Desire & Johnny Jewel light up Project Nowhere @ St. Anne's Parish, Oct 2

The dynamic IDIB duo of Desire & Johnny Jewel join the expansive Project Nowhere event at six west end T.O. venues Oct 2 to 4.   

Here's the scoop...

Project Nowhere returns for a third year to Toronto's west end on OCT 2-4, 2025. The full lineup of artists has arrived, promising the best of underground heavy hitters and up-and-coming talent from Toronto and beyond!

 

The festival's multi-venue format will span six spaces along Dundas West - Nineteen Seventy Eight (Expo Vintage Outlet), St. Anne's Parish, The Garrison, The Baby G, BSMT254, and Hank's Liquor. Show-hopping with a 3-day pass (for $119.60) is highly encouraged - the only way to experience all the shows one's heart desires, all weekend long. 

Tickets for the Desire's highly-anticipated show with Johnny Jewel and Kat Duma at St. Anne's Parish Hall on Thursday, October 2 at 7:30 pm are $32.31 advance and available right here. Tickets for Friday night's boffo blast featuring Teke::Teke with Orbital Ensemble and Miserable Weekend also at St. Anne's Parish Hall at 7:30 pm are $32.31 and available here. Saturday's main event will be The Mystery Lights sharing a bill with Detroit's Shadow Show and The Mersey Sound at The Garrison at 8:30 pm. Tickets are again $32.31 and available here. Check out Project Nowhere's full-lineup, schedule and info at the event site right here: https://www.projectnowhere.org/. 

PROJECT NOWHERE VENUES

St. Anne's Parish Hall - 651 Dufferin St.

Nineteen Seventy Eight - 1978 Dundas St. W.

The Garrison - 1197 Dundas St. W.

The Baby G - 1608 Dundas St. W.

BSMT254 - 254 Lansdowne Ave

Hank's Liquor - 1415 B Dundas St. W.

Here are a couple of clips of Desire accompanied by Johnny Jewel along with some performance footage of Teke::Teke, a stylish Shadow Show video and a KEXP performance by The Mystery Lights followed by a listing of Project Nowhere's scheduled shows for October 2nd and 3rd. 

Midweek Mixdown: Johnny Jewel

Check out a selection of rare IDIB recordings and mixes put together by Johnny Jewel for NTS Radio right here. 

Johnny Jewel: Music From The Cutting Room Floor

JOHNNY JEWEL "ANOTHER SLEEPLESS NIGHT"

Unreleased

DESIRE "THE BLACK WIDOW"

Unreleased

SALLY SHAPIRO "FORGET ABOUT YOU (JOHNNY JEWEL'S DRUMLESS REMIX)

Unreleased

JOHNNY JEWEL "THE MISFITS"

Holly Soundtrack

CHROMATICS "THE LONG ROAD HOME (NIGHT DRIVE VINYL DOWNLOAD CARD)"

Unreleased

CHROMATICS "STREETLIGHT RUNNER (COLLAGE)"

Unreleased

JOHNNY JEWEL "NECROMANCER"

Holly Soundtrack

JOHNNY JEWEL FEATURING FARAH "DON'T AT ME INTO ETERNITY (COLLAGE)"

Unreleased

JOHNNY JEWEL "LUCIFER"

Unreleased

THE WEEKND "BLINDING LIGHTS (JOHNNY JEWEL'S SERENADE REMIX)"

Unreleased

FARAH "THE LIVING DEAD"

Single

OMAR S & DESIRE "HARD TIMES (JOHNNY JEWEL'S FILM MIX)

Unreleased

CHROMATICS "ENDLESS SLEEP"

After Dark 3

JOHNNY JEWEL "CICCADAS & OWLS AT NIGHT"

Unreleased Sound Design From The Lost River Film

Midweek Mixdown: Megan Louise's Music Is Medicine 3

Listen to the fab third instalment of the Music Is Medicine series from Desire's Megan Louise right here. Check the tracks below. 

Johnny Jewel shares After Dark 3

After Dark 3 features tracks by Chromatics, Club Intl, Joon, Double Mixte, Desire, Orion, Pink Gloves and others. Listen below. 

Various Artists – After Dark 3 

Desire - Boy

Orion - Higher

Johnny Jewel - Surgery (Feat. Glüme)

Double Mixte - Chambre 48 (Feat. Desire)

Farah - Boyz R Bad

Chromatics - TOY (ATRIP Remix)

Love Object - Holodnoe Solnce

Joon - Cruel Summer

Glüme - Don't @ Me 

MOTHERMARY - Resurrection 

Orion - Space Girl 

Guy Gerber - Cameo 

Causeway - We Were Never Lost

Club Intl - Crush 

Double Mixte - Tirage En Croix 

Joon - Worse Things Than Feeling Lonely 

Pink Gloves - Fading Stars (Johnny Jewel Remix) 

Chromatics - Endless Sleep 

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Introducing: Joon

Maltese producer Yasmin Kuymizakis aka Joon just released her Johnny Jewel-mixed electro jam E.T. with an album slated for summer release.

The Chromatics w/ Desire, In Mirrors, Tess Roby play Danforth Music Hall, Monday

Johnny Jewel's Chromatics crew, his side project Desire, Jesse Taylor's In Mirrors and Tess Roby hit Toronto tonight. Watch the Time Rider clip below.

In "Time Rider," Johnny Jewel's Chromatics employ the metaphor of a motorcycle as an inter-dimensional bridge between the future and the past. In this dream, the motorcyclist mirrors myths of the grim reaper as Ruth Radelet eerily asks "Can I take your hand? I want to ride with you into the storm."

Chromatics will play their first public concerts in over five years. The last time Chromatics was on stage was for the filming of their Roadhouse appearances in David Lynch's Twin Peaks. This six-week North American tour will be the first time the band performs live with vocalist Ruth Radelet in many of the cities. Onstage, the group will be playing their favorite moments from Night Drive, Kill For Love, Cherry, and Dear Tommy.

Montreal's Desire will be performing in direct support of Chromatics. Frontwoman Megan Louise sings in French and English over Italo disco laced dream pop. Their single "Under Your Spell" made a splash on the silver screen in Nicolas Winding Refn's cult classic Drive alongside label mates Chromatics, Electric Youth, & Kavinsky.

From Vancouver, B.C., Italians Do It Better labelmates In Mirrors open the nights with their hypnotic brand of minimal wave, krautrock, and post punk.

Visually, the entire night features films directed by Johnny Jewel mixed live by video artist Danny Perez (Antibirth, Panda Bear). Bringing a cinematic experience to the concerts, the bands will be blurring the line between stage and screen.

Watch the videos for Chromatics' "Time Rider," Desire's "Tears From Heaven," followed by In Mirrors' "Take Your Movement Away" and Tess Roby's "Given Signs" below.