CKUT Time Capsule

Jack & Ginger – mixed up CKUT’s country programming with our reggae programming and also featured our very own cocktail (Jack Daniels & homemade Ginger Beer). Performances from Vernon Maytone with Smurfette (Juliet Nelson) and Yonder Hill.

CKUT remodelled our studios in June 2008. Sun Ra Arkestra were in town to perform at the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival and kindly graced us with its cosmic and earthly presence to inaugurate/baptize/christen our studios.

We opened up the doors of the studio to the public (hence the chatter in the background) and also conducted a pretty wacky Sun Ra / CKUT style of official ceremony. Khalid M'Seffar, host of Funky Revolutions is conducting the interview and he is speaking to Marshal Allen, Michael Ray and Ray Scott.

Show is hosted by CKUT's Donald D (then host of the Weekend Groove) and Stephen "ZipLox" Hennessey (Ill Groove Garden).

Artists mentioned - Mizery, MEtaphor (Meta-4?) At Random, Shades of Culture, LE, Wiser, Chuck Ice (the 50 cent of Montreal) OverProof, C4 San Pression, Damian from Zoobone .

DJ sets by DJ KAne - (DMC competitor) and Similak.

Promo for CKUT's 10th Anniversary Celebration featuring Freaky D, Sampaloo, Zoobone Productions, House of Pride Dancers, Alexis O;Hara, Fortner Anderson, Ratchet Orchestra, SlapHappy 5, Steak 72, Bagpipes, Medieval marching band (feature Régine Chassagne) and more.

Take a listen to what our radio promos sounded like in 1997. Produced by Prym Tyme and Louise Burns.

Wed April 30th 1997 QueerCorps hosts a fundraiser at Club Hommes in the Gay Village (formerly the infamous Kox) entitled Our Little Girl is All Grown UP - The Ellen Coming Out Episode Party.

The Ellen Degeneres Coming Out episode was screened on big screens - also comedians and CKUT djs!!!

Before Pat Dillon Moore became known as Sistah P, she was also known as The Empress, and was the station manager at CKUT from 1992 -96. The tactical squad was the tri-fecta of Pat Dillon (aka the Dread-head), Louise Burns (aka the Redhead) and Sarah Toy (aka The Bedhead).

The piece was produced by Prime Time, CKUT Production Coordinator circa 1996 - 2003.It features the voices of John Braithwaite, Rawls , Gordon Kreiger, Mikey Don, Khalid M'Seffar, Margo Lane, Howard 'Stretch' Carr, Detroit Burns, Richard Iton and more.

This was not the first time he performed in Montreal nor came to the station. CKUT refused to co-present the Buju Banton the first concert back in 93? because of the song (written by Buju when he was 15) Boom Bye Bye and its homophobic lyrics. A decision which still, to date, causes a lot of discussion.

The next time he came to CKUT (prior to a concert at the Medley in 95(?) one of our programmers, Dave Austin, brought their class to the station so the studio was filled with enthusiastic pre-teens. Buju came out of a car wearing roller blades and rolled into the studios - much to the shrieking delight of everyone. This interview happening on Butcher T's Noon Time Cuts. We left in a few ads at the end for extra flavour.

The all female Seattle band talk on their problem with being labeled a Riot Grrrl band, their experiences after the death of their guitarist, and some of the incidents while on tour in Europe and the American South. Listen to the origins of the band's most lyrically intense songs "Dead Men Don't Rape".

The band explains their on-going struggle to have people critique them for being an all female band rather than their lyrics or music.

Ian Stephens, poet, founding member of Montreal band Wining Dining & Drilling, and AIDS activist (whose life was cut short by the disease in 1996) was also a regular contributor to QueerCorps on CKUT. This promo is priceless - captures what we could get away with on community radio in the 90s if you were creative enough to explore the opportunity.

This was a promo that aired on CKUT for an event to launch his book "Diary of A Trademark" at the Stornoway Gallery in Montreal 1994 The other voice is that of DJ Mike Williams.