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PAGE 1 PAGE 2 über catchy sounds of Wakefield, played many a gig with in Vancouver was The Pointed so perhaps you can see where this is going? Well right England’s The Cribs first entered Sticks. You can actually see them, and particularly back to the T-Hawk with Fuad and the Feztones’ my ears via Tyler Fedchuk’s Radio their drummer Dimwit, in the filmed in Vancouver Welcome to My Castle, a cover of The Evaporators’ Zero program on CiTR 101.9 fM. I had been plow- (and very YouTube-able) 1980 Dennis Hopper film, 1992 Single. The Feztones version even namechecks ing through angry Friday afternoon traffic on Burrard Out of the Blue. The only time I The Tomahawk within the first 6 seconds! Street in Vancouver, BC, Canada and listening to actually ever saw Dimwit drum Not surprising considering if you eat at the Radio Zero which, week in and week out, for a good live was when he sat in with Tomahawk you will never forget it. For in- number of years, has been providing guaranteed stimu- Cub on New Years Eve, 1993 at stance, here’s what Kate Nash said in The lation of the aural variety to the greater Vancity area. Studio J on Hastings Street in Times of London Magazine (no joke): Not only am I lucky to be able to listen to Radio Zero Vancouver. Valeria, Cub’s drum- in my car, I am also blessed mer had invited Dimwit to guest The one restaurant that really sticks in my with having my drum on a couple tunes. And mind is the Tomahawk in North Van- own radio show on let me now invite Kate Nash couver. The burgers at the Toma- CiTR, Nardwuar (“Hullo Kate!”) to unleash a hawk are huge; you can have beef, the Human Serviette cover of Cub’s My Chinchilla for you the chicken, hot dog and even fish Presents, come on listeners of this here Busy Doing Nothing in them. My boyfriend ate it all! right after Radio compilation! If you look closely at the back He’s now a vegetarian. Zero. I often arrive of the record you will see Alex from early at the station, Franz Ferdinand wearing a headdress It’s not easy to make the perfect to talk to Tyler and while wolfing down a Skookum Chief Hot Dog either! Some of us chefs prepare for my own Hamburger at The Tomahawk BBQ in such as The Evaporators, Sage Fran- program. Despite early arrivals North Vancouver, BC, Canada. Alex was cis/Xaul Zan and Megan Barnes dream of go- at CiTR, I somehow usually in town producing The Cribs at the ing to Hot Dog High to perfect our craft. But, sadly, still end up being late for my Warehouse Studios, which interest- right now The Evaporators are Busy radio show. Very frustrating! Yup, ingly enough is owned by Doing Nothing. Perhaps Jill I Hate Being Late When I’m Early, Bryan Adams, who once Barber and Andrew W.K. something I found out both The Evapo- worked at the Tomahawk would like to like to argue that rators and Andrew W.K. share in common. Speaking doing the dishes! Not too point though as they took time of sharing,The Dishrags, Vancouver’s (and possibly far from the Warehouse off from their schedules to help North America’s) first all girl punk combo, shared the in Gastown, lies JC/ The Evaporators bring it on stage with The Furies at Vancouver’s very first punk DC Studios where with home with their cover of Doug gig, July 30, 1977, at the Japanese Hall. Infact, since David Carswell and John Rutledge’s (with Donna Wood- they opened up the show, they hold the honour of be- Collins, Franz Ferdinand ward) 1975 single, titled, you ing the first home grown Punks to ever step on a Van- recorded a version of The guessed it, Bring it on Home! I couver Stage! Just like The Cribs, The Dishrags fell Pointed Sticks’ Real Thing. first heard the song on my radio show when DJ/record into my life through constant airplay on CiTR Radio. JC/DC Studios is in the same space collector Ed Lasko brought it out to CiTR for me to So perhaps it is fitting that The Cribs have paid trib- as Studio J, where Cub had their New Years Eve 1993 play. But where did you get the 45, Ed? ute to The Dishrags with a cover The Dishrags’ 1980 gig with Dimwit of the Pointed Sticks on drums! single Death in the Family. One band The Dishrags Furthermore, Kate Nash has eaten at the Tomahawk, It came in a stack of about 60 45s I had mail ordered, PAGE 3 extending from ’64 to ’79 or so. Most were ’65 and ’66. hand store or whatever, I wouldn’t have bought it. I have Evaporators how it is, which is completely opposite A lot of good stuff. I was particularly pleased to acquire it only because it was part of that package deal. I didn’t to the Bunk other media outlets put forth! Who really a copy of Hank Turko’s Eagle 45 (Winnipeg label) which pick it out. knows the score? Pig War! This “almost” Canada-USA was on my want list at the time. There were more Eagles war incited by the shooting of a pig on the San Juan and lots of delights. I played all Across from the DJ booth at CiTR is Studio C, where Islands (north of Seattle) in 1859 is a somewhat con- the most interesting I have pre-taped many phone interviews over the fusing border dispute that took years to resolve. Arbi- titles, and the last dozen years. One interview that sticks in my mind is with tration by Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany(!) finally settled or so languished. Finally, Harlan Ellison, the writer of my favourite episode of everything in 1872, turning the San Juan’s over to after two or three months Star Trek (“The City on the Edge of Forever”) where the Americans, leaving some Canadians to feel kinda had elapsed, I forced myself Spock wears a toque! I fluked out being able to shafted. But at least Quadra Island was safe! It was still to “process” the remainders. talk to Harlan in the first in Canadian hands and years later inspired the name I was in for a big shock. place as it was only of The Quadra Club in The first was Art Young’s through the kind- Vancouver, which on “Little Tot” which I never ness of former Sept 17, 1978 would go even heard of. After many CiTR Promotions on to host a mega punk plays, I was quite indignant: “Why had Director Aaron gig with The Avengers, no one even mentioned this great record Chapman that The Subhumans and the to me?” I was beside myself. (I played it it happened. (If Pointed Sticks! Grant for famous Dutch dealer/collector Cees Klop you’re curious about McDonagh of Zulu Re- who has reissued it!). Another week went by. I that encounter, you can cords, then of legendary was down to the last two or three 45s. They were from hear Harlan calling me “the Vancouver Fanzine Snotrag, the 70s — not a decade I like to remember. Then I spun little guy” and hanging up at www.nardwuar.com ) taped the concert, provid- Doug Rutledge’s record “Bring it on Home.” I only know Over the years Aaron has also continually kept me up ing The Evaporators with an opportunity to record, he was a British Columbia guy who made some records to date on the many fascinating aspects of Vancouver’s decades later, a version of the ’Sticks unreleased track for the Kin-Gar label. (So he’s likely from past that he has documented and written about. It was All The Bad Girls. If that, dear reader, makes you that part of BC. Kinard/Castlegar — only a matter of time before one of these tidbits end- think of Franz Ferdinand again (as they too have Southeast BC) I’d had some of his ed up in a Evaporators song. In this case it was covered the Pointed Sticks on this platter), here’s 45s in the past, and they always the tale of the Milkshake Murder, from 1965, something further to satisfy your urges, more Franz went into the discard bin. Not where a man murdered his wife by giving her a Ferdinand! Not in musical form, but in spoken word this time. I was stunned, and bunch of arsenic-laced vanilla milkshakes. All interview configuration. Years from today all this will couldn’t quite believe it. My this happened in the middle of a radio station mean something, but right now you’re Busy Doing thought was “This must be promotion that had him camped out on top Nothing! American — it must’ve been a of the BowMac car dealership sign in Vancou- hit” and I immediately turned to ver, supposedly, during the day and night. (He Have a good tofurkey, my Billboard Country Charts book. told everyone he wouldn’t leave the sign until all the Unlisted of course. I’ve always liked rockin’ guy/ cars in the lot below were sold.) However the bastard gal duets, and this is one of the best. I played it for Cees secretly sneaked down at night and succeeded in kill- Nardwuar the Human Serviette who also liked it, and may reissue it on one his CanCon ing his wife with milkshakes.

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