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Bovine Sex Club
The Bovine Sex Club is a bar on Toronto's Queen Street West strip. In operation since January 1991, the Bovine Sex Club (often shortened to 'the Bovine') has at various times found itself at the forefront of Toronto's rock, punk, alternative, and rockabilly music scenes. History The club opened in January 1991 with a trio of Toronto nightlife enthusiasts behind it in ownership capacity — Wesley Thuro a.k.a. Happy Dog who had already had some organizational experience with Toronto nightlife establishments having launched the all ages rave club 23 Hop just a few months earlier in 1990, colourful CFNY radio personality Chris Sheppard who in addition to achieving a measure of local fame as the voice of CFNY's weekend live-to-air broadcasts from various Toronto clubs also performed under the 'DJ Dogwhistle' moniker, and Darryl Fine. Those who have visited the club include band members and film actors, including Bruce LaBruce Bruce LaBruce (born January 3, 1964) is a Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
23 Hop
23 Hop was a warehouse event space in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was an early venue for electronic music and a venue for raves. It was located at 318 Richmond Street West in the city's former Garment District which had recently become re-zoned into the city's Entertainment District. Although the space was active in the late 80s, it would not come to be known as 23 Hop until 1990, when it was taken over by Wesley Thuro, a club and restaurant owner, who would showcase his lighting and sound equipment, and Chris Sheppard, a notable Canadian DJ who would occasionally perform. The unlicensed venue's second and third floors would often be rented out as an after-hours club for house music events. Eventually, it would hold regular events by Exodus Productions and many other similar production companies that would signal the birth of the rave movement in Canada. 23 Hop closed in the summer of 1995. Following 23 Hop's closure, the 318 Richmond building's interior and exterior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Venues In Toronto
Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect of all human societies, a cultural universal. While scholars agree that music is defined by a few specific elements, there is no consensus on their precise definitions. The creation of music is commonly divided into musical composition, musical improvisation, and musical performance, though the topic itself extends into academic disciplines, criticism, philosophy, and psychology. Music may be performed or improvised using a vast range of instruments, including the human voice. In some musical contexts, a performance or composition may be to some extent improvised. For instance, in Hindustani classical music, the performer plays spontaneously while following a partially defined structure and using characteristic motifs. In modal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Look People
Look People was a Canadian alternative rock band formed in 1985 in Toronto.Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack and Jason Schneider, '' Have Not Been the Same: The Can-Rock Renaissance 1985-1995''. ECW Press. . They were known as "outlandishly quirky", and had a moderate hit in 1991 with a cover of War's "Lowrider". They received five CASBY Award nominations for their CD ''Small Fish, Big Pond''. History The band formed in 1985 around the lineup of vocalist Jaymz Bee, guitarist Andy Flinn, bassist Walter K. Thut, drummer Mike Weilenmann and percussionist Gerry Scott, aka Great Bob Scott. Flinn left the band and was replaced by Fabio Marc Baltensperger; he left and was replaced by Longo Hai. Weilenmann quit before their first recording, leaving Great Bob Scott to fill the chair as drummer and percussionist. In 1986, Look People released the EP ''Stop Making Cheese'', which was recorded in Switzerland and released in North America on AMOK Records. By 1988, the band was down to Bee and Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Bob Scott
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Dave Grieveson
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Bruce LaBruce
Bruce LaBruce (born January 3, 1964) is a Canadian artist, writer, filmmaker, photographer, and underground director based in Toronto. Life and career LaBruce was born in Tiverton, Ontario. He has claimed both Justin Stewart and Bryan Bruce as his birth name in different sources. He studied film at York University in Toronto and wrote for '' Cineaction'' magazine, curated by Robin Wood, his teacher. He first gained public attention with the publication of the queer punk zine ''J.D.s'', which he co-edited with G.B. Jones. He has written and photographed for a variety of publications including ''Vice'', the former Nerve.com and ''BlackBook Magazine'', and has been a columnist for the Canadian music magazine ''Exclaim!'' and Toronto's ''Eye Weekly'', as well as a contributing editor and photographer for New York's '' Index Magazine''. He has also been published in ''Toronto Life'', the ''National Post'' and ''The Guardian''. His movie, ''Otto; or Up with Dead People'' debuted a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darryl Fine
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Chris Sheppard (DJ)
Chris Sheppard (also known as DJ Dogwhistle) is a Canadian born former DJ and musician. One of the leading figures in the Canadian dance music scene in the 1980s and 1990s, he was active as a club and radio DJ and as a musician with the bands BKS and Love Inc. Career Sheppard's career began in the early 1980s as a DJ and host of several warehouse parties in the Toronto area. In 1985, David Marsden hired him as the host of a Saturday night alternative dance music show, ''Club 102'', on CFNY. this later expanded to a live broadcast from various Toronto nightclubs on Friday nights, a type of broadcast which was later copied by many other radio stations. Sheppard later moved to Energy 108 and later Z103.5 where he launched his program, ''Pirate Radio'' later renamed ''Groove Station'', into syndication across Canada. Sheppard also launched the Juno Award-winning dance groups BKS (Quality Records) and Love Inc.(BMG Canada), with whom he had several charting pop and dance hits. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CFNY
CFNY-FM (''102.1 the Edge'') is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 102.1 Hertz, MHz in the Greater Toronto Area, licensed to the suburb of Brampton, Ontario, Brampton. CFNY plays an alternative rock format. Owned by Corus Entertainment, its studios are in Downtown Toronto at Corus Quay on Toronto's Harbourfront (Toronto), Harbourfront, and its transmitter is located atop the CN Tower. The Edge is simulcast by satellite on Bell Satellite TV channel 955, and on Shaw Direct channel 866. History From CHIC to CFNY The station commenced operations on August 8, 1960, as an FM broadcasting, FM rebroadcast of an AM broadcasting, AM station, CIAO (AM), CHIC. On September 21, 1962, two brothers, Leslie and Harry Allen Jr., agreed to purchase all shares of CHIC Radio Ltd. from Spence Caldwell, S.W. Caldwell, Frank M. Early, F.J. Shouldice, John Fox, W.S. Martin, Frank W. Richardson, Garth H. Ketemer, G. Clare Burt, J.R. Jenkins and Gordon F. Keeble. The sale occurred on October 15 late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grid (newspaper)
''The Grid'' was a weekly newspaper in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, published from 2011 to 2014. The paper was launched on May 12, 2011, after owner Torstar discontinued publication of its previous title '' Eye Weekly''."Toronto Can Say Bye to Eye, It's Changing to The Grid" '''', April 11, 2011. According to editor Laas Turnbull, the publication's strategy was to be a "younger, hipper, more provocative version of '''' in a weekly guise". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rave
A rave (from the verb: '' to rave'') is a dance party at a warehouse, club, or other public or private venue, typically featuring performances by DJs playing electronic dance music. The style is most associated with the early 1990s dance music scene when DJs played at illegal events in musical styles dominated by electronic dance music from a wide range of sub-genres, including techno, hardcore, house, and alternative dance. Occasionally live musicians have been known to perform at raves, in addition to other types of performance artists such as go-go dancers and fire dancers. The music is amplified with a large, powerful sound reinforcement system, typically with large subwoofers to produce a deep bass sound. The music is often accompanied by laser light shows, projected coloured images, visual effects and fog machines. While some raves may be small parties held at nightclubs or private homes, some raves have grown to immense size, such as the large festivals and events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
