Los Popularos

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Our friend Dave O'Hallaran (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:

  

"Here's some excellent pics of Los Popularos, taken by local photog Reg Quinton.

Believe the date is Sept 1981 and definitely at the Embassy Hotel, London ON. Originally thought it was Pointed Sticks and was in contact with their FB page and they were able to confirm it is Los Popularos. Pictured are Tony Bardach on bass, Gord Nicholl on keys, Bill Scherk on vocals, Art Bergman on guitar and Zippy Pinhead on the drums. Tony and Gord were both in Pointed Sticks, hence my confusion. Any corrections, please LMK.

Believe I was at this show and definitely saw Presence (audio exists from this show of them thanx to that white styrofoam head spotted in the crowd, ie Peter Moore) but being a weeknight, may have had to leave early.

As an aside, if anyone has a copy of Los Popularos Born Free EP (mine's gone missing) or their 7" I'm into trading/buying/whatever."

I recall seeing this band. The bass player with a mess of hair hanging over his face was pretty strange. The Embassy, now long gone, was an east end bar in London on Dundas. We saw several bands there over the years.

Many thanks to Dave for his work organizing photos and figuring out the location and time for many of these photos. I don't think that any of these have been shared before today.

There are some very poor quality photos here, some are out of focus, but there some gems. Usually I'd prune an album down to just the few photos I'm especially proud of. I've always said the secret to taking good pictures is to take a lot of bad ones. Dave is more encyclopedic in his choice of photos to share. So, for an historical record, here they are. 

See Los Popularos on Discogs — I see they've cribbed a photo from this collection.