Toronto City! Join me on Friday the 13th at Swan Dive (Dundas/Brock) as we travel back to the 1980s, the early days of Simple Minds, The Sound, Gary Numan, and lots of other cold and cool music. Never a cover, but bring your cash for intoxicating beverages and pinball! #djolnerdybastard
Pedro Sanchez's speech! Fire!
Bristol?
Toronto City, come to Houndstooth tonight! Music is going to be 🔥🔥🔥
Thinking of Iranian friends here at home and also in Iran...
Saturday at Houndstooth at Ten
Best band name ever?
Banana Republicans
Must you tell me all your secrets when it's hard enough to love you knowing nothing?
I gave myself to God, there was a pregnant pause before He said, "OK."
TORONTO CITY! On Sat Feb 28th, I return to Houndstooth to present SIMPLE FUTURE, a selection of future-oriented tunes, mostly from the postpunk and synthpop neighbourhoods. There is no charge to enjoy the sounds, but bring your money to enhance your time with beverages. You can dance if you want.
Best band name ever?
This jam unspools tonight at 10! C'mon!
![Rocket From The Tombs - Ain't It Fun [US, Protopunk, Garage] (1977)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wv2gr2o7ax7r3ns5yjcyckgm/bafkreifxhbrzw7tgfqefd4vquee6ob6ho2ra63r5wz7332xacke7rocjfy)
Rocket From The Tombs - Ain't It Fun [US, Protopunk, Garage] (1977)
https://redd.it/2r5lf9
https://youtu.be/_8yNLzlTKLA
The Diodes did a great cover of this one, too.
Hey Toronto City! Songs from the birth of the new millennium! Come and listen to them with me on Friday at Swan Dive, 10pm until the wee hours. There will be drinks, pinball, (free!) pool, & a rotating cast of weirdos and barflies. Bring your cash because they don't take that plastic mess. NO COVER!
I think you might be mad, but hope springs eternal!
Songs from the birth of the new millennium! Come and listen to them with me on Fri February 13, from 10pm until the wee hours at Swan Dive. There will be drinks, pinball, (free!) pool, and a rotating cast of weirdos and barflies. Bring your cash because they don't take that plastic mess. NO COVER!
INMUNE system!
I bought the DVD at an amazing record store/label in Haarlem last summer. www.soundshaarlem.nl/en
Nice shoutout in the credits to @wallytbm.bsky.social for help with the crowdfunding. The Sound covers CD (and its followup) are excellent!
"Lawrence of Belgravia" was also great, although it doesn't really focus on Lawrence's first (and best) band, Felt. Still, it's a great portrait of a real original.
Spent my day off watching two excellent documentaries about unique and gifted musicians. "Walking in the Opposite Direction" was probably more special for me because I love Adrian Borland's music so much, and he's no longer with us. (Go and listen to The Sound!).
Film peeps in Canada: why is Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing's documentary FOLKTALES not available to rent or stream in Canada?
The problem with streaming. Revisiting a playlist I made for a DJ set in 2023, and songs have disappeared. Worse, I don't even know what songs they were!
Can’t wait to read the liner notes!
Always great to see something we released advertised in The Big Takeover Magazine @bigtakeover.com - 2 releases that were a true labour of love as we are giving both away free to help shine a light on great music and musicians
#TheSound
#AdrianBorland
#NewMusic
#FreeMusic
It had more! The guy sitting next to me nearly got in a fistfight with another delightful passenger. The other guy eventually got off, but the naked guy came walking through and scared his lady friend.
He tried and failed to light a crack pipe on the streetcar. Shortly after this, everyone except him was kicked off and the streetcar was taken out of service.
