TEN DAYS LATE

TEN DAYS LATE - Dave Jacklin photo

Never too Late for ten days late...

If you could go back in time in Vancouver, 1993 was a mighty fine year. It was before FaceBook, Twitter, cell phones, digital cameras and so on. Word of mouth, posters, radio shows, and newspapers helped spread the word of gigs. When you saw a women’s washroom symbol on a poster on a poll, you knew the gig to get wrecked at that weekend was the all-girl punk band, ten days late.

The speedster queensters ruled the land and lived in a famous punk rock house before calling it a day a decade later. But on Feb 7th, the girls bring it all home for a reunion at LanaLou’s. I got to talk to ten days late’s drummer Lana Ryma, (co owner of Lanalou’s and currently drums in the Furniture) about the reunion show and what they achieved as a band.

“Some great accomplishments would be playing CBGB's or opening for Pennywise, Rancid, SNFU, Social Distortion. Down by Law, and blink-182.- just to name a few. We recorded two 7-inches. The first was the "Get Away" 7-inch and the second was "Out Of Tune". We released a full length CD, mixed by Garth Richardson, called Sticky Fly Trap. We also released a few tracks on different compilations. I personally think our greatest accomplishment was being together for ten years constantly touring in a van. Looking back for me personally, it was a real lesson about being a team player and overcoming personal differences. I think we all felt that the band was bigger than any differences. And we did whatever we could to tour and just be on stage spreading our music. When we weren't in the van we all lived in a big punk rock house as well to save money so we could tour. Kara, our rhythm guitarist, can't play the reunion show so Seana Gnaw is filling in. “

The ten days late reunion is on Feb 7th at LanaLou's (362 Powell St, Vancouver) with Scum Element and guests, Both 7-inches will be for sale at the show.