In Search of Lost Venues

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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.

  1. Remote Report: Mar Sellars

    12/25/2024 · BONUS

    Remote Report: Mar Sellars

    This is a remote report, a conversation conducted virtully 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 Music PR, Consulting & Management Agency 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: Who Says Girls Can't Rock from Riff Randells 7" (Mint Records 2000) The Racket: British Bands Release Cult Records The Evaporators: Aside From All This, Is There Anything Else? from I Gotta Rash split 12" (Nardwuar Records, 1998)

    30 min

  2. 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. 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. 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: I Don’t Know from Up Top (2023) The Sob Story: WTO Radio Berlin: DES from Glass (2003)

    30 min

  3. 11/27/2024

    prOphecy sun at Video In & Blim

    prOphecy sun 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: Follow Me from Sleep Fever (2013) Spell: Guided Highways from Lull (2012)  prOphecy sun: Opening from SkyCat  (2021)

    33 min

  4. 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.: Way Out from Catch 22 (1993) d.b.s.: Your Apathy is Killing the Both of Us from  Live At Seylynn Hall. Last Show Evah! (2001) Reserve 34: Estivation from Reserve 34

    32 min

  5. 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: Hit the Grass Running from Brave Irene (Slumberland 2011) Imaginary Pants: Branches as bridges from Kites at Night EP (Lost Sounds Tapes 20140 Tally Ho!: I Will Never Marry (WIAIWYA-7777777 2012)

    30 min

  6. 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 Kellarissa for the original theme music.   Music clips used with artist permission Submission Hold: Final Coup Of The Last Millennium from What Holds Back The Elephant (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)

    30 min

  7. 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. Apollo Ghosts: Land of the Morning Calm from Hastings Sunrise (2008) Smithy Ramone: Magic Leather Jacket from Cursed (2018) Chris-a-riffic: I Can't Carry That from Bible Beats (2012)

    31 min

  8. 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 d.b.s. (Live on CiTR radio, 1994) Jaclyn and Chantal by Kid Champion (Conscious 7", Mint Records, 1994  Sibling by Radio Berlin (Sibling, Love Und Romance, 1999)

    30 min
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