Lindiwe 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 Michael’s Multicultural Anglican Church (409 E Broadway), the Sugar Refinery.

Other musicians mentioned: Bob Wiseman, Bob’s your Uncle/Sook Yin Lee, Lisa Marr/cub, the Smugglers, the Colorifics, Built to Spill, Calvin Johnson, Dub Narcotic, Beat Happening, Halo Benders, Mecca Normal, Furnace Face, Trenchmouth, Fitz of Depression, Link, Shadowy Men for a Shadowy Planet, the Sadies, Fifth Column, Phonocomb, July Fourth Toilet, Ticker Tape Parade, Hard Rock Miners, Dan Bejar/Destroyer, Neko Case, DOA.

K Records is a legendary independent record label founded in 1982 in Olympia, Washington. Yoyo A Go Go was a festival they put on for the first year in 1994.

Thank you to Jean Smith.

Music clips used with artist permission

Wandering Lucy: Lady Genius from Leap Year (1996, K Records)

Mecca Normal: Ribbon from Flood Plain (1993, K Records)

Wandering Lucy: I Know One Thing from Leap Year (1996, K Records)