August 2025 - Toronto ON
I was reading BlogTO and thought, Matador Club, what's that? Click here for the article and image source.
This photo totally baffled me, so weird looking with its surroundings.
The Matador Club, a historic music venue at College and Dovercourt in Toronto, is slated to be replaced by a mixed-use development featuring a six-story condo building. The original building, constructed in 1914, has a rich history as a dance academy, bowling alley, and most notably, a live music venue that hosted iconic artists like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. The new development will include commercial space and residential units. While the Matador sign will be preserved and incorporated into the condo's design, the venue's legacy as a live music space will be replaced by the new development, according to blogTO.
Then I looked closer, realized it is an artist rendering of the proposed condo, saw it was at College and Dovercourt and then recognized the vintage Matador sign and I figured it out!
However, there are also plans to keep the exterior marquee and wood paneling on the ground floor where commercial space is expected to be. To date it seems this is still in the planning approval stages.
k.d. lang's official music video for "Turn Me Round" (1987) features the Matador sign and street frontage as well as long shots of the stage with its uniquely odd background array of dusty cowboy boots and dozens of signatures.
Big Sugar (band)'s official music video for "Ride Like Hell" (1993) was filmed here by director Eric Yealland and DP Douglas Koch and was nominated for a Much Music Video Award.
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