Turned Out A Punk

If you want scream, scream with us! This episode, Damian sits down with one of his current favourite vocalists: HIDE's Heather Gabel. Listen in as the two discuss finding a late start through performing & the ongoing journey of punk. DON’T MISS IT!!!

Also Touched On:

“Punk” music

NoFX

Green Day

a tape with Crass

“How can all these bands be the same genre?” 

ECONOCHRIST!!!!!

Born Against

Sam McPheeters is always on the list!

Covering “well fed fuck”

Finding a Rudimentary Peni

Seeing Rancid before Lars was in the band

Your boyfriend refusing to stand beside you at a Jawbreaker show

Going to see the Cure and it being transformative

I can’t believe that many people had heard of them!

Hanging out with Robert Smith and it being the best ever

Eric Z’s Grounds Coffee Shop

Making patches for the Suicide Machines

Going to see ICP

Jax

Ink and Dagger RULES!!!!

being able to see Los Crudos whenever you want!

living at the Underdog loft

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Let's talk about the role of punk played in the resurrection of UK wrestling as Damian sits down with the founder of Progress Wrestling Jim Smallman! Listen in as the two discuss the how and the why of rebirth of UK wrestling and Jim's journey from punk loving stand-up comic to wrestling booker. Also touched on:

Daddy was a Northern Soul DJ?

The Clash: “I’m not hacking you listen to music like that.”

Standstill: a terrible cover band

The Sex Pistols/ Clash divide

Straight edge

“Just Don’t Be A Dick”

The formation of Progress: the anti-super indie

Jimmy Havok and the hardest chair shot he ever gave

the uk scene

AND MORE!!!!!

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HOT DAMN! In this episode, Damian gets to sit down with one of the best to ever do it: Colin McFaull of the legendary COCK SPARRER!!! Listen in as the two discuss the realness of street rock & roll, the fakeness of punk & everything in between. DON’T MISS THIS ONE!!!

Also Touched On:

being on tour with the Small Faces and hearing the Jam

not buying into the whole punk thing

“you gotta wear these clothes”

Slaughter and The Dogs, Adam and the Ants and us

Forming Cock Sparrer at 16

informed by Glam

A potentially career ending reel to reel

MC5 didn’t cross the pond

Dr. Feelgood and pub rock

From Motorhead of Mannfred Mann and the Earth Band

Punk was a West London thing first

AC/DC with Bon Scott was the best show EVER

The meeting with Malcolm McLaren 

Doc Martins and Jungle Greens

“Some people bring you cupcakes and some people bring you cocaine”

The Sex Pistols and The Clash were boy bands

The second wave is when punk got real

“We weren’t well liked”

The ’92 comeback show

the violence becomes too much

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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YES!!! In this week’s episode, Damian is joined by one of his favourite vocalists ever: Johnny Peebucks of the Swingin' Utters!!! Listen in as they talk about going from reluctant street punk heroes to Fat Mike's favourite reluctant fight starting live band!

Also Touched On:

A cool older sister

Trying to nail the Mic Jagar pose

the club culture

getting into shows for free

the first version of the Swingin’ Utters

The Santa Cruz skinhead fanbase

Darius Joins and brings the songs

“Can you play harmonica?”

Going on tour with the Meatmen and Chaos UK

“We aren’t going to play this one tonight, we are too hungover.”

moving to SF

what is street punk?

MRR buzzband

"Your fans suck!" "You are right."

Fat Mike liked the fights and hated Streets Of San Francisco

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Chris & Damian call on the Daves (Akerman & Martin) to come on the show! Talk some Everclear, Kanye & Morrissey, the guy with the initials that plays rock, new music they like & so much more!!

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Get ready to celebrate friendship because on this week’s episode, Damian invites his long time friend Anthony Anzaldo from Ceremony back to the show! NO WRESTLING TALK THIS TIME AROUND, as the two discuss creative growth, artistic integrity, the limitation of expectations & so much more. There’s just not enough time for everything! THIS ONE IS NOT TO BE MISSED!

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LET'S CELEBRATE FRIENDSHIP!!! 

This week on the show, Damian invites Brandon Williams of Chastity over for dinner & makes him podcast for his supper! Join the two friends as they discuss art, critique, heroes turned villains & of course, PUNK ROCK IN THE SUBURBS. LISTEN TO THIS!!!

Also Touched On: 

liking metal

the mystery of the band at the high school up the street

Happy Goes Lucky becomes Protest The Hero

Closet Monster

Bombs Over Providence

A babysitter crosses the street to avoid the punks

The Underground Operations era

Why are there no bands from Kingston?

Bands named after the city are normally terrible

Whitby: 10 Hockey Areas and no all-ages music venues

No Much Music, No Simpsons: Growing up in a religious house

The burnt CD era

Making the skate video in grade 7

Seeing Alexisonfire’s first video on TV and it changing everything

Meeting Dallas Green as a kid

When your childhood heroes tell you to “Quit Your Life”

Creating bands as a home for lyrics

The greatness of MTV Live Canada

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!! 

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This week on the show Dennis Lyxzén from Refused talks Swedish punk & so much more with Damian. DON’T MISS IT!

Also Touched On:

The continuation of 2001 Quick Fanzine interview

Exploited shows up out of nowhere in your record collection

being into NY hardcore when everyone else in UK 77

87 the dead time for punk between the booms

Puszone in Thrasher

“You get it home and it’s mucky pup”

Taller punk

The Join

let’s gather all the freaks in one place

let’s build a scene

isolation and boredom builds the biggest hardcore scene in the world

no sick of it all show in Umea

Doctor and The Crippens 

Were you at the Shelter show?

Step Forward: no one is going like this so let’s just go nuts

be the guys that goes off

Refused: “We knew the potential”

The curse of recording LPs

Meshaggah sounding like Anthrax playing to 4t people

Skate punk made

Asta Kasta the link between scenes

Trallpunk

David's death metal influence on Refused

the regions of music

learning about Empire and the Ruts from the gods of DC

This is kinda cool but super sloppy

becoming friends with manny from Race Traitor

Peaking too early

Final Exit

The Path Of Resistance connection

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!

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Lights, Camera, Action! This week on the show we go to the movies as Damian sits down with director, ALEX ROSS PERRY! Listen in as the two discuss how Alex applied what he learned from basement shows to making movies & lamenting the loss of video store culture. 

Also Touched On:

Video store people unite!!!

Green Day as first exposure

becoming a Lookout kid

Big band bringing cool bands on tour

Blink opens for Bad Religion and then a few years later the inverse

Local H opening for Stone Temple Pilots 

Meeting the older kids in the basement

a Propagandhi shirt

the secret christian punk scene

if you have played a show for less than 10 people you can make movies

Making a soundtrack

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Get Psyched! CANADIAN MUSIC ICON, BIF NAKED IS ON THE SHOW! Join Damian & Bif as they sit down to discuss her crazy journey in music. From giggin' endlessly across Canada with Gorilla Gorilla, to trying to win over Life Of Agony fans in Europe, to ultimately changing the Canadian music landscape forever. DON’T MISS THIS ONE!!!!

Also Touched On:

Making My Daddy’s Getting Married

DRI plays NOT the Albert

The Punk-Funk of Gorilla Gorilla

Being in a touring band is not for everyone

The double standard of being a woman in the touring punk scene

Hockey Music

Sugar Ray could have been a great punk band

the East Coast VS the West Coast vibe

Personality Crisis

SNFU

Flipping a coin for Toronto or Vancouver

Pot & flannel 

Chrome Dog was ahead of its time

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

playing in Bad Religion in both bands

The skater scene vs. the rocker scene

Getting stoked about Jello rejection letter

loving early Screeching Weasel

covering Mastodon

Touring with Chi Pig  & The Wrongs

Having to learn to play with no monitors because the music industry sucks

Opening for Life Of Agony & the audience didn't care that her daddy was getting married

meeting Gail from Belly & getting into Straight Edge

  

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!

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