Radio - Sunday, December 17th, 2017

Tonight's show features the second installment of Nick Smash's look at the post punk scene in Toronto. We also will get to a top 10 for December. And Sanction A from Montreal in our demo feature. Listen to the show on the player above or download an MP3 here.

TXAKOLY CONFLICT - Bombas (MRHC / A.R. Punk Antirepresivo)

Nick Smash's post punk look at Toronto, part 2
KILLING JOKE - Intro live at Larry's Hideaway / Chop Chop (EG / Malicious Damage)
WOODS ARE FULL OF CUCKOOS - Nobody Knows (Live)
RHEOSTATICS - Suburb Shuffle (Live at Mowatt High School)
RENT BOYS INC. - Happy Birthday David
SUCCESS WITHOUT COLLEGE - Not sure of the title (Self-Released)
THE V-NECKS - Sand Overdose
YOUNG LIONS - Freedom Fighter
GOSPEL SHOPPE - Jesus in Drag
DIREKTIVE 17 - Between the Lines
POLKAHOLICS - Statue of Liberty
MARK MALIBU AND THE WASAGAS - Wasaga Run '81 (Self-Released)
FALLEN ARCHIES - Oh Shit
BIG DEAL - Movie Star (Smash Tapes)
DIATRIBE - Rocksteady Radio (Sounds of the Street)
DEADLINES - I'm You (Live, opening up for Killing Joke in 1982)

ACRYLICS - Structure (Drunken Sailor) 
THE UGLIES - Living Failure (No Patience)
MYAKKA - False
VILE SPIRIT - Can't Relate (Quality Control HQ)
NUERA - CÌrculos
THE DRAINS - New Pills (More Power Tapes)
THE BRAIN - Mind Over Matter
RUBBER - Death Head

MACHINE GUN - Snake in the Grass (Even Worse)
ISOTOPE - Wake Up Screaming 
DISINFECTANT - This Man is for the Birds (Self-Released) 
LOS HUAYCOS - Bonification (En Tu Kara) 
KOENIGSTEIN YOUTH - Parasites (Kawaii / Emergence / When the Dead Twice / Under Siege / Tranzophobia / Positively Negative)

Top 10 - December 2017
10. ISS - The Government is After Me (State Laughter / Erste Theke Tontrager)
9. CHANNEL 3 - Model Citizen (Self-Released)
8. ASS LIFE - Firebomb the Warehouse Party (Self-Released)
7. NO SKIN ìPaying the Fineî - Neck Deep (Give Praise)
6. ZELLOTS - On the Dole (Supreme Echo)
5. DIVA CUP - Intro - Cycle - Artificial (Minimal Care)
SHORT ORDER - Fuck Your Safe Space (Minimal Care)
4. PROM NITE - Eternity of Man (Barfbag)
3. CONDITION - Subjugated Fate (Iron Lung)
2. RASHOMON - New Horizon (Society Bleeds)
1. PISS - Ignorant And Destructive (Static Age)

Demo Feature
SANCTION A is a new band from Montreal that we found out about on SHEXD. You can download their demo at bandcamp.

SANCTION A - Religious Fraud (Self-Released)
SANCTION A - Sacrifice (Self-Released)
SANCTION A - Sullivan (Self-Released)
SANCTION A - Plain (Self-Released)
SANCTION A - Isolation (Self-Released)
SANCTION A - Cross and Crown (Self-Released)
SANCTION A - Destitution (Self-Released)
SANCTION A - Murder (Self-Released)

Flyer - Saturday, June 20th, 2015

Nick White (a.k.a. Smash) is in town to launch his new book on the period of music in Toronto between 1979 and 1984. Situated in one of the worst economic times with political crises abound, culture responded. Garnering musical influences from the UK and the States, Nick looks at what these bands brought to Toronto by way of influences. He starts out with the Clash's show at the O'Keefe Centre and what punk rock looked like in a world music context which threw open the doors to all sorts of music experimentation which are around today. We talk about fractured scenes, but this was the apex or the blueprint for when it all happened. Toronto being a receptive music market soaked it all in and spat it back out with an underground scene that has scene little by way of recognition. Nick takes you through the bands like the Rent Boys, the Dave Howard Singers, Breeding Ground, Kinetic Ideals, V (pre Parachute Club), Hunger Project (Pre-Cowboy Junkies), the Hi-Fi's (Pre Blue Rodeo), the Rheostatics, The Mods, Truths and Rights, Lillian Allen, Third World....The list is endless. Nick also takes us into the world of the haunts where the musicians honed their sounds like at the 291, the Bev, the Cameron House, The Cultural Centre and all sorts of places. He explores how various mediums started up like zines and campus community radio, CFNY, as a result of being shut out of mainstream media. And he gives great insight into what touring bands brought like U2, Echo and the Bunnymen, Killing Joke, the Specials, The Jam, Madness, the Buzzcocks. It's all here. Flirst hand accounts with gonzo journalism which is beyond dedication but borders on fanaticism, which demonstrates the fan part of fanzine. With photos from his brother Simon, some of which appeared in Toronto Calling five years prior but so many more in this book, it is like a more cut and past version of Trouble in the Camera Club but the next chapter to follow.  Nick will be at the Rivoli between 1:00m and 4:00pm playing some of the music captured in the Smash it up comps to also give you a flavour of the sounds of the time.