Stoves, Polish Hall

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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:

"Here's some more Reg Quinton photos. This time it's The Stoves at the Polish Hall on Ann St, London ON, 11/2/1979.

 
This was at least a 4 band Halloween event, with; Demics, NFG, Regulators and Stoves all playing. I've posted pics of NFG and Regulators from that night, now it's time for The Stoves. The band consisted of; Greg Moore (drums), Paul Scriven (guitar, vocals), Rick Washbrook (guitar, vocals) and Scony Action (bass)."

It is great that Dave has been able to firmly date these to Nov 2, 1979; that would have been a Halloween Bash. These have been shared before; see Polish Hall entry of 2015 in this blog.

These photos are definitely pre-Kate and very early in my photographic life. At the time I was a Ph.D. student in Philosophy and taught some introductory courses in Computer Science. There's a picture of my friend Sandy in this collection. Sandy was the administrative secretary in Computer Science and a good friend of ours. We haven't seen her in a very long time; although we did bump into her one time when we were on holidays at a resort in Cuba.

Again, these are pretty rough photos — B/W push processed, grainy, dusty, dirty and out of focus. But there's an occasional gem and they are a record of the event. Many thanks to Dave for his work organizing photos and figuring out the location and event.