U.I.C. celebrates 40 years with Gerard Van Herk & Bloodshot Bill @ The Horseshoe, Saturday

Join U.I.C. in a toast to 40 years and remembering Deja Voodoo's Tony Dewald with a performance by Gerard Van Herk & Bloodshot Bill. 

Get tickets for U.I.C.'s 40th Anniversary celebration right here. 

U.I.C. rocks the Monarch Tavern, March 9

Don't miss U.I.C. at the Monarch with Mark Malibu & The Wasagas and Drums Along the Gardiner. Check the clips. 

U.I.C. with Enchanters, Ohmno @ Monarch Tavern, Friday

The mighty U.I.C. kick off Canada Day weekend celebrations tonight with Enchanters and Ohmno at the Monarch. Doors at 8 pm.

Get tickets for U.I.C.'s show at the Monarch Tavern (12 Clinton, 1 block south of College) right here. 

U.I.C. announces show at the Monarch Tavern with Enchanters on June 30th!

Great to see U.I.C. back in action with Enchanters and Ohmno at the Monarch June 30th. Tickets now on sale right here. 

Check the FB event page for more info and updates.  

90s Nostalgia: U.I.C. at Lee's Palace, 1992

Here's U.I.C. with the late Dan Preszcator on bass performing three songs introduced by Dave Bookman on April 11, 1992. 

Midweek Mixdown: What Wave presents Slippery's Club Hits

What Wave #24 came with a cassette comp documenting London, Ontario's underground rock scene, 1977-90. See link below. 

Listen to Slippery Club Hits put together by Dave O'Halloran for What Wave #24 via Mixcloud right here. 

Midweek Mixdown: What Wave's Wave From The Grave 2

Check out Wave From The Grave 2 garage rock cassette compiled by Dave O'Halloran for What Wave #12 in March, 1987.  

Here's the scoop...

Wave From The Grave 2 came out in March 1987 as a 60-minute cassette with What Wave #12. After sales of WW #10 and our first cassette release, Wave From The Grave, it was obvious that people wanted these cassettes and were digging them. Hence the creation of our second cassette and the realization that we've got to keep doing these. 

Lots of local action on this one, with; Boy From Nowhere, Sci-Phonics, Legend Killers, The Ungone and Flying Squad. And a few new bands that would continue on for many tapes and a couple appeared on upcoming records we released; The Gruesomes, Lost Patrol and perennial fave Janice K. Enjoy!!

– Dave O'Halloran (artwork by David Clarke)

Have a listen to Wave From The Grave 2 via Mixcloud right here. 

Those interested, can check out the first Wave From The Grave cassette compilation from June 1986 featuring The Dwarves ("Be A Caveman"), Psychotic Youth, U.I.C. ("Bomb Boys"), Purple Toads, 10 Commandments, Monstereo, 3D Invisibles, Feast Of The Mau Maus, Boy From Nowhere,  right here. 

U.I.C.'s FM Hill release party livestream from The Horseshoe, Sept. 18

Although U.I.C.'s FM Hill came out last October, the launch party live stream from The Horseshoe is happening next Saturday. 

U.I.C.'s FM Hill album release party!

with Dany Laj & The Looks

Saturday September 18th. 9:30 pm EDT. Doors at 9 pm. 

Reserved seating ticket at The Horseshoe Tavern - $29.50 - $39.50

Livestream ticket - $15

U.I.C.'s release party for their great new FM Hill album is part of the Horseshoe Hootenanny concert series featuring live-to-air band performances (not pre-recorded) from the Toronto stages of The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern & Lee’s Palace. The series financially supports the bands, their crews, local technicians and videographers, and the venues, while the stage is dark and in lockdown, during now a full year plus in COVID-19.

The Horseshoe Hootenanny series is professionally filmed, with 3-5 pro cameras, and streamed through VIMEO, using all the venues sound and lighting production to produce a higher level video/audio/stage look as if you were in the venue itself.

Live streams include an artist Q&A during the stage changeover/intermission, or a creative pre produced artist feature, including interactive social chat, in an attempt to simulate your 2-3 hour experience physically going out to a live music venue

All shows are also available for replay after the original airing for 10 days. Tickets available via Eventbrite right here. 

UIC reissues their two classic garage albums via Warner Music Canada

UIC's first two corkers, Our Garage ('86) and Live / Like Ninety ('88) are out now on vinyl and digitally on all platforms!

Warner Music Canada in conjunction with Like 90 Records have just released two Canadian garage-punk classic albums – Our Garage and Live / Like Ninety – from Exeter, Ontario’s UIC. Originally issued in the 1980’s, both albums are now available on all streaming services for the first time as well as being re-issued on CD and vinyl. The band will celebrate the re-release of the records with a show at This Ain’t Hollywood in Hamilton on Saturday (November 24).

Originally formed in 1982 in a basement in Exeter, Ontario, UIC took it’s influences from Detroit radio where The Stooges, MC5 and Alice Cooper dominated the airwaves. The original line-up – Fred “Slack” Robinson, Dave “Smokin” Robinson, Murray Heywood, Ted Triebner and Dan Preszcator – took their name from the Unemployment Insurance Commission (since rebranded Employment Insurance).

After a few years of playing shows in the London area, the band moved to Toronto and became regulars on the bill at the Siboney, the Rivoli, the Horseshoe Tavern and Lee’s Palace, playing alongside the likes of The Gruesomes, Teenage Head and Deja Voodoo.

Our Garage
The band’s debut, Our Garage, was released in 1986 and has been re-mastered for this reissue. To quote Little Steven, “Garage rock/punk is white kids trying to play rhythm & blues and failing wonderfully.” Whether you were from Canada, the UK, Japan, the US or Europe, if you were listening to garage punk, you likely remember UIC. The opening track, “Our Garage,” is an anthem proudly declaring the band’s influences. The band shows their Canadian roots with tracks “Shamrock Bang” and “Crop Dustin” while the fan favourite “I’m Alive” serves up garage rock ‘n’ roll smashed together with rhythm and blues. Buy/download/stream Our Garage right here.

OUR GARAGE tracklisting

Our Garage
Shamrock Sin
Shamrock Bang
Bomb Boys
Blood
Nashville Dreamin'
All Together Now
You Drive Mad
I’m Alive
Cure The War
Crop Dustin



Live / Like Ninety
Recorded live at a sold-out Lee’s Palace show on November 4th 1988, Live / Like Ninety is arguably the best UIC album released to date if only because no studio could ever capture the explosive sound of the band live. The album documents the band’s full-speed-madness where they literally played until the tape ran out – you can actually hear the tape slip through the tape machine for the last time and continue snapping around the reel. Live / Like Ninety was voted by NOW Magazine as one of the most influential Toronto albums of the 80’s. The album has been re-mixed and re-mastered for this reissue. Buy/download/stream Live / Like Ninety right here.

LIVE / LIKE NINETY tracklisting

Ignoramus
Outta Hand
Altogether Now
Lockjaw Bay
Get Red
Green Lady
Livin' In The Past
Mystery Train
New Race
Bomb Boys
Stations Fading






By the time of disbanding in 1995, UIC had released three full length albums (a fourth ,The Wiseman Sessions, was lost for almost 20 years when the tapes were finally recovered, mixed and released). Over the next few years band members pursued various musical paths and in 1999 four of the five band members joined forces as The Chickens. By 2006, they all went their separate ways.
Flash forward to 2016. UIC, joined by guitarist Dave Dysart, reunite to headline an Oshawa benefit in memory of local rock & roll promoter and Star records founder Mike Shulga. Spurred on by Dysart’s enthusiasm, the band marked the 30th anniversary of Our Garage by playing their first Toronto show in 20 years. The success of those shows inspired a new sense of creativity who have since re-entered the studio to record new material to be released on their own Like 90 Records.
Bringing it all full-circle, UIC, (with bassist Andy Hauber), were able to join the Toronto bill of MC50, the 50th anniversary tour of Kick Out The Jams, the MC5 album that was such a huge influence on the band in the first place.

Connect with UIC
https://uiccanada.bandcamp.com
www.uiccanada.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/74952020082/
https://soundcloud.com/uiccanada
https://www.reverbnation.com/uic7
https://www.instagram.com/uic_the_band/

MC50 w/ U.I.C., Public Animal @ Danforth Music Hall, Wednesday

Wayne Kramer is celebrating 50 years of kickin' out the jams w/ Public Animal at 7:30pm and U.I.C. at 8:20pm.

RIP U.I.C.'s Dan Preszcator, 1961-2018

Sadly, U.I.C. bassist Dan Preszcator passed away Thursday after a battle with an auto-immune disorder. He'll be missed.

U.I.C. with Pow Wows opening for X @ Danforth Music Hall, Sunday

Exeter's finest will be kicking out the jams at the Danforth Music Hall in celebration of 40 years of X.

U.I.C. w/ Leather Uppers, Adaptor 45 @ The Horseshoe, Saturday

Here's a vintage U.I.C. photo from the What Wave archives to go with a couple of classic performances. 

Exeter's garage punk kings U.I.C. to reunite for Mike Star salute in Oshawa April 2

Here's a 17-minute clip of U.I.C. at the El Mocambo on December 18, 1993. Leafs beat the Kings 4-1 that night.