![]() ![]() Get a new PA and get my sound guys because I trust my sound guys to do a good job.Īnd, um. Um, and Ted loved music, and, uh, I got him to change the PA. So again, you know, I've got a clean slate to start. And it was very gritty and he had a restaurant downstairs that seemed to be not doing too well. So I went to take a look at the venue and it was again, another small venue held about 200 people. The last club before the El Mo was Ted's Wrecking Yard. Yvonne Matsell: Hi, my name is Yvonne Matsell and I've been a booker of numerous clubs in Toronto, and I’ve had a history with many Canadian acts. Although teams from both venues tried to keep hosting live shows in the downstairs Barcode space on College Street, the collaboration didn’t last. It was a bad year for live music in Toronto, with live music at the El Mocambo also shuttering after a change in ownership. ![]() In October 2001, Ted’s Wrecking Yard abruptly closed. and the Broken Social Scene, the first-ever public appearance of the group’s name. Only a few months before the release of BSS’s first album, Kevin Drew took to the Ted’s Wrecking Yard stage in December 2000, performing as John Tesh Jr. The venue also witnessed the debut of Broken Social Scene. Ted’s became a haven for indie music in Toronto by 1999, hosting a weekly music showcase known as Wavelength (now an annual Toronto concert festival). Although Barcode offered jazz and swing, the upstairs Wrecking Yard was a grittier space: painted black with wooden floors. Opened in 1997 by Ted Footman, the venue offered two floors of music, Barcode on the main floor with Ted’s Wrecking Yard above. That wave was focused on 549 College Street. In the early 2000s, there was a wave of new energy to promote independent music in Toronto.
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