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robertdayton

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French Canadian Glam Research

Hi everybody! I just got back from Montreal and New York! I made incredible headway on Canadian Glam in Montreal interviewing legends Polo of Danger, Nick of Mack, Lucien of Aut'Chose, Pierre of Aut'Chose and Eclipse as well as Angelo Finaldi! My futile efforts with getting funding from the Canadian grant system are known (I just had another rejection letter for Canadian Glam -a Canadian historical book project that deals with music, fashion, gender play and pushing boundaries by someone who has been making quality work for years- the day before I left on my trip) so your support on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/robertdayton helps me to develop these projects. Gonna keep a going!

I was also doing book launches for my latest book The Empty Bed in Montreal at Monastiraki (5478 St Laurent Blvd, Montreal), a neat shop where you can purchase the book, and Spoonbill (99 Montrose) in Brooklyn, a great art book store where you can also purchase the book (it is also at Desert Island and at Printed Matter in New York City). Thanks to Monastiraki (Billy!) and Spoonbill (Jonas!) and Matthew Thurber and Brian Belott for performing too! The book can also be purchased on my Patreon and on my Etsy https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/RobertDayton.

If you want to review The Empty Bed book please drop me a line for a copy, I would love that.

Also I am doing advance research on French Canadian Glam too! Very stoked (of course any advice and info is appreciated - tho there’s been silence here there’s been lots of original research happening) Tell your pals! Saturday afternoon! It's going to be great fun! Books will be personally signed!

Forgive my silence and dormancy. First off the previous post that I made linking to my Patreon is PUBLIC!!! For your reading and listening pleasure. No need to pay but my Patreon is very much active and healthy and unsavoury and any pennies are appreciated. I have been super busy doing Canadian Glam research and interviews (Yeahhhh!) and also hyping my new book The Empty Bed available here: : www.impulse-b.com/products-page/impulsebooks/the-empty-bed

Canadian Glam is on my Patreon now! Just click the record above! This post not only has more of my wild extrapolating zippy za-zas but also rare T Rexy Zeppy spacey via Winnipeg MP3s. Must hear! Subscribe to my posts for only 2 bucks a month, whole lotta content. Pennies a day! 3 bucks a month gets you a special video! For 10 you get a winking photo! For 20 you get an advance purchase of my book (40 via mails)... #canadianglam

LEADS

Dear friends,

(yes, I consider you a beneficial friend now, what a bond we have)

I am trying to tend to my affairs pushing myself to interview as many Canadian Glam acts as possible starting with the Ontario area then spreading my wings out wide. PERHAPS YOU HAVE LEADS OR CAN HELP? This now freshly passed Sunday I interviewed the wildly unhinged Crackers, before that I interviewed Robbie Rox: both a part of the cue-ball headed genre of Canadian Glam along with the elusive Walter Zwol, who I desperately long to interview (please!). Who else do I want to interview in Ontarrrrio? Chikkin, Fludd, Goddo, Lynx (original line up only), Rik Emmett, Thundermug, Carole Pope, Daniel Lanois, maybe Gowan as well as Master John's boots. And members of Max Webster who are so very indicative of that uniquely Canadian mix of prog and glam (uniquely? makes me think of Bebop Deluxe over yonder in England ha ha). Listen to this bit of dream-weaved and rinsed pixie dust below, gleaming Romantic Glam, this follicle challenge may not be cueball but it certainly is a page trimmed from the Eno School Of hairdressing, a wispily steaming hot skullet! Yes, Kim Mitchell’s old band before he grabbed the CanCon brass ring and rode away. If he had solely this band as merit, the public would greatly respect him as a ‘cult artist’ (and incredible guitarist), dues paid but bills perhaps not. The Rogue’s Gallery of a front sleeve wins first prize in the awkward Glam sweepstakes. What colour are your platforms? Brown, of course, the lift may have me flying but the earth tones keep me close to this great land of ours. Throw in a French Canadian cult leader/race car driver vibe with a hint of Mom’s make-up before mime class and you got some serious flair! Bidini offhand told me that in their early days they’d do three sets a night: one originals, one Zappa, and importantly: one Bowie...and according to Martin Popoff’s Max Webster bio, they adored The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Here y’go:

I am of course going to Montreal before the frost sets much as I love a shimmer to try to interview Danger, Aut'Chose, Lewis Furey (tho he splits his time with France, who wouldn’t?) Got leads? Gimme leads... who’s with me?

Drop me a line here too: [email protected] Much love,

Robert

#max webster #canadian glam #fludd #goddo #zwol #gowan #master john's boots

Issue 3 of Vulcher is out now. I wrote about French Canadian Glam band Danger who I declare better than Teenage Head. And there's loads of other stuff: an interview with Tom Smith about junk dub, Plastic Crimewave on Joe South, free jazz, The Electric Eels, etc etc. 5 bucks. Order here: http://vulcherfanzine.bigcartel.com/product/vulcher-3

Please help the Canadian Glam project out, we know of nada besides ones in the provinces listed above... Writer/musician Alexander Varty claims that there was NO New Brunswick Glam scene other than that he was in a band (The Flying Hat Band or The Annand Brother band depending on if they were more foppish or jammy) that did Roxy Music and Allman Brothers covers, ha ha! Alas, no photos exist.

#canadianglam

robertdayton

The Canadian Romantic - Oh Canada Very erotic! If you like it, please feel free to share as it has not gotten any media attention as yet and it’d be nice for people to see it..

SNOW WHITE

Last time around the band Streetheart was briefly brought up then casually dismissed due to their albums being laden with forgettable sub-Foreigner ditties. Please prove me wrong. One of their members even left to join Loverboy, another Foreigner sound-a-like band but with more hits, hits that pretty much all sounded alike. Do you know what Foreigner sounds like? A double hernia.

And yet Streetheart had one song Snow White that is so Canadian Glam it could be Roxy Roller’s kid sister. It runs in the family. The Hello to Sweeney Todd’s T Rex. Sha na na na na sing-alongs....yessss....

Oh God, let’s throw this on too, their Stones cover....

https://youtu.be/ogGFzJlRu1Y

Paul Leahy Rest in Peace

(photo by Kimiko Karpoff)

From his GoFundMe, which can be donated to here: https://www.gofundme.com/superduperstar

“Hi friends. As you have likely heard, we lost our friend Paul on the evening of February 26th. Thanks to the numerous family, friends, and admirers who have been generous with love, support, kindness, and donations. Between this campaign and the recent Super Duper Show benefit concert, over $15,000 has been raised! We are still accepting donations, which will support Kimiko and Finn. Money will also be donated in support of music programs for children and youth, and the Surrey Hospice Society. Paul's gentle spirit and dazzling talent will live on, thanks to all of you for supporting him, Kimiko, and Finn.”

I have been wanting to write about Paul, an important figure in Canadian glam, for quite a while now, if anyone is willing to share stories and other biographical info, please do not hesitate to contact me.

#paul leahy #canadian glam

SUPER DUPER PAUL LEAHY BENEFIT CONCERT THIS FRIDAY NIGHT, VANCOUVER

It pains me to write that Paul Leahy, a true unappreciated flame of Canadian Glam, one who has consistently kept it going since the mid 70s, bearer of the Eno mullet, has cancer. On Friday Jan 27/2017 friends and fans are gathering at the Rickshaw in Vancouver to share a few stories and hear some of Paul's favourite bands play tribute to his extensive back-catalogue of songs. Such bands as Pointed Sticks, Polly Suit (members of Polly and Pleasure Suit), The Furniture, SLIP~ons, Swank, The New Black, China Syndrome, Tayt Modern, Finn Leahy and MC Marc Godfrey!

Getcher tickets: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1408316

Check this out, Paul Leahy’s band from 1978, Toys! For fans of Milk N Cookies, Sparks, oh fudge, for fans of MUSIC! Look at these dreamy lads. Was this ever released? I dunno! Shoulda! Someone should release it NOW!

Let’s leapity leap now to 2014...his band Polly. A real rock n’ roll soliloquy. Leahy still got it and got it good! How many Original Glammers do you know that still make and release quality music? Tell me. How many?

This man has been waving the flag of Canadian Glam for decades! I so wish that I could attend this show, Canada is big and I am just too far away. Won’t all of you in Bee yoo tee ful BC attend for Paul and his family?

I first saw Leahy perform illegally when I was a teenybopper visiting Vancouver. He wasn’t illegal, I was! I didn’t have fake ID but the door staff at The Arts Club must have thought my face pubes meant maturity. The friend who took me, Ken Gordon, had full blooming pubes and knew the band, he was way wiser than me. Besides his glammy projects Leahy, with David M, has been part of the musical comedy duo NO FUN for decades. And that’s who I saw in the waning days of the 80s. It was exciting to see a band that I would hear literally singing the praises of a green monster candy called Gorgo Gum -a real gnarly gum destroyer- on the National airwaves of the CBC long after the janitor had left for the evening. Imagine falling asleep to that! NO FUN were regulars of David Wisdom’s Night Lines, a radio show that taught me and many others about the wildest regions of all kinds of music from all kinds of places. And with that concert at The Arts Club I now knew what NO FUN looked like, ha ha! What a force! PRAISE YOU PAUL LEAHY!!!!! PRAISE YOU!!!!!!!

GLAM PLACES AND SPACES: TORONTO

Let’s visit Toronto for two Glam Spaces and Places that are existing to this day …one won’t be for long though! Let’s appreciate it while it lasts. Cherish it. Nothing lasts forever when cold developers are involved.

You have probably already heard that Honest Ed’s will be closed on Dec 31st, 2016 …along with everything else good and interesting on that Toronto city block -such as Suspect Video who are selling off their rare (niches your neighbours never dreamed of) wares of DVD and VHS (still lots in the Canadian section by the way, everyone avoids the Canadian section) and moving online, , Neurotica where I got some fine Canadian Glam LPs as well as studio spaces for artists such as Fiona Smyth.

On the web there are numerous places where you can get a full and illustrious history of the late Ed Mirvish and his long-running Honest Ed’s department store. CHECK IT OUT! Or go buy his autobiography at Honest Ed’s! This is more than just a department store, man, it contains Honest Ed Mirvish’s document of faded theatre dreams as all patrons get surrounded by walls adorned with show posters of Mirvish stage productions starring seasoned Brit luminaries mi signs galore, numerous nods and winks on a maze of rickety floors and connections to get way gone in, it’s so much like a funhouse that they got wavy shape shifting mirrors placed by the doors. For the longest time Honest Ed’s sold malformed busts of Elvis. So many malformed knick-knacks to choose from, a wide selection of malformed.Yes, this place is pure Canadian Glam incarnate! The name in lights stretching a block filling the eye with yuks and glitz for free, all manner of goods inside for cheap (practically egalitarian, no refunds) .

And distinct hand lettered signs! So many signs. Those signs are being sold right now! Get a piece of history. I got this dandy for just nine dollars.

What will take the place of Honest Ed’s? What could?

Nothing quite says fake austere as a name like House Of Lords. When I think of this salon my mind darts to shags and potted plants (perfect for the newbie stylist to practice on). This salon boasts of having known Alice Cooper and other rock luminaries (the walls have pictures) and is still on Yonge Street to this day,Glam thud replaced by House thumpa thumpa. Alas, there’s mumblings of it being a dreadful place to get a cut and to work (kinda grabby I heard, such grody gestures -though a tragic part of the Glam trappings- simply aren’t acceptable in any era) but back in the day one could join the queue for the trendy shag and if that didn’t work out? Maybe there were powdered wigs available to order in the court! Hey, it is called House Of Lords!

Do you have any misty memories or tawdry tales or -better still- know of some Canadian Glam Spaces and Places? Send them my way, pretty please.

#canadianglam honesteds

ROMPERS

This Friday, October, 21st at Lucky Shrike Bar, 850 Dundas West in Toronto, DJ MADGEIC and I, DJ BODY BEAUTIFUL will be having our night ROMPERS and it will be all Glam! Yes, I will be spinning mucho Can Con. DJ MADGEIC has the best collection of Glam singles of anyone that i know and I know a lot of people.

Deejays BODY BEAUTIFUL & MADGIC interdimensionally team up in a flurry of pixie dust! An EXTRAVAGLAMZA of sounds from soft & sweet to HARD & MEAN with a selection of bitters and fizzies from the bar. ~~MIDNIGHT LIMBO CONTEST~~ KEEP IT CHEEKY! Throw-on all that satin & tat because WHY THE HELL NOT?

#Think safety! Hit by a car? Throw some pixie dust on it and crawl over to Rompers!

THOR

Popular musical group KISS saw that shit might just barely fly in the big city but, astute businessmen that they were, they knew to change the gender bending and make-up that was so much a part of The New York Dolls to that of four color comic book fantasy; better appealing to the more conservative and sexually uptight North American masses. Here’s the rub, KISS didn’t just love money, KISS also loved super heroes! Gene Simmons even wrote for a comic book fanzine. As much as they weren’t sexually transgressive and forward thinking, their cosmic elements still kept very much in line with Glam. ‘Biggest Glam band ever’ quotes the industry trades! (if Gene Simmons had only opened his mouth to sing or to spew blood or flames and not actually spew shit, ie. speak, that sense of childlike wonder would be so much easier to recall)

Over in Canada Thor was also an avid comic book reader. He became a champion body builder and -before becoming fully Thor- started a body building band in the early 70′s! There’s no denying which Marvel comic book he took his name from (of which he has denied but...). I’ll give you a hint: Thor. His first album sounds like KISS if Paul Stanley was too busy preening and puckering to show up. This recently reissued album has no filler tracks, there’s even a song entitled Superhero. It’s as solid as his chest which bricks would be broken over, steel bars bent with his mouth, hot water bottles blown up through the air circulating strongly through his cardiovascular system, this bodybuilder could put on quite the show! He still tours! Go see him! Go! Go! I mean, the world is a wilder place for him existing. We must be grateful. Thor is a living superhero making rock! Oh, sure twilight may slowly be coming on for this God but we must pay him reverence, he delivers and gives his all for us! And if you want the full scoop on this Canadian Glam legend, see the new documentary I Am Thor while you’re at it, you’ll be glad you did. Thank me now. Thank me later. Thank me forever.

Underrated cartoonist Ken Landgraf may finally get some due. His self-published comic from the 70′s and 80′s New York City Outlaws is being turned into a major motion picture! Landgraf has done numerous other projects including Rock Comics and the ultra-rare Thor comic book which looks to be mimeographed. I was lucky enough to snag a copy and I am going to pass a bit of that luck on to you, the reader, right now....enjoy the first few pages (and yes, dear copyright owner, I can take this comic down if it is flaunting laws, I just feel that it deserves to be seen).

My copy contained a free ticket! Probably too late to cash it in....

#jonmiklthor #ken landgraf #i am thor

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