He Hijacked My Brain - Gary Topp’s Toronto, UXB Press, 2025

This comprehensive deluxe book is a rich visual and narrative document of promoter Gary Topp, who, along with Gary Cormier, were The Garys. These promoters and bookers brought the earliest national and international punk shows to Toronto, along with other musicians and writers who made Toronto a cultural mecca. Pages shown here include Chris Hate and Steven Leckie of the Viletones in 1977, Frankie Venom and friend of Teenage Head in 1978, Rabies, Teenage Head’s Steve Mahon, and Rojer in front of the Horseshoe in 1978.

Any Night of the Week: A D.I.Y. History of Toronto Music 1957-2001 - Jonny Dovercourt, Coach House Books, 2020

“The story of how Toronto became a music mecca. From Yonge St to Yorkville to Queen West to College, (Jonny documents) the neighbourhoods that housed Toronto’s music scenes. Featuring Syrinx, Rough Trade, Martha and the Muffins, Fifth Column, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Rheostatics, Ghetto Concept, LAL, Broken Social Scene, and more!”

Jonny’s book features some of my photos of Toronto bands The Dishes, Viletones, Diodes, and The Curse.

1978 - Daniel Jones, Three O’Clock Press, 2011

The cover features my photo of sisters Rabies and Rojer, in front of the Horseshoe Tavern in 1978. One of the earliest books to write about the Toronto punk scene, this is a new edition of the late-author’s notorious novel.

Is Toronto Burning? Three Years In The Making (and Unmaking) of the Toronto Art Scene - Philip Monk, Black Dog Publishing, 

Philip Monk’s detailed overview of the explosion of arts counterculture in Toronto. Includes my photos of the Diodes and the Crash’n’Burn club they ran in the summer of 1977, and an early performance shot and flyer of The Curse, from 1977/1978.

“Is Toronto Burning? is the story of the rise of the downtown Toronto art scene in the late 1970s.

If the mid-1970s was a formless period, and if there was no dominant art movement, out of what disintegrated elements did new formations arise? Liberated from the influence of New York, embedding themselves in the decaying and unregulated edges of downtowns, artists created new scenes for themselves. Such was the case in Toronto, one of the last—and lost—avant-gardes of the 1970s.

In the midst of the economic and social crises of the 1970s, Toronto was pretty vacant—but out of these conditions its artists crafted something unique, sometimes taking the fiction of a scene for the subject of their art. It was not all posturing. Performative frivolity and political earnestness were at odds with each other, but in the end their mutual conviviality and contestation fashioned an original art scene.

This was a moment when an underground art scene could emerge as its own subcultural form, with its own rites of belonging and forms of transgression. It was a moment of cross-cultural contamination as the alternative music scene found its locale in the art world. Mirroring the widespread destruction of buildings around them, punk’s demolition was instrumental in artists remaking themselves, transitioning from hippie sentimentality to new wave irony.

Then the police came.”

Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk - Sam Sutherland, ECW Press, 2012

Sutherland uncovers the origins of local scenes forming across Canada, beginning in the mid-70s. This book features a few of my photographs, including The Mods, and Teenage Head.

Gods Of The Hammer - Geoff Pevere, Coach House Press, 2014

Cover features on of my photographs of Teenage Head, showing guitarist Gord Lewis and singer Frankie Venom.

Not Your Best 2 - published by Knife Fork Book, 2020

An anthology curated by Kirby, featuring three of my photos. 

KFB’s NOT YOUR BEST Series was created in response to “contest culture” to counter silly [rampant] notions of “best/awards/winning” to simply recognize/acknowledge the work itself.

Treat Me Like Dirt - Liz Worth, BongoBeat/ECW Press, 2009

Liz Worth’s comprehensive oral history of punk in Toronto.
A photograph of me and friend Virlana that I shot in a Carlton St laundromat in 1979 appears on the cover. Interior features a couple of photos also.