Listen "Lyndsay Sung at The Blinding Light! & Ms T's Cabaret"
Episode Synopsis
Lyndsay Sung is a musician, writer, filmmaker and cookbook author. She was in the bands the Sob Story, le Petit Mort, Radio Berlin and Pink Mountaintops, and now plays in KCAR, Foxgloves and Strawberries and Cream. This conversation was recorded on November 5 2024. The Blinding Light! was an underground cinema which ran from 1998-2003 at 36 Powell Street. Founded by Alex MacKenzie as a follow-up to his Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images (1995-1997), the space housed a cafe, a gallery and a 110-seat cinema. It showed new and classic underground and avant garde films, hosted nights to bring your own 8mm films and hosted experimental bands with a visual element. Ms T’s Cabaret was at 339 West Pender. The building began life as it started life in 1906 as the Myers Hall and later held the city’s first purpose-built bowling alley, the Canadian Cycle and Motor Co, the Canadian Legion, the Boilermaker’s Hall, and the Marine workers’ Pender Auditorium. During the 1960s the Auditorium was booked by music series, including the Afterthought, and was the site of an early Grateful Dead concert. The building was home to Vancouver’s earliest drag bar, BJ’s, open from 1970 to 1983, and later, the Vancouver Club Baths also opened in the basement area. After being sold, it took on a western theme as Saddle Tramps before converting to a lesbian bar, Ms. T’s, which also had music shows. It was demolished after a fire in 2003. Other venues visited: Pic Pub, The Brickyard. Also discussed: Submission Hold House, Dynamo Gallery Bands discussed: Three Inches of Blood, Hot Hot Heat, Erase Errata, the Need, the Get Hustle, Young People, A Luna Red, Womankind. Thank you to Kellarissa for the original theme music. This episode features the following music: KCAR: I Don’t Know from Up Top (2023) The Sob Story: WTO Radio Berlin: DES from Glass (2003)
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