Rebel Time Records is hosting a two-day music thingy we are calling Rebel Fest in March 2011, in Hamilton…
You can get all the details at the Rebel Rest blog which can be found HERE.
Hope to see you there!
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01
Jan
11
REBEL FEST: MARCH 12/13, 2011
Yup, it’s time for another Hamilton Punk Rock Matinee!
You can check out tunes from the bands at the HAMILTON PUNK ROCK MATINEE MYSPACE
There is also a FACEBOOK PAGE for the event.
And, in case you missed it the first time around…here’s a video from The Daily Times filmed at one of the previous Hamilton Punk Rock Matinees!!
11
Aug
10
THE DAILY TIMES: NEW VIDEO
Rebel Time Records loves THE DAILY TIMES… a swell bunch of guys and a great hardcore punk rock outfit out of Toronto…here’s their latest video which was shot during one of the Punk Rock Matinees ( held at This Ain’t Hollywood in Hamilton) hosted by Rebel Time Records. Dig it!
THIS IS EVERYTHING:
There’s no place I’d rather be!
Breaking my back
Burning out my throat
Sacrifcing societal norms
Screaming through microphones
Could have been so different
Could taken an easier path
But I made a commitment
And I’m never going back.
This is Everything to me
All ages, we don’t fucking fit!
Kids like me so fucking lost,
I got a feeling
Your right where you belong
Standing in this room with us
I made a commitment
And I’m never going back.
All Ages!
From the Broadcast Zero Myspace Blog…
The Ontario Crossroads
So we’ve got like seven shows coming up to close out this month. After sweating to death for the past few days I am reminded why we typically do not play shows in August…we don’t fancy dying on stage Judge Dread style or any style for that matter. But there is a good reason for these shows…
It appears that all of our favourite bands felt the urge to converge on Ontario at the exact same fucking time. So what did we do, well not much. Hmmm..that story sucks.
No, we actually made sure as hell that we’d be playing a number of shows with our favourite people form East to West.
Obviously THE rebel spell is Canada’s finest punk rock band from Vancouver….and they’re good kissers, especially that Todd fellow. They’re playing like 15 shows in Ontario so make sur eyou check them out regardless of whether or not we’re playing.
Class War Kids….whatever….only one of the best pure political punk bands I know of. Some of you may wonder what I mean by pure…well, read their lyrics sheet….these guys are chalked full of message and no fluff: specific and to the point, a sign that they know what they’re talking about. Not like those cheezy quasi-politpunks that sing about stuff like “Someone start a revolution, we’ve got four but we need more” kind of non-specific slogan chanting like you find in some bands. If you didn’t catch them the first time through Ontario, catch them on their way back to Newfoundland.
Jesse Lebourdais from the band Cambridge (Vancouver) is touring his solo acoustic act which is some real wicked shit. He’s a super talented guy who is frightened of me when I’m drunk and bowling but he put together an excellent solo project and you shoudl all check it out….immediately.
Noelle from Chaos, Disorder and Panic is a longtime show promoter out in Chilliwack, BC and she’s put on countless shows for countless bands and does it because she loves exactly what we love: building and supporting a scene that stretches across the entire country. She’s been an important contributor to that development and she’s making her first trip across Canada with her friends in GSTS marketing her specific brand of spoken-word experimental message-filled songs.
Also bands that aren’t touring but are playing shows during this time period include good friends and also people committed to building a scene are End Program from Toronto who are affiliated with the collective High Art for the Low Down who also put on countless shows in whatever venues they can find to support touring and local acts.
Subsistence from Montreal will also be heading down here for a show. There was no better moment that watching Phil from Subsistence get dragged out of one of our many local pubs screaming, “I don’t speak English!! They don’t understand!!” He was absolutely bombed but I think he was getting dragged out bombed or sober so at least he was the funner of the two. Those guys are wicked though so check them out.
And of course Final Four are playing the Hamilton show and they’ve always been one of my favourite bands except I don’t actually know them beyond the brief time we spent at the last Hamilton show we played together but they’re awesome so check them out.
The who point of the story is that four years ago none of these bands knew each other and now we get the opportunity to set up shows and play shows across the entire country and it just goes to show that a scene for this kind of punk rock exists across the country and its held together by touring bands and promoters who love the music.
nick
09
Jun
09
punk rock matinee – july 11th
Check out the PUNK ROCK MATINEE MYSPACE for more info, songs from the bands, pics from previous Matinees, etc…
The second installment of the BROADCAST ZERO “Crisis Management Tour ’09″ diary (the band is currently making it’s way across Western Canada)…see below for Dispatch #1…
After posting the “Team Building Exercise” that outlines some of the unfortunate mishaps and severe disasters that have forced themselves upon us over the first few days of this tour, it feels like some additional stories might be in order.
Mike in Thunder Bay is one of the best promoters in Canada and I”m sure a lot of bands would agree with me. We’ve never met a guy as dedicated to 80s Hair Metal as Mike and he is certainly in competition for being one of the nicest guys we know.
Kilroy’s is a great bar and we got a chance to play a good number of the new songs we’re touring with this time around (songs we hadn’t played before this date) so it was both productive and fun.
And for the girl who spent an hour at our merch table trying on shirts: Yes, you looked good in all the shirts and no you’re not fat. Please come back on June 4th and we can go through all the shirts again with you until you find something you like. Oh, and “I don’t like wearing black” is a difficult request at a punk band’s table.
Winnipeg: As if by fate, we could not find the venue and pulled into a very shady street on a very shady side of Winnipeg only to relaize that we had accidently pulled up in front of our friend Dustin’s house (where we would be staying that evening). So, we went in for a few drinks before the show.
As we made our way to the venue, navigating Winnipeg’s oneway streets, we circled the venue a few times searching for a beer store. And, as if by fate, as we pulled up to the beer store our car started to smoke. “Well, we’re pretty fucked, we mise well pick up a 2-4.” Turned out our engine didn’t feel like registering oil on its dip stick or retaining any coolant. You’ll have to stay tuned for the disagnosis.
Trying to keep a positive and determined outlook on things we made our way over one block to The Cavern, a wicked little punk rock club beneath the Frog. We had the pleasure of playing with Winnipeg’s The Afterbeats, a great ska band and a good bunch of guys. Admittedly it was difficult to fill a 50 minute slot as a punk band but we’ve got more than enough material this year so it managed to go off without a hitch. The place was packed (because the Afterbeats are awesome) and we met a shitload of great people. Special shout outs to Rhode Island, the girl who spelled her name slightly different than how it sounded, and the Ambient Rock guy who hates punk rock but told me my “Don’t Be An Asshole” shirt was the best he’d seen since 1990. Oh, and to the friends of Grave Maker who was sexually harassing me all night, I have a picture of John from Grave Maker grabbing me as well so it would appear birds of the same something flock together…I don’t know the saying. Great show, commence the aftershow.
It’s 430am and I still haven’t slept because we’re eating “sketchbag pizza” and some dude fell through the bannister on the front porch. The cat was “more of a bitch than a bitch” and it turns out Candy loves Dustin more than I do.
Thank God we made it to Kenora. It was looking bleak but we managed to be offered a car in WInnipeg (awesome) and Hennessy said we could borrow their equipment (and their van, awesome!). So we pulled up around 8pm and decided to head next door to the venue for some glow-in-the-dark bowling. Phil destoryed us all on the first game and our second game was atrocious, none of us scored over 100 (in 5 pin). Thanks to WIllow behind the counter at the bowling alley who actually showed up to the show after and provided us with show deoderizer (we’ll see you in Ottawa and maybe Kitchener). Although this comes later in the story, thanks to Bailey, the manager of the bowling alley who was working the merch table beside us and had offered to open the lanes up at 2am for some afterhours bowling if we had been able to stay in town.
The show was surreal. It was a big building, the Lake of the Woods Hotel, that held two bars, a gym, and a hotel where I am sure GG Allin ODed (if I didn’t know where he actually died); the rooms had suicide written all over them, that’s all I can say — very creepy.
In the actual big bar we played, there was a pool tournament going on, punk bands and a dance club inbetween sets. You think the night would be a bust but it was fucking epic. Since we liked it so much the night before, we decided to play for about 45 minutes. Punk bands probalby shouldn’t play for that long but whatever, we don’t get to Kenora too often although it has become clear that we should. Thanks for everything Sean from Hennessy!
Kamloops to Prince George stories to come.
Nick
Crisis Management Tour ’09: Entry 1
After posting the “Team Building Exercise” that outlines some of the unfortunate mishaps and severe disasters that have forced themselves upon us over the first few days of this tour, it feels like some additional stories might be in order.
Mike in Thunder Bay is one of the best promoters in Canada and I”m sure a lot of bands would agree with me. We’ve never met a guy as dedicated to 80s Hair Metal as Mike and he is certainly in competition for being one of the nicest guys we know.
Kilroy’s is a great bar and we got a chance to play a good number of the new songs we’re touring with this time around (songs we hadn’t played before this date) so it was both productive and fun.
And for the girl who spent an hour at our merch table trying on shirts: Yes, you looked good in all the shirts and no you’re not fat. Please come back on June 4th and we can go through all the shirts again with you until you find something you like. Oh, and “I don’t like wearing black” is a difficult request at a punk band’s table.
Winnipeg: As if by fate, we could not find the venue and pulled into a very shady street on a very shady side of Winnipeg only to relaize that we had accidently pulled up in front of our friend Dustin’s house (where we would be staying that evening). So, we went in for a few drinks before the show.
As we made our way to the venue, navigating Winnipeg’s oneway streets, we circled the venue a few times searching for a beer store. And, as if by fate, as we pulled up to the beer store our car started to smoke. “Well, we’re pretty fucked, we mise well pick up a 2-4.” Turned out our engine didn’t feel like registering oil on its dip stick or retaining any coolant. You’ll have to stay tuned for the disagnosis.
Trying to keep a positive and determined outlook on things we made our way over one block to The Cavern, a wicked little punk rock club beneath the Frog. We had the pleasure of playing with Winnipeg’s The Afterbeats, a great ska band and a good bunch of guys. Admittedly it was difficult to fill a 50 minute slot as a punk band but we’ve got more than enough material this year so it managed to go off without a hitch. The place was packed (because the Afterbeats are awesome) and we met a shitload of great people. Special shout outs to Rhode Island, the girl who spelled her name slightly different than how it sounded, and the Ambient Rock guy who hates punk rock but told me my “Don’t Be An Asshole” shirt was the best he’d seen since 1990. Oh, and to the friends of Grave Maker who was sexually harassing me all night, I have a picture of John from Grave Maker grabbing me as well so it would appear birds of the same something flock together…I don’t know the saying. Great show, commence the aftershow.
It’s 430am and I still haven’t slept because we’re eating “sketchbag pizza” and some dude fell through the bannister on the front porch. The cat was “more of a bitch than a bitch” and it turns out Candy loves Dustin more than I do.
Thank God we made it to Kenora. It was looking bleak but we managed to be offered a car in WInnipeg (awesome) and Hennessy said we could borrow their equipment (and their van, awesome!). So we pulled up around 8pm and decided to head next door to the venue for some glow-in-the-dark bowling. Phil destoryed us all on the first game and our second game was atrocious, none of us scored over 100 (in 5 pin). Thanks to WIllow behind the counter at the bowling alley who actually showed up to the show after and provided us with show deoderizer (we’ll see you in Ottawa and maybe Kitchener). Although this comes later in the story, thanks to Bailey, the manager of the bowling alley who was working the merch table beside us and had offered to open the lanes up at 2am for some afterhours bowling if we had been able to stay in town.
The show was surreal. It was a big building, the Lake of the Woods Hotel, that held two bars, a gym, and a hotel where I am sure GG Allin ODed (if I didn’t know where he actually died); the rooms had suicide written all over them, that’s all I can say — very creepy.
In the actual big bar we played, there was a pool tournament going on, punk bands and a dance club inbetween sets. You think the night would be a bust but it was fucking epic. Since we liked it so much the night before, we decided to play for about 45 minutes. Punk bands probalby shouldn’t play for that long but whatever, we don’t get to Kenora too often although it has become clear that we should. Thanks for everything Sean from Hennessy!
Kamloops to Prince George stories to come.
Nick
I’ll be posting updates from BROADCAST ZERO as they criss-cross Canada on what is now officially their “Crisis Management Tour ’09.” Read on to find out why!
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Broadcast Zero’s Corporate Team Building Exercise
If your looking for that much needed cohesion that your small business is missing you can follow these simple steps to create bonds that will surely endure in these trying economic times. 1. Get a minivan with 350 000 clicks on it and buy a trailer from Roy who does War of 1812 re-enactments. Your objective is to make it to Kenora the following day and eventually make it to Kamloops within 5 days. Your overall mission is to not miss ANY shows. Additional factors: You’ll come to realize that this team-building exercise is IMPOSSIBLE without the support of new friends who would no doubt sacrifice themselves to help you — a true sign of the good that exists within people. We are happy to report that while we’re not in Kamloops yet, we will be there on time come Thursday evening. Our list of thank yous is long but here they are: Sean and Hennessey (Kenora, On): This motherfucking guy GAVE US HIS VAN to get out West. If there is a person more committed to a thriving punk rock community in this country, I have yet to meet them. He will always hold a place in our hearts for being wicked cool. As I write this blog entry, Sean and Phil are no doubt drinking and bowling with the fine people in Kenora. Dustin (from the Afterbeats and the Brat Attack) and his entire crew. Dustin houses us, looked at our van, told us we were pretty fucked, found a mechanic for us and stored our gear for us. His friends bought us food, drinks and even lent us their car. Who the fuck are these people!!! I mean, seriously, the willingness to aid other people is unbelievable. Our van blew us, shit got stolen, our trailer leaked and we were without a credit card essentially yet the past 3 days have been the best of this band’s career so far and some of the best times of our lives. Take that shitty luck, we’ve got friends and booze. And we love them all. |
One of my most favourite bands, THE REBEL SPELL, will be coming through Ontario and Quebec this August. Without a doubt, one of the best political-punk bands around.
If you’re a promoter around these parts, hook these brothers and sisters up with a show!
Scroll back through the blog entries for more info about THE REBEL SPELL…
21
Mar
09
PUNK ROCK MATINEE – APRIL 25TH
