El Mocambo

Well, you mentioned Shitty Live.

So next up is Suzy and the Banshees playing the Elmo Combo.

But you were at the Elmo show for Suzy, right?

I was.

I was.

Anyway, Jim Moore is now in England, but he wrote in, Danny is hilarious.

I used to see him at the Elmo.

40 minutes of jokes and chat and then 20 minutes of music.

Shit.

And if they did, we were lucky.

El Mocambo's like, "Come through." Thank you, El Mocambo, you know? There's like-

Yeah

... there's few spots.

Um, Echo & the Bunnymen.

Uh, this is the El Mocambo show, which, uh, was listed, uh, in the newspaper as Echo & the Bunnymen, as Bunnymen, like two words.

Must be their r- road crew, Scott, you know? Like-

[laughs]

... and just he needed a firm no.

And I remember that, uh, like, being harassed as lesbians outside the El Mocambo a million years ago- The, the, the discomfort-

Mm

... um, and this was, you know, white middle-class women, the discomfort for them, and so I'm not speaking for all women-

It's a six-week program.

On September 17th, we're doing a showcase, like a little, like, final wrap-up, little, like, culminating show at the El Mocambo in Toronto.

Um, so yeah, excited for that.

Also, like, playing the Horseshoe Tavern this week.

His support for bands like Duran Duran was one of the key factors in what was to become known in the continent of North America as the second British invasion.

That electric excitement was something that we could really feel when we walked onto the stage for the first show of our North American tour at Toronto's El Mocambo on the night of September 26, 1981.

That buzz is something that I shall never forget.

And so we pay our respects to the man.

We didn't know each other at that point, but I do recall very vividly that show, and you could just tell at that point, you're going, "Okay, you know this is gonna be huge." I mean, right at the-

Yeah

... like, unlike U2, because U2 played to 80 people at the El Mocambo, Duran Duran was rammed.

It was sold out.

What's happening on Thanksgiving Monday for the Bills right here in Toronto?

Well, like you said, we've got a big matchup against the Rams on Canadian Thanksgiving, so we're hosting an amazing watch party at El Mocambo in Toronto.

Before the game, there's gonna be a live stream of a concert with Pop.

We've got Tyrone Edwards hosting alongside Breurny.

Canadian fans have long supported the Bills.

They have been integrated into Bills Mafia for such a long time, have been so good at traveling back and forth to support us in Buffalo, so we just wanna show up where they are too and make sure that there's fun, engaging, authentic ways for them to support their, the Bills in, in their home city as well.

And, uh, why the choice of El Mocambo? I mean, it is a pretty iconic location here in the city.

Was it anything more deep than that?

He used to turn that thing and stand...

I mean, you've seen the Live at El Mocambo one where he, he takes his, like, $15,000 Stratocaster, stands on the horns, and he's rocking the neck back and forth.

And I'm just, "Oh."

Whoa.

Was this at

the Elmo?

It was at the Phoenix.

But the band was great.