In Search of Lost Venues

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• Amber Webber at Pat's Pub

  Amber Webber is known for the bands Lightning Dust and Black Mountain. She briefly had a project called Kodiak Deathbeds and has been a guest singer on many other projects. She started in the band Dream On Dreary. This conversation was recorded on August 13th 2025. Venues visited: Pat’s Pub was the site of the first Black Mountain show around 2004. Shindig, the CiTR battle of the bands, took place at Pat’s for several years in the mid-late 2010s. The downstairs bar in the Patricia Hotel has had music shows for over a hundred years. It was once a renowned jazz venue, and in the early 2000s hosted local bands for many years. The space was originally called the Patricia Café and opened in 1914. The Hawks Street House was a women’s collective house and a community space at the corner of Hawks and Georgia. Hoko's/Lanalou's Other venues discussed: The Chapel, The Interurban Gallery, The Lido, Richard’s on Richards, the Brickyard, the Commodore, the Marine Club. Bands mentioned: The Cave Singers, Better Friends than Lovers, Rae Spoon, Ladyhawk, Animal Collective, Mecca Normal, Jerk with a Bomb, Megamall, Magnolia Electric Company, Murder City Devils. This episode features the following music: Black Mountain: Druganaut from Black Mountain (Scratch Records, 2004/Jagjaguwar 2005). Kodiak Deathbeds: Borderlines from Kodiak Deathbeds (2015). Lightning Dust: Diamond from Fantasy (2013 Jagjaguwar).  

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• Sydney Hermant at art spaces in the Downtown Eastside

  Sydney Hermant played in the bands Bonaparte, Hello Blues Roses, and the Choir Practice. She is also an artist and was the curator of the Or Gallery. She put on cabaret shows with the Hot Rod Puppet Ensemble. This conversation was recorded on July 30th, 2025. Venues visited: Sydney’s house from 2004 - 2012 at Princess and Powell (Bonapoarte, The Choir Practice and Destroyer practice spaces). Dunlevy art space at Dunlevy and Powell (1998 art and music studio with Steve Wood, Scott Morgan, Neko Case. Destroyer practice space) Art Studio at Gore and Powell. Pat’s Pub. The downstairs bar in the Patricia Hotel has had music shows for over a hundred years. It was once a renowned jazz venue, and in the early 2000s hosted local bands for many years. The space was originally called the Patricia Café and opened in 1914. Other venues discussed: the Starfish Room, the Sugar Refinery, the Railway Club, the Or Gallery. Bands mentioned: The Beans, Destroyer, Battles, Pink Mountaintops, Capozzi Park. Loscil, Black Mountain, The Secret Three, Rodney Graham, Radio Berlin, Book of Lists, Nikki Sudden, Jonathan Richaman, Luna, Yo La Tengo, The New Pornographers   This episode features the following music: Hello Blue Roses: The Aloe from Wild Nights! (JAZ Records, 2020). Bonaparte: Tree Song (recorded by Kurt Dahle and Dan Bejar on Cordova Street at Kurt and Coco's house 2005/6).  The Choir Practice: Believe in Something from The Choir Practice (Mint Records, 2007).

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• Ryan McCormick at Hoko's

  Ryan McCormick is the band Collpasing Opposites and has also played in Green Belt Collective, They Shoot Horses Don’t They? and others. He was a director of the Safe Amplification Site Society. This conversation was recorded on July 10, 2025.   Hoko’s was a sushi restaurant at 362 Powell Street that started having shows in the 2000s. It was closed due to licensing problems and is now the venue Lanalou’s. The Zoo Zhop (223 Main Street) was a venue and record store in the 2010s. The Prophouse Cafe (1636 Venables Ave) was a coffee shop and venue in the 2010s. Astorino’s was the venue for the Safe Amplification Site Society (Safe Amp 2013-2015) at the site of a former Italian dining hall at 1739 Venables Street.   Other venues mentioned: Starry Dynamo Cafe. Bands mentioned: Half Chinese, Apollo Ghosts, Kidnap Kids, Chris-a-riffic, OK Vancouver OK, Mt Eerie.   This episode features the following music: Collapsing Opposites: Places from Microchips Implanted In Your Brain (2005). Apollo Ghosts: Shanghai Alley from Forgotten Triangle EP (2009). Collapsing Opposites: Non Profit Volunteer Band from Real Moving (2011).

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• Ana Rose Carrico at the Red Gate

  Ana Rose Carrico is a grassroots arts administrator who co-founded The Red Gate Arts Society. She is the current Executive Director, a former Station Manager of CiTR & Discorder Magazine, and a lifelong advocate for the cultural life of Vancouver. This conversation took place on May 9th 2025. The Red Gate first opened on Hastings near Cambie in 2004. It moved to 855 East Hastings between 2012 and 2018. The venue was evicted from both locations before moving to its current space at 1965 Main Street, one of those rare venues which has managed to survive and create a distinct, thriving identity at multiple addresses. Other venues visited: Church of Pointless Hysteria, Dynamo Gallery, 151, Pat’s Pub, the Remington, The Secret Location, The Emergency Room.   This episode features the following music: Koban: Down in the Well from null (the broadway to boundary), 2013. TV Ugly: Trash Party Island from UCLA Yankee Cola, 2015. Mourning Coup: Master from Baby Blue, 2015.  

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