Radio - Sunday September 2nd, 2012

For our Labour Day show we featured an interview with Chris Walter about his new book "SNFU: What No One Else Wanted to Say". Chris has just released the book on GFY Press and was in town two weeks ago to talk about it. In the little time that we had we spoke about the book, about the band from Edmonton, and about his other band biographies. I wish I had more time to go in detail about some of the band's more known songs, but we did what we could, but getting at some of the highlights. There are a lot more to read about in his book.

We also got to feature the demo of Pure Scum who are from North Carolina. In the recent issue of MRR the band is described as "Boston not L.A." era Jerry's Kids meets SOA meets "United Blood". All that and they start out with a song railing against school just two days before school starts. Who can't relate to that? You can get the demo through Sorry State.

You can hear the show by clicking here.

SNFU - Strip Search / Grunt, Groan, Rant and Rave (Rubber Records)
CHRIS WALTER - Interview (CIUT)
DOWN SYNDROME - You're a Punk (Rubber)
CHRIS WALTER - Interview (CIUT)
SNFU - Victims of the Womanizer (BYO)
CHRIS WALTER - Interview (CIUT)
SNFU - I think Fine Art's Fine (Rake)
CHRIS WALTER - Interview (CIUT)
SNFU - I Forget (BYO)
CHRIS WALTER - Interview (CIUT)
SNFU - Painful Reminder (Epitaph)
CHRIS WALTER - Interview (CIUT)
SNFU - Poor Pitiful Me (Psyche Industries)
CHRIS WALTER - Interview (CIUT)
SNFU - Postman's Pet Peeve (Cargo)
CHRIS WALTER - Interview (CIUT)
SNFU - Thee Maul that Heats Peephole (Cargo)
CHRIS WALTER - Interview (CIUT)
SNFU - Eric's had a Bad Day (Epitaph)
CHRIS WALTER - Interview (CIUT)
SNFU - I Forget (Megafore Entertainment)
CHRIS WALTER - Interview (CIUT)
SNFU - Cockatoo Quill (Rake Records)
CHRIS WALTER - Interview (CIUT)
SNFU - Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump (Rake Records)
CHRIS WALTER - Interview (CIUT)
SNFU - This is the End

Demo Feature
PURE SCUM - To hell with School (Sorry State)
PURE SCUM - Brainwash (Sorry State)
PURE SCUM - I Hate the Mall (Sorry State)
PURE SCUM - I Don't Care (Sorry State)
PURE SCUM - Spit It out (Sorry State)
PURE SCUM - Born to Hate (Sorry State)
PURE SCUM - Disappear (Sorry State)
PURE SCUM - Test My Patience (Sorry State)

V/A " It Came from the Pit" LP

Psyche Industries followed up the "Primitive Air Raid" comp with a comp that featured bands from across Canada.  Psyche Industry was done by a guy named Randy Boyd who was a guy from Edmonton that re-located to Montreal to start up this label.  This comp was done in the spirit of the "Something to Believe in" comp. Randy approached SNFU about being on the comp when SNFU played a show in Montreal. The Belke Brothers knew Randy Obsure Alternatives, which was a punk record store that Randy had back in Edmonton. When SNFU got back from their tour in the fall of 1985, Chi's roomate David Mockford had just finished a course in sound engineering. His teachers encouraged him to take on this project as a course project which he did. Rather than use material from the next album SNFU decided to cover Warren Zevon's "Poor Pitiful Me". Chris Walter notes that "this was an unusual choice of covers for a punk compilation." SNFU chose the song because they just wanted to have some fun. The rest of the songs on "It Came from the Pit" are :

1. S.C.U.M. - Exit Death

2. My Dog Popper - Rock Stars are Assholes

3. My Dog Popper - Equal Time

4. Enigmas - Teenage Barnacle

5. Sudden Impact - To Our Glorious Dead

6. Sudden Impact - Drunk Driving

7. Entirely distorted - Abstinence

8. Count Down Zero - Count Down Zero

9. Ruggedy Annes - Casual Design

10. S.N.F.U. - Poor Pitiful Me

11. Problem Children - Thrashing with your Parents

12. League of Dead Politicians - Mr. Profylactic Man

13. Gassenhauer - Local Youths

14. October Crisis - Everyday

15. Stretch Marks - Old Man Understand

16. Nomeansno - No Sex