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The Silver Screen Surfer
@daibhidjames.bsky.social
AKA Daibhid James.
Radio DJ at CIUT 89.5fm,Tues@5pm;
Rockabilly/Surf/Garage/Punk/Blues/Psyche/Doo-Wop/Honky-Tonk/Ska
http://moondogsplaylists.blogspot.com
Classic Film Blogger & Filmmaker, CMBA Member
thesilverscreensurfer.blogspot.com
Happy Caturday & released this week in 1979 - London Meowing; 🐱🎸
December 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
...Johnny & the G-Rays and Nash The Slash, FM (without Nash) at the Nickelodeon, Chris Spedding at the Edge, Toronto at Ryerson, The Cry at Headspace, Teenage Head, & Wayouts and Fictions at Larry's,Toronto at Ryerson, Prism at Music Hall, Rhinegold w/Gowan at Knobby. Toronto was a rockin town.
December 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Happening in Toronto the week of John Lennon's death (& the Germs' Darby Crash BTW); U2 at the Elmo, the Romantics & Poles at the Danforth Music Hall, also at the Elmo; Jim Carroll & The Inmates and the Vapors, Roseanne Cash & Carlene Carter, At the Edge L'Etranger & Young Lions,Spoons & Scenics....
December 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Throwback Thursdays Charts - Dec 1998 CKLN; The Sick Boys, Demics, Queers, Marylin's Vitamins, Hev's Duties, Skanksters, Legion Of Green Men, Lauryn Hill, Jay Z, Method Man, Ghetto Concept, Busta Rhymes, Outcast, Faith Evans; 📻
December 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
CIUT onair at 5 - Rockin' Xmas Tunes w/Creepshow, The Damned, Humpers, Dundrells, Black Halos, Sick Boys, Waitresses, Duotang, Smugglers, Surfragettes, Sonics, Ventures, Blues Magoos, Johnny Preston and Xmas stuff;
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Blue Mondays Happy Birthdays To Sonny Boy Williamson (1912) & Big Mama Thornton (1927);
December 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Happy Caturday & released this week in 1983 - Cat Flag; 🐱
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Throwback Thursdays Charts - CKLN Dec 1984; Siouxsie, David J of Bauhaus, REM, The Fall, Residents, This Mortal Coil, SPK, Flipper, Black Flag, Billy Bragg, Sade, Pat Metheny, Foetus, Ledernaken, Parts Found In Sea; 📻
December 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
CIUT onair at 5 w/Siouxsie, AC/DC, The Dirtbombs, Todd Snider, Bloodshot Bill, The Kewpie Dolls, Wasagas, Bad Fortunes & stuff;
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December 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Blue Mondays Happy Birthdays to Eck Robertson (1887) & Shellie W Smith (1895). Robertson was the first C&W artist to record in 1922;🎻
December 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
...as an exotic Vamp she was actually an American former circus tightrope walker named Vernal Andrews who also found time to marry five times (twice to the same guy). She fled back to America after the Nazis took power and continued her eccentric career on stage, dying in 1974....
December 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Silent Sundays Happy 132st birthday to Fern Andra, vampy star of "Genuine" (1920) Robert Wiene's follow-up to "The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari" which is a weird as you might hope. Although she made her career in Germany...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Happy Caturday & released this week in 1969; The Stooges.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Throwback Thursdays - Oct 1968; The "British Debut of the Yardbirds" was actually the New Yardbirds soon to be renamed Led Zeppelin. Playing the night before was Kippington Lodge w/Nick Lowe while the next week had Love Sculpture with Dave Edmunds. Lowe and Edmunds would later form Rockpile.
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Throwback Thursdays Charts - Some Calgary DJ Nov 1980; XTC, Ultravox, Japan, B52's, Blondie, Teenage Head, Squeeze, The Clash, Vapors, Demics, Specials, Payolas, Devo, Romantics, Subhumans, Tourists, Monks, Modernettes, Cheap Trick, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Frank Zappa, Rachel Sweet and..Meco?
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
CIUT onair at 5 w/Jimmy Cliff, Squeeze, Flipper, Naked Raygun, 54-40, Flashbangs and the United States Of America, the band not the entire country, it's only an hour show; 📻
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
...the no doubt bemused judge granted her divorce. This time she remained single and went back to her real estate empire and campaigning to end all income & property taxes. She died in 1979 aged 84.
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 AM
...smart she was also kinda nuts. Widely disliked for being difficult she married 4 times and during one of her divorce trials of her much younger husband she claimed that she was not actually Corrine but her twin sister and the real Corrine had died years before so she wasn't married anyway...
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 AM
A Silent Sundays Happy 131st Birthday to Corrine Griffith, one of the most beautiful and also biggest divas of the silent era. Besides being a major star she was also a successful real estate tycoon but while she...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Superman reminds you CIUT's Fall Funding Drive continues today! 📻
November 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Radio Kitty wishes you a Caturday Goodnight and reminds you the CIUT's Fall Funding Drive continues tomorrow! 📻
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Throwback Thursdays Charts - Nov 1983; Bowie, Big Country, Stray Cats (twice), Talking Heads, The Fixx, The Police, Kinks, Motels, Rolling Stones, Robert Plant, John Cougar, Pat Benatar, Elvis Costello, Tears For Fears, Yes, Quiet Riot, Cancon from The Spoons & Parachute Club 📻
November 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM