

Turned Out A Punk
Turned Out A Punk
Damian Abraham has been many things... the singer of a critically acclaimed band, a failed VJ and food network host, one of the minds behind TV's "The Wrestlers", parent of 3... and undeniably, a punk music obsessive.
Each week, he sits down and chats with an interesting person from various walks of life to find out how their world was influenced and changed by the discovery of a novelty genre that supposedly died out in 1978... PUNK!
Each week, he sits down and chats with an interesting person from various walks of life to find out how their world was influenced and changed by the discovery of a novelty genre that supposedly died out in 1978... PUNK!
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Sep 22, 2021 • 49min
Episode 365 - Amyl And The Sniffers (Amy Taylor, Declan Mehrtens & Gus Romer)
For those about to rock: we podcast for you! Today on the show, Damian sits down with three members of AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS! Listen in as Amy Taylor, Declan Mehrtens & Gus Romer as they talk about their journey’s through punk that brought them together. From the influence of Pissed Jeans, to “Tall Poppy Syndrome”, to Sharpies, to carrying on the legacy of Melbourne Rock & Roll: DON’T MISS IT!
& don’t miss Amyl and the Sniffers’ awesome new album “Comfort To Me” out now on Rough Trade
Also Touched On:
Tony Hawk Pro-Skater
UV-Rays
Cosmic Psychos
Tall Poppy Syndrome
Star Wars is actually a pretty good movie
Drunk Moms
Dumb Punks
The influence of Peter Biddy
Straightjacket Nation
The Separation of Hardcore and Garage
Discovering Sharpie Culture
Why does Australia love Rock & Roll
AC/DC = “Honest representation of the Australian working class”
The influence of Ceremony and Pissed Jeans
Speedfunk sounds stressful
“A house that plays house parties”
& SO MUCH MORE!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Sep 19, 2021 • 53min
TOAP 80's Toronto Metal Special - "Eve Of Darkness"(Derek Emerson, Chris Turner)
Turned Out A Punk goes metal as we celebrate the release of the AWESOME NEW BOOK, "EVE OF DARKNESS"! Join Damian as he sits down with returning guest, DEREK EMERSON (see the "TOAP 80's Toronto Hardcore Special" episode) & CHRIS TURNER to discuss the fascinating worlds that made up Toronto Metal in the 80s. The love that went into putting together such an spectacularly authoritative tome, THIS THING IS SO CRAZY, SO GET IT BEFORE IT’S GONE!!!!
"EVE OF DARKNESS", out September 25 on UXB Press! Preorder it here: https://uxbpresscanada.bigcartel.com/
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Sep 15, 2021 • 1h 26min
Episode 364 - Mac McCaughan (Superchunk, Slushpuppies, Wwax, Portastatic, Merge Records)
Have you got a minute? Can you fit TOAP into it? Because, Superchunk & Merge Records' MAC MCCAUGHAN is on the show today! Listen in as Damian talks to his label boss & hero about his punk journey. From going to see the Ugly Americans, to making a flyer that pissed off Ian MacKaye, to being A Bat: this is NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
& don't miss Mac's AWESOME new solo record "The Sound Of Yourself" out September 24th on Merge Records!
Also Touched On:
AC/DC: punk in Australia
Molly Hatchet
Point Blank and Loverboy
Todd Barry and The Chant
“No bands are going to come here!”: moving to NC
Finding college radio
Getting used by cool stuff
The Pressure Boys: king of the scene
REM
Ugly Americans
Stillborn Christians
COC
The multitudes of DCHC
Honour Role and the Minutemen
Mac being a Bat
Flying Nun Records
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Sep 10, 2021 • 1h 52min
Episode 363 - John Brannon (Negative Approach, Static, Laughing Hyenas, Easy Action)
CHECK IT OUT: JOHN BRANNON IS HERE!!! Today on the show, one of the most important vocalists of all time stops by to discuss punk! Listen in as Damian sits down with his biggest musical influence to talk: Static vs. Detroit Punk, the Minor Threat shows that bookend Detroit Hardcore, turning Nirvana on to Lead Belly, scaring the shit out of Ryan Gosling & so much more!
THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!
& don't miss the first ever release of one of the most storied lost recordings in punk history: Static's "Toothpaste And Pills"! OUT NOW on Thirdman Records!
Also Touched On:
A dream episode
punk before punk
Alice Cooper
Static: Class Of ’78
A faster Mott The Hoople: Sex Pistols at midnight on the radio
Reading about it in Creem
Being at the Kiss “Alive” gig
The first smell of weed: Rocking out to Judy Collins in ’69
Hearing the Stooges
“Kick Out The Jams” on CKLW
Destroy All Monsters at the Red Carpet
“It was horrible”: Detroit first wave punk
Fallout: John’s first band
Terrorizing Grosse Point
Thurston and the tape
“Everything I’m doing is wrong”: Discovering Hardcore
Ben Blackwell is the reason
Toothpaste and Pills: the stage show
“They all sucked”
The Coronation Tavern in Windsor
“Minor Threat is going to kill Negative Approach”
The Allied
OP and Graham join
The death of a scene
Violence overtakes the scene
metalheads becoming Oi Boys
The Birthday Party changes everything
“We aren’t ready”: opening for Black Flag for the first Hyenas show
“Fake NA”: The third line-up
Laura Lee
“I wanted more violence” where the NA sound would have gone
Hating Evacuate… still
Hangin’ with Belushi
going to Fear on SNL
“New York SUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKS”
Detroit: the Sweden of punk
“We don’t come from the Beach Boys and the Beatles. We like the Stooges”
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Sep 7, 2021 • 1h 8min
Episode 362 - Chris "Opie" Moore (Negative Approach, Youth Patrol, Crossed Wire)
It's Negative Approach Week on Turned Out A Punk! Kicking it off with former Negative Approach & Youth Patroler: CHRIS MOORE! Listen in as Damian sits down with his friend, live at Dinosaur Jr.'s Camp Fuzz II & talks about the birth of Detroit hardcore. From borrowing your aunt's vest for the Devo show, to the punk vs. hardcore divide, to the differences between the early scenes, to the violence that brought it to an end: this is NOT TO BE MISSED!
& don't forget to look for Chris' latest work at cmooremusic.bandcamp.com or crmooreart.com!
Also Touched On:
Hangin’ at the Skatepark in 1978
W4Play: Finding punk on the radio
The Clash
“It was like getting hit by a train”: seeing Devo
Meeting Jerry Casale
The Minor Threat show that kicked it off
Forming Youth Patrol
Necros sussing people out
“Are they even in the music?”: violence
Joining Negative Approach
The early Detroit scene
Recording the first 7”
Going to NY: “I’m going to live here when I get older!”
Meeting the Misfits
DC's vs Detroit's tastes
Finding The Freezer
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Sep 5, 2021 • 1h 8min
Episode 361 - Steve Caballero (The Faction, Odd Man Out, Bones Brigade, Urethane)
Get ready to Skate & Destroy! Today on the show, the original Skate Punk, STEVE CABALLERO sits down to talk about both of his legendary career’s. From starting one of the original skate zines, to being inspired by JFA, to the skateboarding/ punk balance: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
& don't miss Steve's new band Urethane's awesome debut album "Chasing Horizons" out on September 24th via Cyber Tracks!
Also Touched On:
Not growing up with rock music
Skate Punk zine
Getting into Black Flag
The DIY nature of early 80s Skateboarding
Inspired by JFA
Skaterock
Black Flag
Kingpin: The Rockabilly Skate Punk Band
Green River
IM Records: a mother and son operation
A Pro-Skater brings the kids in the door
Odd Man Out
“The skinheads are looking for you”
The “Epi-Fat” era
Bodyjar
Signing to Mystic
Lars Frederikesen in the drum set... twice
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Sep 1, 2021 • 1h 21min
Episode 360 - Miles Copeland (IRS, Step-Forward, DFC, Illegal, Faulty Product)
Today on the show, Damian sits down with the "Svengali of punk": MILES COPELAND! Listen in as the two discuss Miles’ role in the early punk scene, the arrival of the New Wave boom & laying the ground work for the alternative explosion!
Don't miss it!!
Also, don't miss Miles’ fantastic new book "Two Steps Forward, One Step Back" out now on Jawbone Press.
Also Touched On:
The first touring festival
the Sniffin’ Glue atheistic
A&M’s reaction to punk
Sex Pistols: more of a press operation than band
Tour managing the Sex Pistols
Lux and Stiv: really scary
“It’s about what you have to say”
Passion over virtuosity
“Miles, how am I supposed to help this band!? They can’t play!!”
The Squeeze: “Not PUNK punk”
The Wasps
Going to the Roxy and finding Menace
The Go-Gos
Lux didn’t trust anyone
The Fall
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Aug 27, 2021 • 1h 21min
Episode 359 - Charlie Angus (Grievous Angel, L'Etranger, MP for Timmins/ James Bay)
It's election time in Canada! To celebrate the process of democracy we welcome, the only punk rocker currently in Canadian Parliament, CHARLIE ANGUS to the show! Join Damian as he sits down with Charlie to discuss the music side of his life. Listen in as they talk the journey from the bands L' Etranger & Grievous Angels to applying his "degree from the school of punk" in the world of federal Canadian politics. THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!
& don't miss the Grievous Angels' fantastic album "Summer Before The Storm" on Jimmy Boyle Records now!
Also Touched On:
Sitting in the back of accounting class hoping for something more
Getting rock mags from a neighbour
“Oh my god! You aren’t going to buy that are you?
The divides in Toronto punk
The music changes the landscape
“Losers like John Tory”
Why was the downtown art scene used to be so good
Tell the Parliamentary Library you graduated from the school of punk rock
Elvis Costello and the radical reinterpretation of what a rockstar was
Touring and building community
Going to the Last Pogo
Going on tour with Goddo
Don’t go upstairs at Larry’s Hidaway
The Cabana Room
“The Jam had a record by 18. We’re are almost 20! We’re failures!”
The Ugly
The ill-fated tour with the Dub Rifles
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Aug 22, 2021 • 1h 22min
Episode 358 - Monty Messex (DFL, The Atoms)
Swear word bands unite! Today on the show, Dead F*ckin' Last's MONTY MESSEX stops by to talk about punk! If being from one legendary band wasn't enough, Monty was also the lead singer of long time Turned Out A Punk obscure favourite: The Atoms! Listen in as they talk about the rocky journey getting from The Atoms to DFL. From the hardcore/ punk divide, to Flea having to come to the rescue at the first show, to The Beastie Boys/ Guns & Roses Connection: DO NOT MISS THIS EPISODE!
And don't miss DFL's awesome new EP YRUDFL out now on SBÄM Records!
Also Touched On:
Halloween 1979: burnt into your soul
going to the Hong Kong Cafe for
Keith Morris in a Spiderman costume singing for Black Flag
The LA HC/ Punk divide
The Germs=Greatness
Going to see the Chiefs and the Gears
Hangin’ at THE Church
Hollywood High
Dangerhouse Records
How Atoms came together
“We Got The Power” zine
Flea to the rescue
Who was Harvey Oscar?
Chris Trent
Finding a bootleg of the of your own band
“Nothing to do but do drugs and have sex with each other.”
Things fall apart
How DFL came together
now vs. then
Fletcher attacks on a Pennywise tour
& so much more!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Aug 17, 2021 • 1h 6min
Episode 357 - Nancy Barile (Author, Educator, Former Manager Of Sadistic Exploits)
Class is in session! This week on the show Damian is joined by the author of the amazing memoir "I'm Not Holding Your Coat" & celebrated teacher: NANCY BARILE! Listen in as the two discuss the formation of the American East Coast hardcore scene. From early Philly New Wave, to the economic realities behind what gets canonized in punk, to why Jackal is the coolest punk & so much more! NOT TO BE MISSED!
Don't miss Nancy's fantastic "I'm Not Holding Your Coat" on Bazillion Points! Available at your favourite bookstore now!
Also Touched On:
Kenn Kweder
The Ramones and Blondie
“Philly never gets its due”
The class differences in the early hardcore scenes
having to sell a school ring to pay for the Sadistic Exploits 7”
The 1981 explosion
Punkfest
SSD
The Stick Men
Headcheese
the art/punk divide
Pure Hell are gods
When Jackal hits the scene
Going to New York… somehow
The NY before the HC
Hating DC
The board daylight Boston scene
Bad Brains
“Kill anyone with a beer in their hand”
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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