Itsa Skitsa, Lionels

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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 of Itsa Skitsa circa 1986 and it looks like Lionels (south side of King St, near Talbot, second floor).

The band consisted of; Iain Staines (former Demic), Damian Seguin (former Soma), Paul Scriven (former Stoves) and Doug Campbell (former Soma). They released a 6 song 12" record and appeared on the CHRW compilation, London Underground during their tenure. There was a CD released in 2003 that collected unreleased mid 80's recordings."

Thanks Dave, this helps to identify some photos we had wondered about.

I suspect this event was sometime before the CTO event in the previous blog post. Ian's hair is much longer and the boys have kept their shirts on — but perhaps those other events were hot and sweaty summer events. This event doesn't look as "wild" as the others.

I'm pretty sure that they are the front act for someone else but I know not who. You can see there's another drum kit on a riser behind Doug and there's far more amps and other gear on the crowded stage. When I learn more I'll update this blog.