Okay, look. I’ll admit it. After the inaugural edition of the Prepare the Ground festival here in Tkaronto, this writer is both immensely grateful and very tired. It also threw off my whole schedule for posting (hah, kidding, I’m always behind) so this edition of the Big Gig List is very much **under construction** - I feel like it’s nowhere near complete and keep finding more and more going on.
Nonetheless, folks seem to be finding even an attempt to collect these all in one place useful, so here we go again - better to post it now rather than miss anything else, right? Right? Bookmark this page and check back often for updates, and of course please send along links to your upcoming shows in TO and beyond in southern ontario!
DATE - CITY - LINEUP - VENUE / DOOR TIME / COST / SOURCE - TICKET LINK
Sat June 1
TO - Shingen, Stagnance, Black Iron Prison, Brain Tourniquet - Expo / 7pm / $15 notaflof / notdeadyet
Deposed, Zero Bars, Technicolor Blood - Dock Ellis Nono Room / 8pm / $10
Oakville - Ethereal Tomb, Street Justice, Scab, Pretty Face, Mace - St. Simon's Anglican Church / 6:30 PM / $20 notaflof
Week of Monday June 3 - Sunday June 9
Mon June 3
Hamilton - Thisquietarmy, Drowse, Your Winters - Into the Abyss
Tues June 4
Guelph - Thisquietarmy, Drowse, Your Winters - Silence
Wed June 5
Guelph - Grimelda, Mercy, Basque - Silence / 7pm / $15 pwyc / Satellite Collective
St. Catharines - Thisquietarmy, Drowse, Your Winters - NAC
Thurs June 6
TO - Olga, Shallow Waves, Gag - Baby G / 8pm / $20 adv dice
Buck Gooter, Ships in the Night, Corpusse, Eternal Youth, Stashole - Bsmt 254 / 8pm / Degeneral Strike
Fri June 7
Ottawa - Verify, Jetsam, Skrout, Influx - New Sodom / 7pm / $15 pwyc
Fri June 7 - Sun June 9
TO - Do West Fest - The Crime Family, Pixel Grip, Kali Horse, Silks, +++ - multiple stages / free / Transmit/Do West Fest
Sat June 8
TO - Spirit of Vengeance, Primal Horde, Excess, Built on Blood, Cesspool, Klobber - Toronto Style / 7pm / $15 - $20 / solace
Never Sorry, Battle Milk, Black Galaxie, A Useless Mass - Penny's / 8pm / free / cowardpatrol & morenoiseplease
Rituals, Fires of Cheektowaga, Memorex - Hard Luck / a minor adv tix
Chastity, Little Kid, Sunsetter - Longboat Hall / 8pm / $20 adv tix
Animatist - Drom Taberna / 2 AM (late night/Sunday)
A Perennial Daydream, Treehouse of Horror, Boxcutter, Guest Room Status, Blosum - Tranzac / 7pm / $20 pwyc / publicseatingdiy + newfriends diy
Fern Sully - Hanks Liquor / 6pm / dowestfest
Kingston - World Eaters, Arachnia, Leitch, Lizzie St. Cloud - Kingston Gaming Nexus / 7pm / $15 / nostatic - *Pride Fundraiser*
Sun June 9
Waterloo - Terry Green (“Provisional Living” lp release), Basque, Stevedave, Treehouse of Horror - Jane Bond / $20 pwyc / nofuneral
Ottawa - Thisquietarmy - Glebe-St. James United Church
Guelph - World Eaters - Planet Bean / 2 pm / $10 pwyc / satellite collective - *Pride Fundraiser*
Week of Monday June 10 - Sunday June 16
Wed June 12
TO - Give My Remains to Broadway - Ground Control / NXNE
Fri June 14
TO - So Perfect, Tosser, Charm, Blosum - expo 1978 / $15 / notdeadyet adv tix
London - Collar//Cage, Son of Sam, Swan Dive, The Film Critics - Variety Cafe / 7pm / $10
Fri June 14 - Sat June 15
Stoney Creek - La Rhune Mountain Doomfest - $40-$75 adv tix
Sat June 15
TO - Terry Green (“Provisional Living” lp release pt ii), Boxcutter, Purity Culture, Cloudwatch - Church of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields / 7pm / $15 /
Sporus, Portal Tomb, Human Form - Dock Ellis Nono Room / 8pm / $10 pwyc /cowardpatrol
Resthaven, Slewfoot, Camaro, Mace, Panic Response, Dear Evangeline - Toronto Style / 6pm / $15 notaflof
London - Boil the Toad, Goon, Medieval Found Footage, Hunter Gatherer - Holy Diver / 7pm / $10
Week of Monday June 17 - Sunday June 23
Tues June 18
TO - Heavenly Blue, Mad Iris, Lady Marge - Baby G / adv tix
Thurs June 20
TO - Hez, Absolut, Fertilizer, Vestigio - Toronto Style / $15 notaflof / notdeadyet
Ottawa - Fern Sully - Rainbow Bistro
Fri June 21
TO - Organ Trail, Human Compost, Goreobscenity, Medical Fart - Toronto Style / 8pm / $15 / cowardpatrol
Sat June 22
TO - Necron 9, Cease, Workers Comp, Human Form - Toronto Style / bee
Blu Anxxiety, Dermabrasion, Olinda, Doctor Cement - expo 1978 / $15 notaflof / notdeadyet
Ottawa - Organ Trail, Human Compost - Dominion Tavern
Sun June 23
TO - Luge, Sexual Jeremy, Leona Hell - Baby G / 8pm / $12.50 - $20
Pallbearer, Rezn, The Keening - Velvet Underground / 6:30pm / $30 / embrace adv tix
Week of Monday June 24 - Sunday June 30
Mon June 24
TO - Boxcutter, Gutmachine, XxEmoBoys KissingxX - Houndstooth / 9pm / newfriendsdiy
Tue June 25
Guelph - Luge, Sexual Jeremy - Upbeat Guitar Studio / 8pm / $15 pwyc
Thurs June 27
TO - The HIRS Collective, Jetsam, Basque, Keening - expo 1978 / 7pm / newfriendsdiy
Fri June 28
TO - Stay Inside, Arcadia Grey, Sun Junkies, Treehouse of Horror - expo 1978 / 7pm / newfriendsdiy
Cell, Loose, Ischemic - Linsmore Tavern / 8pm / $15 / cowardpatrol/futhark records
Ottawa - Feed, Wasted Age, Desiccate - New Sodom / 8 pm / $10 pwyc
Sat June 29
TO - Stingray, Lice, Terminator, Expel - See-Scape / $15 notaflof / notdeadyet
The Sonder Bombs, Fern Sully - The Baby G / 6pm / $20 adv tix
London - Pale Mare, Powerhouse Zeus, Hunter Gatherer - Richmond Tavern / $15-$20
Hamilton - Tashme, Feed, Wasted Age, Desiccate - Vertagogo
I've been meaning to see Terry Green live after you introduced me to them! I would not have known about the Toronto show if it was not for this newsletter.