Hey there TOAP fans! This week on the show Damian sits down with someone that he has respected and looked up to for a long time… Melanie Kaye! Listen in as Damian learns about the early years of the Ottawa hardcore scene and her career spent in Punk music.
Also touched on:
-Being a square with the coolest parents
-Mom running Splash Gallery: Ottawa’s first Punk epicenter
-Hanging out a Bay Shore
-Parents moving to the Gleeb to prevent you from becoming too normal
-Craving the conventionality
-Unable to do a cartwheel and it changing your life
-Forming Last Prayers
-Fucking Becky!!! The rocker ruining your first show
-Moving out and setting up the NO PIGS House at 15
-The Subverts
-“Invite Only” to trick the cops
-TSOL stealing all the money and MONEYBOX at your first show
-A warm hug from Brian Taylor
-Porcelain Forehead, Asexuals and MDC
-Making Exploited pay for a broken Mike
-Blunder Mix Record
-’84: Punk gets political
-Running DOA fanclub
-Staying at the Vats
-Rotate This! get you back your stolen record years later
-Booking the Minutemen
-Singing back-ups for the Dicks
-Youth Brigade
-Golden Calgarians
-Booking Dayglo Abortions and regretting.
-Not booking bands that sing stuff you can’t agree with
-Taking the message from Jello
-Picking the DK openers in Montreal and pissing people off
-Dealing with the US border on the Porcelain Forehead tour
-NoMeansNo
-Meeting Fat Mike and NoFX
-Punk No Die
-Riot Grrrl
-AND MORE!!!!!