We had our first Scion promoted garage type show this past weekend here in London Ontario...it was at a trendy club that we'd never set foot in.
There was a whole table of Scion merch that was free; ear buds, a Jack Oblivian/Mannequin Men split 7" and the first 2 ishes of their print zine. The zines are about 40 pages, 14 x 18 cm, and printed on fairly good quality mat paper with many colour pics inside. The content, not much that interested me, mainly arty type stuff and lots and lots of plugs for their cars, but that's to be expected. The only thing that interested me in the 2, was an interview w/Mannequin Men. Now inside the front cover are all of the Canadian contacts, so this may be a Canadian version of the zine.
There weren't any Scion reps that we noticed, just the bands sitting at the merch table selling their own stuff.
The people at the club didn't seem to be interested in any of the free merch...i helped myself, they were more interested in being seen and talking amongst themselves. The bands, The Fine Print (who i believe are on the hideout) are from London Ontario and rocked out with their usual early Kinks meets Zombies pop and roll, then there was another awful local combo, then Elk (from Hamilton, Welland and Toronto) put on a really tight Creation on speed type set and the evening closed with Young Rival (Hamilton mod/pop/garage combo) who we didn't catch as we left early.
