The Silver Screen Surfer

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CIUT 89.5fm in Toronto onair at 5; Halloween Hootenanny w/Screaming Lord Sutch, The Gruesomes, Midways, Frantics, Mark Malibu & the Wasagas, Forbidden Dimension, Bloodshot Bill, Deadbolt, Deja Voodoo, Suckerpunch, Swamp Baby, Condition, Screamagers, Justin Curtis & more spooky tunes; 👻💀👹👺🎃🕷️🦇🕸️

RIP CKLN & CIUT DJ Chris Twomey. An important figure in introducing Industrial Music to Toronto in the 1980's when it was abrasive experimental noise music that would NEVER be played anywhere else. Besides his radio shows he did the Chris Twomey Industrial Road Show, www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbU5...

Blue Mondays Happy Birthdays to Ethel Waters (1896) & Eddie Lang (1902); 🎸🎙️

RIP to Gerry Phillips, singer with UK 80's Metal band Soldier. This is actually some quality 80's cheese here; www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRA_...

Happy Caturday & released this week in 1976 ~ Sparks 🐱

It's a Siouxsie Flashback Fridays as released this past week were; "The Thorne" EP (1984) & "Cities In Dust" single (1986);

Flashback Fridays Charts ~ Oct 1984; Twisted Sister, Bowie, Prince (twice), Billy Idol, U2, Springsteen, Scandal, Cyndi Lauper, Cancon from the Spoons;

RIP to David Black, guitarist with 80's Detroit Metal band Seduce, best known for being the one band in "The Decline Of Western Civilization 2 - The Metal Years" who weren't drunken louts; 🎸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX3W...

Podcast & playlist for Tuesday's show; Halloween Hootenanny; Screaming Jay Hawkins, The Ventures, Cramps, Diamonds, Bloodshot Bill, Night Chill, Evil Elvis, The Brains, Misfits, Rev Horton Heat, Mack Stevens, Deadbolt, Rob Zombie, Ghastly Ones, Gruesomes moondogsballroom.podbean.com/e/moondogs-b...

RIP to Myles Pederson, guitarist with 1980's Vancouver Hardcore band Unnatural Silence; 🎸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4is0...

CIUT onair at 5; Halloween Hootenanny w/The Cramps, Screaming Jay Hawkins, The Ventures, Diamonds, Bloodshot Bill, Night Chill, Evil Elvis, The Brains, Misfits, Rev Horton Heat, Mac Mack Stevens, The Fiends, Rob Zombie, The Ghastly Ones, Gruesomes, Dead Cats, Transylvania 500, Piney Brown & 💀👹👺👻 👽🎃

RIP to Brian Jones, sax player from 1960's UK band the Undertakers; 🎷 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeSj...

Blue Mondays Happy Oct Birthdays to Frankie Weems (1879) & Harry McClintock (1894) who wrote the classic "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and was an organizer for the IWW 🪕🎻✊

RIP to Izzy Singer, singer for California Hardcore band False Confession; www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-NO...

Happy Caturday & released this week in 1981 ~ Prince 😼

RIP Screamin' Sam Ferrara, bassist with the Viletones and a buncha other Toronto bands 🎸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dULE...

Flashback Fridays Albums Released This Past Week; Japan "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" (1980), Bauhaus "Mask" (1981) & "The Sky's Gone Out" (1982), The Cult "Love" (1985);

RIP to Chris Welsh, drummer with Australian bands the Screaming Tribesmen & Died Pretty; 🥁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7vI...

Throwback Thursdays Charts ~ Oct 1981; The Police, Kinks, Devo, Stones, Journey (twice), Foreigner, Genesis, ELO, Pat Benatar, Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty, that weird Jon & Vangelis mashup that actually made the charts, Cancon from Martha & the Muffins, Chilliwack, Powder Blues, Triumph. 📻🎸

Podcast & playlist for Tuesday's show w/Sue Foley, Death Sentence, Forever Dead, False Confession, Russell Scott & his Red Hots, Frankie Miller & stuff; moondogsballroom.podbean.com/e/moonodgs-b...

RIP to California Rockabilly Russell Scott; www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4vm...

CIUT 89.5fm in Toronto onair at 5 w/Sue Foley, Death Sentence, Forever Dead, False Confession, Russell Scott & his Red Hots, Frankie Miller & stuff; 📻🎸

RIP to Death Sentence drummer Doug Donut Proulx 🥁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT77...

Blue Mondays Happy Birthdays to Victoria Spivey (1906) & Robert Petway (1907);

Happy Thanksgiving out there in Radioland! 📻🦃

RIP to Stephen Jones of Severed Heads. One of the early Industrial bands and also one of the first bands I saw when they opened for Skinny Puppy. They had giant video screens showing these random images and I was totally blown away; www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVMi...

Happy Caturday & released this week in 1980 ~ Motorkit 🐱🎸🤘

Flashback Fridays singles Released This Past Week; Ultravox "The Quiet Men" (1978), Joy Division "Transmission" (1979), Killing Joke "Willful Days" (1983), Siouxsie "The Killing Jar" (1988); 🎸

It was actually yesterday but racoons are notoriously unreliable. 🎙📻

Throwback Thursdays Charts ~ UK Albums Oct 1976; Punk has officially started and we have Dr Feelgood, Thin Lizzy, Bryan Ferry, Be-Bop Deluxe, that Manfred Mann is pretty epic and that's about it. Cancon from Neil Young; 📻🎸

Podcast & playlist for Tuesday's show; Tracing the evolution of "Milkcow Blues" w/Elvis, Robert Johnson, Eddie Cochran, Ricky Nelson, The Kinks, Chocolate Watchband, Flaming Groovies, Nashville Pussy and more plus The Effigies & Mad Ones 📻🎸 moondogsballroom.podbean.com/e/moondogs-b...

CIUT 89.5fm in Toronto onair at 5; Tracing the evolution of "Milkcow Blues" w/Elvis, Robert Johnson, Kokomo Arnold, Eddie Cochran, Ricky Nelson, The Kinks, Chocolate Watchband, Flaming Groovies, Nashville Pussy, Aerosmith and more plus The Effigies & Mad Ones 📻🎸

Blue Mondays Happy Birthdays to Uncle Dave Macon (1870) & Hoyt Ming (1902) 🪕🎻

A Silent Sundays Happy 137th birthday to Lil Dagover, best known for "The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari" but she made other notable films as well including "The Spiders", "Destiny", (dir by Fritz Lang) & "Phantom" (by Murnau) @tinseltowntwins.bsky.social @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social @kezzie112.bsky.social

Airing this week in 1959, the first episode of "The Twilight Zone"; 📺👽👻

RIP to Chuck Varga, AKA the Sexecutioner of Gwar; www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaW5...

Happy Caturday & released this week in 1982 ~ The Gun Club 🐱🎸

Flashback Fridays singles released this past week; U2 "Out Of Control" (1978), Killing Joke "Requiem" (80), Siouxsie "Slowdive" (82), & "Dear Prudence" (83). This is an especially strong week 🎸

RIP to Cronos of Venom 🎸🤘 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FThv...

Throwback Thursdays Charts ~ Sept 1983; The Police (twice), Bowie (ditto), Kinks (ditto), The Fixx, Stray Cats, Eurythmics, Spandau Ballet, Moody Blues, ELO, Jackson Brown, Tim Finn, Cancon from the Payolas, Loverboy, Tic Toc, plus Bonnie Tyler who died recently as did the singer from Naked Eyes; 🎸📻

RIP to Pete Byrne, singer with Naked Eyes. As 80's Techno Pop they weren't as cool as Human League or Eurythmics or as inventive as OMD or as epic as the Spoons second album but this was a nice melodramatic romantic ballad; 🎹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVrE...

Podcast & playlist for Tuesday's show w/The Supersuckers, The Rumours, The Boys, Teenage Head, Max Webster, Enchanters, & stuff; moondogsballroom.podbean.com/e/moondogs-b...

Tonite; The Supersuckers & the Rumours at the Horseshoe 🎸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n07...

RIP to New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert; 🎸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbPa...