

Turned Out A Punk
Turned Out A Punk
Damian Abraham has been many things... the singer of a critically acclaimed band, a failed VJ and food network host, one of the minds behind TV's "The Wrestlers", parent of 3... and undeniably, a punk music obsessive. Each week, he sits down and chats with an interesting person from various walks of life to find out how their world was influenced and changed by the discovery of a novelty genre that supposedly died out in 1978... PUNK!
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Jan 24, 2020 • 1h 10min
Episode 239 - Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional, Further Seems Forever, Vacant Andys)
Tonight we are doin' it for friendship & the scene, because on this episode Damian is joined by his new buddy, CHRIS CARRABBA AKA Dashboard Confessional! Listen in as the two discuss: Florida's isolation causing a music boom, coming to terms with being labeled "emo", playing on CNN in the middle of a news report & more!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!! Don't miss Dashboard Confessional's "Best Of The Best Ones", a career spanning compilation of Dashboard's greatest hits dropping on January 31 2020!
Also Touched On:
Moving to Florida
Cars rides as punk school
120 Minutes
Archers Of Loaf
Pixies
Dino Jr over everything
Finding Post-Hardcore before punk
Buzzcocks over the Pistols
Liking Green Day they were Green Day
Vacant Andy’s inspired by Jawbreaker
Crimpshrine
Jawbox
The gap between Youth Of Today and Hatebreed
NO ONE CAME TO SOUTH FLORIDA!
Seeing Hot Water Music and falling instantly in love
Building a scene
Jon Riely from Morning Again
Trevor from Fact To Face: “word if getting out”
Fiddler Records
No Idea
Fueled By Ramen
HWM and Less Than Jake pulling the south FLA bands north
Hubble: favourite band that never recorded
Being made to sing
Chad from New Found Glory’s voice in Shai Hulud
coming to terms with the term emo
Reason To Believe rule
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jan 15, 2020 • 1h 9min
Episode 238 - Mikal Cronin (Party Fowl, Ty Segall Band, Charlie & The Moonhearts)
Get ready to set sail! In this episode, Damian is joined by his former shipmate on the Bruise Cruise & one of his favourite songwriters: Mikal Cronin! Join the two as they discuss: all ages shows, the Toronto connection, the joy of getting your OWN record & so much more!!!!
Also Touched On:
Growing up in a non-rock house
Hearing Nirvana in a cool babysitter’s car
When mom’s harp explodes…
Pop-punk as a gateway
the Warped Tour as a first show
NoFX
Floggin’ Molly
AFI
getting a full beer dumped down your cast
So-Cal Record stores
Finding the Smell
the possibility of starting a band
The concept of the Sensitive Side 7” blowing your mind
Meeting Ty Segall
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jan 6, 2020 • 1h 9min
Episode 237 - Jimmy Jacobs (ROH, TNA, WWE)
Bow down because wrestling’s Zombie Princess is here! This week on the show Damian sits down with one of his favourite wrestlers: Jimmy Jacobs! Listen in as the two discuss his journey through the unpredictable world of wrestling & how it all comes back to PUNK!
NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also Touched On:
Damian is a fan of SCUM
It never hurts when someone is a fan
Jimmy hears the Misfits…
“All rock is the same!”
Rocking a devil lock in the 8th grade
going by yourself to see Prince in the mid-90s
Is the person or the character what came first?
Shedding the conservatism you were raised with
Cream Cheese And Bagels
The second Undertaker reveal turning you off of wrestling
“Here I am 20 years later, all because Stone Cold got popular”
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Nov 28, 2019 • 1h 10min
Episode 235 - Heather Gabel (HIDE)
If you want scream, scream with us! This episode, Damian sits down with one of his current favourite vocalists: HIDE's Heather Gabel. Listen in as the two discuss finding a late start through performing & the ongoing journey of punk. DON’T MISS IT!!!
Also Touched On:
“Punk” music
NoFX
Green Day
a tape with Crass
“How can all these bands be the same genre?”
ECONOCHRIST!!!!!
Born Against
Sam McPheeters is always on the list!
Covering “well fed fuck”
Finding a Rudimentary Peni
Seeing Rancid before Lars was in the band
Your boyfriend refusing to stand beside you at a Jawbreaker show
Going to see the Cure and it being transformative
I can’t believe that many people had heard of them!
Hanging out with Robert Smith and it being the best ever
Eric Z’s Grounds Coffee Shop
Making patches for the Suicide Machines
Going to see ICP
Jax
Ink and Dagger RULES!!!!
being able to see Los Crudos whenever you want!
living at the Underdog loft
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Nov 18, 2019 • 1h 8min
Episode 234 - Jim Smallman (Progress Wrestling, NXTUK)
Let's talk about the role of punk played in the resurrection of UK wrestling as Damian sits down with the founder of Progress Wrestling Jim Smallman! Listen in as the two discuss the how and the why of rebirth of UK wrestling and Jim's journey from punk loving stand-up comic to wrestling booker. Also touched on:
Daddy was a Northern Soul DJ?
The Clash: “I’m not hacking you listen to music like that.”
Standstill: a terrible cover band
The Sex Pistols/ Clash divide
Straight edge
“Just Don’t Be A Dick”
The formation of Progress: the anti-super indie
Jimmy Havok and the hardest chair shot he ever gave
the uk scene
AND MORE!!!!!
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Nov 11, 2019 • 53min
Episode 233 - Colin McFaull (Cock Sparrer)
HOT DAMN! In this episode, Damian gets to sit down with one of the best to ever do it: Colin McFaull of the legendary COCK SPARRER!!! Listen in as the two discuss the realness of street rock & roll, the fakeness of punk & everything in between. DON’T MISS THIS ONE!!!
Also Touched On:
being on tour with the Small Faces and hearing the Jam
not buying into the whole punk thing
“you gotta wear these clothes”
Slaughter and The Dogs, Adam and the Ants and us
Forming Cock Sparrer at 16
informed by Glam
A potentially career ending reel to reel
MC5 didn’t cross the pond
Dr. Feelgood and pub rock
From Motorhead of Mannfred Mann and the Earth Band
Punk was a West London thing first
AC/DC with Bon Scott was the best show EVER
The meeting with Malcolm McLaren
Doc Martins and Jungle Greens
“Some people bring you cupcakes and some people bring you cocaine”
The Sex Pistols and The Clash were boy bands
The second wave is when punk got real
“We weren’t well liked”
The ’92 comeback show
the violence becomes too much
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Nov 5, 2019 • 52min
Episode 232 - Johnny Peebucks Bonnel (Swingin' Utters, The Filthy Thieving Bastards)
YES!!! In this week’s episode, Damian is joined by one of his favourite vocalists ever: Johnny Peebucks of the Swingin' Utters!!! Listen in as they talk about going from reluctant street punk heroes to Fat Mike's favourite reluctant fight starting live band!
Also Touched On:
A cool older sister
Trying to nail the Mic Jagar pose
the club culture
getting into shows for free
the first version of the Swingin’ Utters
The Santa Cruz skinhead fanbase
Darius Joins and brings the songs
“Can you play harmonica?”
Going on tour with the Meatmen and Chaos UK
“We aren’t going to play this one tonight, we are too hungover.”
moving to SF
what is street punk?
MRR buzzband
"Your fans suck!" "You are right."
Fat Mike liked the fights and hated Streets Of San Francisco
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Oct 28, 2019 • 1h 36min
Footnote Supershow #4: Stage Dives & Contact Highs
Chris & Damian call on the Daves (Akerman & Martin) to come on the show! Talk some Everclear, Kanye & Morrissey, the guy with the initials that plays rock, new music they like & so much more!!
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Oct 25, 2019 • 1h 18min
Episode 231 - Anthony Anzaldo Jr. (Ceremony, Ex Youth)
Get ready to celebrate friendship because on this week’s episode, Damian invites his long time friend Anthony Anzaldo from Ceremony back to the show! NO WRESTLING TALK THIS TIME AROUND, as the two discuss creative growth, artistic integrity, the limitation of expectations & so much more. There’s just not enough time for everything! THIS ONE IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Oct 11, 2019 • 1h 13min
Episode 230 - Brandon Williams (Chastity)
LET'S CELEBRATE FRIENDSHIP!!!
This week on the show, Damian invites Brandon Williams of Chastity over for dinner & makes him podcast for his supper! Join the two friends as they discuss art, critique, heroes turned villains & of course, PUNK ROCK IN THE SUBURBS. LISTEN TO THIS!!!
Also Touched On:
liking metal
the mystery of the band at the high school up the street
Happy Goes Lucky becomes Protest The Hero
Closet Monster
Bombs Over Providence
A babysitter crosses the street to avoid the punks
The Underground Operations era
Why are there no bands from Kingston?
Bands named after the city are normally terrible
Whitby: 10 Hockey Areas and no all-ages music venues
No Much Music, No Simpsons: Growing up in a religious house
The burnt CD era
Making the skate video in grade 7
Seeing Alexisonfire’s first video on TV and it changing everything
Meeting Dallas Green as a kid
When your childhood heroes tell you to “Quit Your Life”
Creating bands as a home for lyrics
The greatness of MTV Live Canada
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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