In Search of Lost Venues
Memories of Vancouver live music venues which no longer exist from the local musicians who played there. Each episode is a walk through a neighbourhood with one or more Vancouver musician, past their favourite venues, places where significant events occurred.
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In Search of Lost Venues is wrapping up!
02/04/2026
In Search of Lost Venues is wrapping up!
Thank you so much to everyone who listened and participated. There will be a new conversation in the next few months, and the occasional bonus episode. I always saw this as a finite project; there are way more stories to tell but I don't want to get repetitive in my own angle into this topic.
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Luke Meat @ The Brickyard
01/21/2026
Luke Meat @ The Brickyard
Luke Meat was the music director at CiTR radio during the 2000s. From 1998-2000 he was the DJ at the Brickyard under the name Audio Where. Luke was a member of the bands Damn Fine Sandwich, Storc, Value Village People, and Zero Percent Interest and currently in Bat Leather. This conversation was recorded on January 15 2026. The Brickyard was at 315 Carroll Street. In the late 1990s and early 2000s it was one of the main venues for local bands and out of town bands looking to play smaller venues. The building still exists and has been renovated into a bakery, vintage shop and coffee shop. Other venues visited: Selectors Records, Blim. Other venues discussed. Columbia, The Old American, Smilin’ Buddha, Hoko’s, Web Cafe, Starfish Room, Richards on Richards. Bands discussed: Chixdiggit, Fluff, Sunn O))), Boris, Groovy Ghoulies, Smugglers, Maow, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, At the Drive-in, Matmos, Modest Mouse, Close Caption Radio, Wide Mouth Mason, Kinski, Industry & Agriculture, Unclean Wiener, Destroyer, Jerk with a Bomb, Jennifer Gentle, Sleater Kinney, The Evaporators, Seam, GOB, d.b.s. This episode features the following music: Kinski: from Semaphore EP (2002). d.b.s.: from If Life Were A Result We'd All Be Dead (Originally released on Crap records, 2014) Bat Leather: (2025)
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Dennis Mills in Gastown and beyond
01/07/2026
Dennis Mills in Gastown and beyond
Dennis Mills has been playing with bands in Vancouver for over four decades. He was in AKA and Rhythm Mission, and still plays with the Judys and the Jazzmanian Devils. This conversation was recorded on November 28th 2025. Venues visited: Tamara Restaurant (311 W Hastings), site of the first Jazzmanian Devils show in 1983. Warehouse show location (152 West Hastings). Helen Pitt Gallery (163 W Pender), The Lotus, In Concert, the Lamplighter, the Town Pump, John Barley’s, the Savoy, Gambados, Lanalou’s, City Space. Other venues mentioned: the Railway Club, the Commodore, PUMPS, Smilin’ Buddha, the Plaza, Cinderella Ballroom, Glass Slipper, Cambrian Hall. Musicians mentioned: Captain Beefheart, UJ3RK5, Zealots, I Braineater, the Psychic Healers, 54-40, Los Popularos, David Thomas, Tragically Hip, Red Herring, Death Sentence, the Odds, The Rheostatics, the Clash, the Dishrags, Bo Diddley, Los Lobos, the Frights, the Moral Lepers, the K-Tels, Subhumans, DOA, the Pointed Sticks, Work Party, Emily Faryna, Tin Twist, the Dils, Rank and File. This episode features the following music: AKA: from Dead Therapy Rhythm Mission: Shudderdown Tin Twist: (Mo-Da-Mu 1980)
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Ziggy (formerly known as Yuriko Igo) @ Blim
12/24/2025
Ziggy (formerly known as Yuriko Igo) @ Blim
Ziggy (Yuriko Iga) opened Blim in 2003, after graduating from the Alberta College of Art and Design and starting a venue called Kisaten in Calgary. Blim was a music venue performance space, art gallery and much more. Blim hasn’t had music events for about 14 years but is still a shop/retail art installation. Blim began as a venue in 2003 in the penthouse at 23 W Pender St in the old BC Electric Building. It moved to 197 E 17th for 2005-2010 and then to its current location at 115 E Pender. This coversation was recorded on November 26, 2025. Venues visited: 3 locations of Blim Venues mentioned: Unit/Pitt, the Sugar Refinery, the Binding Light!, Kisaten, Squib. Bands mentioned: p:ano, Nicholas Krgovich, Tygh Runyan, Crys Cole, Tunnel Canary, Joshua Stevenson, The Hidden Cameras, Dandi Wind, Josh Rose, Brady Cranfield, Loscil, Fieldhead, Lee Hutzalak, Cartoon Express, connect_icut, Prophecy Sun, Jeffrey Allport, Johnny Wakeham, Standard Grey, Pink Mountaintops. This episode features the following music: p:ano: from Ghost Pirates Without Heads (Mint Records, 2005) Kellarissa: from Superstar EP (2008) Fieldhead: from they shook hands for hours (2009)
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Kristjanne Vosper @ the Black Lab
12/10/2025
Kristjanne Vosper @ the Black Lab
Kristjanne Vosper’s current project is KMVP. She has played in Smearlord, Bash Brothers, Repukes, and OK Vancouver OK. She lives in Nanaimo. Venues visited:The Black Lab ( E Hastings) was a “DIY, collectively run, volunteer-based punk space” on Hastings Street , just east of Main, in the Downtown Eastside, from about 2014-2024. Other venues visited: Pat’s Pub, The Secret Location, Red Gate, Iron Road Studio, Fingers Crossed, Bullet Farm. Other venues discussed: Jam space at Main and Powell, Crace mountain Bands mentioned : Time Cops, Flat Bed, Shearing Pinx, Wameki, OK Vancouver OK, Red Circle, Screaming Queens, Bad Sister, Hag Face, Jo Passed, buddies, Felonious Parker, Freak Dream, Garbage Dream, Bereaved, Mansion Music, Imaginary Pants. This episode features the following music: KMVP: from NUCLEAR FREE NANAIMO VOL III ( 2023) Bash Brothers: from BASH (2014) KMVP: from KMVP "goes Ribit" WITHOUT FROGS ( 2024)
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On a short break!
09/17/2025
On a short break!
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Amber Webber at Pat's Pub
09/03/2025
Amber Webber at Pat's Pub
Amber Webber is known for the bands Lightning Dust and Black Mountain. She briefly had a project called Kodiak Deathbeds and has been a guest singer on many other projects. She started in the band Dream On Dreary. This conversation was recorded on August 13th 2025. Venues visited: Pat’s Pub was the site of the first Black Mountain show around 2004. Shindig, the CiTR battle of the bands, took place at Pat’s for several years in the mid-late 2010s. The downstairs bar in the Patricia Hotel has had music shows for over a hundred years. It was once a renowned jazz venue, and in the early 2000s hosted local bands for many years. The space was originally called the Patricia Café and opened in 1914. The Hawks Street House was a women’s collective house and a community space at the corner of Hawks and Georgia. Hoko's/Lanalou's Other venues discussed: The Chapel, The Interurban Gallery, The Lido, Richard’s on Richards, the Brickyard, the Commodore, the Marine Club. Bands mentioned: The Cave Singers, Better Friends than Lovers, Rae Spoon, Ladyhawk, Animal Collective, Mecca Normal, Jerk with a Bomb, Megamall, Magnolia Electric Company, Murder City Devils. This episode features the following music: Black Mountain: from Black Mountain (Scratch Records, 2004/Jagjaguwar 2005). Kodiak Deathbeds: from Kodiak Deathbeds (2015). Lightning Dust: from Fantasy (2013 Jagjaguwar).
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Sydney Hermant at art spaces in the Downtown Eastside
08/20/2025
Sydney Hermant at art spaces in the Downtown Eastside
Sydney Hermant played in the bands Bonaparte, Hello Blues Roses, and the Choir Practice. She is also an artist and was the curator of the Or Gallery. She put on cabaret shows with the Hot Rod Puppet Ensemble. This conversation was recorded on July 30th, 2025. Venues visited: Sydney’s house from 2004 - 2012 at Princess and Powell (Bonapoarte, The Choir Practice and Destroyer practice spaces). Dunlevy art space at Dunlevy and Powell (1998 art and music studio with Steve Wood, Scott Morgan, Neko Case. Destroyer practice space) Art Studio at Gore and Powell. Pat’s Pub. The downstairs bar in the Patricia Hotel has had music shows for over a hundred years. It was once a renowned jazz venue, and in the early 2000s hosted local bands for many years. The space was originally called the Patricia Café and opened in 1914. Other venues discussed: the Starfish Room, the Sugar Refinery, the Railway Club, the Or Gallery. Bands mentioned: The Beans, Destroyer, Battles, Pink Mountaintops, Capozzi Park. Loscil, Black Mountain, The Secret Three, Rodney Graham, Radio Berlin, Book of Lists, Nikki Sudden, Jonathan Richaman, Luna, Yo La Tengo, The New Pornographers This episode features the following music: Hello Blue Roses: from Wild Nights! (JAZ Records, 2020). Bonaparte: Tree Song (recorded by Kurt Dahle and Dan Bejar on Cordova Street at Kurt and Coco's house 2005/6). The Choir Practice: from The Choir Practice (Mint Records, 2007).
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Ryan McCormick at Hoko's
08/06/2025
Ryan McCormick at Hoko's
Ryan McCormick is the band Collpasing Opposites and has also played in Green Belt Collective, They Shoot Horses Don’t They? and others. He was a director of the Safe Amplification Site Society. This conversation was recorded on July 10, 2025. Hoko’s was a sushi restaurant at 362 Powell Street that started having shows in the 2000s. It was closed due to licensing problems and is now the venue Lanalou’s. The Zoo Zhop (223 Main Street) was a venue and record store in the 2010s. The Prophouse Cafe (1636 Venables Ave) was a coffee shop and venue in the 2010s. Astorino’s was the venue for the Safe Amplification Site Society (Safe Amp 2013-2015) at the site of a former Italian dining hall at 1739 Venables Street. Other venues mentioned: Starry Dynamo Cafe. Bands mentioned: Half Chinese, Apollo Ghosts, Kidnap Kids, Chris-a-riffic, OK Vancouver OK, Mt Eerie. This episode features the following music: Collapsing Opposites: from Microchips Implanted In Your Brain (2005). Apollo Ghosts: from Forgotten Triangle EP (2009). Collapsing Opposites: from Real Moving (2011).
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Ana Rose Carrico at the Red Gate
07/23/2025
Ana Rose Carrico at the Red Gate
Ana Rose Carrico is a grassroots arts administrator who co-founded The Red Gate Arts Society. She is the current Executive Director, a former Station Manager of CiTR & Discorder Magazine, and a lifelong advocate for the cultural life of Vancouver. This conversation took place on May 9th 2025. The Red Gate first opened on Hastings near Cambie in 2004. It moved to 855 East Hastings between 2012 and 2018. The venue was evicted from both locations before moving to its current space at 1965 Main Street, one of those rare venues which has managed to survive and create a distinct, thriving identity at multiple addresses. Other venues visited: Church of Pointless Hysteria, Dynamo Gallery, 151, Pat’s Pub, the Remington, The Secret Location, The Emergency Room. This episode features the following music: Koban: from null (the broadway to boundary), 2013. TV Ugly: from UCLA Yankee Cola, 2015. Mourning Coup: from Baby Blue, 2015.
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Keith Parry at the Cruel Elephant
07/09/2025
Keith Parry at the Cruel Elephant
Keith Parry founded and ran the legendary record store and label, Scratch Records, which opened in 1987. He played in bands including Superconductor, Octatrackter, Twerdocleb, Kicking it with Coho, The Gay, Pink Mountaintops, and Neko Case. Keith lives on Vancouver Island and we walked and talked on April 25th 2025, when he came to Vancouver to see some music shows. This conversation will extend across two episodes and this is part two. Scratch Records started in 1987 at 317A Cambie St. It moved to 109 West Cordova St, 726 Richards St, and finally, the Interurban Gallery at 1 East Hastings (2010-2104). The Cruel Elephant opened at 117 Granville St in August 1990 and lastest for a couple of years before moving to two other locations. Other venues visited: the Marine Club, the Arts Club Lounge, Richards on Richards. Other venues discussed: Comox Valley Curling Club, The Railway Club, the Town Pump. Bands discussed: Yob, The Flaming Lips, Texas Instruments, Green Day, The Smugglers, Jesus Lizard, Thinking Fellows union, Surgery, Pavement, Snuff, Nomeansno, Destroyer, Devours, Drama Queen, Isocracy. This episode features the following music: Superconductor: Thorsen's Eleven on Hit Songs For Girls (Boner Records 1993). Windwalker: Burning Inside on The Mint Is A Terrible Thing To Taste (Mint Records 1991) The Smugglers: on The Smugglers At Marineland (Nardwuar Records 1991)
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Keith Parry at the Savoy
06/25/2025
Keith Parry at the Savoy
Keith Parry founded and ran the legendary record store and label, Scratch Records, which opened in 1987. He played in bands including Superconductor, Octatrackter, Twerdocleb, Kicking it with Coho, The Gay, Pink Mountaintops, and Neko Case. Keith lives on Vancouver Island and we walked and talked on April 25th 2025, when he came to Vancouver to see some music shows. This conversation will extend across two episodes. The Savoy at 6 Powell St, was run by Janet Forsyth and showcased local and touring bands from the early 1980s until it closed in April 1988. Scratch Records started in 1987 at 317a Cambie St. It moved to 109 West Cordova St, 726 Richards St, and finally, Interurban Gallery at 1 East Hastings (2010-2104). Other venues visited and discussed: The Marine Club, The Railway Club, UBC Sub Ballroom, the Town Pump, Richards on Richards. Bands discussed: Simple Minds, The Cult, Go for Three, The Residents, Nomeansno, Flaming Lips, Soul Asylum, Spirit of the West, Grooveaholics, Art Bergman, Bob’s Your Uncle, The Scramblers, the Nerve Tubes, Animal Slaves, Poisoned, Brilliant Orange, White Lung, Ancients, Tobeatic, Black Wizard, Three Wolf Moon, Mecca Normal, Pedestrian Sacrifice, Duotron, Couch, To Live and Shave in LA. This episode features the following music: Superconductor: Bushpilot from Heavy with Puppy (Boner Record Company, produced by "special" arrangement with Scratch Records, 1992) Oktatrackter : Kiddie Fist from Kiddie Fist 7” (Kil-Tel Records 1991)
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Joshua Stevenson at the Anza Club
06/11/2025
Joshua Stevenson at the Anza Club
Josh Stevenson has been playing experimental music since the 1990s in projects like Staked Plain, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Glow worm, Bold Axis Arms, -Outhern Acific+, Magneticring, July Fourth Toilet, and Von Bingen. He also does audio mastering under the name . This conversation was recorded on April 17th, 2025. The Anza Club is on the corner of Ontario and 8th Avenue, the home of the Australia New Zealand Association. The building was previously the Mount Pleasant Hall. In the 1990s it was home to Vancouver’s weirdo and experimental music scene, but had shows both before and after that. Though the Club still exists, it only very occasionally has shows. Other venues visited: VIVO, formerly Video In, 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 moved to Kaslo street in 2014. The Glass Slipper, a legendary Vancouver jazz club at 185 E 11th Avenue, burned down. Other venues mentioned: the Malcolm Lowry Room, the Sugar Refinery, Chroma Books, Solder and Son, Ms T’s Cabaret, the Press Club, Manifesto (Edmonton). Band discussed: Refrigerator, Wicker Spigot, Noggin, Blowhole, Good Horsey, Smog, Truman’s Water, the Ruins, Pipe Dream, Blaise Pascal, Sun City Girls, US Maple, Wolf Eyes, Climax Golden Twins, Zumpano, Vic Chestnut, Couch, Duotron, Loscil, Matthew Shipp/Susie Ibarra/William Parker, Eyelickers, New Pornographers, Frog Eyes, Leviathans, GHQ. This episode features the following music: Von Bingen: from Von Bingen (2009) Magneticring: from City (2011) Magenticring: from All the Fluid is Floating (2012).
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Marita M. at Astorino's
05/28/2025
Marita M. at Astorino's
Marita M. is a musician, performer and arts organizer. She has been in many bands including True Crush, Lunch Lady, Derek Wheeler, Divorcer, Reveal Yourself and Bill Can. This conversation was recorded on April 3, 2024. Astorino’s was the venue for the Safe Amplification Site Society (Safe Amp 2013-2015) at the site of a former Italian dining hall at 1739 Venables Street. Other venues visited: Britannia Community Centre, El Cocal, the York Theatre, the Mansion. Other venues discussed: Mesa Luna, Art Bank, Dharma lab, Fingers Crossed, Alf House, The Shooting Gallery, Lucky's Comics, What Lab, Boombox, Goonies, The Birdhouse, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Croatian Cultural Centre, Seylynn Hall, Purple Thistle, UBC SUB Ballroom. Bands mentioned: Mt Eerie, Kidnap Kids, Screaming Queens, Hot Fruit, Pet Fairies, Fake Fruit, Death from Above, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, The Evaporators, Riff Randells, Shreaing Pinx. This episode features the following music: True Crush: from We Like Us (2013) Divorcer: from Nutty Grotty (2022) Bill Can: from Bootleg 2 (2024)
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Jerome (M01E) at UBC Cry Club
05/14/2025
Jerome (M01E) at UBC Cry Club
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 episode features the following music: M01E: from The New Youth (2025) UBC Cry Club: (From UBC CRY CLUB 2021-2022 哭中作乐 / best consumed at volume: 60% - 100% ) UBC Cry Club: From UBC CRY CLUB 2021-2022 哭中作乐 / best consumed at volume: 60% - 100%)
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Lisa Marr at Cub house
02/19/2025
Lisa Marr at Cub house
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, DOA, Maow, the Smugglers, Modernettes, Pointed Sticks, the Bombshells, Coal. This episode features the following music: Cub: from Betti-Cola (Mint 1993?) Lisa Marr: A Bit of a Fight (2020) The Beards: Sidewalks from Funtown ( 2002)
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Phil Smith (Corsage) in Kitsilano
02/05/2025
Phil Smith (Corsage) in Kitsilano
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 Kitsilano Presbyterian Church) in 1911, and eventually became the Vancouver Indian Centre (now the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Society) at this location (1855 Vine) from 1970 to 1979. Now called Devon Court, the building contains luxury condos. The Subhumans played there in June and July 1978, and the hall had at least 2 additional shows. The Russian Community Hall on 4th and Arbutus has had events over the decades, but most famously was The Afterthought, where psych and hippie shows happened in the '60s before the Retinal Circus opened. Rohan's opened at a record store at 2865 West 4th Ave (it was an old house!), and then relocated to 2723 west 4th as the venue, Rohan's Rockpile, in 1972 or 1973. According to BC Business Online The Who came to play after an arena show. The Legion Hall at 2611 west 4th avenue was known at Lion's Gate Hall, and was legion #79. There is an ad from 1963 listing it for rent for events. Bands mentioned: Alan Horowitz Band, Heart, Dishrags, Subhumans, Jonathan Richman, DOA, Modernettes, Iggy Pop, Ramones, Talking Heads, Helium, Actionauts, Pointed Sticks, U-J3RK5, Steely Dan. Other venues discussed: Luv-a-fair, Sub Ballroom, the Plaza (punk house), the Snake Pit, Viking Hall, Nat Bailey Stadium. This episode features the following music: Wasted Lives: from s/t EP 1979 (reissued by ). Corsage: from CORSAGE (originally released on cassette 1988) Corsage: from Ancient Songs (2023)
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Selina Crammond at Horses Records
01/22/2025
Selina Crammond at Horses Records
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, Zoo Zhop, Selectors, Records, the Moontower, Deep Space, Red Gate, the Astoria Musicians mentioned: Chris-a-Riffic, Gal Gracen, Nice Apple, TV Ugly, Elf PIty, Search Parties, Dan Geddes (Peace, Lt Frank Dickens), Arbutus, connect_icut, Jock Tears, Cindy Lee, Kellarissa, Weed, lie, Apollo Ghosts This episode features the following music: Lt Frank Dickens: from Sour Bubblegum (2017) Supermoon: from Playland (Mint Records, 2016)) Midnight News: from Bad News Days (Monotapes, 2024)
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Remote Report: Rachel Melas & Conny Nowe of the Moral Lepers
01/08/2025
Remote Report: Rachel Melas & Conny Nowe of the Moral Lepers
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 & December 13, 2024. In Vancouver, Rachel Melas was in The Vistors, the Moral Lepers, Animals Slaves and the Might Club. Conny Nowe started in the Moral Lepers, and also played in Tin Twist, Junco Run and The Work Party while in Vancouver. Venues discussed: City Space (343 Railway Street), the Smilin’ Buddha, the Balmoral, Odd Fellows Hall, O’Hara’s, The Windmill, the Town Pump, the Lotus, the Archimedes Club, the Japanese Hall, the Railway Club, the Arts Club Backstage Lounge, Luv-a-fair, the Egress. Bands discussed: Private School, the Zellots, K-Tels, Young Canadians, the Modernettes, Oh Susanna, DOA, Melodic Energy Commission, Images in Vogue, 54-40, Art Bergman, the Dishrags. This episode features the following music: The Moral Lepers: from Turn to Stone (Mo-Da-Mu 1982) Animal Slaves: Save Me From Ruin from Dog Eat Dog (Mo-Da-Mu 1985) Tin Twist: (Mo-Da-Mu 1980)
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Remote Report: Mar Sellars
12/25/2024
Remote Report: Mar Sellars
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 Picadilly Pub, The Good Jacket, The Marine Club, The Railway Club, The Sugar Refinery, Ms T’s Cabaret, Submission Hold House, Video In, The Waldorf. Bands discussed: Flash Bastard, The Buzzcocks, Gob, Pluto, Thee Goblins, The Evaporators, The Organ, Fun 100, Lederhosen Lucil, Pulp, Blur, Elastica, Weezer, Moist, Crowded House, Sheryl Crow, the White Stripes, Operation Makeout, the Von Blondies, Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub, Library Eater, The Disgusteens, New Pornographers. Thank you to Kellarissa for the original theme music. This episode features the following music: The Riff Randells: from Riff Randells 7" (Mint Records 2000) The Racket: The Evaporators: Aside From All This, Is There Anything Else? from I Gotta Rash split 12" (Nardwuar Records, 1998)
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Lyndsay Sung at The Blinding Light! & Ms T's Cabaret
12/11/2024
Lyndsay Sung at The Blinding Light! & Ms T's Cabaret
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 films and hosted experimental bands with a visual element. Ms T’s Cabaret was at 339 West Pender. The building began life as it started life in 1906 as the Myers Hall and later held the city’s first purpose-built bowling alley, the Canadian Cycle and Motor Co, the Canadian Legion, the Boilermaker’s Hall, and the Marine workers’ Pender Auditorium. During the 1960s the Auditorium was booked by music series, including the Afterthought, and was the site of an early Grateful Dead concert. The building was home to Vancouver’s earliest drag bar, BJ’s, open from 1970 to 1983, and later, the Vancouver Club Baths also opened in the basement area. After being sold, it took on a western theme as Saddle Tramps before converting to a lesbian bar, Ms. T’s, which also had music shows. It was demolished after a fire in 2003. Other venues visited: Pic Pub, The Brickyard. Also discussed: Submission Hold House, Dynamo Gallery Bands discussed: Three Inches of Blood, Hot Hot Heat, Erase Errata, the Need, the Get Hustle, Young People, A Luna Red, Womankind. Thank you to Kellarissa for the original theme music. This episode features the following music: KCAR: from Up Top (2023) The Sob Story: Radio Berlin: from Glass (2003)
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prOphecy sun at Video In & Blim
11/27/2024
prOphecy sun at Video In & Blim
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 medium, and the international exchange of non-commercial videotape material and information as well as providing educational resources and arts space. It moved to Kaslo street in 2014. Blim is still an independent art and craft facility which began in 2003. Between around 2008 and 2010 it was at 197 East 17th Ave. Musicians discussed: Bush tit, Chris-a-riffic, Kellarissa, Robyn Jacob, Polymer Dance, Dance Troupe Practice, Her Jazz Noise Collective, Constantine Katsiris (Scant Intone), Unreliable Narrator, Role Mach. This epsisode features the following music: prOphecy sun: from Sleep Fever (2013) Spell: from Lull (2012) prOphecy sun: from SkyCat (2021)
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Jesse Gander at Seylynn Hall
11/13/2024
Jesse Gander at Seylynn Hall
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 youth. Other venues mentioned: The South Wall was a small room in the Lonsdale Recreation Centre which held youth music shows for several years in the 1990s. Bands discussed: Brand New Unit, Fugazi, Reserve 34, Strain, AFI, The Weakerthans, DOA, the Evaporators, Middle-aged Queers, The Cost, Pansy Division, Tranzmitors. This episode features the following songs: d.b.s.: from Catch 22 (1993) d.b.s.: from Live At Seylynn Hall. Last Show Evah! (2001) Reserve 34: from Reserve 34
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Rose Melberg at The Shed
10/30/2024
Rose Melberg at The Shed
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 Creature, iji, Rain and the Sidewalk, Greenbelt Collective Other venues mentioned: Old Ironsides, renegade shows, Park Time Punks at Trout Lake Park. Music clips used with permission: Brave Irene: from Brave Irene (Slumberland 2011) Imaginary Pants: from Kites at Night EP (Lost Sounds Tapes 20140 Tally Ho!: (WIAIWYA-7777777 2012)
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Jen & Andy at Submission Hold House
10/16/2024
Jen & Andy at Submission Hold House
Jen Thorpe and Andy Healey were members of the punk band Submission Hold from 1993 to 2005. Their house, at 2024 East 1st Avenue, known as Submission Hold House, hosted many shows from 1993 to 2001. Venues mentioned: La Quena (co-op coffee house), Strathcona Community Centre, Seylenn Hall (North Vancouver), Crosstown Traffic (Hastings and Homer, active in the 1990s), the Plaza (punk house on Georgia near Clark), Chateau Noir (house on east 1st), Hastings Community Centre, The South Wall (community centre in Lonsdale). Bands discussed: Citizen Fish, DOA, Tragedy, Detestation, Q Factor, Torches to Rome, Bread and Circuits, Please Inform the Captain This is a Hijack, Former Members of Alfonsin, Jolie Holland, the Evaporators, His Hero is Gone, Sparkmarker. Food Not Bombs is a grass roots movement started in 1980 to serve free mostly vegan meals as a protest against war and poverty. Thank you to for the original theme music. Music clips used with artist permission Submission Hold: Final Coup Of The Last Millennium from (2004, G7 Welcoming Committee) My Belief from Waiting For Another Monkey To Throw The First Brick (1998, Ebullition) Synthetic Wonderland from The Buzz Of A Buzzless Situation (1995)
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Adrian Teacher at Toast Collective & Little Mountain
10/02/2024
Adrian Teacher at Toast Collective & Little Mountain
Adrian Teacher plays in the band Apollo Ghosts. He has also been in the projects Cool TV, Adrian Teacher and the Subs and the solo venture, Arbutus. This conversation was recorded on August 26th, 2024. Venues visited: The Toast Collective was a "grassroots nerve centre for new bands, art movements, community projects, and activism," which started around 2010. It was located at 648 Kingsway and when it closed its doors in 2021 the space for run for a few years by a new veture, called 648 Kingsway, which has now closed down. Lucky’s Comics was a comic and bookstore at 3972 Main Street which has now relocated eight blocks north. After a hiatus of many years at the original location, the new location is now hosting some shows. Little Mountain Gallery was at 195 E 26th Ave built in 1930. It became an art space known as the Butchershop Collective in 2001 and Little Mountain Gallery was established in 2006. After music shows ended, it became an underground comedy club. It was demolished in 2023 despite the attempts of arts groups to preserve it. Other venues mentioned: Hoko’s, Princeton Pub, Red Gate, Red Cat Records Bands discussed: Bad Fate, Chris-a-Riffic, Twin Crystals, the Winks, Smithy Ramone, Shawn Mrazek, Dirty Beaches, the Doers Music clips used with artist permission. : Land of the Morning Calm from Hastings Sunrise (2008) : Magic Leather Jacket from Cursed (2018) : I Can't Carry That from Bible Beats (2012)
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Julie Colero in Mount Pleasant
09/18/2024
Julie Colero in Mount Pleasant
.Julie Colero played the flute at one show in the band The Countless Jibes. She was the music director of CiTR for three years 1998-2001 as well as hosting a show for many years. She was also an organizer of the Vancouver music festival, Music Waste, for many years in the 2010s Venues visited: Guys and Dolls was a pool hall at 2434 Main Street which sometimes had shows. Vert was a skate shop on Main street which hosted d.b.s and AFI. The Good Jacket was a vintage clothing store at 225 E Broadway which had some shows. Thor’s Palace was a beloved house on 13th between Sophia and Prince Edward which had shows for many years. At this venue we talk to Kevin Romain who is a jazz drummer as well as a member of many Vancouver bands Others mentioned: Static Jupiter, Deep Blue, Anza Club, Video In Bands discussed: Bertha Cool, Cold Beat, AFI, d.b.s, Pluto, Kid Champion, Swim Team, Prophecy Sun, The Evaporators, Jerk with a Bomb, Radio Berlin, Thee Ahs Music excerpts used with artist permission: School Sux by . (Live on CiTR radio, 1994) Jaclyn and Chantal by (Conscious 7", Mint Records, 1994 Sibling by (Sibling, Love Und Romance, 1999)
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Jade Blade of The Dishrags at Japanese Hall & the Windmill
09/04/2024
Jade Blade of The Dishrags at Japanese Hall & the Windmill
Jade Blade was the lead vocalist and guitar player for legendary Vancouver punk band The Dishrags. The band played the first punk show in Vancouver on July 30, 1977. This conversation took place on August 25, 2024. Venues visited: The Japanese Hall on the 400 block of Alexander Street is still the Vancouver Japanese Language School, a cultural centre. The building is from 1928. It hosted the first punk show in Vancouver and very occasionally hosts a music show. O’Hara’s was a bar which hosted punk shows in 1979, at the north end of Main street, past Alexander. It was part of the pier built by the Canadian National Railway in 1931 for their steamships. It was demolished in 1984. Gambado’s was an underground art gallery at 55 Powell which had shows in 1979. 310 Water Street housed a warehouse where the Dishrags played in 1978. The Smilin' Buddha Cabaret at 109 East Hastings Street began live as a cabaret in the 1950s. It evolved into Vancouver's iconic punk music venue in the late '70s and early 80s. It was a diy venue under the name SBC from 2013 to 2019, when it re-opened as Buddha's. It was the site of a fire in 2023 and is now closed. The Windmill at 1047 Granville St was a bar which became a punk hangout and venue in 1978/1979. According to Public Enemeny zine, by March 1979 Windmill shut its doors to new wave “due to the destructive tendencies of the patrons.” The Quadra Club at 1055 Homer later became Club Soda and then the Starfish Room. It was a lesbian bar and had punk and new wave shows. It was demolished in the early 2000s. Bands discussed: The Furies, The Dils, The Avengers, DOA, The Clash, The Ramones, The Subhumans, the K-Tels, Bo Diddley, the Pointed Sticks. All of The Dishrags’ music is now available through . Four, an album of remastered later material, was released in 2024. Music excerpts used with artist permission: (Three, Supreme Echo 2014) (Three, Supreme Echo 2014)
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A new episode on September 4th!
08/28/2024
A new episode on September 4th!
Welcome to Season 2, starting next week with a very exciting guest.
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Celina K (aka Future Star) at The Mansion & Astorino’s
06/26/2024
Celina K (aka Future Star) at The Mansion & Astorino’s
Celina Kurz has been playing in bands since she was in high school. Her current projects is Future Star. Former bands are True Crush and Kidnap Kids (originally Bears and Chairs) and has played in others, including The Trolls and Only A Visitor. Venues visited: The Mansion was a venue for house shows on Victoria and Adanac. Astorino’s was the venue for the Safe Amplification Site Society (Safe Amp 2013-2015) at the site of a former dining hall at 1739 Venables Street. Franklin Studios (1654 Franklin St) is an artspace which existed as a music venues for a period in the 2010s. Flatlands is a house on Victoria Drive, north of Venables, which hosted an annual music festival called Flatlandia starting in 2016 and continuing for several years. Other venues mentioned: TheTeen Raveup, the Zoo Zhop, the Moontower. Musicians discussed include Tommy Tone, Chris-a-riffic, Rockridge, Lunch Lady, Dogbreth, Diners, Greenbelt Collective, Nicholas Krgovich. (2012, 2013 and 2014) was an anarcha-feminist, queer, radical, anti-capitalist DIY music festival . is a new music series organized by Celina at the Lido. Music clips used with artist permission. Kidnap Kips: from You Would Run From Ratboy Grave (2009, Geographing Records) Trush Crush: from We Like Us (2013) Future Star: from cryorities (2016)
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