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Turned Out A Punk

Episode 329 - Bruce McCulloch (Kids In The Hall, Tallboyz etc.)

Turned Out A Punk

Turned Out A Punk

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

"(INSERT YOUR FAVE 'KIDS IN THE HALL' QUOTE)!" because today on the show the LEGEND BRUCE MCCULLOCH is here! That's right, the shame based, Kid In The Hall comes by for a chat & oh boy, is it awesome! Listen in as Damian sits in awe as Bruce regals him with stories of: finding the Nerves single, fighting redneck cowboys, faking work injuries to hide knife wounds from punk shows & so much f'n more!

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!!!!!!!

Also Touched On:

Free from the CBC's restraints

Searching for punk before punk

Hawkwind

Finding Milk N Cookies

Sometimes it’s Queen and sometimes it is a Marc Almond

Bob Dylan and Patti Smith’s libraries

The Kids In The Hall impact

“The Shadowy Men made us cool”

Lorne Micheals

Sex Pistols

The Modernettes

The Users

The Nerves
The Dils being the favourite

The Damned

Not liking Ian Dury

Picking your favourite songs to be the soundtrack

Want to go Toronto for the music

Vancouver Punk vs. EVERYBODY

Don Pyle sending a ticket for the Damned show

Getting, not one but, two black eyes at the Edge in Toronto

Never being part of the beautiful part of punk

The Parachute Club was taking over

The Modern Minds were a perfect band

The Golden Calgarians… the second wave

The Hot Nasties

Rolling through Edmonton with The Rock N Roll Bitches and Callum Keith Rennie

999

Buick McCain

Getting knifed at a Husker Du show

Cowboys beating up the punks

DOA and SNFU had scary shows

Coming to Toronto

Viletones

Pere Ubu

Shorty Petersen

Never watching SNL

Second City: Corny piano music and shitty white lighting

“Everyone that likes Cat Power likes Kids In The Hall”

80s: No cool comedy

“Fuck you, I’m not an entertainer.”

RIP Gord

Junior Brown, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and The Tragically Hip

Riverdale

Withrow Park

The “50 Years in Entertainment” special

Shame Based Man

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!


BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS





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and feeding me and the kids. So, Hello and welcome to another edition of Turned Out of Punk. I'm your host

2:15.4

Damian Abraham and once again I'm bringing you a conversation with someone who

2:18.1

grew up with Punk, may or may not still be involved with Punk but I have the life

2:21.3

changed by the genre in a major way.

2:23.7

And today on the show, this is a big one. This is a huge one. Bruce McCullough is here.

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