Here you will find all the Bands which are sadly no longer with us. Let's look around:

Astarte: An wonderful ethereal band which was fronted by Danishka Esterhazy, it's other members (to the best of my memory) were Mimi (drums), Veronica (Keyboards), and I'd swear there was one other person who played the bass. I'll have to contact Danishka about these details.
Anyway, they were around for about 2 or 3 years at least (during which Danishka also hosted a radio program on CKUW) and were the first band I had booked for our night Wellingtons (I recall another local band, Nemo, opened for them), and it was a Great Show!
We have one of their tunes, 'My Last Duke', on one of our earlier Ogremind Mix CDs (absolutely beautiful song).

Nasty Teeth - Once managed by our scenes Richard Payne, these guys totally rocked with legendary force. They were around from the late 70's to late 80's......I think. Richard, if you're reading this, could you give us a hand with the tombstone? Uh..the only thing I can recall offhand about them is a gig they did at the West End Cultural Centre where a fight broke out among the band members on stage right in the middle of a performance. if legend is correct, there was an axe to grind between the guitarist and drummer.
During a song, the guitarist drops his instrument, walked over to the drummer and the slugfest began. The crowd loved it since they thought it was part of the show. WECC stafffer, Thom Sparling, came away with minor injuries after jumping in to stop the brawl.
Ah, the memories!

Scavenger Vacuum - One of the coolest Industrial Bands to have existed in Winnipeg, and I'm not just saying that because I happened to be a member. The band started off as Ultraviolent Sensory Attack in 1992 and consisted of John Turner (vocals, keyboards), Chris Manicome (Drums, Bass), Chris Hiebert (guitar), and Al (keyboard, tape loops). At that time I was involved in one of the most Gawd Awful, cliche ridden musical pieces of shit to ever stink up the stage of the West End Cultural Centre (but that's another story which I cannot go into without flying into fits of swearing). John and Al approached me and invited me to join their group which I happily did, and we then became Scavenger Vacuum, and it was Bloody Great!!!! The peak was the Hallowe'en goth party called "A Gathering Of Vampires" which was held at the West End Cultural Centre October 29th of '93. We opened for Undertek and headliners The Ballroom Zombies. An awesome night!!! Sadly, some things are too cool to last, and thus were we. Rest In Peace, Scavy Vac!!!