Jerome (M01E) at UBC Cry Club
In Search of Lost Venues
Jerome is the founder of the band M01E, and of UBC Cry Club, which took place weekly, at one point, at the Fraser River Parkade at UBC. Cry Club started in 2021 and continued, usually weekly, for a couple of years, and then less frequently. It is unrehearsed and open to participation from everyone who attends. Cry Club is on hiatus but hopefully will return. This conversation was recorded on April 1st, 2025. Venues visited: UBC Cry Club @ Fraser River Parkade. Other venues discussed: The Emergency Room, Pit Pub, SUB Ballroom, Red gate, Take Your Time, Grey Lab, Under the Bridge. This...
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Lisa Marr at Cub house
In Search of Lost Venues
Lisa Marr played bass and sang in the beloved Vancouver band Cub. She started by playing in the Evaporators. She continues to play music, make films, and do all kinds of other art and activism. This conversation was recorded on January 28th 2025. Venue visited: Cub House (1992-1997) at 837 west 19th Avenue. Other venues discussed: Pop, Studio J, the Cruel Elephant, the Commodore, Notorious, the Arts Club, the Malcolm Lowry Room, the Starfish Room, Powell Street Festival, Hastings Community Centre. Musicians mentioned: Neko Case, Hard Rock Miners, Sebadoh, Rancid, They Might be Giants,...
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Phil Smith (Corsage) in Kitsilano
In Search of Lost Venues
Phil Smith began in the awesome Vancouver punk band Wasted Lives, whose few recordings were recently released by . This conversation was recorded on December 18 2024. He went on to musical projects like Snow Geese, Blanche Whitman, Bud Luxford and the long-running band Corsage. Venues Visited: Starvin' Marvin's was a nightclub on Burrard and Broadway which closed in the late 1970s. Quintessence Records (later Zulu) opened at 1869 west 4th avenue and often had in-store performances. It moved to 1972 w 4th where it still exists today. The Indian Center was built as a church (initially the...
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Selina Crammond at Horses Records
In Search of Lost Venues
Selina Crammond has played in the bands Movieland, Supermoon, Kiss Painting and currently, Midnight News and Roswit. She also runs Monotapes with Gal av Gay. This conversation took place on December 7 2024. Horses Records was an independent record and bookstore on Hastings and Nanaimo (on 2447 E Hastings Street) from 2014-2016, opened by Katayoon Yousefbigloo and Dan Geddes. The store frequently hosted music show in those years. Other venues visited: What’s up Hot Dog (2481 E Hastings St), TD bank atm, Roy G Biv Other venues discussed: Art Bank, Nyala, Railway Club, WISE Club,...
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Remote Report: Rachel Melas & Conny Nowe of the Moral Lepers
In Search of Lost Venues
In this bonus episode I talk separately with Rachel Melas and Conny Nowe, who played bass and drums in the all-female, post punk band the Moral Lepers, in the early 1980s. Rachel was also in the art punk band animal slaves among many others and Conny played in Tin Twist, and Junco Run. They now live together in Toronto where they play music in genres like cajun zydeco, swing, ragtime, folk and klesmer. This conversation took place on a video call, so you’ll notice a different quality of sound and ambiance compared to the usual episodes! These conversations took place on November 11 &...
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Remote Report: Mar Sellars
In Search of Lost Venues
This is a remote report, a conversation conducted virtually rather than in person. In these episodes I speak with musicians who have moved away from Vancouver about their experiences and the venues they loved. Mar Sellars started playing in bands as a teenager in Vancouver, including The Riff Randells, The Ewoks and the Engaged. She also played in bands while living in the UK, and worked at the CBC and the BBC. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she runs a and is also a booking agent and label manager. Venues discussed: The Rage, The Starfish Room, The Brickyard, The...
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Lyndsay Sung at The Blinding Light! & Ms T's Cabaret
In Search of Lost Venues
Lyndsay Sung is a musician, writer, filmmaker and cookbook author. She was in the bands the Sob Story, le Petit Mort, Radio Berlin and Pink Mountaintops, and now plays in KCAR, Foxgloves and Strawberries and Cream. This conversation was recorded on November 5 2024. was an underground cinema which ran from 1998-2003 at 36 Powell Street. Founded by Alex MacKenzie as a follow-up to his Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images (1995-1997), the space housed a cafe, a gallery and a 110-seat cinema. It showed new and classic underground and avant garde films, hosted nights to bring your own 8mm...
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prOphecy sun at Video In & Blim
In Search of Lost Venues
is an artist, musician and educator who divides her time between Vancouver and Nelson, BC. She has been perfomring experimental music in Vancouver since the early 2000s. This conversation was recorded on November 3, 2024. Sixth Fest happened on 6th Avenue between Ontario and Manitoba beginning in 2009 and latest for several years. Video In (later VIVO) began life as The Satellite Video Exchange Society, founded in 1973. It excited in three other spaces before moving to 1965 Main Street in 1993. It promoted the uses of non-commercial video software as an information and communications...
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Jesse Gander at Seylynn Hall
In Search of Lost Venues
Jesse Gander grew up playing music as a teen in the band d.b.s. (1992-2001) in North Vancouver. He went on to play in numerous other bands, currently Uptights. He started recording bands while still a teenager and has done music production for over 500 bands and artists from around the world. Seylynn Hall was a community recreation centre in North Vancouver which held shows for about fifteen years starting in 1996. The last shows was in 2009, though a couple of one off shows happened after that. It was the centre of a diy punk scene for those years, mostly run by youth for...
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Rose Melberg at The Shed
In Search of Lost Venues
Rose Melberg has been making music for over three decades as part of the bands Tiger Trap, The Softies, Go Sailor, Imaginary Pants, Brave Irene, Bleating Hearts and many more. She is originally from California but has lived in Vancouver BC for close to twenty years. Most recently she is one tour with her band The Softies, who have released a new album, and is playing in the band Bratmobile. The Shed was a venue which evolved in the garage behind Chris-a-riffic's Mount Pleasant house, in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Bands discussed: Chris-a-riffic, Adrian Teacher, Free Cake for Every...
info_outlineScott Morgan is best known as the electronic music project loscil. He previously played in Meet Daisy, Thee Crusaders, Destroyer, The Multiplex and others.
The Blinding Light! was an underground cinema which ran from 1998-2003 at 36 Powell Street. Founded by Alex MacKenzie as a follow-up to his Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images (1995-1997), the space housed a cafe, a gallery and a 110-seat cinema. It showed new and classic underground and avant garde films, hosted nights to bring your own 8mm films and hosted experimental bands with a visual element.
Other venues visited include the Cruel Elephant (23 W. Cordova St), The Town Pump (66 Water St), Amnesia (356 Water St), Blim (23 w Pender), @ Gallery (425 Carrall St).
Other venues mentioned: The Edison Electric, Helen Pitt Gallery, Archimedes Club, Station Street Art Centre, Or Gallery.
Other bands mentioned: Steel Pole Bath Tub, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Negativeland, the Jades, Jesus Lizard, Pearl Jam (Town Pump show 1991), The Rose Chronicles, The Odds, Dick & Jane, Mudhoney, Helmet, Superconductor, Marc Ribot, Shiny Greedy, Slowhand, Strategy, Growing, Sinoia Caves.
The conversation was recorded on January 26th, 2024.
Music clips played with artists' permission.
Loscil: Triton from submers
Ticker Tape Parade: Audience with the Pope
Destroyer: M.E.R.C.I. from Thief