June 16th 1995
Second Wave
122 Colborne Street
Brantford, Ontario
Our poster that Jen Palmer drew for us
This is the other one that Rob put together
This was our ninth show. It was a hot June day and this was our debut at Second Wave. We were playing our tape release show for our Coffee album in the basement. We were all drinking Coffee. Jeff Schelas asked us how we could drink coffee on a day like that. We needed our coffee simple as that.
Paul Evans In the middle doing his Beavis impression at the show. These were all the people at the show.
While we were waiting for Jimmy Tsronis (that's him with the white t-shirt and crossed arms) to show up with our set lists we set up and played Pee-Break for a warm up. Paul Evans (owner of Second Wave) came downstairs to see what was going on. Jeff Schelas said he was Aunt Jemima. Paul asked me a couple of questions. One of them was how I would react if he told me he sold my Paxum tape. I said "Yippy" very apathetically. He sold it to Dave Negal because of the Beatles cover of Yesterday that was on there. The other question was how much our Coffee tape was. Mark said that we were selling it for $4 that day. I gave the camera to Jeff Schelas and we played Misherona by The Knack.
Rob rocking out on the panflute for the Trilogy series. Jan (bass)
Paul introduced us finally to a feed-backing mic which is the same as me playing the sax. Paul said that the air conditioner blew all the hot air down the stairs. He said that we were "nice clean cut young boys." Paul continued "In French we were known as Dirgé. In our basement series it's our first sax player. Here is Dirge." Little did Paul know that it was also his first panflute appearance for Second Wave.
Jeff on bass, Rob on sax, Mark drumming and Jan's hair
We started off our set with Mr. Bumpy then we went into Sun One, Out Of The Cave And Into The Light, Crap, Anthony power of Seven, So Plain, Disco Edna, Ray Is Gay, Asshole, Xenophobe, Pick-up Line, Pee-Break, Searching For Giant Squid, My Heart In The Real World (Minuetmen), Spaid, Spackle, Trilogy I, II and III, Wall-Mart, finally we ended the set with Don't Let A Stranger Touch Your Body.
Rob rocking out
Rob playing guitar for Asshole and Xenophobe
At the end of the show Paul said that we had improved about "10 billion times" since the last time he saw us which was March 3rd 1995. He walked away singing Don't Let A Stranger Touch Your Body. Mark said that we played like "shit and the drums were fucked" and it was the last time that he would play with anyone elses drums.
Last updated October 5th 2002
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