Listen to Gary Topp's chat with Damian Abraham on his Turned Out A Punk podcast

Raising a glass to legendary Toronto concert promoter Gary Topp on his birthday with his chat with Damian Abraham and more. 

Gary Topp hijacks TVO's The Agenda to chat about his new book

Toronto concert promoter Gary Topp discusses the great new coffee table book, He Hijacked My Brain (UXB Press) out now. 

Here's the scoop...

Two men named Gary – Gary Topp and Gary Cormier – helped make Toronto cool in the 1970s, at a time when this city most definitely was not. They had no rule book. They didn't have a lot of money. But they had interests and ideas -- a lot of them crazy -- and they had the nerve to make things happen. First came movie theatres. Then came concert bookings. And what a roster of acts they introduced to the city... The Ramones, The Police, The Smiths, The Go-Gos and The B-52s to name a few. And now one of the Garys... Gary Topp... is the subject of a new book called He Hijacked My Brain, about his often wild career as a cultural curator. Check out Gary's interview with Steve Paikin for The Agenda. 

The Agenda gets the lowdown on T.O.'s 80s hardcore punk scene

Steve Paikin is keen to find out what the attraction was to this "head-banging crap" from Tomorrow Is Too Late co-authors Shawn Chirrey & Simon Harvey.