What's the Poop?

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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. This morning Dave writes in 1980's Punk Rockers in London, Ontario group:

"Here's some more Reg Quinton pics, this time it's the What's The Poop Awards from 1988. This was an annual event, late 80's/early 90's held in London ON. The actual awards given out, were what looked like dog poop, painted gold and mounted to a piece of wood or like a trophy as in the pics.

 
It looks like Condo Christ, 98DA and not sure of the band with Jane Colligan and Christine DeVeber in it.

David Clark, Jamie Conyers, Steven R Stunning, Brian McMillan"

I do remember this event but have forgotten most of these short lived bands. I suspect it was Scott (aka Steven R Stunning) who organized things — he was passing out the awards. I'm not sure of the location but I recall a bar on King Street between Richmond and Clarence where it might have been. I wondered in a comment if there would there have ever been a Forest City London Music Awards without What's the Poop? Would London have ever been designated a UNESCO City of Music?

Lori Hamilton Smit commented, "Loved 98DA! Still play their cassette."

And finally, again, many thanks to Dave O'Halloran for sorting through these old photos and sharing them for others to enjoy.

LMOTV, CTO

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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. This morning Dave writes in 1980's Punk Rockers in London, Ontario group:

"Here's some more Reg Quinton pics, this time it's LMOTV at Call The Office the first week of January 1986 and appears to be 2 different shows in this set of pics.

 
It looks like Jim Zucchero, Kevin McKeon, Paul Brennan and Gary Kaufman."

LMOTV were one of our favorite bands from that era. They were young, smart and quirky. And often very funny, you can see in the photos that they are laughing and enjoying themselves.

I commented that "I'm pretty sure this is one show. They had two drummers -- Dave Andrew, and Ray Martini. Dave and Ray switched back and forth on drums and singing lead. See discussion here from 2021". When I wrote that up I was in communication with several of the band members. Jim Zucchero was, and perhaps still is, an academic counsellor at King's College.

Steven Frank commented, "Loved this band. Saw them many times at the Vic Tavern too. Singer and sometime drummer Dave Andrews’ delivery was unique, cerebral and comical."

Andrew McPherson commented, "Soooo great. This was before my time as singer in LMO, so it’s awesome to see Dancing Dave Andrews on the mic. And there wasn’t a show when I didn’t live in fear of Paul’s bass headstock taking out my arm. The good ol’ days."

Mark Rocco Newbery commented with some lyrics from the Big Valley (a commentary on Sarnia), "Is it lunchtime yet? Over there there's a snack bar." That's still a great tune and I'm pleased to have a copy of their tunes in my iTunes library.

Many thanks to Dave for sorting through these old photos of ours. He's a much appreciated archivist of the music scene we so much enjoyed. There are many out of focus and poorly framed photos here that I had not shared before.