![]() The performers included Vancouver’s Mecca Normal, San Francisco’s Peter Plate, Montreal’s Rhythm Activism and Toronto artists Bryan James and Mourning Sickness. The Black Wedge was an anti-authoritarian response to Britain’s earlier Red Wedge, and began on the West Coast in 1986 before continuing across Canada in 1987. I’m not sure if we actually had any food that day, aside from breakfast, but somehow it was all incredibly exciting.”Ī tour of activist resistance culture organized by Jean Smith of the band Mecca Normal, which set out to “spread the word of how to combine poetry, music and politics and have a fun time doing it.” Pack up and then we drive on to Olympia, entering the city just as the sun is rising. Drive on to Portland, where we do a closing set at the Blue Gallery with Some Velvet Sidewalk. ![]() Right after our set we pack up and leave by a side door where Calvin has the car ready to go. First stop is Eugene, OR where we open the show for Vomit Launch at the WOW Hall. Hitching a ride, Calvin shares driving duties with Jean heading north. ![]() Breakfast with our friend DJ Laura Moody (KALX) and Calvin (K Records). “30 years ago today, Mecca Normal had one of our most stamina-busting days on tour: 733 miles, two gigs, 4 cities, one day!!!! Mecca Normal woke up in Berkeley after playing the Gilman Street Project the night before. Last month of Portland’s X-Ray Café, August, 1994 I asked if Mecca Normal could play too! A bit of a coup!Īudio from my Seattle performance (with video from an east coast show). Initially, godspeed asked me to open for them after they heard my solo CD. I opened (vocal, e guitar, sax with piano and vocals on a CD player). This show was recorded for the CBC’s iconic national radio show Brave New Waves and released as a live album available on BandCamp. Nikki McClure made this poster for Beaten Down during Yoyo A Go Go, 1999, Olympia. “I Walk Alone” poster by Nikki McClure, created spontaneously at Ladyfest, Olympia, 2000.
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