Comments on: Then & Now: Domino Klub

By: Julie Kingston

Julie Kingston — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 01:07:32 +0000

Indeed when I discovered the Domino Klub with my friends we all thought we had crossed the rainbow into another dimension. We went weekly to Domino and in fact, named my oldest son after the DJ, Avery. We still talk about our club adventures to this day. I too am a dj, playing progressive house. Ahhh, who knew ❤️

By: David Piscopo

David Piscopo — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 21:55:27 +0000

I had just moved to Toronto from Ottawa. My first accommodation was on Montrose Street in the basement. There was a band living on the mainfloor which was trying to play Gang Of 4 stuff which I had never heard of. Little did I know how it would shape me. I soon discovered the Isabella Domino club and loved it from the music to the crowd. Ended going there quite a bit and it changed my music tastes forever. Still listen to Post Punk and have only great memories of the club. Thank you Domino Club.

By: Tony McGann

Tony McGann — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 03:27:38 +0000

Seeing this about 10 years later. Yes Pail was from uk too, and recall he did have a music note dyed on his head. We all rented a bus and piled up to Montreal to watch the Toronto Blizzard. No Domino scene in Montreal that we could avail . Lol. Big Dave used to rent at that place on Dundas West. Spent a few late mornings after the clubs closed out there.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 13:28:16 +0000

Wow such great memories there. Also Nuts and Bolts was a regular for me and the wife.

By: Tim Scammell

Tim Scammell — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:39:45 +0000

Wow! The top single on that wall chart was New Musik – Straight Lines! One of my favourite and hugely underrated bands of all time. Their name doesn’t pop up enough. That would have been 1979-1980.

By: Jerry Prager

Jerry Prager — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 01:02:36 +0000

I only knew the Yonge Street Club days, Black Day for a White Wedding era, completly out of my element, an abused child with no way of articulating any of that turning tweny-five and learned dance it all through and through, almost always alone in my parachute pants, made one friend, one of Richard Pochinko’s clowns who came there to dance her own inner life, and I guess that got me to The Edge and dancing to Dick Duck and Dorks just before Nina Hagen, and I was allowed to just be, and that probably save my life, so thank you.

By: Julie Kingston

Julie Kingston — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 19:17:01 +0000

What a great post. I recall all of my years spent at Domino with amazing feelings of love and togetherness. It was a family, the bouncers at the door, the music, the dancers, the regulars.. I too laugh and feel like “wow, I was there when..” the 80′s music, dress, Much Music played the video’s of New Order, Souxsie and the Banshees, Simple Minds, Grace Jones..ahh so many good times. I have since moved from Canada, but remember passing the House of Lords, Sam the Record Man, etc on our way too and from the club. Happy New Years..thanks for the blast from the past.

By: Chris Dragon

Chris Dragon — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:23:17 +0000

One of my best friends to this day (40 years later), I would meet in the back room at the original club in 1981. For that alone the place is forever embedded into my personal history. But when I saw this article I couldn’t help thinking. Who was that person that stood at the bar drinking a cold black label? Or Dancing to Idol. Mostly high. Or just Hanging out on pre drinks in the Snug. It’s like looking at a stranger. I’m not that person anymore. But this thing called life weaves through like waves. Like still frames in a Fassbinder film. Without the Domino soundtrack to my youth pounding out every weekend from one of the most unlikely looking of characters that called himself Dave Allen, I may have not still held onto rock n roll music 40 years later . Music and art is still a big part of my life. And I would like to think that Gunther, Allen, Shepard were all part of that. Every now and then I will tune into Sirius Satellite’s channel called “1st wave”. A smile will come over me when I hear Bauhaus’s version of Ziggy Stardust. It reminds me that I was part of something very special in Toronto. (Right up there with the Yorkville scene on the 60’s). A lot of people and places have now gone. Hell…even the House of Lords across the street is gone. But when I hear one of those classic songs, there will always be in the “mind’s eye” a familiar place, a familiar feeling, of a great scene…but yet still a stranger in a strange film called…1 Isabella

By: Alan Szigeti

Alan Szigeti — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 02:31:34 +0000

Wonderful to read so many memories that I share with many of these entries. I too was a regular and was at many special events at the klub. I still talk about the Diodes playing New Year’s Eve at the Isabella location. I embrace those days and still stand on my soap box of how great these bands are and look forward to seeing some of these artists when they tour in the near future. Thanks for sharing.

By: Dodgy

Dodgy — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 21:30:43 +0000

The skinhead looking guy at the bottom left of the “scene at Klub domino” photo set was such a giant middle class asshole. He would go to shows and randomly attack people to “prove” himself. You could tell he was a North Toronto, visit nan every summer, buy bong
Cage pants on carnaby street poser pos and basically the antithesis of everything punk was supposed to stand for. I’m guessing he’s either dead (good riddance) or a cop. Right fuckin loser that one.