The Scenics were among the first Toronto punk bands, started when Ken Badger answered Andy Meyers music store ad in July 1976.

"These underground icons merged Television's guitar work, Big Star's pop prowess, Pere Ubu's dementia, & the Ramones’ urgency.” Jonathon Cummins, Montreal Mirror Their first two shows, with drummer Mike Cusheon, were in December 1976 and May 1977, both for audiences of young teens.

When Cusheon left in spring 1977, Andy's High School friend Mark French agreed to play drums on a studio demo.

The trio recorded 10 originals at Mushroom Sound, in Toronto's Annex, a four track studio run by Barry Steinburg.

The Scenics began to play shows around town in August- at the Beverly Tavern, David's Discotheque, and a private party for a film producer.

After the Talking Heads show, the Scenics returned to Mushroom Sound to record 6 songs with drummer Cooper's more robust style.

In December 1978 The Scenics played “The Last Pogo”,  two nights that marked the end of promoters “The Garys” run at the Horseshoe Tavern.

The Scenics continue to write songs and play shows in Toronto, London Ontario, and Buffalo NY, but with the Badgers starting a family, the band breaks up in the fall of 1981.

In 2007 Ken Badger mails a dozen Scenics cassettes recorded live and in rehearsal in the late 70s to Meyers in British Columbia.

[4] The album was distributed by Scratch and Sonic Unyon and made the top 30 in National Canadian Campus radio, and “Year's Best” lists in the Village Voice and Detroit Metro Times, among others.

The group reformed with Mark Perkell on drums and Mike Young on bass and played their first show in 26 years at the Horseshoe Tavern, opening for Carla Bozulich in April 2008.

The album featured songs written over the last 20 years, including 5 that the Scenics had often played live in 1980 and 81.The band got together for shows in Southern Ontario and Quebec.

In 2013 directors Colin Brunton and Kire Papputts release “The Last Pogo Jumps Again” a full length doc on the Toronto punk scene then and now.

In 2014 the CD “Talking Songs” is released by “Scattered Bodies” (Andy Meyers with composer/vocalist Susheela Dawne and celebrated poet, Brian Brett).

Dissatisfied with the sound of 2009's Sunshine World CD, The Scenics remaster that material with BC Producer Joby Baker, who had mixed “Dead Man” and mastered “How Does It Feel”.

In 2016 the refurbished tracks are released as the “In The Summer: Studio Recordings 1977/78”[11][12] LP by Rave Out in Europe, and DreamTower, distributed by Light In The Attic, in North America.

In Mar 2021 Meyers releases “Deeper Into the Forest”, an album that sets poet/publisher Diana Hayes' performances to his music, with wordless vocals by Susheela Dawne.

In Spring 2022 Meyers releases “Bones”, an album of post rock ambient music he creates with Simon Millerd, pianist/trumpeter from Montreal.