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In Search of Lost VenuesLisa Marr at Cub houseLisa Marr played bass and sang in the beloved Vancouver band Cub. She started by playing in the Evaporators. She continues to play music, make films, and do all kinds of other art and activism. This conversation was recorded on January 28th 2025. Venue visited: Cub House (1992-1997) at 837 west 19th Avenue. Other venues discussed: Pop, Studio J, the Cruel Elephant, the Commodore, Notorious, the Arts Club, the Malcolm Lowry Room, the Starfish Room, Powell Street Festival, Hastings Community Centre. Musicians mentioned: Neko Case, Hard Rock Miners, Sebadoh, Rancid, They Might be Giants, D...2025-02-1933 minIn Search of Lost VenuesPhil Smith (Corsage) in KitsilanoPhil Smith began in the awesome Vancouver punk band Wasted Lives, whose few recordings were recently released by Supreme Echo. This conversation was recorded on December 18 2024. He went on to musical projects like Snow Geese, Blanche Whitman, Bud Luxford and the long-running band Corsage. Venues Visited: Starvin' Marvin's was a nightclub on Burrard and Broadway which closed in the late 1970s. Quintessence Records (later Zulu) opened at 1869 west 4th avenue and often had in-store performances. It moved to 1972 w 4th where it still exists today. The Indian Center was built as...2025-02-0538 minIn Search of Lost VenuesSelina Crammond at Horses RecordsSelina Crammond has played in the bands Movieland, Supermoon, Kiss Painting and currently, Midnight News and Roswit. She also runs Monotapes with Gal av Gay. This conversation took place on December 7 2024. Horses Records was an independent record and bookstore on Hastings and Nanaimo (on 2447 E Hastings Street) from 2014-2016, opened by Katayoon Yousefbigloo and Dan Geddes. The store frequently hosted music show in those years. Other venues visited: What’s up Hot Dog (2481 E Hastings St), TD bank atm, Roy G Biv Other venues discussed: Art Bank, Nyala, Railway Club, WISE Club...2025-01-2232 min
In Search of Lost VenuesRemote Report: Rachel Melas & Conny Nowe of the Moral LepersIn this bonus episode I talk separately with Rachel Melas and Conny Nowe, who played bass and drums in the all-female, post punk band the Moral Lepers, in the early 1980s. Rachel was also in the art punk band animal slaves among many others and Conny played in Tin Twist, and Junco Run. They now live together in Toronto where they play music in genres like cajun zydeco, swing, ragtime, folk and klesmer. This conversation took place on a video call, so you’ll notice a different quality of sound and ambiance compared to the usual episodes! Th...2025-01-0833 min
In Search of Lost VenuesRemote Report: Mar SellarsThis is a remote report, a conversation conducted virtually 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. 2024-12-2529 minIn Search of Lost VenuesLyndsay Sung at The Blinding Light! & Ms T's CabaretLyndsay 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...2024-12-1129 minIn Search of Lost VenuesprOphecy sun at Video In & BlimprOphecy 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 i...2024-11-2733 minIn Search of Lost VenuesJesse Gander at Seylynn HallJesse 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 yea...2024-11-1331 minIn Search of Lost VenuesRose Melberg at The ShedRose 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, A...2024-10-3030 minIn Search of Lost VenuesJen & Andy at Submission Hold HouseJen 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 In...2024-10-1630 minIn Search of Lost VenuesAdrian Teacher at Toast Collective & Little MountainAdrian 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 Co...2024-10-0231 minIn Search of Lost VenuesJulie 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...2024-09-1830 minIn Search of Lost VenuesJade Blade of The Dishrags at Japanese Hall & the WindmillJade Blade was the lead vocalist and guitar player for legendary Vancouver punk band The Dishrags. The band played the first punk show in Vancouver on July 30, 1977. This conversation took place on August 25, 2024. Venues visited: The Japanese Hall on the 400 block of Alexander Street is still the Vancouver Japanese Language School, a cultural centre. The building is from 1928. It hosted the first punk show in Vancouver and very occasionally hosts a music show. O’Hara’s was a bar which hosted punk shows in 1979, at the north end of Main street, past Alexander. It was...2024-09-0434 minIn Search of Lost VenuesA new episode on September 4th!Welcome to Season 2, starting next week with a very exciting guest. 2024-08-2800 minIn Search of Lost VenuesCelina K (aka Future Star) at The Mansion & Astorino’sCelina Kurz has been playing in bands since she was in high school. Her current projects is Future Star. Former bands are True Crush and Kidnap Kids (originally Bears and Chairs) and has played in others, including The Trolls and Only A Visitor. Venues visited: The Mansion was a venue for house shows on Victoria and Adanac. Astorino’s was the venue for the Safe Amplification Site Society (Safe Amp 2013-2015) at the site of a former dining hall at 1739 Venables Street. Franklin Studios (1654 Franklin St) is an artspace which existed as...2024-06-2631 minIn Search of Lost VenuesVeda Hille on Commercial DriveVeda Hille is a beloved Vancouver musician, composer, theatre maker, and performer. She first played in a band called Mudlarks and started making records under her own name in 1991. She also had a children’s band called Duplex. She has been involved in music, art, and theatre for several decades, creating and collaborating in many genres. This conversation took place on May 14th 2024. Venues visited: La Quena Coffee House was at 1111 Commercial Drive from the early 1980s until 2000. It was a non-profit political meeting hub. Cafe Deux Soleils (1393 Commercial Dr, ) was a vegetarian re...2024-06-1231 minIn Search of Lost VenuesStephen Hamm at John Barley'sStephen Hamm played in Vancouver bands starting in the early 1980s, including Slow, Canned Hamm, Jungle, Tankhog and Nardwuar And The Evaporators. The Georgia Straight once called him ‘semi legendary.’ His current solo show is based around Theremin and Synthesizer. This conversation was recorded on April 16th 2024. John Barley’s, at 23 W. Cordova Street, has been a music venue under many names (including the Cruel Elephant and the Hungry Eye) until as the Hindenberg it closed in 2018. Bands discussed include Death Sentence, Another Kind of Blues, House of Commons, NoMeansNo, Shanghai Dog, Agent Orange, the Reptile...2024-05-2932 minIn Search of Lost VenuesGary Smith at Luv-a-fairGary Smith was a founding founder of the synthesizer-based Vancouver band Images in Vogue in 1981, after playing in various bands as a teenager. He went on to a later career as a music video producer and assistant director in film and TV. The conversation was recorded on March 14th, 2024. Luv-a-fair (1275 Seymour Street) started life as a gay dance club in 1975, but soon attracted a wide audience for its legendary DJs and great selection of alternative music. They did not often host live events but Killing Joke, the Subhumans, Sonic Youth, the Violent Femmes, Wall of Voodoo and...2024-05-1530 minIn Search of Lost VenuesBruce & Ryan Dyck at the Smilin' BuddhaBruce Dyck was the drummer in Fun 100, the B-Lines, You Say Party, They Shoot Horses and LeMaster. he is also the author of "Three reincarnations of the Smilin' Buddha Cabaret: Entertainment, gentrification, and respectability in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside 1952-84" a Master's thesis at SFU. Ryan Dyck was the vocalist in Fun 100 and B-Lines. He was the label manager at Mint Records and ran Hockey Dad Records. The Smilin’ Buddha Cabaret at 109 East Hastings Street began live as a cabaret in the 1950s. It evolved into Vancouver's iconic punk music venue in the late '70s an...2024-05-0138 minIn Search of Lost VenuesIda Nilsen at the Sugar RefineryIda Nilsen has played in Beans, Cunt, Great Aunt Ida, the Buttless Chaps, Radiogram, The Gay and others. Ida was involved with The Sugar Refinery venue as a musician, employee and owner. The Sugar Refinery was a vegetarian restaurant and music venue from the mid '90s to 2003 at 1115 Granville Street. It was known for fostering local music projects which were experimental, collaborative, and whimsical. It was the site of a 48 hour show by the band Beans, who played there dozens of times. Other venues visited: The Blinding Light!, an underground cinema which ran from 1998...2024-04-1733 minIn Search of Lost VenuesScott Morgan (loscil) at The Blinding Light!Scott Morgan is best known as the electronic music project loscil. He previously played in Meet Daisy, Thee Crusaders, Destroyer, The Multiplex and others. 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. Other venues visited include...2024-04-0334 minIn Search of Lost VenuesLindiwe Coyne (Wandering Lucy) at the Malcolm Lowry RoomLindiwe Coyne performed as Wandering Lucy in the 1990s and her music came out on K Records. Her Discorder cover story is here. Her live set on CiTr’s Live from Thunderbird Radio Hell is here. The Malcolm Lowry Room was at 4125 Hastings Street in Burnaby, operated by the writer Michael Turner as a music venue in the mid-1990s. It was previously the North Burnaby Inn, a stripclub. Other venues discussed: The Good Jacket, The Starfish Room, the Treehouse Lounge at the St Regis Hotel, Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, the Blinding Light!, St...2024-03-2035 minIn Search of Lost VenuesNicholas Krgovich at The Sugar RefineryNicholas Krgovich has played in the bands p:ano, Burquitalam Plaza, Slavs, No Kids and also under his full name. This conversation was recorded on November 14th 2023. The Sugar Refinery was a vegetarian restaurant and music venue from the mid '90s to 2003 at 1115 Granville Street. It was known for fostering local music projects which were experimental, collaborative, and whimsical. It was the site of a 48 hour show by the band Beans, who played there dozens of times. Ms T’s Cabaret was at 339 West Pender. The building began life as it started life in 1906 as...2024-03-0629 minIn Search of Lost VenuesLarissa & Jonelle at the Secret LocationLarissa Loyva has played in p:ano, Kellarissa, Fake Tears, the Choir Practice, How to Dress Well, Destroyer, Dream/loss. Jonelle Aspa has been in the bands Sontag, Hen Party, Anybodys and Dream/loss. Both are involved in organizing Girls Rock Camp Vancouver. This conversation was recorded on December 29 2023. The Secret Location was a venue, rehearsal space and artists’ studios collective located at 841 E Hastings St between 2003 and 2021. Other venues discussed include Red Gate, the Astoria, 333, Merge, 360 Glen, the Emergency Room, CBDB’s, the Black Lab, Goodie, Franklin Studios. Other musicians discussed: Nu Sens...2024-02-2130 minIn Search of Lost VenuesHarley Rothstein at The Retinal CircusHarley Rothstein’s first band was the folk duo Russ and Harley. He then played in the psychedelic rock bands The French Hand Laundry, Pacific Nation and My Indole Ring. The conversation was recorded on August 30 2023. Russ and Harley played at The Bunkhouse, a folk music coffee house at 612 Davie Street in the 1960s. The rock bands played at The Retinal Circus at 1024 Davie Street in 1967 and 1968. The club was operated by Jim Allan, Blaine Culling and Roger Schiffer. Memorable shows there included Country Joe MacDonald and the Fish, Bo Diddley, Muddy Water, Charlatans and the V...2024-02-0728 minIn Search of Lost VenuesAdrienne LaBelle at Red Gate, Hoko's, Zoo ZhopAdrienne LaBelle has played in The Barcelona Chair, Aunts and Uncles, Movieland, Garbage Dreams, Supermoon, Lazy Bear. Venues visited: Red Gate (855 East Hastings), 121 Heatley, Hoko’s (362 Powell), The Astoria (769 E Hastings), Spirit Vegetable studio (876 Cordova Diversion), Ironworks Studio, the Zoo Zhop (223 Main Street), Chapel Arts (305 Dunlevy Other venues mentioned: La Casa del Artista, Toast Collective, the Cobalt, Little Mountain, Railway Club, Red Cat Records, The Waldorf, Pat's Pub Also mentioned: the Wind Whistles, Johnny de Courcy, Lié, They Shoot Horses Don't They, Ian Mackaye, Japandroids, Chris-a-riffic, Kidnap Kids, Apollo Ghosts Music Was...2024-01-2430 minIn Search of Lost VenuesChris-a-Riffic at Little Mountain GalleryChris Alscher AKA Chris-A-Riffic played with the band They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? and has performed as a solo artist for several decades. He is a radio host on CiTR, the University of British Columbia radio station, with his show Parts Unknown which has been on the air for over two decades. We walk down Main Street from 29th avenue to 22nd avenue, discussing Little Mountain Gallery, Chroma Books, Blim and more. Chroma Books was a bookstore upstairs at 4424 Main Street which opened in 2002 and occasionally had shows of experimental and lo-fi music. They Li...2024-01-1030 minIn Search of Lost VenuesTrailer: In Search of Lost Venues is coming soonWelcome to In Search of Lost Venues, where I walk through a neighbourhood with one or more Vancouver musicians, talking about the sites and locations of their favourite venues, places where significant events occurred, both personal and artistic. In this season you will hear conversations with: Chris-a-Riffic about Little Mountain Studios and other venues on Main Street Adrienne LaBelle about the second Red Gate, Hoko's, the Zoo Zhop and more Nicholas Krgovich about the Sugar Refinery, Ms T's Cabaret and the Starfish Room Lindiwe Coyne about the Malcolm Lowry Room Harley Rothstein about the R...2024-01-0301 min
En Uafhængig MorgenSSI i Twitter-storm, Bornholm som pendant til Ukraine og Vilde planeterEr Bornholm den danske pendant til Ukraine? Er den danske kirke blevet for frisindet? Var den danske genåbning en fejl? Værter: Camilla Boraghi & Mads Bjerregaard Tidskoder: 01:00-10:00: Niels Bo Poulsen, Institutchef, Institut for Strategi og Krigsstudier ved Forsvarsakademiet // Kan Bornholm blive det næste Ukraine? 12:00-17:00: Ida Hilario Jønsson, børnefaglig konsulent i Børns Vilkår // Bliver børn bange, når de voksne taler om krig? 20:00-30:00: Flemming Splidsboel Hansen, forsker i Global sikkerhed og verdenssyn ved DIIS // Har Putin aflyst kr...2022-02-172h 00
The Faith Breathed Hope podcastInterview with Denise Rothstein Interview with Denise Rothstein Rising Above and Focusing on Christ in TrialsIn this episode, I speak with Bible study leader, speaker, and author of The Daily Devoted Woman, Denise Rothstein on Rising Above and Focusing on Christ in Trials. She shares practical application and usefulness of spiritual disciplines rising from the emotion that can wear a woman down. Denise discusses how prayer makes us healthier. Find Denise on Facebook and her website 2021-03-2331 min