Terminals, Embassy

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Our friend Dave O'Halloran (aka What Wave Dave on CHRW) has been sharing on Facebook, with our grateful permission, photos that we had taken of various bands back in the 1980's. Today Dave writes in 1980's Punk Rockers in London, Ontario group: 

"I'm going to be posting pics taken by local photog Reg Quinton, who took some excellent shots back in the late 70's/mid 80's of the local scene.  Reg has given me his approval to get this project rolling and he said "I would be quite chuffed. Always pleased to have memories revived". And I think some of you might be quite surprised at some of the pics in this collection.

Most of these pics have never seen the light of day but a few were in the book Graphic Underground: London 1977-1990 by Brian Lambert, published in 2012. An amazing book that covers the posters/zines/graphics from that era.

There's literally a ton of pics, some unidentified, others of the better known bands of the era (ie 63 Monroe, Zellots, Radio 4 etc) and a variety of venues (Cedar Lounge, Embassy, Fryfogles etc). I'll be posting most of the pics here, and some on the band and venue pages on FB. If you're into this era of London music, please check out the Cedar Lounge FB page ...

Please LMK if I mis-identify anyone/anyplace etc. It's tough to identify some of the venues and there's a few bands I have no clue who they are and will need some assistance with those pics. 

We'll start with a real easy one that I found in one of the unidentified picture folders, Terminals.  It's also timely as 2 of the Terminals will be playing Saturday March 30th at the Palasad as Wabi Sabis take the stage for their CD release party.

Terminals in action at the Embassy Hotel circa 1982."

And then later in the Radio What Wave group Dave adds:

Shared from the 1980's Punk Rockers in London, Ontario FB page. Guitarists Mike Timmins and David Clark will be taking the stage at Palasad Saturday night for the The Wabi Sabis CD release party.

We saw the Terminals many times.....Cedar Lounge, Victoria, Embassy, Fryfogles (I think) and always a super tight machine. 

These photos have been shared before — see more photos of and my recollections (2021) on the Terminals in this blog.

Many thanks to Dave for his work organizing these old photos and figuring out the location and time for many of these events. I had scanned these photos years ago well after the events and had quite a collection of "unknowns" that Dave has been working on. Very much appreciated.