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Ah yes, many memorable nights with Deja Voodoo. Cheese and crackers for everyone involved.

Posted by Half at June 23, 2006 3:04 PM

 

i'm very excited about this. my first club concert ever was a BBQ at the siboney club in kensington market, which took some finding for a bearded 16-year old from scarborough flying solo in the downtown core. i got there at 7pm because i had no idea when it would actually start and i'd only ever been to stadium concerts, the concert hall, or the ontario place forum up until then. for three hours i sat alone and sipped a coke and pretended to know what i was doing there, hoping not to get busted. i also worked up the nerve to approach the extremely friendly van herk and ask him about brent bambury and brave new waves... a show i would move to montreal and work for 15 years later.
i went the next year too--on time, and with other friends who now looked 19--and i don't remember who played which BBQ, but i saw shadowy men, gruesomes, ej brule, house of knives, UIC, ten commandments (whose singer james booth now programs cbcradio3), and other ICFC favourites.
deja voodoo were my introduction to indie cdn culture--because of them (and bnw, of course) i sought out indie stores, old vinyl and fanzines.

i interviewed van herk and dewald for my book 'have not been the same.' for some reason i can't recall now, i convinced exclaim to publish the full transcripts on their website here:
http://www.exclaim.ca/index.asp?layid=22&csid1=240

i remember that gerard was so out of the music scene that he had not even heard of exclaim or any indie culture post-1990. when og closed down he threw himself headfirst into family life and academia and never looked back... until ray condo died.
still kicking myself for missing those memorial gigs.
mb

Posted by barclay at June 23, 2006 4:25 PM

 

Nice tale, Michael. I'm not going to be able to make it to the BBQ myself but have a grand time all who go! Likewise, the Montreal BBQs were really my fundamental schooling in the rock we now call indie. I didn't know until this week that there ever were Deja Voodoo BBQs in Ontario. Huh.

Posted by zoilus at June 23, 2006 5:10 PM

 

Thanks for all the Voodoo links! I have been scouring the web for some songs (other than my worn out casette and two pieces of vinyl that I sadly can't play) and never expected to see them on MySpace. Go figure.

I remeber seeing them in a tiny little upstairs club in London, Ont. called Key West in the late '80s where they banged out their songs in sweat-flinging closeness to their fans. Later that night they signed our poster while loading their own gear into a beat up old van. Great times.

Posted by Jeremy at June 27, 2006 12:03 AM

 

it was a good show, by the way. much nostalgia for old og fans like myself. There was cheese, there were crackers. There were tales of being raised by wolves, and information about how they feed their young. photo attached.

Posted by paul at June 28, 2006 8:49 AM

 

dang. Photo here:

http://static.flickr.com/76/177014793_b288eed3c4.jpg

Posted by paul at June 28, 2006 8:51 AM

 

God DAMN it!! I would have loved to see this show. That's what I get for not checking this blog daily, or at least weekly....

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