In Sean Menards film named after this building — the first full-length documentary attempting to illuminate the cultural significance of MuchMusic to Canada’s media history — it’s clear that I’m not the only one who remembers Much with such reverence. Tracing the channel’s history from its slipshod DIY origins as a homegrown alternative to MTV in the early 1980s to its cultural zenith in the 1990s and sudden decline in the 2000s, 299 Queen Street West is an exhaustive document of archival excavation.
Longtime MUCH VJ Rick “The Temp” Campanelli joined 89.3 the Raven to about the new documentary “299 Queen Street West” coming to Edmonton on Wednesday at the Winspear.
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