Viletones founder helped kick start a punk rock movement in Toronto

On May 4, 1977, Toronto punk rock pioneers the Viletones played the Colonial Underground, a basement club on Yonge Street. Singer and group founder Steven Leckie had previously typed up a manifesto criticizing the city’s rock music elite as being antiquated. “The war must start,” wrote the 19-year-old who controversially called himself Nazi Dog. “The new order is the Viletones.”