Horseshoe Tavern

Mm-hmm.

has an event coming up at the Horseshoe Tavern in honor of a man whose name I can see on the cover of Have Not Been the Same.

The name is down...

They're playing like Steve Jobs.

We wish JD luck and love.

But we were going to do this thing where the Horseshoe was going to let us record from their... their facility.

And we were, Jeremy Hopkins and I were going to do like the, the, the history of the horseshoe tavern.

And then we were going to have JD there to plug his event, basically like a free plug for a good guy.

And where does one find a Lotzi? Well, according to their socials, the band has checked in at multiple places.

Toronto-area clubs, including the famous Horseshoe Tavern.

But you can always find a Lotsie in, of course, Lotsieland, a place where pop and punk collide, and there's no obedience.

And once again, Babe Quinty's Sean Dopp sends us his latest submission.

Y- yeah, well, uh, yeah, that's a hard one because, uh, it is tougher now.

I mean, when I first played the Horseshoe Tavern, uh, in Toronto, I got to go, I got to get there on a Monday and play Monday all the way to Saturday.

So back in those days, if you got a gig at a, at a club or a, a music, you know, a live music venue, it wasn't usually one night.

It was y- it was usually a whole week's worth of work, and it gave you a chance to not have a lot of people there on the Monday, maybe not have a lot of people there on the Wednesday.

Thanks for having us.

Um, wanna remind everybody that Bleeding Hearts is screening at TIFF, and the band Shearwater is playing the legendary Horseshoe Tavern-

Yeah

... right here in Toronto tonight.

And, uh, so Berlin's guiding hand is not so guiding on Music at Work- [laughs] ... as compared to Phantom Power, you know? Oh.

Um, yeah, by the time he arrives, um, the songs are sufficiently put together that The Hip debuts them live, um, like most of the songs on the album, a good six months before the album's released, at an intimate gig at Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern on December 29th.

And then they play a pair of stadium shows to mark the new millennium, uh, December 31st and January 1st at the Air Canada Centre.

And yeah, they debuted between those shows eight of the album's 14 songs.

Fast forward a few years.

By 1985, the Circle Jerks were touring across the United States and Canada, bringing their brand of quickfire aggression to places like Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern or Ottawa's The Elgin.

They had gained a reputation for being loud but unpredictable.

Fans could anticipate that anything from shouting at the mic to spontaneous crowd pushing was on the menu.