2009

Like most years, 2009 was an interesting year in scene history.

Contents 1 Most shows 2 Tours 3 Breakups 4 Major changes 5 Major shows 6 Major events 7 Venue changes 8 New Bands 9 New Albums 10 Reunited 11 Miscellaneous

Most shows

These statistics are pulled from the TBShows database, and thus do not include out-of-town shows.

Shows	Band
50	The Other Colour
42	Maraday Park
29	Twins Of Leda
28	The Auditor General
27	Bottom Rockers
24	Legoman Haircut
24	Amelia
23	Trenchfoot
22	A New Machine
21	Minotaur
20	Rock Truck
20	Burnz N Hell
19	Vega
19	Cheap & Easy
19	Alaska Army Band
18	Z3
18	Webster Death
18	Jean-Paul De Roover
18	Jagstog
18	The Communication
17	Jordana Divinorum
17	Forever Dead
17	Cosmic Granola
16	Money Honey
16	Air America
15	Nate Zahn
14	Noise Redemption
14	Mike Filipowitsch
14	Last Night
14	Engage Transmission
14	Dr. Buck And The Bluesbangers
13	Revenge Of The Mormons
13	The Married Singlemen
12	Syrianna
12	Red Devil
12	Party At The Moontower
12	Flash Gordon
12	Empire Lies
12	Defend The Syndicate
11	We Belong In Fiction
11	P.A. Shakedown
11	Norris
11	Natural Process
11	Andrew Edwards
10	Sleepclinic
10	Michah Dowbak
10	Mercedes Overdose
10	Faceless Hulk
10	Exit West
9	The Wayback
9	Rock Steady
9	Quitting Life
9	Fluorescent Brown
9	Dj Luv
9	D.E.A.D.
8	Xsforeyes
8	Sound Escape
8	Scarty Crew
8	Bloodpool
8	Aubrey Brandt
8	Alaska Army Band (The)
8	Adaptive Reaction
7	Wax Philosophic
7	This Audience
7	Silver Medals
7	New Farm
7	Drive
6	Tracy K
6	Pedestrian Lifestyle
6	The Mark Potvin Blues Trio
6	Makeshift Astronaut
6	Love Subtract
6	The Dweezils
6	Doran
6	Doobsie's Band
6	Casanova Frankenstein
6	Billy Manzik
6	Amanda Soderholm
6	ADHD
5	Zack Santerre
5	Wool Sweater
5	The Vilification
5	Shy-Anne Hovorka
5	Royal T & Intelev
5	Purity Control
5	Perosity
5	Penny Dreadful
5	Orange 95
5	Isaac Matthews
5	Gaelin Brown
5	Flipper Flanagan's Flat Footed Four
5	Chuck Finale

Tours

• Amelia (2 dates)
• The Auditor General
• Bottom Rockers
• Empire Lies (GTA, 2 weeks)
• Faceless Hulk
• Forever Dead
• Jean-Paul de Roover (cross-country, 3 months)
• Moneyhoney (GTA, 2 weeks)
• Norris
• Revenge Of The Mormons
• Trench Foot (to Kenora to open for SNFU)
• Twins of Leda (to Dryden)

Breakups

• Mercedes OD
• Orange 95 (permanent hiatus)
• Revenge Of The Mormons
• Tender Mercy's Rhythm and Blues Band
• The Parkas (not really local, but contained the brothers Rhyno)

Major changes

• Adaptive Reaction moved to Toronto
• Dan Granholm replaced Cory Gauthier in Quitting Life
• Dan Robere left Empire Lies
• Tomsin skipped town and got kicked out of Trench Foot
• Warmaggedon changed its name to Killyourself
• Ashleigh Lazar joined Legoman Haircut
• Dave Angell quit The Auditor General and was replaced by Sean Skillen
• Richard LeBlanc quit Norris and was replaced by Sean Skillen
• Jamie Smith quit Norris and was replaced by Curt Mill
• Atherium replaces Justin Dawson with Sheldon Jorgenson
• Jordana Divinorum debuts with a new style and lineup

Major shows

• 3 Inches of Blood
• April Wine
• Bobby Curtola
• Cannibal Corpse
• Cat Empire
• Cattle Decapitation
• Chubby Checker
• Default
• Elliott Brood
• Flogging Molly
• Girlicious
• Goatwhore
• Great Lake Swimmers
• Harlequin
• Hinder
• Honeymoon Suite
• Jucifer
• Kelly and the Kellygirls
• Killswitch Engage / In Flames
• Lamb of God / As I Lay Dying / God Forbid / Municipal Waste
• Left Spine Down
• Lights / Keane
• Madcowboys
• Marc Emery
• The Madcaps
• Matthew Good
• Maximum RnR
• Misfits
• Moneen
• The Mudmen
• Nobunny
• Nomeansno
• Ohbijou
• Paradiso Girls
• Priestess
• Prism
• Protest The Hero
• SNFU
• Sebastian Bach
• Spookey Ruben
• Sweet
• Swollen Members
• Toxic Holocaust
• The Trews
• Trooper
• UK Subs
• United Steelworkers of Montreal
• White Cowbell Oklahoma
• You Say Party We Say Die

Major events

• Bay of the Dead
• Bluesfest
• Bridge Theatre Fair
• Canada Day at the Marina
• Celtic Bash
• Country Fest
• David Hauck Tribute
• Electronika
• Grand Marais Jazz Festival
• Harbourfest
• Hunger Cabaret
• Kakabeka Street Fair
• Last Band Standing (won by Alaska Army Band)
• Music for the Masses
• Music for Darfur
• Sugar Shakedown
• Sundays In The Park
• Super Sexy Saturday
• The Cover Show
• Tokyopop+Shock
• Wigginstock
• Rock For Rock

Venue changes

• C2 became The Roxy
• Disgraceland held its last show
• Kilroys started doing floor shows
• Rockhouse opened
• Harry's Pool Hall did a few shows

New Bands

• Chuck Finale
• The Dweezils
• Eyes of Chong
• Flash Gordon
• Fluorescent Brown
• Gunboat
• Hot Sauce
• Last Boss
• Minotaur
• New Farm
• A New Machine
• Purity Control
• Scarty Crew
• Sleepless Lullaby
• Sound Escape
• Sr. Detonator
• Twins of Leda
• Vagina Wizard
• The Vilification
• We Belong In Fiction

New Albums

• Adaptive Reaction- "Nightmare and Gangrene" (Split 7" with the Promonium Jesters)
• Alaska Army Band- We're All the Same but Different- CD EP
• Bottom Rockers- Barbeerians CD
• Empire Lies
• Jean-Paul De Roover- Windows And Doors
• Maraday Park- Maraday Park
• Money Honey
• Norris
• Revenge Of The Mormons- The RCMP Can Suck On This, ROTM
• Rodney Brown- North Land
• The Auditor General- Club Anthems for the Slightly Disenfranchised
• Webster Death
• Warmageddon- Depredate Consecration EP

Reunited

• Red Devil
• Speedway (1 show)

Miscellaneous

• Paul Shaffer put out a book
• Madcowboys dissed us hard to Exclaim
• tbshows listed over 800 shows
• There was a wave of theft around September