Justin Yap and Byron Lee
CONCERT PICTURES
Rough & Tough Concert Pictures
Sound One

Three different bands, three different genres...
The Decay

An enjoyable night of local punk music...
Keepin' 6

A diversity of ska bands play the Reverb...
The Aggrolites

The Aggrolites come to Southern Ontario for the 4th time...
Sound One

Sound One's first show...
Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Smugg

Birthday Foo...
Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Smugg

The one night special of the Frankie Foo side project...
The Expos

Newmarket's finest reggae band...
Corporation

A ska/punk show at a hole in the wall venue in Brantford...
Bad Manners

Tons of beer, sweat, and ska...
Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Smugg

I'm in the mood for love...
Cheap Suits

A fun night of ska and soul...
Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Smugg

It was my birthday, so cake, booze, and ska was in order...
Keepin' 6

The mats were down!!!
Skaface

A great night of Toronto 2-Tone...
Action League Now!

Toronto celebrates a debut CD from one of its own...
Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Smugg

Ska, ska, ska...
Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Smugg

An enjoyable night of ska at the Concord Cafe...
Mustard Plug

Ska veterans, Mustard Plug, come play Toronto in support of their new album...
Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Smugg

Frakie Foo gets into the Halloween spirit...
The Bellhopz

The mats were down at the karate venue...
Chris Murray

Chris Murray gets backed by One Night Band...
Skaface

Two of Toronto's ska veterans play at Sneaky Dee's...
Bomb the Music Industry!

BTMI! finally comes to Canada...
The Flatliners

The Toronto stop for The Flatliners CD release...
Vic Ruggiero

A fun night of acoustic ska...
Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Smugg

Another fun night at Grossman's...
Ernest Ranglin

The best ska/jazz guitarist their is...
The Expos

A great show line-up brings fans from the UK and Pittsburgh...
Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Smugg

As always, a big crowd turns out to see Frankie Foo do its thing...
The Afterbeat

The Afterbeat finish off their tour in Guelph...
Keepin' 6

The Afterbeat's first stop on their yearly Ontario tour...
Phat Bartard

Another ska show at the good old Buddha Bar...
The Flatliners

The Flatliners bring their excellent showmanship to Brantford...
The Clementones

Toronto's newest, and biggest band...
Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Smugg

Toronto shows they have a respect for ska's roots...
The Johnstones

Your yearly Keepin' 6/The Johnstones tour...
The Toasters

The Toasters come up North for their 25th Anniversary tour...
The Slackers

The Slackers play their ritual small venue show in good old Guelph, Ontario...
The Alley Dukes

My first "real" rockabilly concert...
Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Sm...

Some of Toronto's finest ska scene members come out to Frankie's monthly gig...
Toots and The Maytals

Toots comes back for his stellar annual show...
The Creepshow

I've been going to see The Creepshow far too often lately...
The Creepshow

Two genres unite under one roof for a night of good music...
The Creepshow

With all of the "former" ska fans you see at psychobilly and rockabilly shows, you'd think it is the next wave of ska or something...
Staylefish

Toronto's up and coming play Reilly's...
Angry Agency

Another stellar show goes almost unnoticed at the Shadow...
Chris Murray

Two ex-King Apparatus members on one bill makes for a good night...
The Stomp All-Stars

After a 3 year break, The Stomp All-Stars return...
Stop, Drop, n' Skank

Toronto's up and coming ska bands play a show together...
The Johnstones

The Shadow is Guelph hosts its 4th annual Ska Thaw...
Keepin' 6

The Dungeon re-opens. The urinal could still use some work though...
Keepin' 6

So ska returns to the martial arts dojo in Oakville...
The Planet Smashers

KW locals go insane for their punk and ska...
The Toasters

The Toasters walk right over Toronto...
Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Sm...

With the departure of their guitarist, Frankie kicks it old school...
True Trout

The Newmarket kids sure like their shows...
Prince Buster

Best concert I have ever been to...
Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Sm...

Toronto's finest gets dressed up for Halloween.
The Flatliners

Chicago Punk meets Toronto Ska...
Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Sm...

Another fun night at Grossman's...
The Johnstones

The Johnstones pack The Opera House
Stop, Drop, n' Skank

A young Toronto ska band fills The Edge Studios...
Prince Blanco and The Rocks...

One of Toronto's finest front-men debuts his new project...
Action League Now!

Unfortunately I didn't stay for the headlining bands...
The Planet Smashers

Practically an all Stomp Records line-up plays Hamilton...
The Makeshift Heroes

Buda Funk Munk, and The Makeshift Heroes play their final show to a packed Toronto crowd...
The Expos

Too bad there was no new cd's...
General Rudie

One of Quebec's best ska bands decides to call it quits...
Lord Tanamo

I'm in the mood for ska...
Leroy Sibbles

Everybody feel irie...
Voodoo Glow Skulls

Voodoo Glow Skulls invade Toronto for the first time in a few years...
Keepin' 6

Mississauga's most popular ska band plays another show at The Edge...
The Agency

The Agency play Toronto's smallest stage...
The Heatskores

One of Toronto's heaviest ska bands play the most intimate venue in Toronto...
The Expos

Toronto hosts another ska/reggae band from Montreal...
Reel Big Fish

A stacked ska line-up takes on London...
The Aggrolites

Are you ready to Pop the Trunk?
The Planet Smashers

Watching a show in the Horseshoe on a summer day when the AC isn't working, makes for a sweaty time...
Ceremonial Snips

Brantford does their own rendition of a skafest...
General Rudie

Toronto's finest hosts Montreal's General Rudie...
The Afterbeat

Some of Canada's finest ska bands play to a dismal crowd...
The Makeshift Heroes

The second Toronto date from The Afterbeat tour...
The Heatskores

2-Tone Canadian ska...
Action League Now!

Toronto's hottest new ska band plays their first show...
Lynn Taitt

The Godfather of Rocksteady...
King Kong Girio

A show I have been waiting 3 years to happen...
Lo and the Magnetics

Another fine Toronto show...
Mustard Plug

This year's Frostbite offering brings us some of the best for punk/ska...
Frankie Foo

Three of Toronto's finest...
The Arsenals

One of Toronto's best plays some kick ass ska at a ritzy Toronto club...
The Next Best Thing

Ontario's ska/reggage open for "the" Sublime tribute band...
The Suicide Machines

The Suicide Machines play what turns out to be their last show in Toronto...
The Slackers

As always, The Slackers put on another stellar show...
Cheap Suits

Another free ska show at the Edge...
Bomb the Rock and Roll Machine

Jeff from Bomb the Music Industry and the Rick Johnson Rock and Roll Machine tear up Cleveland...
Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Sm...

Another long night of Frankie Foo...
Chris Murray

It twelve hours of ska doesn't fill your ska fix, nothing else will...
Green Division

The first day of madness at the 2nd Annual Oshawa Skafest...
Phat Bastard

A night filled with 19+ ska and punk...
Bastid Sonz

London bands play Toronto...
The Flatliners

Another packed Edge show...
The Makeshift Heroes

A great show at Sneaky Dee's
The Toasters

An excellent bill with The Toasters, and the premiere show in Canada for Go Jimmy Go...
Angry Agency

Angry Agency practices what they preach and play a benefit show in Toronto...
Ottawa Skafest

The first annual Ottawa Skafest brings out over 425 kids...
The Flatliners

A packed venue hosts 3 bands from North of Toronto...
Skaface

Skaface's third show since their return...
The Flatliners

A great ska line-up in town of Newmarket...
Keepin' 6

Double CD Release, it can't get anymore intense...
The Johnstones

The first of many cd releases across Ontario...
Inner City Fanatics

A great local band that hasn't played for awhile...
Big D and the Kids Table

Some of Boston's finest bands come to Toronto...
Catch 22

A stellar local line-up with a good headliner makes for a great show...
The Johnstones

A great show to a very..."interesting" crowd...
Lo and the Magnetics

Their first show back in Toronto in almost a year...
The Flatliners

This was the first time I had ever seen The Johnstones play...
The Next Best Thing

Another showcase at the Edge
Frankie Foo

Another dose of Frankie Foo.
The Johnstones

Radio station craziness...
The Johnstones

Guelph hosts some of GTA's finest ska bands...
Ska is Dead

...and if you crowd-surf at a ska show, you're next.
The Heatskores

Ska, psychobilly, and punk music, and fire blowing...
The Knockouts

Toronto gets exposed to a couple new bands...
True Trout

For a small city, it sure likes its punk and ska...
The Johnstones

Possibly the last ska show in Ajax...
Cheap Suits

The Cheap Suits didn't break the Edge this time...
Wakestock 05

Wakeboarding mixed with music the outdoors and a bikini contest...
The Next Best Thing

Some of Ontario's finest ska bands play Guelph...
The Liquidaires

A beautiful day in the sun, listening to ska music...
Skaface

A way better show than the Warped Tour...
General Rudie

A triple dose of Canadian trad ska...
General Rudie

A second dose of General Rudie...
General Rudie

Guelph's Finest meets Montreal's Finest...
Ill Scarlett

Up and coming band puts on a free show...
Keepin' 6

A successful Toronto ska show, without any bands from Toronto...
The Hebrew School Dropouts

A fun day in the sun filled with ska music...
NXNE: Cheap Suits

Toronto plays hosts to Peg City's finest ska...
Streetlight Manifesto

A packed venue, and techinical difficulties, made for a subpar show...
Inner City Fanatics

The last place you'd expect to see a ska band...
The Makeshift Heroes

A sparesly attended Sunday afternoon ska show...
The Flatliners

Another great local ska show...
Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Sm...

...and his ska.
The Planet Smashers

A great concert to finish off the long weekend...
The Slackers

Two sets, three encores, need I say more?
The Slackers

...and all their goodness.
The Philoskaphers

Small town ska...
The Makeshift Heroes

The Makeshift Heroes play a chairty show...
Cheap Suits

70's rock meets 21st centurty pop-ska-rock...
Kiros

A rare ska/punk show within the KW region...
Frankie Foo

Another great night of two-tone ska...
Blue Jackets

A products of Humber's fine music program...
The Heatskores

Yet another very successful Toronto ska show...
Chris Collins

Something magical always happens whenever Chris Collins hits the stage. Everyone in the audience goes from chit-chatting to completely silent...
The Jolly Rogers

Hamilton's only ska band...
Pink Belly

A nice way to wrap up another school term...
The Donuts

The Newmarket Ringers needs some money to play a tournament in Quebec...
Sugarkill

Reggage fused with punk...
The Johnstones

It has been over 7 years, but Sarnia finally welcomes back ska...
The Johnstones

There were no ninjas, and shoes had to be removed, but Oakville is very rude...
Toots and the Maytals

Reggae definitely has soul...
Bedouin Soundclash

Ska returns to Waterloo...
The Planet Smashers

Smashing this makeshift scene one song at a time...
Hebrew School Dropouts

Can't get much better than this...
Pepper

Canadian Music week showcases some ska...
Chris Murray

A Canadian ska legend...
The Liquidaires

Ska for all generations...
The Toasters

The Two-Tone army was brought in on a this Westbound Train...
Bigger Thomas

12 Hours of ska music, over 350 pictures taken. Need I say more...
Skaface

A three year break, and still not missing a beat...
The Next Best Thing

Although this show was very sparsely attended, I did have a good time...
Big D and the Kids Table

The last band up was Big D and The Kids Table. What could I possibly say about this band? They are awesome and they totally won me over...
The Liquidaires

An intimate setting, for a pleasurable evening...
The Makeshift Herores

...but in the good way.
The Heatskores

Toronto ska and Ottawa punk...
Hebrew School Dropouts

My first show back in Toronto, in a long time. Almost too long really. But this show was THE show to make up...
The Next Best Thing

Six talented Ontario ska bands...can it get any better?
The Pylons

Ska and underwear, a combination that should be made more often...
Catch 22

It was Ska vs Emo, and Ska won...
Pretty Big Plunger

They are a religious ska band from Guelph, and I've heard good things about them. They have a very similar sound to Five Iron Frenzy and OC Supertones...
Frankie Foo and the YoYo Sm...

I got to the small blues' bar at 12:45. Frankie Foo and the YoYo Smugglers were still going strong...
Ill Scarlett

Ill Scarlett was really on tonight...
Flashlight Brown

Another ska show finally comes to Waterloo...
The Flatliners

A crazy night for a great local band...
The Next Best Thing

Ska to reggae to dub to rock to punk, all in one show...
The Skatalites

First wave ska and many steps beyond...
The Planet Smashers

If you missed this show, you will regret it...
Unsensored

A good show to finish out the month..
The Barrymores

Another installment of Peg City Skanking...
Ska Saves the breasts

Rockers for Knockers, Part II
Makeshift Heroes

Paying for the tits...
The Pylons

Toronto's The Pylons show off their new sound...
Cheap Suits

The Cheap Suits play a softer set...
Cheap Suits play a free show.

The Cheap Suits play a free show at the Horseshoe Tavern...
Toots and the Maytals

The founder of reggae plays for free in Toronto...
General Rudie plays Toronto.

A rocking show, by 4 great bands...
Streetlight Manifesto

Streetlight Manifesto is one of the best bands I have ever seen live...their live set blew me away...
TBNT rocks Moe's Tavern

A small show in a small town, but with big names playing.
Toronto Ska Meet Peg City Ska

The Cheap Suits and The Afterbeat tour Ontario and Quebec...
The Kingpins

The Kingpins play, possibly, their final show...
Cheap Suits

The radio station was absolutely packed with people of all ages...
Chris Murray

The king of acoustic ska...

 


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