Wavelength: The first 5 years (WL1 - WL250)
By Doc ~ Posted Thursday, May 20th 2010A list of all acts who participated in the first five years of Wavelength. (The second 5 years can be found here.)
Above: Derek Westerholm & Henri the Pig work the door at Ted's
TED'S WRECKING YARD ERA beginning FEB 13 2000: WL1 Feb 13: Mean Red Spiders / Neck • WL2 Feb 20: Kid Sniper / Cedrumatic • WL3 Feb 27: The Co-operators / Pedestrian Status • WL4 Mar 5: The Hassle / Parts Unknown / DJ Solvent • WL5 Mar 12: Eric Chenaux + Michael Snow + John Oswald / Wrist Error / Michael Snow's "Wavelength" (screening) • WL6 Mar 19: Holding Pattern / Currently In These United States • WL7 Mar 26: It's Patrick / Lead Pipe Study • WL8 Apr 2: Mellonova / Ciesla, Blackwell & Associates • WL9 Apr 9: Picastro / Frink • WL10 Apr 16: Combustion Lente / Bitter Harvest • WL11 Apr 23: Thanatopop / 122 Greige • WL12 Apr 30: Decoy / Skirtchaser • WL13 May 7: Sinphonic / Winterbrief • WL14 May 14: Fembots / Folk Festival Massacre • WL15 May 21: Wayne Omaha / The Mountainside Band • WL16 May 28: ARC / Michelle McAdorey • WL17 Jun 4: Parade/Chromosphere • WL18 Jun 11: Microbunny / Cap Gun • WL19 Jun 18: More Plastic / The Connoisseurs • WL20 Jun 25: The Jim Guthrie Quintet / The Mudpuddles • WL21 Jul 2: Zebradonk / Deep Dark United • WL22 Jul 9: Peaches's Farewell Toronto Show with Taylor Savvy & Bitch Laplap (Leslie Feist) • WL23 Jul 16: Spacecraft 7 / The Spy • WL24 Jul 23: The Dinner Is Ruined Band / Stella • WL25 Jul 30: GUH / Positron • WL26 Aug 6: Interstellar / Nilan • WL27 Aug 13: Tetrezene / Celestino • WL28 Aug 20: Knurl / The Silt • WL29 Aug 27: Jim Bravo & The Beethoven Frieze / Tigerbomb • WL30 Sep 3: Speedway / | head | phone | over | tone | • WL31 Sep 10: The Woodchoppers Association / Clover Honey / Destroyer • WL32 Sep 17: Mean Red Spiders / Someone is Flying • WL33 Sep 24: Superex / I Am Robot And Proud • WL34 Oct 1: Quadruped / Square Root of Margaret • WL35 Oct 8: Music For Mapmakers / White Star Line • WL36 Oct 15: Comae (feat. Robert Hampson of Main and Loop) / Hollowphonic • WL37 Oct 22: Trains & Airplanes / Parts Unknown • WL38 Oct 29: Danger Figure Centre / Noggin • WL39 Nov 5: Ether / Faceless Forces of Bigness • WL40 Nov 12: The Meligrove Band / Superband Wasteband • WL41 Nov 19: Fake Brain / Boneclock • WL42 Nov 26: Mason Hornet / It's Patrick • WL43 Dec 3: The Datsuns / The Numbers • WL44 Dec 10: Oxford County Circus / Wayne Omaha / Enon • WL45 Dec 17: Raising the Fawn / The Russian Futurists / John Tesh Jr. & the Broken Social Scene
The Constantines at Wavelength 75, Aug. 5, 2001 at Ted's Wrecking Yard
TED’S WRECKING YARD 2001 (to OCT 21): WL46 Jan 14: Pedestrian Status / Drummer • WL47 Jan 21: Amor de Cosmos / Bantam Brothers / Steve Shiffman • WL48 Jan 28: The Golden Melody Awards / Marmots • WL49 Feb 4: The Ivy League / The Constantines ••• FIRST WAVELENGTH ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND: WL50 Friday Feb 9: Rhume / The Dinner Is Ruined / The Co-operators / Fembots • WL50 Friday Feb 9 @Barcode: Guh / Someone is Flying / Deep Dark United • WL50 Saturday Feb 10: The Russian Futurists / Mean Red Spiders / Christiana / The Connoisseurs • WL50 Saturday Feb 10 @Barcode: Tetrezene / Mellonova / Zebradonk • WL50 Sunday Feb 11: More Plastic / Kid Sniper / Combustion Lente • WL50 Sunday Feb 11 @Barcode: It's Patrick / The Beethoven Frieze ••• WL51 Feb 18: Detective Kalita / Aaron Booth • WL52 Feb 25: Resinators / reelaudiowavetransfer • WL53 Mar 4: Julie Doiron / Tally Hum Orchestra • WL54 Mar 11: Boygina / Just Like The Movies • WL55 Mar 18: Rockets Red Glare / V For Vendetta • WL56 Mar 25: Jai Agnish / Sufjan Stevens • WL57 Apr 1: Girls Are Short / Shut-In • WL58 Apr 8: Free Work Band / Blackeyes • WL59 Apr 15: Currently In These United States / The Bicycles • WL60 Apr 22: Royal City / Molasses / Tiger Saw • WL61 Apr 29: Polmo Polpo / Frink • WL62 May 6: Frank Atom / Bluescreen • WL63 May 13: Gaffer / Kitchens and Bathrooms • WL64 May 20: Ivan Klipstein / Little Clever • WL65 May 27: Exhaust / Hangedup • WL66 Jun 3: Clover Honey / Picastro • WL67 Jun 10: Mico / Randwiches / Radiogram • WL68 Jun 17: Mantler / The Draperies • duMaurier Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival Next Wave series June 21 @B-Side: Dale Morningstar / Rene Lussier / Martin Tétreault • WL69 Jun 24: Broken Social Scene / Detention • WL70 Jul 1: The Great Forgetting / Nineteen78 / Andrew Vincent • WL71 Jul 8: Sonora / Styrohead • WL72 Jul 15: The Carnations / Spacecraft 7 • WL73 Jul 22: Sanseiru / Bartok Guitarsplat / Jack Breakfast • WL74 Jul 29: Poppyseed & the Love Explosion Orchestra / The Yoko Casionos • WL75 Mini-Festival Aug 5: The Constantines / Wayne Omaha / The Summerlad / Tiger Saw / Picastro / Currently In These United States / The Plath / White Star Line / Winterbrief / The Pious Companion / Celestino / Doc Pickles • WL76 Aug 12: Superband Wasteband / Barzin • WL77 Aug 19: The Tundra Survey / DJ The Band • WL78 Aug 26: Gesundheit / Brasilia • WL79 Sep 2: The Buttless Chaps / Aaron Booth • WL80 Sep 9: The Hidden Cameras / Da Bloody Gashes / The Unireverse • WL81 Sep 16: Do Make Say Think / Deep Dark United • WL82 Sep 23: Mecca Normal / Maz Fusion • WL83 Sep 30: Full White Drag / The Magnetars • WL84 Oct 7: The Patients / Tangiers / Mausim • WL85 Oct 14: Fridge / Alex Kazam vs Danny Trombone • WL86 Oct 21: Christiana / The Creeping Nobodies
EL MOCAMBO MICRO-ERA OCT 28 2001: WL87 Oct 28 @The El Mocambo: Folk Festival Massacre / Wax Mannequin
Rhume's Jon Bartlett gets pile-driven at WL 97, Jan. 20, 2002 at Lee's Palace
LEE’S PALACE ERA NOV 4 2001 to MAY 19 2002 • WL88 Nov 4: Radio Berlin / Femme Fatale / Bodega • WL89 Nov 11: Longitude / Signe Miranda • WL90 Nov 18: 122 Greige / Cool Trout Basement • WL91 Nov 25: Snailhouse / Fembots • WL92 Dec 2: Music For Mapmakers / Cuff The Duke • WL93 Dec 9: Raising the Fawn / Bluebird • WL Xmas Karaoke Dec 16 @Cadillac Lounge • WL94 Dec 30: Holding Pattern / Jimmy Guthrie • WL95 Jan 6: | head | phone | over | tone | / Delta Waves • WL96 Jan 13: The Mercurymen / Heston Rifle • WL97 Jan 20: Werbo / Rhume • WL98 Jan 27: A Northern Chorus • WL99 Feb 3: Little Clever / The Craig Dunsmuir Faux-Afro=Twee Kanada 70 Guitarkestra ••• WAVELENGTH 100 SECOND ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL: WL100 Thursday Feb 8 @Clinton's Tavern: Full White Drag / Slutarded / Kepler • WL100 Friday Feb 9 @Rancho Relaxo: Drummer / Detention / Blackeyes / Michelle McAdorey & Eric Chenaux • WL100 Sunday Feb 10 mat @Sneaky Dee's: Wavelength Trade Show indie label fair / The Magnetars • WL100 Sunday Feb 10 eve @Lee's: Gesundheit / Raising The Fawn / Resinators / The Creeping Nobodies / DJ The Band ••• WL101 Feb 17: The Sick Lipstick / Resonant Frequency • WL102 Feb 24: Mocky / The World Provider / Music For One • WL103 Mar 3: Kid Sniper / I Am Robot And Proud • WL104 Mar 10: Hannah / Lederhosen Lucil • WL105 Mar 17: Surface of Eceon / Landing / Bunkbed Nights • WL106 Mar 24: The Phases / Slinky Kellogg • WL107 Mar 31: More Plastic / The Peter Parkers • WL108 Apr 7: Precious Little / Central City May Rise Again • WL109 Apr 14: The Feud / The Beethoven Frieze / Thomas And The Evil Computer • WL110 Apr 21: Paperjack / Rebecca Simpson & Robot Drama • WL111 Apr 28: Goa Gajah / The Magnetars / hangedup • WL112 May 5: The Great Forgetting / Shut-IN / The Arcade Fire (cancelled) • WL113 May 12: CCMC / Nobuo Kubota / The Blameshifter / OHVOV / Bentley Jarvis & Son / _badpacket_(with Rob Fines) • WL114 May 19: Boygina / Atomic 7 •
SNEAKY DEE'S ERA beginning MAY 26 2002: WL115 May 26: The Paperbacks / The Tuffetts / The Returnables • WL116 Jun 2: White Star Line / The Battleship, Ethel • WL117 Jun 9: XL Birdsuit / Yellow Jacket Avenger • WL118 Jun 16: Ten Year Drought / Tara S'Appart • WL119 Jun 23: Currently In These United States / Skywave / Alcian Blue • WL120 Jun 30: Mellonova / Dr Noh • WL121 Jul 7: The Spiny Anteaters / Anorak • WL122 Jul 14: Pony Da Look / Detective Kalita • WL123 Jul 21: Lorelei / The Fabulous Mr. Muli & The Dirty Hearts • WL124 Jul 28: The Stratford 4 / The Electric Shoes • WL125 Aug 4: The Summerlad / Cuff The Duke / The Weigh Down • WL126 Aug 11: From Fiction / Heimlich • WL127 Aug 18: Celestino / Saint Dirt Elementary School • WL128 Aug 25: Mach Tiver / Dale Morningstar • WL129 Sep 1: Mind of a Squid / Neil Haverty • WL130 Sep 8: Rockets Red Glare / Fin Fang Foom • WL131 Sep 15: The Vermicious Knid / White Star Line • WL132 Sep 22: The Patients / Eudora • WL133 Sep 29: Off The International Radar / Audiosleep / Shy Child • WL134 Oct 6: The Two Minute Miracles / Anagram / Jonasson • WL135 Oct 13: Beef Terminal / Venus Cures All • WL136 Oct 20: Eamonn Vitt / The Plath • WL137 Oct 27: Corpusse / The Weird Library of Art • WL138 Nov 3: Nineteenseventyeight / The Curfew / Nicole Steen • WL139 Nov 10: Oneida / The Sick Lipstick • WL140 Nov 17: Thrillville / Lungbutter • WL141 Nov 24: Lullabye Arkestra / The Size Sevens • WL142 Dec 1: Woolly Leaves / Aaron Booth • WL143 Dec 8: Nash The Slash / The Battleship, Ethel • WL144 Dec 15: Slight Return / The Barcelona Pavilion / SherpaFeast • WL145 Dec 29: Broken Social Scene / Quinimine
Rockets Red Glare at WL 150 Festival, Feb. 13, 2003 back at Lee's
SNEAKY DEE'S 2003: WL146 Jan 12: Noise Factory / Tinkertoy • WL147 Jan 19: Mister Nobu + Slow Lover / Longitude / The Strag • WL148 Jan 26: Hot Carl / The Mark Inside / Holy Fuck • WL149 Feb 2: Keyop / Doc Pickles & The Good Eggs • Feb 9: Wavelength Crew Karaoke feat. The Evil Karaoke Machine ••• WAVELENGTH 150 THIRD ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL: WL150 Thursday Feb 13 @Lee's Palace: Do Make Say Think / Rockets Red Glare / Polmo Polpo / Pony da Look / Anagram • WL150 Friday Feb 14 @El Mocambo: Lullabye Arkstra / Atomic 7 / The Dirty Hearts / +/- (Plus Minus) / Lederhosen Lucil • WL150 Saturday Feb 15 @Music Gallery: Solvent vs Lowfish / CCMC / Arrington De Dionyso / Saint Dirt Elementary School • WL150 Sunday Feb 16 mat @Sneaky Dee's: Wavelength Trade Show indie label fair / Holding Pattern / The Sick Lipstick • WL150 Sunday Feb 16 eve @Sneaky Dee's: Cuff The Duke / The Size Sevens / The Magnetars / Decoy ••• WL151 Feb 23: The Electric End / Mach Tiver / Makeshift • WL152 Mar 2: In Support of Living / In Silent Code • WL153 Mar 9: Jim Guthrie / Brian Borcherdt / Building Castles Out of Matchsticks • WL154 Mar 16: The Bar Mitzvah Brothers / Christiana • WL155 Mar 23: Heidi Hazelton / One Candle Power • WL156 Mar 30: Mean Red Spiders / Edgar Breau • WL157 Apr 6: John Kameel Farah / The Craig Dunsmuir Guitarkestra • WL158 Apr 13: Bush League / Fucked Up • WL159 Apr 20: Blackeyes / Golden Famile • WL160 Apr 27: Fembots / The Lolo Project • WL161 May 4: Nathan Lawr / Baron Samedi esq • WL162 May 11: From Fiction / Lorelei / Alexis O'Hara • WL163 May 18: Fog / Dosh • WL164 May 25: The Creeping Nobodies / New Radiant Storm King / Dame Fate • WL165 Jun 1: Precious Little / Zebradonk / The Slats • WL166 Jun 8: controller.controller / Nouns / Remake Remodel • WL167 Jun 15: Deep Dark United / The Mess • WL168 Jun 22: Frankie Sparo / sadoceanspacebear / Las Venus • WL169 Jun 29: Grasshopper Sound Clash / North / Daydream Square • WL170 Jul 6: Ultra Magnus / Free Maracas / Boxstep • WL171 Jul 13: Gentleman Reg / The Germans / Germans • WL172 Jul 20: Thesis Sahib / Toolshed / Wordburglar / Jesse Dangerously • WL173 Jul 27: Rockets Red Glare / Kiss Me Deadly / Les Angles Morts • WL174 Aug 3: Les Mouches / Lake Holiday / Immaculate Machine • WL175 Aug 10: Saint Dirt Elementary School / Andrew Vincent & The Pirates / Amy Honey • WL176 Aug 17: Cursed / Gesundheit • WL177 Aug 24: Madrid / Frog Eyes / The Spins • WL178 Aug 31: Burn Rome In A Dream / Wintersleep / The Diskettes • WL179 Sep 7: I Am Robot And Proud / I Can Put My Arm Back On, You Can't • WL180 Sep 14: Damo Suzuki (two sets backed by Wavelength Sound Carrier Networks) / Act I including Greg Chambers, Minesh Mandoda, Derek Westerholm, James
Anderson / Act II including Jonny Dovercourt, Dave Rodgers, Dwayne Slack, Steve Kado, Craig Dunsmuir, Rob Gordon • WL181 Sep 21: Jack Breakfast & The Dukes of Eglinton / Shawn Hewitt / The Winter Blanket / Norfolk & Western • WL182 Sep 28: The Rainbow Thunderbolts / ZhoundZ • WL183 Oct 5: Collette Carter / Mall / Arkitechur / Quasimojo • WL184 Oct 12: Sing That Yell That Spell / The Silt • WL185 Oct 19: The Fine Options / Lenin I Shumov / Doppler Defect • WL186 Oct 26: The Z-Rays / The Midways • WL187 Nov 2: Corpusse / Knurl • WL188 Nov 9: Aidan Baker w/ Mnemosyne / MN-L • WL189 Nov 16: Sea Snakes / I/O • WL190 Nov 23: Tinkertoy / De La Caucase • Wavelength Zine Fundraiser I Nov 29: Anagram / The Sick Lipstick / controller.controller / Mean Red Spiders / Just Like The Movies • WL191 Nov 30: Tetrezine / The Frankfurt School / Silent Film Soundtrack • WL192 Dec 7: Polmo Polpo / Harris Newman / Kids These Days • WL193 Dec 14: Ninja High School / The Boston Letter • WL194 Dec 21: The Barcelona Pavilion / The Blow / Shotgun & Jaybird
Photo collage from WL 200 Festival, Feb. 14, 2004 at Rockit, by Kevin Parnell
SNEAKY DEE'S 2004: WL195 Jan 11: The Old Soul / Another Country • WL196 Jan 18: Singing Saw Shadow Show / GOA! • WL197 Jan 25: Spitfires & Mayflowers / Temple Threat • WL198 Feb 1: The Ivy League / The Phonemes • WL199 Feb 5: All I See Is Red / Holzkopf / Knar ••• WAVELENGTH 200 FOURTH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL: WL200 Thursday Feb 12 @Music Gallery: Jim Guthrie / Les Mouches / Glissandro 70 / Building Castles Out of Matchsticks • WL200 Friday Feb 13 @Dovercourt House: Fembots / The Bar Mitzvah Brothers / I Can Put My Arm Back On, You Can't / Ultra Magnus • WL200 Saturday Feb 15 @Rockit: controller.controller / The Barcelona Pavilion / Lenin I Shumov / AIDS Wolf • WL200 Sunday Feb 16: Sea Snakes / Les Angles Morts / Ninja High School / TV Mike & The All-Canadia All-Stars (cancelled) • WL201 Feb 22: Kids On TV / Wiches / The Desert Fathers • WL202 Feb 29: The Patients / Wintary • WL203 Mar 7: Beef Terminal / The Somme / The Winterlass • WL204 Mar 14 @Gladstone Hotel: Xiu Xiu / Les Mouches / Anagram • WL205 Mar 21: HANK Collective / Heart Murmur / Animal Monster • WL206 Mar 28: The Sourkeys / Jon-Rae & The River • WL207 Apr 4: The Two Koreas / Temple Threat • WL208 Apr 11: Lee Van Cleef / The Slats • WL209 Apr 18: Treasure Cat / Ratsicule / Random Number • WL210 Apr 25: Mind of a Squid / The Besnard Lakes • WL211 May 2: Interstellar / Jazzstory featuring Tim Posgate • WL212 May 9: Final Fantasy / Patrick Wolf / S.S. Cardiacs • WL213 May 16: Junior Boys / In Support of Living (performing live to Rob Tyler film) • WL214 May 23: The World Provider / Nanobot Auxilliary Ballet / The Three Ring Circuits w/ Jenny Omnichord • WL215 May 30: Great Lake Swimmers / Unravelled Brown Cassette Tape Lying On A Freeway • WL216 Jun 6: Stop Die Resuscitate / Ghislain Poirier / Vitamins For You + Montag • WL217 Jun 13: Feist / The Absent Sound / Points To Victim • Wavelength Zine Fundraiser II Jun 19 @Dovercourt House: Cuff The Duke / Ultra Magnus / Lullabye Arkestra / Ninja High School • WL218 Jun 20: Mach Tiver / People For Audio / Picnicboy • WL219 Jun 27: Pony Da Look / Masia One / TV Mike • WL220 Jul 4: Eudora / Chimichanga • WL221 Jul 11: The Marauder / All Purpose Voltage Heroes • WL222 Jul 18: The Ghost of Lester Bangs / Fox The Boombox / The Wolfnote / Immaculate Machine • WL223 Jul 25: Magneta Lane / Falconhawk / Chad Van Gaalen / The Bank • WL224 Aug 1: Femme Generation / Vertical Mosaic / JetProjectLabs • WL225 Aug 8: The BackTheFuckUps (two sets) • WL226 Aug 15: The Pauls / At Dusk / Martyrs • WL227 Aug 22: B-Lite / Neil Haverty / Ryan Stanley • WL228 Aug 29: Cougar Party / Fake Cops / Bokker Buckle Band • WL229 Sep 5: Black Ox Orkestar / Eric Chenaux & Martin Arnold • WL230 Sep 12: Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks / Metro Starman / Matt Boughner • WL231 Sep 19: Don Cash / City Folk • WL232 Sep 26: The Firebird Band / The Viking Club / Mia Verko • WL233 Oct 3: The Jane Waynes / Sunday Sinners / Rae Spoon • WL234 Oct 10: LAL / Holy Fuck • WL235 Oct 17: The Meligrove Band / The Beethoven Frieze / League Champs • WL236 Oct 24: Lenin I Shumov / The Doers / Greenfield Main • WL237 Oct 31: Corpusse / Fucked Up / Brutal Knights / Awesome • WL238 Nov 7: King Cobb Steelie / Nifty • WL239 Nov 134: Uncut / The Secret • WL240 Nov 21: Republic of Safety / Scandalnavia / MN-L • Wavelength Zine Fundraiser III Nov 26: Femme Generation / I Can Put My Arm Back On, You Can't / Jon-Rae Fletcher & The River / Fox The Boombox • WL241 Nov 28: The Guest Bedroom / The Diableros • WL242 Dec 5: Nassau / The Burdocks / Let Lowns • WL243 Dec 12: Frank FB_A / The Nein / Yara • WL244 Dec 19: Deep Dark United / Winter Equinox / Chad Van Galaen
Photo collage from WL 250 Festival, Feb. 12 & 13, 2005 at Music Gallery and Sneaky Dee's, by Kevin
Parnell
SNEAKY DEE'S 2005: WL245 Jan 9: Feuermusik / Men In Love • WL246 Jan 16: No Dynamics / No Orchestra • WL247 Jan 23: Elliot Brood / The Acorn • WL248 Jan 30: Sailboats Are White / Randwiches / City Field • WL249 Feb 6: The Bayonettes / B.A. Johnston • WAVELENGTH 250 FIFTH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL: WL250 Thursday Feb 10 @Cinecycle: Lullabye Arkestra / The World Provider / The Vermicious Knid / YACHT / LAL • WL250 Friday Feb 11: The Constantines / The Creeping Nobodies / Masia One / Kids on TV / S.S. Cardiacs • WL250 Saturday Feb 12 @Music Gallery: Jon-Rae & the River / Final Fantasy / Shawn Hewitt / Holy Fuck / Thanksgiving • WL250 Sunday Feb 13: The BackTheFuckUps (Toronto band covers) / The Blow / The Two Koreas / Ghostlight / Doc Pickles