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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
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December 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Blue Mondays Merry Christmas with some 1920's Xmas blues ads 🎅🤶☃️🌲 (1/2)
December 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
On Silent Sunday Miss Clara Bow wishes you a Happy Holidays!
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December 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
RIP to Ronnie Hayward. This is at CIUT back in 2010 when he was living in Toronto. He didn't drive so he used to get to gigs taking his doghouse bass on the bus and he even travelled that way all the way from BC as well as hitchhiking like a true Beatnik. 🎻
December 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Flashback Fridays Xmas ~ The Victorians had a thing for creepy andromorphic bus so Merry Xmas!
December 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Throwback Thursdays; Victorian Xmas cards with scary Snowmen;
December 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Throwback Thursdays Charts - CKLN 1985; Siouxsie, The Fall, Cult, Cramps, Love & Rockets, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Replacements, Husker Du, Art Of Noise, Severed Heads, Einsterzende Neubauten, Robyn Hitchcock, David Byrne, Phillip Glass, Tom Waites, Kurt Weil tribute w/ Lou Reed & Marianne Faithfull
December 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This looks like the start of once of those BBC Agatha Christie movies where they start bumping each other off to grab an inheritance until Susie Wiles is the last one left then she goes nuts and bumps herself off.
December 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
CIUT onair at 5 - Rockin' Xmas Tunes w/Andre Williams, Jack Scott, The Moonglows, Razorbacks, Wasagas, Gruesomes, Fleshtones, Ramones, Tuuli, Ginger St James, Sick Boys & more Cool Yule; 📻🎅🤶🌲
December 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Blue Mondays Happy Birthdays to King Oliver (1881) & Fletcher Henderson (1897);🎺🎹
December 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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