

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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Sep 8, 2016 • 1h 53min
Footnote 95 - David Cross (Comedian, Mr. Show, Arrested Development)
"Nerds’ll be all right, Nerds’ll be all right, Nerds’ll be all right, Nerds’ll be all right!" This week on Footnotes, Chris and Damian spend the better part of an hour dealing with the mailbag THEN they spend another hour gushing about the various projects this week's guest, David Cross, has been involved in and the enduring legacy of the American 90’s alternative magazine scene.
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Sep 1, 2016 • 1h 6min
Episode 95 - David Cross (Comedian, Mr. Show, Arrested Development)
Shut up you, Punking baby! This week on the show, it’s David Cross! Join Damian as he sits down with one of his favourite comedians to discuss: the connection between music and comedy, how punk served as a gateway to alternative culture and why the "American Authors" suck.
Also touched on:
David gives Damian some podcast tips
A super boring itunes story
Elvis Costello in Saturday Night Live
Seeing coverage of the scary Sex Pistols
Class Of 1984: and amazing piece of punxploitation
Indie rock in 2016: kinda sucks
a takedown of American Authors
Mad and Cracked over superhero books
Re/Search
Film Threat
Answer Me!: “If you are 40 and love Answer Me, you have some issues.”
Fear on Saturday Night Live
Thin Lizzy on TV subverts it all
going to art school
being bullied
getting to be so close to Athens
The need to validated by people in music
Why music and comedies kinship
The greatness of the diversity in Atlanta’s punk scene.
Getting in to 688
Pylon
Now Explosion
Getting in REM
Jason and Scorchers
David’s public access show
Loving Andy Kaufman
Moving to Boston
Mixing music and comedy
The Cavedogs
The Prime Movers
Finding out about Rock, Rot and Rule
David nearly dies from a bee sting
Finding Tom, Jon and The Best Show
AND MORE!!!!!!!
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Aug 31, 2016 • 1h 35min
Footnote 94 - Sarde Hardie & Greg Benedetto (Not Dead Yet Fest [and S.H.I.T.])
And maybe if nerds had a lifetime to waste, maybe nerds could share your faith. This week on Footnotes, Damian and Chris tackle a mailbag that just won’t quit and talk Greg and Sarde and PUNK
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Aug 27, 2016 • 1h 35min
Episode 94 -Sarde Hardie and Greg Benedetto (Not Dead Yet Fest [ and S.H.I.T.])
Get ready for not one, but two of the key voices in the current wave of punk in Toronto: Sarde and Greg! Between putting on Toronto’s coolest fest, putting out records, helping drive bands and playing in them, they each put more effort into helping the Toronto punk scene than most people do at an actual job. Get ready as Damian sits down with two people that are making sure that Punk and Hardcore isn’t just a nostalgia trip.
Also covered:
Mouse doesn’t like Damian
Sarde out ranks Greg
Just a couple Juno nominees hanging out
punk comps at the mall: CHEAP AND PLENTIFUL!
Sastchwan punk
DFA
Junto
Decontrol: a dollar bin prairie gem
Liberty spikes in a small town
Unknowingly being at Christian Hardcore shows
Wishing you could drive
Greg goes to see 10 Speed Hero
Moneen: The Band of Brampton
Dylan Dog:
Brampton and the Prairies: similar vibes
Book distro
Guess who doesn’t like Propagandhi!?!?!?
Weakerthans: The band of Winnipeg
The Royal Albert
Greg’s gushing defence of Propagandhi
Gism
Weird awesome 90’s comps
G-Money: Brampton legend
The Amazingness of Winnipeg
Comeback Kid
Under Pressure: he best Japanese punk band from outside Japan
Winnipeg is for diehards: “I couldn’t hack it.”
If you are in this long enough someone’s going to shit.
The return of Drugs
Matt LaForge’s hardcore theory
Wash ’N' Slosh: a Laundromat/ bar
Radical Attack
THERE IS A DEAD RAVER IN THE WALL!!!!
Nazis get their car flipped
Prune gets naked at a show
Bars and All-ages show
forming S.H.I.T.
Sarde: Future HC Simon Cowell
and SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!!!
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Aug 25, 2016 • 2h 14min
Footnote 93 - Brix Smith-Start (The Fall, Adult Net, Brix and The Extricated)
Nerds aren’t in it to lose, OH YEAH! This week Chris and Damian get bested by the mailbag and Damian”s need to gab and give the world a 2 plus hours talking Brix episode.
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Aug 22, 2016 • 1h 24min
Clobbering' Time EP. 02 (With Nicky From Nothing)
This week Tom and Damian deliver slightly late analysis of the weekends pay-per-views and then in the MAIN EVENT: the two are joined by Domenic “Nicky” Palermo from the band Nothing for an AMAZING conversation about growing up an ECW kid and other hilarity!
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Aug 20, 2016 • 1h 4min
Episode 93 - Brix Smith-Start (The Fall, Adult Net, Brix and The Extricated)
There are the good ones and there are the better ones and this is even better than that! This week Damian is joined by legend Brix Smith-Start to talk about life before the Fall as well as Adult Net and her fantastic new book! Also covered:
Having Punk Parties after school
Not being allowed to go se the Runaways and Ramones
Susan Hoff and Brix go to Rodney’s… little intense
Queen: The best live band EVER
Not ascribing to a tribe
a passion for fashion
the Clash and The Stray Cats
The UK Post Punk
Selling your fancy clothes to get music
The Carpenters RULES
The Vocals Change: Aerosmith to Discharge
Seeing U2 on their first tour
Hard Edge New Wave
Knowing you would wind up in England
A step-father goes looking for a Vivian Westwood Pirate outfit.
Nice guys do make Rock N Roll: Meeting the Ramones in highschool
Being bad a kid in the big bad city of New York.
Murdered classmates
Puking on Heroin on Joey Ramone
Going to A7… ONCE
Bad Brains
Black Flag
Touring with Gun Club
Building a Scene: Sugar Cubes, The Bad Seeds, Pussy Galore, Swans Neibaten
Marcia Schofield: the wild one
Being the one that keeps the wheels on the road in all senses
Giving Nirvana your rider
Everything changes
The model breaks
Martin Mills: the enduring force
John Robb: the best ad for Straight Edge Vegan Life
Forming a band
Banda Dratsing
Bret Easton Ellis: was he punk?
and so much more!!!!
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Aug 17, 2016 • 2h 8min
Footnote 92 - Nikola Sarcevic & Fredrik Larzon (Millencolin)
Nerds Is A Bunch of Motherfuckers! This week on the show THE MAILBAG threatens to consume the whole episode but fear not as Chris and Damian valiantly fight through it so they can discuss the hardcore roots of Nikola and Fredrik, the awesomeness of Millencolin and Swedish Punk’s ability to have an impact in North America.
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Aug 13, 2016 • 1h 10min
Clobbering' Time EP. 01 (GERARD COSLOY)
This week the Clobbering’ Time really starts as Tom and Damian sit down and discuss a few of their wrestling highlights of the week before being joined by Matador Record co-founder Gerard Cosloy! While many are probably familiar with Gerard from music few know that he is a wrestling SUPERFAN. Sit back and enjoy one for the age a Gerard talks going to Wrestlemania i, discovering ECW on late night tv, business deals with Paul Heyman and a recent Progress Wrestling show!!! Get ready for the indie rock wrestling connection.
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Aug 12, 2016 • 1h 8min
Episode 92 - Nikola Sarcevic & Fredrik Larzon (Millencolin)
Formats are for weak, cause this week on the show we have not one, but two members of Millencolin! Join Damian as he sits down with Fredrik and Nikola (and Mike) to discuss Swedish hardcore and how the rise of “US Hardcore” helped inform the Swedish Melodic Punk Scene! !
Also covered:
Millencolin comes over for a hang
The problems with this podcast and multiple subjects
Fredrik finds metal and hardrock
Hearing Asta Kask in a cafeteria
Seeing Afghan Whigs
Crust: a scene unto itself
Nikola doesn’t dig the crust
Rosvette: Sweden’s
Sweden love metal, Nikola loves rap
Skateboarding
The Accidents
“I can’t play like that!”
Europe (the band): everyone was there
The amazingness of Sweden’s art’s funding
Building a scene
the punk and skate connection
Kung Pung
Sideman
Nikola goes to his first show
Going to see Seigmenn
Songs about people you hate
hating jocks and the KKK
“US Hardcore”: Going California Punk
The OTHER Seigmenn
crashing with Fredrik
“drummer auditions”: Show up with a gallon of win
puking on snoos
LOVING Bad Religion
Bad Religion’s No Control: “Sounds like country on 45”
Superdong: THE BEST MELODIC HARDCORE BAND EVER?
No Fun At All, Randy, Satanic Surfers and Millencolin: bands that created a genre
Ordering Asta Kasta and getting Protes Bengt
Burning Heart: Not love at first listen
AND MORE!!!!!
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