{"id":12015,"date":"2010-06-22T16:46:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T20:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=12015"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:15:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:15:56","slug":"toronto-changes-kensington-market-of-the-1980s-is-a-little-like-the-kensington-market-of-today-a-false-true-statement-lets-ask-the-bunchofuckingoofs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/06\/22\/toronto-changes-kensington-market-of-the-1980s-is-a-little-like-the-kensington-market-of-today-a-false-true-statement-lets-ask-the-bunchofuckingoofs\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Changes &#8212; Kensington Market of the 1980s is a little like the Kensington Market of today (a false-true statement) &#8212; let&#8217;s ask the Bunchofuckingoofs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"481\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mHonho45OBM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"481\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mHonho45OBM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday my <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/06\/15\/ocad-cities-for-people-vs-spacing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cities for People<\/a> walk ended in Kensington Market after a tour of Clubland and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QVyXVDI-BvI&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">Queen Street Graffiti Alley<\/a>. I started to talk about how the Market has changed over the years, but not really. Certainly there are more patios now than there ever have been, and there are more boutiques among the thrift and vintage and other-stuff stores, but the rough edges have never disappeared as they have on Queen West or some other areas. It&#8217;s still an incubator of culture, art, punk rock, indie rock and whatever else. I mentioned the notorious and venerable Kensington punk band <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bunchofuckingoofs\" target=\"_blank\">Bunchoffuckingoofs<\/a> and how part of their legend involves (kind of) keeping the peace in the Market from their equally legendary headquarters\/boozecan &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealmirror.com\/ARCHIVES\/2000\/070600\/cover.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Goof<\/a>&#8221; when both Skinheads and crack cocaine were rolling through the neighbourhood. How much is true or myth is certainly debatable (would love for readers who were around to recount their first-hand memories here) but it&#8217;s an instance where culture and city building went hand in hand, and artists became a kind of community leader.<\/p>\n<p>I found this partial documentary that seems to date to about 1984. While showing 1980s punk rock lifestyle in all its unglamorousness, there are fantastic shots of the Market and Spadina from that era, as well as a magnificent pan of the downtown core from the CN Tower. Take a look at all those parking lots. Most of them are filled in now (the next time somebody complains to you about &#8220;Condos,&#8221; remind them of what was there before). What this video does reflect is a kind-of-roughness &#8212; a bleak, almost-British-1970s-punk-rough &#8212; that the market certainly does not have anymore writ large; though as one of the Goofs says in the video, much of Kensington still closes early, allowing bands to play and more noise to happen than would be allowed in other parts of the city, and the dumpster diving they mention still occurs (see Jessica Duffin Wolfe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/magazine\/section\/space-invaders\/green-bin-delight\/\" target=\"_blank\">archived <em>Spacing<\/em> article<\/a> on the practice from our Fall 2007 issue). For more recollections of the era, listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/murmurtoronto.ca\/place.php?213612\" target=\"_blank\">this short recollection<\/a> of Courage My Love&#8217;s history I recorded Stewart Scriver giving for our Kensington Market [murmur] project as well as (former <em>Spacing<\/em> intern) Liz Worth&#8217;s recent book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/bandweblogs.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/23\/liz-worth-treat-me-like-dirt-an-oral-history-of-punk-rock-in-toronto-beyond-1977-1981\/\" target=\"_blank\">Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk Rock in Toronto and Beyond 1977-1981<\/a>. <\/em>Below check out the Goofs, still in action, two years ago at a Pedestrian Sunday on Augusta Avenue.<em><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"481\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/foKj9iAbTiw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"481\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/foKj9iAbTiw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my Cities for People walk ended in Kensington Market after a tour of Clubland and the Queen Street Graffiti Alley. 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