Radio - Sunday, April 19th, 2020

Another week of self-isolation and more punk songs are coming out about this experience. Some of that is on tonight's show which includes the opening song and Jimmy Vapid's demo. There is a lot of new street punk in this show and guest sets from John Di Marco (Rubber Factory Records). You can download the show here. 

COVID-19 - I am the Corona-Virus (Youtube)




We started off tonight with a song on youtube by a band called COVID-19, which reportedly features members of UNITY and IGNITE. This is a song called “I am the Corona-Virus” and we will put up a link for it on the blog post. Thanks again to Dave KW for this.

EU's ARSE - Non Ho Paura (Break the Silence)
DEBUNK - Flower Power 
GANG CONTROL - Gender Apartheid (Feat. Hasse) (Self-Released)
RAT CAGE - Not Got No Hope (La Vida Es Un Mus)
BUGGY - Blood Currency (Self-Released)

THE SHIT DOGS - WWII Never Ended (Pangolin / Last Laugh)HEY TAXI - War is Hell (Mystic)F.U.'s - Green Beret (Modern Method)THE WARDS - Poison Gas (Medical)LOST ONES - Total Nightmare (Self-Released)

WAYNE COUNTY AND THE ELECTRIC CHAIRS - Toilet Love (Safari)
IDEALS - Depression Baby (Wow!)
CHRISTIAN DEATH – Deathwish (L'Invitation au Suicide / Normal / Contempo)
V-NECKS - Sand Overdose (Smash)
TBA - Through My Fingers (Smash)

John Di Marco, a long time listener of the show and proprietor of Rubber Factory Records, and a podcast host on Razorcake, had some self-isolation sets he put together for the show.  These next two sets were programmed by him. 

GREAT ST. LOUIS - Endless War (JSNTGM)
ADD/C – Paradigm (Mauled by Tigers / Plan-it X South)
THE ARRIVALS - New Gold Standard (Recess)
MUHAMMADALI - It's Gonna Be OK (Dirt Cult) 
BIG SAD - The World Has to End (Rad Girlfriend / Rubber Factory) 

MINUTEMEN – Fascist (SST)
PROPAGANDHI - Devil's Creek / Failed States (Experimental Prototype) (Epitaph)
PAILHEAD – Ballad (Wax Trax!)
DEAD TO ME - By the Throat / Splendid Isolation (Fat Wreck)
THE DICKIES – Paranoid (A and M)

If you want to help program some sets feel free to contact us and we will see how we can pull this together. 

SEKUNDERA - Måndag Morgon (Luftslott / Far$ans Pengar)
MOVING TARGET - My Friend (Boss Tuneage)

HUSKER DU - Gotta Lotta (Minneapolis, 1986, B Sides)

THE HASKELS - Rock n Roll Hoodlums (Splunge Communications)
PLEDGE DRIVE - Conspiracy Theories (Self-Released)

ROYAL OI! - Spittin' Fire (Self-Released)
GOOD MORNING VIETNAM - Radio Station (Self-Released)
POSLEDEN UDAR - Не 3аборавам (Self-Released)
FUCK UPS - Just Another Fuck Up (Knock Out)

BARFIGHT CHAMPS - Fallen Angels (Self-Released)
DOUG AND THE SLUGZ - Skinhead Faction (Randale)

VICE SQUAD - Ignored to Death (Last Rockers)

CRIMINAL OUTFIT - Criminal Outfit (Self-Released)
THE VERTIGOS - This is Decontrol (Mangrove)

FINLAND STATION - Let's Go Chill (With Kim Jong Il) 

Demo Feature 
Jimmy Vapid has also come up with a recording about covid-19 titled “Short Songs about a Virus”. 29 songs that he had friends help write the lyrics. He sent it to me this week and proceeds from the sale of this release are going to the Italian Red Cross. Go to bandcamp.

JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Andrea Imbalzano)– City Pressure (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (John French)– Family in Quarantine (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Leysa Lakowsky)– I Got You (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Giuseppe Palumbo)– Locked in the House (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Jonathon Lambert)– Lonely Saturday Night (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Ryan Barneski)– Goodbye Americans (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Valentina de Rosa)– Worlds Apart (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Matt Deecrack)– Thursday Morning (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Andrea Manges)– Sunday Afternoon (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Jordan McLelland)– All Alone (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Curtis Tone)– Life is Fucked (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Matthew Ellis)– My Heart is Hanging Upside Down (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Mattia Neri)– Hypercube (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Jason Boardman)– Nothing Like a Pandemic (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Neil Scott)– One More Day (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Mattia Neri)– Running Through the Mud (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Katie Whitaker)– You’re Not Invited (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Chris Tull)– Covid-19 is Go! (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Chris Kucher)– Asymptomatic Solution (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Franz Barcella)– Frontline (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Axel Muller)– Fifteen Days in Isolation (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Brad Manners)– I Ain’t Fine (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Andriano Cecchetti)– A Door to My Mind (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Fabio Militano)– I Never Get Laid (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Chris Mug)– The Turnaround (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Jesse Vachon)– Quarantine Boogie (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Morry Core)– Ceiling Sweeper(Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Tanya Dube)– The Quarantine Blues (Self-Released)
JIMMY VAPID and FRIENDS (Becky Choquette)– Throat Puncher (Self-Released)

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)

Radio - Sunday, October 30, 2011

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Vera Bickle, Gerry Doyle, Mark Sanders, and Dan Hughes were interviewed on October 16th about a weekly event that they organized called Start Dancing. This was a unique all ages punk event that had DJs and bands playing. They took place in halls, curling clubs, church basements and other unlikely community spaces that they could find around the city. Four years of these events entrenched the spirit of an all ages scene in the early hardcore era. These events allowed for various levels of alternative scenes that include mods, skins, punks, new romantics and others. It was one of my first exposures to the local scene and in hindsight it had a big impact on my life.


L’ETRANGER - Barricades (Sensible Record Company)
Interview – Start Dancing
PURPLE HEARTS - What am I gonna do (Captain Mod)
Interview – Start Dancing
YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH - Apathy (Fringe)
Interview – Start Dancing
SHAM 69 - If the kids are united (Captain Oi!)
Interview – Start Dancing
THE ENGLISH BEAT - Mirror in the bathroom (Sire)
Interview – Start Dancing
THE CLASH - White man in Hammersmith Palais (CBS)
Interview – Start Dancing
THE YOUNG LIONS - We wanna riot (Schizophenic)
Interview – Start Dancing
MARK MALIBU AND THE WASAGAS - Wasaga run (Self-released)
Interview – Start Dancing
COCKNEY REJECTS - East End (Captain Oi!)

Flyer - Thursday May 13 - Saturday May 15, 1982

This was the V-Neck's last show, which is what the "Burial" reference is about. Johnny Bubblegum from the Wayouts made the flyer. Karen Jankulak dug up the flyer artwork from her collection of materials. Karen was the rhythm guitarist in the V-Necks.

Flyer: Friday January 29, 1982

Zine - Local Smash #20

This is issue #20 of Smash It Up, which is a Toronto punk fanzine put out by Nick Smash. This issue came out in December 1981. The issue starts out with a road trip diary for the Young Lions and 20th Century Rebels for a nuclear disarmament benefit show they play in Montreal. It didn't go so well.

There is an article on the Professionals who played the Voodoo Club. there is bits of an interview with Paul Cook in the piece.

There is an interview with Simple Minds who are from Scotland. This was the second time they had come to Toronto and was around the time that "Sons of Fascination / Sister Feelings Call" had come out because the band talks about it in the interview. They are pretty chatty and down to earth which is surprising to me because I saw them play Maple Leaf Gardens when they were a bit full of themselves and scolded the audience for coming up on stage. Difficult to think of them as the same band.

There is an update on Toots and the Maytals who had broken up and then gotten a new band together to come back up to Toronto. This is the man who wrote "Pressure Drop". There is a lengthy interview with Echo and the Bunnymen at their second show which took place at the El Mocambo. I think all the shows were happening there after the Edge closed down.

Jill Heath does an interview with the Young Lions where she starts out with the show in Montreal. They also cover:

- the song "United"
- the song "Goodnight Belfast"
- the Toronto Sun newspaper
- the song "One Little Nazi"
- and a big show they have organized featuring seven of Toronto's newest punk bands.

Jill Heath also does an interview with the ska band from Vancouver called the Villains. it was at a sold out show at the Masonic Temple on November 14th, 1981 and they were booked to come back for the end of December to play the Headspace for 8 days which was unheard of back then.

There is an update on Toots and the Maytals who had broken up and then formed with a new line up. This is the guy who wrote "Pressure Drop".

There is an article written about Youth Youth Youth, which is one of the only pieces I have ever seen written about what I would consider Canada's best hardcore band. The article provides some insight into motivations behind their songs and some interpretation into lyrics. There are a couple of quotes from Rob Mallion the guitarist and they mention that the third issue of Civil Disobedience had come out. They refer to Civil Disbobedience as a political zine that members of the band published.

There are some record reviews of John Foxx of Ultravoxx and Bow Wow Wow.

There is an interview with a band from Toronto called Boys Brigade. They sound like a percussion based dance new wave band similar to bands like Bow Wow Wow or Pigbag or Parachute Club or Norda. There was lots of other bands doing that same sound. Boys Brigade formed out of members of Arson and the Androids. I don't think they ever went anywhere because I never heard of anything about them outsude of this interview.

There is a write up on the Pinkertones who relocated to Toronto from Halifax.

There is an interesting scene report on Liverpool that writes about bands like Big in Japan, the Spitfire Boys, Crucial Three, the Nova Mob, the ID which became OMD, Dalek I Love You, Echo and the Bunnymen, and Teardrop Explodes.

There is a show review of Siouxsie and the Banshees at the El Mocambo.

There is a review of a Start Dancing show at a hall on Claremont that motsly describes the V-Necks.

There is also a review of an Iggy Pop show at the Music Hall.

This is courtesy of Daibhid James and his archive. Daibhid hosts Moondoog Ballroom on CIUT.

Flyer - Friday November 27, 1981

This was the first Start Dancing show where bands played. This is the Young Lions.

Flyer - Thursday September 17 - Saturday September 19, 1981

Thanks to Karen Jankulak for digging this one up.

Flyer - Sunday April 12, 1981

The Young Lions and the V-Necks do a Rock Against Racism benefit at the Turning Point. There are two flyers for this show.

Flyer - Thursday April 9 - Saturday April 11, 1981

The Young Lions team up with the V-Necks to play the Beverley Tavern

Flyer - Thursday December 11 - Saturday December 13, 1980

From the archives of Henry Martinuk.

Zine - Smash It Up, November 1980

This issue of Smash It Up is all about politics. This issue came out in November 1980.

It starts out with an article on the KKK trying to start up a chapter in Toronto and the writer calls for a media blackout of the organization.

This article is followed by a piece on Rock Against Racism which looked at how the organization evolved in Toronto. They mentioned the English roots to the organization with bands like Elvis Costello and Gang of Four and the Specials and the Clash. And then there was references to local punk bands like the Sharks who write a tribute to Albert Johnson called "Metro's Number one Problem". And Young Lions had a sing with the lyrics "One little nazi is one too many".

There is an interview with the leader of the Young Communist League of Canada, Sylvie Baillargeon.

There is a piece on Leon Trotsky.

And there is a note about a cancellation of a Clash gig and Maple Leaf Gardens that Teenage Head was supposed to play.

This issue appears here courtesy of Dhaibid James's archival collection. Dhaibid is host of the Moondog's Ballroom on CIUT 89.5 FM.