Authored by Derek Emerson and Shawn Chirrey with contributing writer Simon Harvey, it is packed 320 pages with first-hand accounts, historical perspective, and a wealth of original photography and artwork of the era, capturing the immediacy and grit of a scene well ahead of its time in terms of advancing social ideas (gender, animal rights) and pioneering cultural trends (music, fashion) that would only later enter the mainstream. https://youtu.be/RZY2T9DPQj8Hardcore was the product of kids working to realise the promise of first-wave punk, transforming earlier rhetoric into some of the most powerful, political, and fiercely independent music ever to emerge from Canada. There was a cost to this uncompromising ethos, however. With its radically uncommercial music and consequent focus on affordable cassettes and 7” records, self-released in tiny runs and distributed through small shops, much of this scene, and the ideas that it often promoted, remains unknown to all but the most committed record collectors and cultural historians. Overwhelmingly ignored by radio, television and print media, shunned even by the alternative press of its day, hardcore was documented by its own participants, via xeroxed fanzines and flyers pasted on downtown walls, underground bulletins that survive now only in private collections shared generously with the authors. Conscious of such material’s cultural value and ever-increasing obscurity, a group of people who had been active during this era set out, several years ago, to capture the disappearing memories and artifacts of the original Toronto Hardcore (TOHC) scene. For more information about the book visit:https://www.facebook.com/TOHardcore80s

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