipisme (Tralla)

TEENAGE HEAD - Love for Sale (MCA)
MINUTEMEN - Lost (Reflex)
NOT FUNNY ANYMORE - Sky Hook Coat Hanger (Jigsaw Laboratories)
PEGBOY - Fields of Darkness (1/4)
SHOTMAKER - Nick’s Question (Kung Fu / Manticore)

LION OF JUDAH - Astral Peace (Universal Peace)
NOW OR NEVER - Taken for Granted
RAH - It Won’t Last (Labelled)
DEATH THREAT - High for Now (Triple Crown)
H2O - Here Today Gone Tomorrow (Self-Released)

JERK WARD - Knowledge (Supreme Echo)
TUTU AND THE PIRATES - Wham Bam Son of Sam
ULTRATUMBADOS - Auto Gesto (Southkore)
SCHOOL JERKS - Rent Boy (Cowabunga)
THE LADIES - Trashed (Cowabunga)

MEDICATION - Didn’t Wanna Know (Hozac)
MYELIN SHEATHS - Do the Mental twist (Hozac)
MICKEY - She’s so Crazy (Hozac)
KING KHAN AND THE BBQ SHOW - Shake Real low (In the Red)
THE FIRE JACKS - Tell that woman (Sin)

THE CLASH - Clash City Rockers (Bootleg)
CHUCK RAGAN - California Burritos (Side One Dummy)
GREG GEFFIN - The Highway (Epitaph)
TIM BARRY - Shoulda outta (Suburban Home)
SARAH BLACKWOOD - Trainwreck (Stomp)

Demo Feature
RESIST CONTROL - Modern Times (Self-Released)
RESIST CONTROL - Kill the News (Self-Released)
RESIST CONTROL - Pale Imitation (Self-Released)
RESIST CONTROL - Broken Eggs (Self-Released)
RESIST CONTROL - Kleptocracy (Self-Released)
RESIST CONTROL - Fallin Apart (Self-Released)
RESIST CONTROL - No Solutions (Self-Released)
RESIST CONTROL - Recipe for Success (Self-Released)
RESIST CONTROL - Short Lease (Self-Released)

Radio - EXD : Sunday, January 3, 2010

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ATTENTION – Tonight Will Be Like Any Other Night (Self-Released)

RAH - Change (Labelled)
KEEP IT CLEAR - See It My Way (Self-Released)
URBAN BLIGHT - Enough (Slasher)
ROCKET REDUCERS - Shit Talker (Rocket Reducers)
GERM ATTAK – Servitude (MCR Company)

VICIOUS CYCLE - Heaven or Hell (Deranged)
VACANT STATE - Bleak (Self-Released)
SCHOOL JERKS - Stray (Riff Raff)
LET'S DANCE - X-Ray Eyes (Meaty Beaty)
BAD CHOICE – Lash Out (Self-Released)

PUNCH – Fuming (625 Productions)
CONVERGE – Cutter (Deathwish)
NO TOLERANCE – Sentenced (Gravewish)
SHITTY LIMITS – My Limits are Your Limits (Sorry State)

URBAN BLIGHT – Leech (Slasher)
PSYCHED TO DIE – Final Bath (Grave Mistake)
LIMP WRIST – Bought Out (Lengua Armada)
TRUE COLOURS – Forward Concern (Powered)

THE ACTION - TVs on the Blink (Sudden Death)
LEGION 666 – No God (Schizophrenic)
JERK WARD - Fuck You Quincy (Supreme Echo)
TYRANNA - Back Off Baby (Boppa Do Down)
FILTH - Lust for Glory (Alternative Tentacles)

THE CLASH – 1977 (Bootleg)
THE SUBHUMANS- Firing Squad (Alternative Tentacles)
LAPINPOLTHAJAT - Jos Uskot (Kamaset Levytt)
HUL - Ingen Lektier (Hjernespind)
CAUSTIC DEFIANCE – One Million Stares (Akashic)
GORDON IVY AND THE JAYBIRDS - Breaking Through (Self-Released)

CITY SWEETHEARTS - Can't Stop Shaking (Self-Released)
DICHOTOMY - Mine (Self-Released)
SCOTIA WIDOWS – Don’t Rewind (Self-Released)
NAZI DUST - Subservient (Self-Released)
MAD MAN - Mad Man (Self-Released)

NEGATIVE STANDARDS – Track 4 (Self-Released)
EDDIE BROCK – Skateboard Bikini Wax (Self-Released)
NOT SORRY - Learned (Self-Released)
POINT BLANK - Reagan's Still Dead (Self-Released)

Flyer - Saturday February 7, 2009

Two reunion shows by Jerk Ward in conjunction with the record release of "Too Young To Thrash" 12".

Jerk Ward "Too Young to Thrash" LP

This is a collection of a band from Sidney, BC, which is a place on Vacouver Island so it would be associated with the Victoria scene. They were around from 1981 - 1984, but this just came out in 2008 on Supreme Echo. The band was made up of Randy Long on vocals, Steve McBean on guitar and vocals, Julian McClain on bass, and John London on drums. Most of this was recorded on April 7, 1984 at Happy Electric Moosears Studio by Steve Bailey. The band would later become Mission of Christ. The songs on here are:

1. U.F.O.
2. Angry Salmons
3. Blind Hatred
4. Knowledge
5. Flesh & Bones
6. Millions of Dead BMXers
7. Non-Human
8. Accident Prone
9. I Love the Girls
10. Death Inferno
11. Major Threat, Part II
12. I Don't Wanna Fight
13. Inside My Mind
14. F.U. Quincy
15. Rot My Mind
16. I Wanna By Ozzy Osbourne
17. Kill the Pongos

Various Artists "All Your Ears Can Hear" Double CD

This is a truly amazing compilation. It is one of those scene documentary pieces but instead of it being a film this is a comp. Jason Flower was the main person behind the project and as a result the comp needed to be on 2 CDs. An amazing book where each band participating gets a page that is used to help find out details on them. And the scene they document is their own which is in Victoria, BC. Vancouver is documented pretty well but the scene that NoMeansNo grew out of isn't. The Neos is probably the only other band really known from here and that is only by hardcore collectors. And being geographically isolated Victoria had a chance to develop on thier own more so than other scenes that were on touring routes. As a result you get a snapshot of just some collected highlights of Victoria. You can inquire at Supreme Echo about the availability of this comp but I doubt there is any left. The songs on here are:

Disc 1:

1. Infamous Bastards - Canada's Pissed

2. Pink Steel - Here We Go Again

3. Clix - Sidewalk Trot

4. Automatic Shock - Mushrooms

5. Sickfucks - Long Blink

6. Jerk Ward - Millions of Dead BMXers

7. Velox Strepitus - No Mind

8. Beaten Retards - Mutated

9. NoMeansNo - Almost Like Home

10. Red Tide - NATO Actionaut

11. Keys - Ups & Downs

12. Neos - Ripped off

13. Neos - Sexual Revolution

14. Censored Chaos - Dinner at McDonald's

15. Resistance - Amerika

16. Ascensions - She's Weird

17. Easy Money - No Stranger to Danger

18. Dioxyn - Free from Vice

19. Malcom Dew-Jones - Secret Agent 000

20. Infamous Scientists - CKDA

21. Dishrags - High Society Snob

22. Twisted Minds - Vancouver

23. Distortion - Leave Us Alone

24. Do-wops - Kill Mash Die

25. Do-wops - Butchart Gardens

26. Fake Dogs - Fuckin' Jerk

27. Purple City - Untitled

28. Squirrels in Bondage - Who Cares

29. Trouble Boys - Not So Bad

30. House of Commons - Low

31. Noise Generation - Breakdown

32. Nematodes - Down with the KKK

33. Nevar - Iran

34. Commodes - Bunyon

35. Dayglo Abortions - Whiter than Hitler

36. Ryvals - Floating

37. Suburban Menace - What's So Wrong

38. Jerk Ward - UFO

39. Harvest of Seaweed - The End

40. Mass Appeal - SS Social Service

Disc 2:

1. House of Commons - 1999

2. Red Tide - My Son is a Kuwahara

3. Neos - Destruct

4. Neos - Russian Folk Song

5. Infamous Scientists - Someone Else's Shoes

6. Sickfucks - P.O.W.

7. Ascenisions - The Stud

8. Dishrags - Bullshit

9. Keys - Lied To!

10. NoMeansNo - Too Much Dope

11. Twisted Minds - BC Tel

12. Malcolm Dew-Jones - Modern World

13. Easy Money - On the Edge

14. Da Jeep - Save Me

15. Velox Strepitus - Mutt

16. Fake Dogs - Bombs Away

17. Nematodes - Hatred

18. Nevar - Chorus

19. Sludge Confrontations - Slug Death

20. Sludge Confrontations - Astronomy

21. Tumours - It Hurts When I Think

22. Jerk Ward - Flesh & Bones

23. Nuclear Errors - We're Rebels

24. Red Tide - It's More a Feeling

25. Ray Luxemburg - Following

26. Dayglo Abortions - Nuclear Supremacy

27. Harvest of Seaweed - Accidental Exile

28. Surburabn Menace - Outta My Way

29. Beaten Retards - School

30. Nu-Lib - New Liberation

31. Censored Chaos - Violence in the Streets

32. Divine Right - Outta the Grave

33. NoMeansNo - NoMeansNo

34. Slivers - Black Hole

35. Disrupt - These are the 80s

36. Salty Seamen - CUFA

37. Sickfucks - Mother was a Man

38. Infamous Scientists - Baldwang Must Die

39. Purple City - Invisibility

Radio - Sunday, September 2, 2007

MARGARET THRASHER - Raise the Bar (Clarence Thomas Records)

INFAMOUS SCIENTISTS - Canada's Pissed (All Your Ears Can Hear)
RED TIDE - It's More a feeling (All Your Ears Can Hear)
JERK WARD - Millions of Dead BMXers (All Your Ears Can Hear)
DIVINE RIGHT - Outta the Grave (All Your Ears Can Hear)
SUBURBAN MENACE - What's so wrong (All Your Ears Can Hear)

DEAD NATION - Painless (Deadalive)
BATTLETORN - Hellbender (Mad at the World)
DOWN MY THROAT - Guilty as Charged (Full House)
DAHMER - Therbert Mullin (Spineless)
HAYMAKER - It Only gets Worse (Deranged)
F.U.'s - Daisy Chain (Taang)
DS-13 - I'm Not with the A.L.F. (Deranged)
ULTRA VIOLENCE RAY - WW III (Stink Town)
THE ORPHANS - XRNRX (Unity Squad)

Studio 3 Session
MARGARET THRASHER - Betray (CIUT)
MARGARET THRASHER - You Can Win (CIUT)
MARGARET THRASHER - Doesn't Matter (CIUT)
MARGARET THRASHER - Untitled 1 (CIUT)
MARGARET THRASHER - Raise the Bar (CIUT)
MARGARET THRASHER - Untitled 2 (CIUT)
MARGARET THRASHER - Untitled 3 (1:11)
MARGARET THRASHER - Interview (31:17)

Tribute to Chelsea
DEATHSIDE - Mirror (Selfish)
DEATHSIDE - Wasted Dream (Selfish)
DEATHSIDE - Live and Live (Selfish)
DEATHSIDE - to the End (Selfish)
DEATHSIDE - Cry for Truth (Selfish)
DEATHSIDE - All is Here Now (Selfish)
PAINTBOX - Mirai (HG Fact)
PAINTBOX - Bisai (Self-Released)
PAINTBOX - Intro / Betsu Mirai (Self-Released)

Demo Feature
NIGHTBRINGER - Hang in There (Self-Released)
NIGHTBRINGER - Fight Like Hell (Self-Released)
NIGHTBRINGER - Leaving Town for Good (Self-Released)
NIGHTBRINGER - Bitter Fare (Self-Released)
NIGHTBRINGER - No Sleep til Death (Self-Released)

Gus "Heterobash was Flipper" ep

These four songs were recorded in the same session as the split with the band from Florida by the same name. This was the band's second release and their first one was on a label called Headrush Records. This record came out on Slow to Burn Records out of Victoria. Shawn Scallen took the photos of the band that appear in the back cover artwork. The cover was printed on a recycled cardboard stock. The band recognizes Jerk Ward in the liner notes exclusively. The songs found on this single include:

1. Heterobash was Flipper

2. Quervo Barbie

3. Dave Del Castillo

4. Dom Fights Chris

MRR Scene Report - Victoria, February 1985

This scene report was on Victoria BC and mentions Red Tide, Nomeansno, Dayglo Abortions, Jerk Ward, and Resistance. This report was written by Mike Synnuck from Verbal Assault fanzine.

MRR Review - Various Artists "Medium Raw" cassette

Tim Yohannon write this review for MRR of the "Medium Raw" comp. This appeared in issue #12, which came out in March 1984. Click on image to enlarge it to a readable size.

MRR Review - Jerk Ward "Inside My Head" cassette

Tim Yohannon write this review for MRR of the DOA ep. This appeared in issue #12, which came out in March 1984. Click on image to enlarge it to a readable size.

Various Artists "Medium Raw" tape

I get the sense that this was teh first ever comp to document the Victoria scene. This is almost excusively bands from vancouver island with a few exceptions. The comp was put out by BYO and Tim Yohannon had this to say about it "An excellent long-player's worth of British Columbia's current crop of bands. The Neos appear with some previously released material, but the rest (Automatic Shock, Chronic Submission, Jerk Ward, LSD, House of Commons, Red Tide, the Infamous Scientists, SS Top, Da Jeep, and the cool Dayglo Abortions) all chip in with new material, most of which is fine. Very little filler." -(from Maximum Rocknroll #12, March 1984)

1. The Neos - Typical Obligatory Anti-Government Song2. The Neos - Life Sentence
3. The Neos - I Don't Want to Be
4. The Neos - Sexual Revolution
5. Automatic Shock - Mushrooms
6. Automatic Shock - Fuck Off
7. Chronic Submission - Sick of Reality
8. Chronic Submission - Narc
9. LSD - Ursula
10. SS-Top - Swamp Stomp
11. House of Commons - Way Down South
12. House of Commons - Do You Feel Low
13. House of Commons - Feed Us Feed Us
14. House of Commons - American Patriot
15. Jerk Ward - I Love the Girls
16. Jerk Ward - Major Threat
17. Jerk Ward - UFO
18. Infamous Scientists - Noise 'n' Rhythm
19. Infamous Scientists - I Can't Get the Sounds I Want
20. Da Jeep - Anti-Sex
21. Red Tide - My Son Is a Kuwahara
22. Red Tide - NATO Actionaut
23. Dayglo Abortions - Bedtime Story
24. Dayglo Abortions - Proud to Be a Canadian
25. Dayglo Abortions - Arg Fuck Kill
26. Dayglo Abortions - Nuclear Supremacy