267 COBDEN ST. (STRAIGHT OUTTA COBDEN)

CONTACT:
Dave Quinn (69 Cent Burrito Sunday, Ass 'O' Gore)

HISTORY
In early July 2002, Daryl, Dave and I, wanted to hold a release show for Ass 'O' Gore's demo. I had called around to a bunch of places run by the City, service clubs, etc... and it was a case of either no one wanting to rent to punks, or too much money required to rent the places contacted, or retarded noise by-laws (brushed aside for corporate promoters, but used to stick it to the kids).
We were close to giving up when I suggested to Dave that we use his basement. I'd been to a couple of rad basement shows and I knew that his was used for nothing other than a garbage dump. I went to Dave's and looked at the basement and saw that it was good (aside from all the garbage and the animal feces that was literally everywhere). With initial skepticism, Dave and Daryl cleaned the basement thoroughly while I was at work. I showed up after work to find a heaping pile of garbage (probably 4' x 8' x 3') in front of Dave's house. I found carpet in the garbage at some store from flood or sewage damage and we used duct tape to tape it down to the now clean floor. We then made arrows out of duct tape indicating a circle pit, padded up some danger spots, and on the day of the show, drew graffitti on the walls with chalk and charcoal.
Numerous shows took place at 267 Cobden St throughout the rest of 2002 and the start of 2003 when it came to an end when Dave's Dad decided that shows couldn't happen anymore.

DESCRIPTION
267 Cobden was an L-shaped basement just barely high enough to play in. Bill Hall was capable of standing in it, but just barely. He had to position his head between the supporting beams, or hunch over. At the start, bands performed in the corner of the "L" (where the two edges meet in the centre) allowing people to watch from either side of the band, but not to long into Cobden's lifespan bands began playing at the one end of the "L" (at the opposite of the dripping toilet pipe). It was sort of sound-proofed, but music could still be heard outside the house. Neighbors seemed relatively accepting of the venue. The first show had a cover charge (because we wanted to get some cash so we could travel to Toronto for a show, and because I am a capitalist), but subsequent shows had no cover charge (because my capitalist ass was in Peterborough and I could no longer exploit the economic opportunity provided by punk rock at Dave's house).

More information about this venue can be found on documentaries released by NuMB SKuLL ViDeoS, Uncovered, Unleashed, and Released and The Evolution.