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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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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Veda Hille on Commercial Drive
06/12/2024
Veda Hille on Commercial Drive
is a beloved Vancouver musician, composer, theatre maker, and performer. She first played in a band called Mudlarks and started making records under her own name in 1991. She also had a children’s band called Duplex. She has been involved in music, art, and theatre for several decades, creating and collaborating in many genres. This conversation took place on May 14th 2024. Venues visited: La Quena Coffee House was at 1111 Commercial Drive from the early 1980s until 2000. It was a non-profit political meeting hub. Cafe Deux Soleils (1393 Commercial Dr, ) was a vegetarian restaurant which hosted music and poetry events starting in the ‘90s, and closed in 2022. Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, an experimental film centre run by Alex Mackenzie, was near Commercial and Venables. The Oddfellows Hall at 1720 Graveley Street (a branch of the international frateral orgnization), held at least a dozen punk shows fom 1979 to 1984. The York Theatre (639 Commercial Drive), where Veda Hille stages the East Van Panto each winter, was previously the New York Theatre rock venue in the ‘80s and ‘90s before becoming the Raja Bollywood Cinema. Royal Canadian Legion Branch 179 at 2205 Commercial Dr. Music clips used with artist permission. Veda Hille: Neighbourhood Song from Songs About People and Buildings (1991) from Spine (1996) from This Riot Life (2008) from Beach Practice (2020)
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Stephen Hamm at John Barley's
05/29/2024
Stephen Hamm at John Barley's
Stephen Hamm played in Vancouver bands starting in the early 1980s, including Slow, Canned Hamm, Jungle, Tankhog and Nardwuar And The Evaporators. The Georgia Straight once called him ‘semi legendary.’ His current solo show is based around Theremin and Synthesizer. This conversation was recorded on April 16th 2024. John Barley’s, at 23 W. Cordova Street, has been a music venue under many names (including the Cruel Elephant and the Hungry Eye) until as the Hindenberg it closed in 2018. Bands discussed include Death Sentence, Another Kind of Blues, House of Commons, NoMeansNo, Shanghai Dog, Agent Orange, the Reptiles, The Nerve Tubes, Dayglo Abortions, Mission of Christ, Green River, July fourth toilet, Sea hags, Flaming Lips, Goo Goo Dolls, Change of Heart, Young Canadians, DOA, the Gits, Skinyard, the Dwarves, The Faith No More, Peaches, Mojo Nixon, the Replacements. Other Venues visited: the Savoy (2 Powell Street), the Town Pump (66 Water St), Ms Ts Cabaret (339 West Pender), the Marine Club (573 Homer St), The Backstage Lounge (1181 Seymour Street). Other venue discussed: Stalag 13, Luxury Bob’s, the Penthouse, the Smilin' Buddha, the Waterfront. Music clips used with artist permission. Slow: "" from Against the Glass (Zulu, 1986) Stephen Hamm Theremin Man: "" 2021 Tankhog: "I Woke Up in Love This Morning" from House of Beauty (Zulu, 1992)
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Gary Smith at Luv-a-fair
05/15/2024
Gary Smith at Luv-a-fair
Gary Smith was a founding founder of the synthesizer-based Vancouver band Images in Vogue in 1981, after playing in various bands as a teenager. He went on to a later career as a music video producer and assistant director in film and TV. The conversation was recorded on March 14th, 2024. Luv-a-fair (1275 Seymour Street) started life as a gay dance club in 1975, but soon attracted a wide audience for its legendary DJs and great selection of alternative music. They did not often host live events but Killing Joke, the Subhumans, Sonic Youth, the Violent Femmes, Wall of Voodoo and Nine Inch Nails all played there, as well as Images in Vogue. Other bands discussed: Killing Joke, Skinny Puppy, Zingo, Moev, Numb, Wall of Voodoo, e, the Villains, Duran Duran. Other venues discussed: Graceland, Quadra Club (later Club Soda and the Starfish Room), Pharaoh’s, The Viking Hall, The Body Shop, The Cave, Gary Taylor’s Rock Room. Thank you to for the original theme music. Thanks to Glen Nelson and to Moev. Music clips used with artist permission. Images in Vogue: "" from Educated Man EP (1982 B H & H) e: "" from The Levitation Syndrome (1981 Rogolletti Records) Moev: "" (1982)
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Bruce & Ryan Dyck at the Smilin' Buddha
05/01/2024
Bruce & Ryan Dyck at the Smilin' Buddha
Bruce Dyck was the drummer in Fun 100, the B-Lines, You Say Party, They Shoot Horses and LeMaster. he is also the author of "Three reincarnations of the Smilin' Buddha Cabaret: Entertainment, gentrification, and respectability in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside 1952-84" a at SFU. Ryan Dyck was the vocalist in Fun 100 and B-Lines. He was the label manager at Mint Records and ran Hockey Dad Records. 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. Other venues visisted: Ms Ts Cabaret, Pub 340, original Red Gate (152 E Hastings), the Helen Pitt Gallery, Honey Lounge/The Lotus/Lick, Interurban Gallery, Brandy’s, The Regent, the Balmoral, the Cobalt. Also mentioned: The Picadilly Pub, Burlesque House (Abbotsford), Pat’s Pub. Vancouver Complication is a compilation album featuring many influential Vancouver punk bands. It was released in 1979 on Pinned Records and was compiled by Grant McDonagh who was a founder of Zulu Records. “Blanc Vanc!” at the Helen Pitt Gallery, was a two night show featuring U-J3RK5 (aka the U-Jerks), Exxotone, the Shades, [e], and a Generators reunion show. Other bands discussed: Hot Hot Heat, The Unicorns, Three Inches of Blood, Witness Protection Program, Melt Banana, Nirvana, Fucked Up, SNFU, Blank Dogs, Pointed Sticks, Clorox Girls, Red Dawns, Tranzmitors, STREETS, the K-Tels, Glad Rags, the Skulls, the Furies, They Shoot Horses, Mutators, the Isotopes. Thank you to for the original theme music. This conversation was recorded on February 17th, 2024. Music clips used with artist permission. Fun 100: "" from Hit it & Quit. 2005 B-Lines: "" from Opening Band LP on Hockey Dad Records. 2014
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Ida Nilsen at the Sugar Refinery
04/17/2024
Ida Nilsen at the Sugar Refinery
Ida Nilsen has played in Beans, Cunt, Great Aunt Ida, the Buttless Chaps, Radiogram, The Gay and others. Ida was involved with The Sugar Refinery venue as a musician, employee and owner. The Sugar Refinery was a vegetarian restaurant and music venue from the mid '90s to 2003 at 1115 Granville Street. It was known for fostering local music projects which were experimental, collaborative, and whimsical. It was the site of a 48 hour show by the band Beans, who played there dozens of times. Other venues visited: , an underground cinema which ran from 1998-2003 at 36 Powell Street. The Marine Club was at 573 Homer Street and lasted from 1957-2007. The site is now a parking lot. Other venues we passed: the Brickyard, The Gold Saucer. Bands discussed: The Beans, the Ids, the Molestics, Kirsten and Jim, Show Business Giants, Handsome Family, Vic Chestnut, Sawdust Collector. Thank you to for the original theme music. Thank you to George at for permission to use the audio from Tired Snow. The conversation was recorded on January 3rd, 2024. Music clips used with artist permission. : "Water and Bones" from Our Fall : "All-Emcompassing Dust" from Tired Snow EP
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Scott Morgan (loscil) at The Blinding Light!
04/03/2024
Scott Morgan (loscil) at The Blinding Light!
Scott Morgan is best known as the electronic music project . He previously played in Meet Daisy, Thee Crusaders, Destroyer, The Multiplex and others. 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: from submers Ticker Tape Parade: Audience with the Pope Destroyer: from Thief
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Lindiwe Coyne (Wandering Lucy) at the Malcolm Lowry Room
03/20/2024
Lindiwe Coyne (Wandering Lucy) at the Malcolm Lowry Room
Lindiwe Coyne performed as Wandering Lucy in the 1990s and her music came out on K Records. Her Discorder cover story is . Her live set on CiTr’s Live from Thunderbird Radio Hell is . The Malcolm Lowry Room was at 4125 Hastings Street in Burnaby, operated by the writer Michael Turner as a music venue in the mid-1990s. It was previously the North Burnaby Inn, a stripclub. Other venues discussed: The Good Jacket, The Starfish Room, the Treehouse Lounge at the St Regis Hotel, Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, the Blinding Light!, St Michael’s Multicultural Anglican Church (409 E Broadway), the Sugar Refinery. Other musicians mentioned: Bob Wiseman, Bob’s your Uncle/Sook Yin Lee, Lisa Marr/cub, the Smugglers, the Colorifics, Built to Spill, Calvin Johnson, Dub Narcotic, Beat Happening, Halo Benders, Mecca Normal, Furnace Face, Trenchmouth, Fitz of Depression, Link, Shadowy Men for a Shadowy Planet, the Sadies, Fifth Column, Phonocomb, July Fourth Toilet, Ticker Tape Parade, Hard Rock Miners, Dan Bejar/Destroyer, Neko Case, DOA. is a legendary independent record label founded in 1982 in Olympia, Washington. Yoyo A Go Go was a festival they put on for the first year in 1994. Thank you to Jean Smith. Music clips used with artist permission Wandering Lucy: from Leap Year (1996, K Records) Mecca Normal: from Flood Plain (1993, K Records) Wandering Lucy: from Leap Year (1996, K Records)
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Nicholas Krgovich at The Sugar Refinery
03/06/2024
Nicholas Krgovich at The Sugar Refinery
Nicholas Krgovich has played in the bands p:ano, Burquitalam Plaza, Slavs, No Kids and also under his full name. This conversation was recorded on November 14th 2023. The Sugar Refinery was a vegetarian restaurant and music venue from the mid '90s to 2003 at 1115 Granville Street. It was known for fostering local music projects which were experimental, collaborative, and whimsical. It was the site of a 48 hour show by the band Beans, who played there dozens of times. 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 mentioned: The Royal, the Starfish Room, 1067 jazz club, Blim, The Blinding Light!, Richard’s on Richards, Graceland, Luv-a-fair. YIMP fest is an annual show at Falaise park since 2021. Bands mentioned: The Secret Three, Radio Berlin, Beans, Adrian Orange, Slavs, Tujiko Noriko, Belle and Sebastian, Looper, The Strokes, Interpol, Yo La Tengo, Smog, Blonde Redhead, Red House Painters, Peaches, Low, Luscious Jackson, Cibo Mato, Butter 08, Bettie Serveert, Six Organs of Admittance, Joel R L Phelps, the Radio Thank you to for the original theme music. Thank you to Geooge at . Music clips used with artist permission. : "All of November, Most of October" from When It’s Dark and It’s Summer (2002) : "Alpaca Llama" from Tired Snow EP (2000 ) : "Round One" from Big On Fall (2003)
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Larissa & Jonelle at the Secret Location
02/21/2024
Larissa & Jonelle at the Secret Location
Larissa Loyva has played in p:ano, Kellarissa, Fake Tears, the Choir Practice, How to Dress Well, Destroyer, Dream/loss. Jonelle Aspa has been in the bands Sontag, Hen Party, Anybodys and Dream/loss. Both are involved in organizing Girls Rock Camp Vancouver. This conversation was recorded on December 29 2023. The Secret Location was a venue, rehearsal space and artists’ studios collective located at 841 E Hastings St between 2003 and 2021. Other venues discussed include Red Gate, the Astoria, 333, Merge, 360 Glen, the Emergency Room, CBDB’s, the Black Lab, Goodie, Franklin Studios. Other musicians discussed: Nu Sensae, White Lung, Twin Crystals, Fortress, Anju Singh, Holzkopf, Whip of the UFO, Channels 3 and 4, N.213, Shearing Pinx, Diane, Monashee, Baptists, Cult Babies, Winona Forever. Huge thank you to for the original theme music. Music clips used with artist permission : Carrying On from Flamingo (2008, Mint Records) : RFK (2020 version) from Acts of Endurance (2021)
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Harley Rothstein at The Retinal Circus
02/07/2024
Harley Rothstein at The Retinal Circus
Harley Rothstein’s first band was the folk duo Russ and Harley. He then played in the psychedelic rock bands The French Hand Laundry, Pacific Nation and My Indole Ring. The conversation was recorded on August 30 2023. Russ and Harley played at The Bunkhouse, a folk music coffee house at 612 Davie Street in the 1960s. The rock bands played at The Retinal Circus at 1024 Davie Street in 1967 and 1968. The club was operated by Jim Allan, Blaine Culling and Roger Schiffer. Memorable shows there included Country Joe MacDonald and the Fish, Bo Diddley, Muddy Water, Charlatans and the Velvet Underground. Some of the local bands which played are Pacific Nation, The Painted Ship, Mock Duck, Papa Bear’s Medicine Show, The Collectors, Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, My Indole Ring. of six psych bands filmed for three episodes of the CBC show on Let's Go. The Kitsilano Theatre was at 2114 W 4th Ave. Since 1958 it has been the Russian Community Centre, and in 1966 was often rented out to The Afterthought, a concert series which put on shows at various venues over the decade. Huge thank you to for the original theme music. And thank you to Vancouver's . Music clips used with artist permission. Harley Rothstein: Karen’s History Book from Songs of Love and Humanity (2023). The song was written in 1968 by Harley, Russell Precious and Stan Persky for the band The Pacific Nation. Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck: I (from The Cool-Aid Benefit Album [1970] re-released in 2010 by ) Mock Duck: Do Re Mi (from The Cool-Aid Benefit Album [1970] re-released in 2010 )
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Adrienne LaBelle at Red Gate, Hoko's, Zoo Zhop
01/24/2024
Adrienne LaBelle at Red Gate, Hoko's, Zoo Zhop
Adrienne LaBelle has played in The Barcelona Chair, Aunts and Uncles, Movieland, Garbage Dreams, Supermoon, Lazy Bear. Venues visited: Red Gate (855 East Hastings), 121 Heatley, Hoko’s (362 Powell), The Astoria (769 E Hastings), Spirit Vegetable studio (876 Cordova Diversion), Ironworks Studio, the Zoo Zhop (223 Main Street), Chapel Arts (305 Dunlevy Other venues mentioned: La Casa del Artista, Toast Collective, the Cobalt, Little Mountain, Railway Club, Red Cat Records, The Waldorf, Pat's Pub Also mentioned: the Wind Whistles, Johnny de Courcy, Lié, They Shoot Horses Don't They, Ian Mackaye, Japandroids, Chris-a-riffic, Kidnap Kids, Apollo Ghosts is Vancouver's diy music festival which started in 1994. an independent record label in Vancouver founded in 1991. has been documenting the Vancouver music scene since around 2007. Shindig is UBC radio station CiTR’s annual battle of the bands, going since 1984. Safe Amp was the Safe Amplification Society, a non-profit which worked to create an all-ages venue in Vancouver in the early 2010s. They established a venue at Astorino's for several years. Fake Jazz is a long running experimental music series in Vancouver. It continues today after a few hiatuses. Huge thank you to for the original theme music. Music clips used with artist permission. : Powersuits from Comet Lovejoy (2015, Alarum Records) : Politics of Ecology from blows up (2013, Green Burrito Records) : Tooth & Nail from Demonstrations (2018) This conversation was recorded on December 12 2023.
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Chris-a-Riffic at Little Mountain Gallery
01/10/2024
Chris-a-Riffic at Little Mountain Gallery
Chris Alscher AKA played with the band They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? and has performed as a solo artist for several decades. He is a radio host on CiTR, the University of British Columbia radio station, with his show which has been on the air for over two decades. We walk down Main Street from 29th avenue to 22nd avenue, discussing Little Mountain Gallery, Chroma Books, Blim and more. Chroma Books was a bookstore upstairs at 4424 Main Street which opened in 2002 and occasionally had shows of experimental and lo-fi music. They Live Video, at 4340 Main St, hosted bands in the 2010s. 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, it became an underground comedy club. It was demolished in 2023 despite the attempts of arts groups to preserve it. Lucky’s Comics was a comic and bookstore at 3972 Main Street which has now relocated eight blocks north. Other venues mentioned are The Regional Assembly of Text (3934 Main Street), Blim (opened in 2003 in the old BC Electric Building at 23 W Pender, then at 197 East 17th Ave and now at 115 E Pender St, an art shop, no longer a venue) Solder and Sons (247 Main Street), Chris’s shed, the Java Joint (Surrey), the New York Theatre now the York Theatre (639 Commercial Dr). Bands mentioned include Apollo Ghosts, Chain and the Gang, Charlamides, Fanshaw (Olivia Fetherstonhaugh), Kellarissa (Larissa Loyva), Tygh Runyan (Beans), crys cole, Nicholas Krgovich, connect_icut, Collapsing Opposites, the Diskettes, Tough Age, Darto, Weed, Hemogoblin, Cascadia, Smithy Ramone, Kidnap Kids (formerly Beggars & Chairs), Better Friends than Lovers, Marta McKeever, the Unicorns, Swamp Camp, Sandro Perri (Polmo Polpo), Gal Gracen. Rose Melberg, Leah Abramson, Search Parties, Holtzkopf, Cub, Gob, Sparkmarker, NoMeansNo, All State Champion, Tricky Woo, Ahna. Huge thank you to for the original theme music. Music clips used with artist permission. : Late Night Vietnamese Restaurant from Treats (2019) : Things You Go Through from Mount Benson (2010) : Kids from You Would Run from Ratboy Grave (2009) This conversation was recorded on September 24 2023. Our unexpected audio guests were Jarrett Evan Samson and Lauren Smith of the band Tough Age.
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Trailer: In Search of Lost Venues is coming soon
01/03/2024
Trailer: In Search of Lost Venues is coming soon
Welcome to In Search of Lost Venues, where I walk through a neighbourhood with one or more Vancouver musicians, talking about the sites and locations of their favourite venues, places where significant events occurred, both personal and artistic. In this season you will hear conversations with: Chris-a-Riffic about Little Mountain Studios and other venues on Main Street Adrienne LaBelle about the second Red Gate, Hoko's, the Zoo Zhop and more Nicholas Krgovich about the Sugar Refinery, Ms T's Cabaret and the Starfish Room Lindiwe Coyne about the Malcolm Lowry Room Harley Rothstein about the Retinal Circus and the Bunkhouse Jonelle Aspa and Larissa Loyva about the Secret Location Ida Nilsen about The Blinding Light!, Railway Club and Sugar Refinery and more! You will hear stories from the late 1960s until the present day about the local music scene and the urban landscape in which it takes place.
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