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Sept 21, 2011
Don Pyle joins ten others in writing about the best albums "from 1991 That Aren't Called 'Nevermind' " for Aux TV. In this case, the better record is My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless".
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Sept 15, 2011
Simone Jones and Lance Winn present a new interpretation of their 2006 installation, Projektor, for 2011's Nuit Blanche. Projektor will show from 7pm to 7am beginning the evening of Saturday, October 1 and features new sound design by Don Pyle. It can be found in Zone B, at 21 Gerrard St. East, just east of Yonge St. See the Nuit Blanche website for more details.
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Sept 2, 2011
Here is a "teaser" video clip of Another Year Again for an upcoming live concert video of The Sadies. The show was mixed by DP with Dallas Good and will have first broadcast on SCN Network on Sept 14, 2011. The show will be available for viewing at The Neighbors Dog soon after.
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Aug 1, 2011
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet contribute a "new" track to Mammoth Cave Recording Co.'s "Bloodstains" series. "Bloodstains Across Ontario" features "Foreign/Aft", a two-parts-in-under-a-minute suite made up of music originally recorded for the Mina Shum feature film, Double Happiness, and an unmade cartoon we scored. Other artists on the 7" are Tonetta 777, Young Governor, Strange Attractor, White Wires, Slim Twig, The Steve Adamyk Band, Tropics, Peach Kelli Pop, First Base, Dagger Eyes, False Face, and B.A. Johnston.
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July 26, 2011
The Sixth Sappyfest happens in Sackville, New Brunswick from July 29-31 2011. I will be doing my Out-of-Focus Talking Slideshow at 3pm on Sunday July 31 at Struts Gallery, 7 Lorne St. Outtakes, also-rans and details related to particular images will be spilled for all to hear. Other performers at 2011’s Sappyfest include Sandro Perri, Chad VanGaalen, Bonjay, Minotaurs, Jerry Granelli, Jennifer Castle, Owen Pallett, Damian Rogers, Jon Langford, The Sadies, Julie Doiron and lots more. Have a look at their site and pack your bags.
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June 17, 2011
Two presentations of Don Pyle’s Out-of-Focus Talking Slideshow are upcoming. I will show and talk about outtakes and photos included in Trouble In The Camera Club in Hamilton and Sackville.
Wed July 6 2011 - This Ain’t Hollywood with The Gord Lewis Songbook, Hamilton, ON. This event is free and begins at 9:45 sharp. Details here.
July 29 – 31 2011 - Sappyfest, Sackville NB exact date and time TBA. More details here.
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June 16, 2011
Articles and reviews for Trouble In The Camera Club continue to pile up. Follow links to read some of the articles so far.
In Toronto feature by Mary Dickie here.
Punk Retrospective review by Stephen Cribar here.
Eye Weekly feature by Chris Bilton here.
Exclaim! review by Sam Sutherland here.
The Globe and Mail Q&A by Jay Somerset here.
Now Magazine by Joanne Huffa here:.
Tandem by Kerry Doole here.
The Toronto Star by Geoff Pevere here.
Equalizing X Distort review by Stephe Perry here.
Vice interview by Tobias Rochman here.
The Hamilton Spectator by Graham Rockingham here.
The National Post by Ben Kaplan here.
Canada Arts Connect Magazine by Jesse Davis here.
Abort Magazine by David McCallum here.
Fab Magazine by Paul Bellini here.
There are a few video clips related to the book posted online.
Alan Cross/Exploremusic interview with DP here.
Viva Viletone of pentagram666.com interviews DP here.
Highlights from Damian Abraham broadcasting The Wedge from TITCC launch at The Garrison here.
And Damian performs The Poles ‘CN Tower’ at the TITCC launch, backed by Sean, Mike and Dallas of The Sadies here.
More reviews and photos can be seen on the website for Trouble In The Camera Club here.
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June 14, 2011
A new/old Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet track appears on the latest “Bloodstains” series of ep’s from Mammoth Cave Recording.
Bloodstains Across Ontario features ‘Foreign/Aft’, a merge of a track that appeared in the Mina Shum film Double Happiness, with a hardcore epic – featuring Reid Diamond on lead vocals – from the score of a cartoon that never happened. Other artists featured on Bloodstains Across Ontario include Young Governor, Peach Kelli Pop, Slim Twig and Tonetta! Order it here.
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June 7, 2011
Light of Day, It’s Okay is released today. This is the second CD for the San Francisco trio and was mixed by, and features additional production by DP.
See the video for “Electricity” here.
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May 31, 2011
Toronto-based roots-ish rock band The Key Frames elease their debut album, Out On The Point today. Like their two singles, Out On The Point is mixed by DP. Buy it here.
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May 28, 2011
All I Need of Heaven by The Intended is out today. Mixed by DP, this is The Intended’s second album. Buy it here.
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May 19, 2011
Tyranna album out now. Released by Rave Up Records of Italy, these 1978/79 recording are issued for the first time, on vinyl only. The cover design and most of the photos are by Don Pyle.
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May 18, 2011
A new edition of Daniel Jones’ acclaimed novel, 1978, is released today by Three O’Clock Press. DP’s cover photograph of Rojer and Rabies in front of the Horseshoe Tavern, also from 1978, reflects the Toronto punk scene the books’ characters move through.
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May 1, 2011
TROUBLE IN THE CAMERA CLUB IS OFFICIALLY OUT TODAY.
May 1, 2011 is the official release date of my first book, Trouble In The Camera Club. Thanks to overzealous online retailers, it’s been dribbling out for the past month but today is the day the birthday candle is lit.
So many people played a part in this book becoming a reality, beginning with Will Munro and Lynn McNeill, who hosted my first photo exhibit at The Beaver four years ago. From there, Greg Dick (who wasn’t then but is now the vocalist in The Ugly!) connected me to Cameron Drew, who connected me to ECW Press – proudly independent Canadian publishers who have doing what they do since 1974. That’s when Diamond Dogs came out so you know that is a long time to survive in the publishing biz.
I’d like to thank my editor Jen Hale for her well-placed advice and enthusiasm, as well as Michael Holmes, Jack David, David Caron and everyone else at ECW Press for supporting my vision of what this book could be – and for making it happen. Some great people contributed in the form of writing – specifically, Steven Leckie for his thoughtful Introduction and Liz Worth, Dallas Good, Gary Topp, Linda Lee Hunter and Paul Robinson for their comments on the back cover. Rachel Ironstone designed the book with Dave Gee pulling together the cover design. Derek von Essen offered many patient and extremely helpful Photoshop tutorials long-distance via telephone and got me started with scanning. Jason Winkler provided much support and made dinner when my hands were gnarled in a claw grip from hundreds of hours of photo editing and restoration. I thank all of them.
I extend my gratitude to all the bands and individuals pictured as well. Without them, it would just be paper.
Don Pyle
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April 8, 2011
I am very excited to announce a new slew of guests for the launch of Trouble In The Camera Club. Mike Belitsky, Sean Dean and Dallas Good of The Sadies will perform a set of the best of first-wave Toronto punk rock.
Joining them will be guest vocalists Martin Farkas of those precocious kids Career Suicide; Chris Colohan, the awesome voice of Burning Love; Damian Abraham, international sex symbol and frontperson for Fucked Up, and the legendary Caroline Azar of groundbreaking musical gang Fifth Column. Teenage Head are spotlighted in the book with a selection of images that pre-date their debut album, and we are fortunate to be joined by Gord Lewis, lead guitarist and songwriter of that band.
The evening will begin at 8pm with Don Pyle's Out-of-Focus Talking Slide Show. A rare live performance by the always epic The Ugly will follow and the evening will conclude with Belitsky, Dean, Good and heavy friends.
The launch is Wed May 4 at The Garrison. Admission is $8 or free with book purchase. More details are here.
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April 8, 2011
King Cobb Steelie will be joined by awesome Toronto duo Bonjay for their Saturday April 16th show at Lee's Palace. This show will mark the 20th anniversary of the band's formation and will include all past and present members, including DP. This performance will benefit Ontario Hands and Voices, an organization providing parent support and advocacy for children who are deaf and hard of hearing.
KCS also play Van Gogh's as part of Kazoofest, in Guelph on Friday April 15th.
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April 1, 2011
Out May 1, 2011, Trouble In The Camera Club: A Photographic Narrative of Toronto’s Punk History 1976 – 1980 is the first book by Don Pyle. Featuring over 300 photographs by DP and 200+ flyers, ticket stubs and related ephemera, TITCC is published by ECW Press. A Limited Edition of 250 will include a black vinyl 7” single of period audio artifacts.
Pre-orders are being delivered now, in advance of the official release date.
In U.S.A., order from Amazon
In the U.K., order from WH Smith
And why not, Australia! Order from Angus & Robertson
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March 15, 2011
This Is Not A Reading Series and ECW Press present the launch of Don Pyle’s Trouble In The Camera Club: A Photographic Narrative of Toronto’s Punk History.
The Garrison at 1197 Dundas St W in Toronto will play host to the event on Wed May 4, 2011. The evening begins at 8pm with Don Pyle’s Out-of-Focus Talking Slideshow, followed by an inquisition from Treat Me Like Dirt author Liz Worth. A rare live appearance by The Ugly will be sure to clear the chairs. Mike Belitsky, Sean Dean and Dallas Good of The Sadies bring the evening to a smashing conclusion with a short set of Toronto punk rock songs, featuring guest vocalists ripping their way through the classics.
Doors open at 7pm. More details are here.
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March 2, 2011
Volume 23 of Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly features a dub mix of A Sword by Tied To The Branches, mixed and with additional production by Don Pyle. It's out now, in advance of the forthcoming TTTB e.p. also mixed by DP.
See and hear the video for A Sword here,
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Feb 1, 2011
Trouble In The Camera Club: A Photographic Narrative of Toronto’s Punk History 1976 – 1980 is the first book by Don Pyle. Featuring over 300 photographs by DP and 200+ flyers, ticket stubs and related ephemera, TITCC will be published by ECW Press May 1, 2011. A Limited Edition of 250, available on pre-sale soon, will include a black vinyl 7” single of period audio artifacts.
Pre-orders of the regular edition are being taken now from online retailers in various regions.
In U.S.A., pre-order from Amazon
In the U.K., pre-order from WH Smith
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Jan 21, 2011
Don Pyle joins a gaggle of past and present members of King Kobb Steelie for one very special show. On April 16, 2011, KCS will perform for the first time since 2005, at Lee's Palace in Toronto to benefit children with hearing loss. More details to follow.
King Cobb Steelie, 1996
Photo by David Leyes
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Nov 1, 2010
Bake Sale Blow-Up video game is launched. Throw cupcakes, half moons and other splatty sounding foods in this epic foodfight for the iPad, made by Intelliware. Features original music created by Don Pyle and Josh Finlayson, and sound design by DP.
Read all about it and see videos with music here: Bake Sale Blow-Up
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Oct 19, 2010
The November 2010 issue of Maximum Rock and Roll features an interview with Toronto punk band Tyranna, accompanied by photographs shot by DP in 1978 and 1979.
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Sept 1, 2010
Dragons’ Den, Season Five features music mixed by DP and can be seen and heard now on CBC in Canada.
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August 30, 2010
Winter’s End a film by Wrik Mead, with Score and Sound Design by Don Pyle, premieres at the World Film Festival in Montreal.
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June 7, 2010
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet indicted into The Independent Music Hall of Fame.
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May 1, 2010
Black Heel Marks
Partnership * Results * Success
Debut single is now available as a digital download from Zunior.com
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January 12, 2010
Liz Worth
Treat Me Like Dirt
An Oral History Of Punk In Toronto And Beyond
Bongo Beat Books
TMLD documents the history of the Toronto, Hamilton, London and area 1977 punk explosion through interviews with band members and the people who were there. Features cover photograph by DP from 1978.
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January 11, 2010
JEFFREY LEE PIERCE SESSIONS PROJECT
We Are Only Riders(Glitterhouse Records)
Curated by former JLP bass player Cypress Grove, and featuring songs from private archives — lost songs, lost tapes and fragments of lyrics brought to new life by Nick Cave, Mark Lanegan, Debbie Harry, Mick Harvey and more. Includes “Constant Waiting”, performed by The Sadies and mixed by DP.
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December 21, 2009
Black Heel Marks
Partnership * Results * Success
Two coasts collide as Black Heel Marks debut a sonic confluence of lightning and thunder. May we present the Partnership * Results * Success e.p. by the new dukes of electronic rock and roll.
Hatched in a dream, born over the rainbow, BHM solidifies the Tacoma/Toronto sisterhood on wax. Three prime cuts sweltering with self-generated heat.
K.P. Kendall and Wilmer Henderson III of legendary Washington State icons Girl Trouble meet Don Pyle, the producer and musician at least partially responsible for Greek Buck, Phono-Comb and Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, creating a coalition of mathematical dimension and articulation. Mmmmassive appropriation.
7“ black vinyl with deluxe full colour matte sleeve
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September, 2009
Sensational new album, Origin:Orphan is out now, and features "additional engineering" by DP.
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August 1, 2009
The debut single by The Key Frames, mixed by DP, is out now - and is available as a free download from their website.
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Country Club, by John Doe and The Sadies and mixed by DP, is released today. Guests include Kathleen Edwards, X member DJ Bonebrake, and Eric Heywood.
Hear it and buy it here: Yep Roc
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April 1, 2009
DP will be exhibiting punk-related photographs, from the late 1970s, at Sonic Unyon, 22 Wilson St., Hamilton, ON. The show is one day only - May 8, 2009 - and will feature unseen photos of Hamilton's sons, Teenage Head. Gord Lewis of Teenage Head will give a special performance.
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Winter 2008-2009
Josh Finlayson Photo by Donna Rutherford
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The July 2008 issue of Maximum Rock’n’Roll includes a feature interview with Teenage Head by Greg Dick, accompanied by 1978 photographs of Teenage Head by Don Pyle.
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MUM
A film by Julia Creet with original score by Don Pyle
premieres at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival,
Al Green Theatre 5 p.m. on Tuesday May 6, 2008.
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January 10, 2008
HORIZONS AND INTERSECTIONS III
Video Installation by Derek von Essen with score by Don Pyle, catalogue and DVD now available. Please contact me@derekvonessen.com.
HORIZONS AND INTERSECTIONS III opening in Vancouver, BC
February 1 - 14, 2008
Opening reception: Fri, Feb 1, 2008 - 6pm
e3rd Gallery, 1898 Main St @ East 3rd Avenue, Vancouver.
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January 1, 2008
WILL THE CIRCLE
CD by Will The Circle, mixed by Don Pyle, with additional recording by DP. Will The Circle is lead by Gerry Smith, with guests including Michelle Breslin, Sandro Perri, Dave Howard, Roan Bateman and Cleave Anderson.
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April 27, 2007
TROUBLE IN THE CAMERA CLUB
Darkroom Disasters and Paleozoic-Period Punk Photographs
by Don Pyle
1977 - ?
The Beaver, 1192 Queen West, Toronto 416-537-2768
opening Friday April 27 2007, 9 pm - late, until May 25, 2007
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May 5, 2007
HORIZONS AND INTERSECTIONS III
Installation by Derek von Essen with score by Don Pyle, drawings and paintings by Val Nelson, the third in this collaborative series is presented as part of the Contact Photography Festival
Opens May 5, 2007 until May 19, 2007
Bau-Xi Gallery, 340 Dundas St. West, Toronto, 416-977-0600
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December 13, 2006
PERFECT VEHICLE
Completed sound design for Simone Jones' Perfect Vehicle installation. Directed by Simone Jones and Wrik Mead. Details of exhibition will follow when they are known. Two sound mixes were created for Perfect Vehicle, a stereo mix and a 5.1 mix. The 5.1 mix and mastering was done with the brilliant Peter J. Moore at his studio.
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November 28, 2006
Recorded and mixed by Don Pyle, The Two Korea's Altruists is released to unanimous praise: Review
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October 3, 2006
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August 8, 2006
THE SADIES
In Concert, Vol. I
Live double CD and triple LP featuring Neko Case, Blue Rodeo, Margaret Good, The Good Brothers, Garth Hudson, Maud Hudson, Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray, Gary Louris, Rick White, Kelly Hogan, Paul Rigby, Mike Bulington, Andre Ethier, Max McCabe-Lokos and Gavin Brown Recorded by Steve Albini with half of In Concert Vol. 1 mixed by Don Pyle
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May 30, 2006
REPUBLIC OF SAFETY
Vacation EP
Recorded and mixed by Don Pyle, Republic of Safety's Vacation is released on fabulous Montreal label, Ta-Da!
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