Wayne Cobb - Drums
Kick - Vocals
Deviant - Guitar
Niall Coady - Bass

ABOUT:
Catch-as-catch-can band hobbled together by Kick to take advantage of a gig offer. Immediately split-up after said gig. More proof that a great drummer can make a terrible band truly mediocre.

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
Playing in the cafeteria of a Junior High and being stopped during first song because of the word "naked", allowed to continue after 15 minute argument, then asked to leave after second song.

Wayne Cobb - Drums
Deviant - Guitar
Nick Lawless - Bass
Angelo - Guitar

ABOUT:
Half of WCE re-grouped to form a more cohesive, mostly straight ahead rock band. Tight, but not particularly interesting.

Kick - Drums, Vocals
Deviant - Guitar, Vocals
Time Machine - Bass, Vocals
Norm Crumb - Percussion, Trumpet

ABOUT:
Avant-garde art-punk/new wave. Early incarnation that went on the back burner for a couple of years then re-focussed and re-formed in Vancouver. Interesting, but not particularly tight.

Deviant - Guitar, Vocals
Larry Liar - Guitar, Vocals
Harry Kirshner - Bass
Ludwig Gretsch - Drums

ABOUT:
Quasi-hardcore with a future-looking socio-political bent. More prophecy than paranoia in retrospect. Larry & Ludwig moved to Toronto in 1985.

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
Opening for Red Tide.

Deviant - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Kick - Drums
Time Machine - Bass

ABOUT:
Short-lived side-project to accomodate Deviant songs and aesthetics rejected by Kick for Vertical Laughter.

Deviant - Guitar, Vocals
PLUS a rotating line-up of guests

also solo as Deviant

ABOUT:
Deviant's self-indulgent idea bin. No fixed band members.

LIVE HIGHLIGHTS:
Similin' Buddhafest (1986); Annual Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Show (1987-92).

Kick - Drums, Vocals
Deviant - Guitar, Vocals
Michael Lewis - Bass, Vocals

ABOUT:
Reformed and revamped with a more focused weirdo art-punk aesthetic, but the chops never matched the ideas. Lewis and Deviant found it increasingly difficult to work within the unit and bowed out in turn, leaving Kick to start again with a slightly altered name and with all the creative and business control he desired.

LIVE HIGHLIGHTS:
Opening for Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (Halloween 1986); disastrous yet glorious show with Omnisquid that lead to Discorder's "Worst New Band of 1986" award.

Juha - Vocals
Kick - Bass
Robert Tea - Guitar
Tony Lee (Soreheads) - Drums

ABOUT:
Vehicle for Juha's stream-of-consciousness punkabilly with a gothic twist.

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
Smilin' Buddhafest (1986).

Michael Lewis - Vocals
Deviant - Guitar
Walt "Too Tall" Brady - Bass

1. Eric L. (64 Funnycars) - Drums
2. Paul Brennan (Animal Slaves, The Odds) - Drums
3. John Jansen - Drums

ABOUT:
After the disintegration of Vertical Laughter, Michael Lewis spent some time in The Fabulous Wallies then reached out to Deviant to start something new. Rock with one foot in the garage, the other in chaos.

A late version of Six Inches playing as Bloody Mary had a lo-fi live release that ended up out before the Six Inches release came out (which included two mixes of a Bloody Mary-era studio track).

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
Demolitionfest at the Waterfront Cabaret (1987).

Mike Vantreight - Guitar, Vocals
Walt Vantreight - Bass
John Vantreight - Drums

ABOUT:
Short-lived, existing only to call attention to several policies of BC's Social Credit government.

Michael Lewis - Vocals
Deviant - Guitar
Taylor Saddock - Bass
John Jansen - Drums

ABOUT:
Short-lived reconfiguration of Six Inches that provided a transition to Mary, dialing back the "lifestyle" component and broadening the musical palate. Intense.

In addition to a bootleg quality live cassette, several studio demos were recorded, one track (with a demo remix) were originally circulated as a demo cassette but were later included on both the cassette and CD re-issues of Six Inches' Average Joes.

Jim Naked - Rants
Dave Shameless - Guitar

ABOUT:
A spontaneously evolving lounge happening centered around Jim's alcohol-fueled rants. Keyword: unsustainable. Jim eventually drifted off to travel the world while "Dave" went solo for a short time before retiring, only to resurface a decade later with a new Naked and a different oeuvre.

LIVE HIGHLIGHTS:
Jim going through a window at a house show; The "suck my cock" incident.

Deviant - Guitar, Vocals
Michael Lewis - Bass, Vocals
John Jansen - Drums

ABOUT:
The regrouped remnants from Six Inches and Bloody Mary, both cleaner and quieter than its predecessors providing a new base to build from. Michael Lewis soon left to pursue an acting career.

Deviant - Guitar, Vocals
John Maxwell - Bass
John Janson - Drums

ABOUT:
Heavy without the metal, teetering between overblown electric folk-songs and an almost obsessive prog-like need to stretch out instrumentally.

LIVE HIGHLIGHTS:
KD Tour of Canada (summer 1991); opening for Lemonheads; opening for Swans; opening for Sons of Freedom; opening for Art Bergmann in Victoria; opening for DOA; opening for NoMeansNo; opening for L7; opening for Bad Religion; opening for Alice Donut; opening for Gruntruck in Seattle; filling in for Primus unbeknownst to the audience.

Robert Tea - Guitars, Vocals, other instruments
John Maxwell - Bass, Vocals, other instruments
Joe Megalos - Guitars, Vocals, other instruments

ABOUT:
Mary side-project put together to occupy time while John Jansen was away.

Bernard Curtis - Guitar, Vocals
John Hook - Bass
John Morris - Drums
The Beat Assasinator - Keyboards

ABOUT:
Joy Division tribute.

*videos of live performances exist.

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
Extravaganza at Cruel Elephant.

Kent Lindsay (New Heads) - Vocals, Cage, Tools, Cheese
Corey O'Brien (New Heads) - Guitar
Colin Upton (Puke Theatre) - Oil Drums, Chains
Bryce Rasmussen (Puke Theatre) - ?
Phil Dole - Router

ABOUT:
A mighty noise outfit.

*videos of live performances may exist.

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
Noise Night at the Cruel Elephant.

Deviant - Guitar
Lord God Ooze - Bass
Nob - Keyboards
Deiter The Meter - BPMs

ABOUT:
This is what happens when down-and-outers drink a lot of beer while listening to The Cure, Bauhaus, and Sisters of Mercy.

Buck F. Naked - Drunkabilly Chanteur
Dave Shameless - Guitar, Harmonies, Enabling
and sometimes
Annie Ampersand - Drums

ABOUT:
Resurrected after a 10 year absence as a show-business parody.

LIVE HIGHLIGHTS:
Legends of No-Fi Tour (Summer 2006); opening for Slim Cessna's Auto Club in Denver; opening for Unknown Hinson; Don Bolles of the Germs sitting in for one song on tambourine; playing 10 Paddy's Day shows in different venues on one day (2011).

Dave Shameless - Guitar, Vocals
sometimes with others

ABOUT:
Dave Shameless, solo.

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
Opening for No Fun.

El Demento - Vocals, Guitar

ABOUT:
A back woods man-and-his-guitar thing, observing life through a post-punk folk lens. Occasionally helped by an extra pair of hands or looping technology.

LIVE LOWLIGHT:
"Play Anywhere" open mic tour (2011).

iGod - Electronics, Keyboards, etc.

ABOUT:
Started as a sample- and loop-driven recording project ranging from ambient textures to techno grooves, eventually came to include increasing use of minimal and primitively-minded electronics.

OTHER PROJECTS:
Cheap Flight Into Egypt, Diorama, iGod & Kenji Siratori, Sharkula

Phil Dole - Guitars, Instruments, Devices
Ken Huntington - Devices, Harmonica (2015-)

ABOUT:
Often droney nerd-noise project.

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
NorCar Noisefest XIX, Santa Ana Noisefest 7

Kyle Benjamin - Guitar
Phil Dole - Guitar
Jason Hoffman - Electronics
Sean McCarthy - Bass
Trevor Shelly-de Brauw - Guitar

ABOUT:
Power ambient group rooted in the conceptual premise of building arrangements of single chord compositions under a given set of restrictions that allows the players to focus on texture and dynamics rather than melody and harmony.

LIVE HIGHLIGHTS:
Headlining a Red Cross benefit in New York; opening for Sunn O))); opening for Savage Republic; opening for Pelican.

Charlie - Vocals, Keyboards
Rev. Razor X - Guitar, Bass
Ludwig Gretsch - Drums

ABOUT:
A desert dark garagedelic roots band with an understated mythology.

iGod - Electronics, Field Recordings
Lisa Eye - Vocals, Field Recordings

ABOUT:
Dark ambient music and a few beats with old poetry, spoken word, and field recordings.

Dave Shameless - Guitar, Vocals
El Rocker - Bass
Agro Skins - Drums

ABOUT:
Dave Shameless roots-leaning rock nonsense backed by the Riverside Rhythm Section..

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
Casino show in Lake Elsinore.

Dave Shameless - Guitar, Vocals
"Big" Pete Naked - Guitar, Vocals
El Rocker - Bass
Agro Skins - Drums

ABOUT:
DST + Peter Hess (The Incinerators) = Naked & Shameless 3.0. Still satirical, but with less theatrics and more rock. On unofficial hiatus since 2016 tour.

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
Monterey Fairgrounds. Shows with The Bosshoss.

Phil Dole - Guitar, Laptop, Vocals
Darcy Dot - Drums, Laptop, Vocals

ABOUT:
A dark and loose duo.

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
...

Dave Shameless - Guitar, Etc.
The Man w/No Name - Vocals, Dynamite
El Rocker - Bass
Hammond Rye - Organ
KD - Drums
The Man w/No Name Orchestra - Misc.

ABOUT:
Dave Shameless' conceptual "Coutry & Spaghetti Western" act.

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
Rev Horton Heat.

Deviant - Guitar, Vocals
PLUS a rotating line-up of guests

ABOUT:
Resurrection of a Deviant-focused outlet in the spirit of Deviant & the Clones.

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
...

Dave Serious - Guitar, Vocals
Long Beach Huntington - Harmonica, Vocals, Guitar, Bass

ABOUT:
Two singer-songwriters combine forces to fill out each other's material.

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
...

Phil Dole - Guitar, Devices
Ladyshackles - Devices

ABOUT:
A dark droney-ambient-minimalist-textury-noisy duo.

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
...

Creepy Old F - Vocal, Guitar, Devices

ABOUT:
An El Demento offshoot, but much, much darker and textrual.

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
...

Phil Dole - Curator, Editor
Phil Dole and/or Others - Field Recordings, Instruments

ABOUT:
An open-ended recording project based on field recordings that may or may not include ambient or minimalist music released in the form of "Ambient Guides".

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
n/a

Phil Dole - Electronics, Chip Bending
Joe Megalos - Electronics

ABOUT:
Noise. Kinda harsh, kina ambient.

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
...

Phil Dole - Guitar, Electronics
Joe Megalos - Electronics, Guitar

ABOUT:
An arty drone/ambient duo.

LIVE HIGHLIGHT:
...

TBA