Southern Ontario alt-rockers The Flatliners celebrate their 20th anniversary with a stop in Oshawa Saturday Feb 3 2024. The rock band which hails from Richmond, On., will play the inaugural show for the latest addition to Oshawa downtown’s nightlife, BOND|ST, 44 Bond Street. The building was originally the Canadian Auto Workers Union Hall, and in more recent history the basement was a notorious venue called the Dungeon.

And like so many GTHA bands of the early 00s, (Attack in Black, Arkells, Alexisonfire, Cancer Bats, Moneen, Mother Mother, Protest The Hero, Silverstein Sum 41, so many many) the Flatliners worked the Golden Horseshoe all ages circuit and would have been no stranger to the Dungeon.

The Flatliners are celebrating two decades with a new record, ‘New Ruin’, on Fat Wreck Chords in the States and Dine Alone in Canada. Opening for them is Cam Kahin.

Opening is the name of the game for BOND|ST. It's been a club plagued with delays but it is all systems go for Saturday night. BOND|ST is not just a club however, it is an entertainment complex. The building houses a cafe, a lounge, a restaurant, as well as a main floor venue with a capacity of 1200, as well as the basement space, (the Dungeon) which can hold up to 300 approx.

Although BOND|ST pays tribute to its roots as an incubator space for so many musicians, (there are framed posters from Dungeon shows throughout the building as well as photos of bands which played them) Saturday night is not about nostalgia, the past of Oshawa but a new chapter in the city’s evolution as thee place for music fans in the East GTHA.