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Paul Leahy
The best song to dance to in Junior High was Sweet’s “Fox On the Run.” Ricky van Rikxoort and I were the two shortest kids…
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Zippy and the Debs Riot
While watching Pill Squad at Khatsahlano in July, I saw Zippy Pinhead. He was at the front, like he always was when not on…
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Strange Fascination
For me, what makes change so unsettling is not having to adapt to the new or mourn for what’s gone, but the way time itself…
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Girls Talk
The thing to remember is that at the time, there were only two kinds of beer: Labatt’s Blue and Molson Canadian, both in cans. As…
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The Pointed Sticks
“You walked out took your chance, You turned your back on our romance, You said you’d found somebody new, You said the change’d do you…
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A Musical Education
I grew up on a varied musical diet: Zorba The Greek, country, folk and lots of classical. Waking up to Gordon Lightfoot’s “Alberta Bound” is…
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Picasso Set: Take One Million and Three
Joyfully obsessed with super heroes, cartoon characters and girls, Picasso Set were Vancouver’s late 80’s answer to The Undertones and The Monkees with a mod…
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Discorder Revisited
In 1980, I convinced two of my best friends, Colleen and Marianne, we should spend the following school year studying French at Laval University in…
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Discorder Revisited
The idea of Infrädig was born in the summer of 1992, which I spent in Norway. I took the summer off work to attend the…
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Discorder Revisited
Our first date almost didn’t happen. Gord and I were in a band together, the Debutantes, and when he asked me out to the Stranglers…