Strong White Male video
The video for Mecca Normal's "Strong White Male," from their 1987 7" single <em>Oh Yes You Can!</em>
Mecca Normal
K Records' <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbxDc6deVk8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Youtube channel</a>.
K Records
1993
Lilian Radovac
Mecca Normal & K Records
MP4
music video
Somewhere in the Canadian Prairies
Black Wedge tour poster: Winnipeg
A poster advertising the Winnipeg stop on the Black Wedge tour.
Mecca Normal
Lilian Radovac
1987-08-26
Lilian Radovac
Mecca Normal
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poster
The Chameleon Club, 72 Princess Street, Winnipeg
Black Wedge tour poster: Saskatoon
A poster advertising the Saskatoon stop on the Black Wedge Tour.
Mecca Normal
Colin Hinz
1987-08-23
Colin Hinz
Mecca Normal
JPEG
poster
Club 23 Below, 12B 23rd Street East, Saskatoon
Mecca Normal, Mourning Sickness and Bryan James poster
<p>Mecca Normal, Mourning Sickness and Bryan James show at the Rivoli. This was a partial reunion of the Black Wedge tour lineup from the previous year.</p>
<p>The Black Wedge tour was an anti-authoritarian response to Britain's earlier Red Wedge, and began on the West Coast in 1986 before continuing across Canada in 1987. The performers included Vancouver's Mecca Normal, San Francisco's Peter Plate, Montreal's Rhythm Activism and Toronto artists Bryan James and Mourning Sickness.</p>
<p>To learn more, read this excerpt from Smith's essay "<a href="https://blackdotmuseum.wordpress.com/the-black-wedge-1986/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Black Wedge Tours: Take Something You Care About and Make it Your Life</a>," in <em>Sounding Off — Music as Resistance / Rebellion / Revolution</em>, eds. Ron Sakolsky and Fred Ho, (New York: Autonomedia, 1996).</p>
Mecca Normal
Lilian Radovac
1988-04-27
Lilian Radovac
Jean Smith and David Lester
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Poster
Rivoli, 332 Queen Street West