Celina 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 a music venues for a period in the 2010s.

Flatlands is a house on Victoria Drive, north of Venables, which hosted an annual music festival called Flatlandia starting in 2016 and continuing for several years.

Other venues mentioned: TheTeen Raveup, the Zoo Zhop, the Moontower.

Musicians discussed include Tommy Tone, Chris-a-riffic, Rockridge, Lunch Lady, Dogbreth, Diners, Greenbelt Collective, Nicholas Krgovich.

Shout Back Festival! (2012, 2013 and 2014) was an anarcha-feminist, queer, radical, anti-capitalist DIY music festival .

Circle ‘Round is a new music series organized by Celina at the Lido.

Music clips used with artist permission.

Kidnap Kips: Stories from You Would Run From Ratboy Grave (2009, Geographing Records)

Trush Crush: diss appear from We Like Us (2013)

Future Star: Karoake from cryorities (2016)

Veda 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 restaurant which hosted music and poetry events starting in the ‘90s, and closed in 2022.

Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, an experimental film centre run by Alex Mackenzie, was near Commercial and Venables.

The Oddfellows Hall at 1720 Graveley Street (a branch of the international frateral orgnization), held at least a dozen punk shows fom 1979 to 1984.

The York Theatre (639 Commercial Drive), where Veda Hille stages the East Van Panto each winter, was previously the New York Theatre rock venue in the ‘80s and ‘90s before becoming the Raja Bollywood Cinema.

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 179 at 2205 Commercial Dr.

Music clips used with artist permission.

Veda Hille: Neighbourhood Song from Songs About People and Buildings (1991)
One Hot Summer from Spine (1996)
LuckLucky from This Riot Life (2008)
Tracers from Beach Practice (2020)

Stephen 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 Reptiles, The Nerve Tubes, Dayglo Abortions, Mission of Christ, Green River, July fourth toilet, Sea hags, Flaming Lips, Goo Goo Dolls, Change of Heart, Young Canadians, DOA, the Gits, Skinyard, the Dwarves, The Faith No More, Peaches, Mojo Nixon, the Replacements.

Other Venues visited: the Savoy (2 Powell Street), the Town Pump (66 Water St), Ms Ts Cabaret (339 West Pender), the Marine Club (573 Homer St), The Backstage Lounge (1181 Seymour Street).

Other venue discussed: Stalag 13, Luxury Bob’s, the Penthouse, the Smilin' Buddha, the Waterfront.

Music clips used with artist permission.

Slow: "I Have Not Been the Same" from Against the Glass (Zulu, 1986)

Stephen Hamm Theremin Man: "Valentina" 2021

Tankhog: "I Woke Up in Love This Morning" from House of Beauty (Zulu, 1992)