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Toronto's Not Dead Yet festival 2012 line-up announced

by Fred Pessaro / BBG

The Boston Strangler at LPR, 2012 (more by Keith Marlowe)
Boston Strangler

Not Dead Yet is a Toronto-based festival that features some of the best current punk/hardcore bands in existence right now. The six-day festival will feature photography, matinees, night and day shows across various venues in the Canadian city and will features the likes of Grass Widow, Leather (who recently played Acheron), The Inmates (who last played NYC with Systematic Death), Hoax, Crazy Spirit, Pick Your Side, The Men (who recently played Pitchfork), Give, Burning Love (who recently played Acheron), Creem, Omegas, Waste Management, Vile Gash, Magrudergrind, Iron Lung, Walls (who recently played Acheron), Vaccine, Raw Meat, Rival Mob, Boston Strangler (who played LPR with Tragedy), Urban Blight, Death Evocation (who recently played Acheron), Hounds of Hate and so many more. Full festival details are below. Tickets for Not Dead Yet go on sale Saturday, September 1.

As I just mentioned them, Hoax are scheduled to play the first night of Power of The Riff East, joining Pentagram (playing Relentless in full!), Agnostic Front (playing Victim in Pain/United Blood in full!), Xibalba and many esteemed others. Tickets are still available for 9/1 and 9/2 separately (with a free screened poster) or for a two-day passes with a Southern Lord vinyl pack.

Full NDY fest details are below.

NOT DEAD YET 2012

Tuesday, November 6, 2012
NDY Pre-Show
Grass Widow
Planet Creature
+TBA
at Parts & Labour
1566 Queen Street West

Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Get Shot: The Photography of Martin Sorrondeguy
Opening Night Exhbition
at Hits & Misses
Free Admission & Refreshments
8PM

Thursday, November 8, 2012
NDY HC Kick off
S.H.I.T.
Pregnancy Scares
Leather
Skrapyard
+ TBA
at The Boat
$10
19+


Friday, November 9th, 2012

The Inmates
Hoax
Crazy Spirit
The Prowl
Pick Your Side
Kremlin
Total Trash
at Hard Luck
772A Dundas Street West
$15

Friday, November 9th, 2012
The Men
Give
The Solids
at The Hoxton
69 Bathurst St
$16.50
19+

Friday, November 9, 2012
AFTER PARTY #1
Burning Love
Hassler
+ Special Guests
$5
at Soybomb
156 Bathurst St

Saturday, November 10, 2012
MATINEE #1
Free Spirit
Creem
Beware
Violent Future
Violent End
Location TBD

Saturday, November 10, 2012
NIGHT SHOW #1
Omegas
Waste Management
Vile Gash
Negative Degree
Divine Right
Direct Approach
+TBA
$18
at Sneaky Dees
431 College Street
DONE BY 10PM

Saturday, November 10, 2012
NIGHT SHOW #2
Magrudergrind
Iron Lung
Walls
Vaccine
Column of Heaven
Vile Intent
Purity Control
+TBA
$18
at Hard Luck
772A Dundas Street W

Saturday, November 10, 2012
AFTER PARTY #2
Neon Piss
Raw Meat
Nuclear Spring
+TBA
$5
at Soybomb
156 Bathurst Street

Sunday, November 11, 2012
MATINEE #2
Mindset
Word on the Street
MFP
& Guests
Location TBD

Sunday, November 11, 2012
NIGHT SHOW
Rival Mob
Boston Strangler
Urban Blight
Death Evocation
Peacebreakers
Hounds of Hate
Demolition
$18
at Hard Luck
772A Dundas Street W