Thunder Bay BandWiki

Thunder Bay BandWiki was a project of Kevin Sidlar and several others from 2008 - 2024, with most articles created before July 2014. It was hosted at the now-defunct site http://www.bandwiki.ca. From 2021 to 2024, it was being maintained by Kasey Patola [1] who gave his email at the time as "destructo(at)bandwiki.ca".

The entire wiki and its edit history has been ingested into Thunderbay.Wiki; all articles are tagged with "Category:ThunderBay_BandWiki"

It contains ~2700 articles and ~200 categories.

Thunder Bay BandWiki was an independent community-maintained database of bands, events, and figures — past and present — in the Thunder Bay, Ontario area. It is reproduced here for historical reference; its contents have not been independently verified.

Overview

According to the Thunder Bay BandWiki, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic Thunder Bay had an active local music scene spanning nearly every genre. The downtown Port Arthur district hosted multiple venues that regularly promoted local and touring acts. The Thunder Bay Auditorium and outdoor festival spaces at the Marina also served as significant concert venues. Thunder Bay's position on the Trans-Canada Highway — the only route connecting Winnipeg to the west and Sault Ste. Marie to the east — made it a frequent stop for touring punk and metal bands travelling by van or car across Canada.

The BandWiki notes that major out-of-town and touring acts regularly visited the city alongside the robust local scene.

Genres represented

Genres documented in the Thunder Bay BandWiki include Hip Hop, Jazz, Punk, Metal, Black Metal, Rock, Electronic, Country, and Psychobilly.

Notable local events

The Thunder Bay BandWiki documents a number of recurring and one-time local music events, including:

• Achilles Last Stand
• Apollopalooza
• War On The Shore
• Revolution Music Night
• Sandjam
• The Hunger Cabaret
• Super Sexy Saturday
• The Cover Show
• Thunder Bay Songwriter
• Thunder Bay Bluesfest
• Branch 5 Open Stage

Local compilations

Local music compilations documented by the Thunder Bay BandWiki include: Hot Smoke And Sassafras, It Came From Thunder Bay, Thunderground, An Anthology of Underground Music in Canada Vol. IV, Homegrown, Thunderbands 1991, Thunder Bay Blues Sampler 2004, Revolution Music Compilations, Darwin Music Canada Compilation, and the Baycore Compilations series.

Import notes

Import was cut off at articles and edits before July 2014 because after this, spammers apparently discovered bandwiki.ca and started posting spam articles. This is visible in the below article counts by month:

ubuntu@ip-172-31-36-61:~$ cat /home/ubuntu/bandwiki-import/staged/creation_counts_by_month.csv
month,total_pages,ns0_main,ns2_user,ns6_file,ns14_category,other_ns
2008-09,1497,1495,1,0,1,0
2008-10,340,192,4,84,52,8
2008-11,97,58,0,37,2,0
2008-12,380,139,1,232,2,6
2009-01,257,197,1,44,2,13
2009-02,36,15,2,19,0,0
2009-03,10,2,0,5,0,3
2009-04,15,7,0,4,0,4
2009-05,19,10,1,6,0,2
2009-06,19,15,0,4,0,0
2009-07,22,16,0,6,0,0
2009-08,25,14,1,10,0,0
2009-09,15,7,0,7,0,1
2009-10,20,3,0,17,0,0
2009-11,37,36,0,1,0,0
2009-12,92,50,1,41,0,0
2010-01,192,80,1,82,26,3
2010-02,24,20,3,1,0,0
2010-03,12,6,0,6,0,0
2010-04,24,9,2,4,0,9
2010-05,7,3,0,0,0,4
2010-06,8,4,0,3,0,1
2010-07,6,4,0,2,0,0
2010-08,13,7,0,2,0,4
2010-09,21,9,0,11,0,1
2010-10,10,9,0,1,0,0
2010-11,15,11,0,4,0,0
2010-12,2,2,0,0,0,0
2011-01,11,3,0,7,0,1
2011-02,3,1,0,0,0,2
2011-03,3,1,0,2,0,0
2011-04,13,4,0,8,0,1
2011-05,3,2,0,1,0,0
2011-06,13,7,1,5,0,0
2011-08,3,1,0,2,0,0
2011-09,1,0,0,1,0,0
2011-10,2,1,0,1,0,0
2011-11,15,1,1,13,0,0
2011-12,2,2,0,0,0,0
2012-01,2,1,0,1,0,0
2012-02,31,15,1,14,0,1
2012-03,1,1,0,0,0,0
2012-04,7,3,0,4,0,0
2012-05,7,3,0,3,0,1
2012-06,1,1,0,0,0,0
2012-08,56,51,0,3,0,2
2012-09,8,7,0,1,0,0
2012-10,1,1,0,0,0,0
2012-11,11,4,0,7,0,0
2012-12,2,2,0,0,0,0
2013-01,7,7,0,0,0,0
2013-02,3,0,0,3,0,0
2013-05,5,2,0,3,0,0
2013-06,154,0,150,0,0,4
2013-09,1,1,0,0,0,0
2013-10,6,0,0,6,0,0
2013-11,3,0,0,3,0,0
2014-01,2,1,0,0,0,1
2014-02,3,0,0,3,0,0
2014-04,1,1,0,0,0,0
2014-07,10,9,0,0,0,1
2014-08,758,567,191,0,0,0
2014-09,1652,983,667,0,0,2
2014-10,1408,610,794,0,0,4
2014-11,3577,1984,1574,0,0,19
2014-12,8671,7446,1224,0,0,1
2015-01,2324,1605,710,0,0,9
2015-03,2,1,1,0,0,0
2015-04,14,12,2,0,0,0
2015-05,2,0,2,0,0,0
2015-07,4,3,1,0,0,0
2015-09,1,0,1,0,0,0
2015-12,2,0,2,0,0,0
2016-01,1,0,1,0,0,0
2016-04,1,0,1,0,0,0
2016-07,1,0,0,0,0,1
2016-09,3,3,0,0,0,0
2016-11,1,1,0,0,0,0
2018-04,7,4,0,3,0,0
2018-08,1,1,0,0,0,0
2021-09,2,2,0,0,0,0
2023-03,1,0,1,0,0,0
2024-01,1,0,1,0,0,0