We’re three years old today!
Yuppers. Three years ago today we started shooting our feature documentary The Last Pogo Jumps Again. We’ve amassed a hundred plus hours of interviews; secured yards of rare footage of the “never before seen” variety; and have jammed our external drives with tons ‘o’ jpgs. We’ve captured a dozen or so sets of old-school bands from the back in the day, and watched as our hard-drive collapsed in a fit and die on the floor. The Last Pogo Jumps Again survived, and will be released sometime when we’re about four or so.
Kire wearing the colours at the Berlin Wall
Co-director Kire Paputts is hard at it, piecing together all the stuff and trying to make sense (or not) of it. Co-director Aldo Erdic is finding bits of time between shooting his own stuff to compile the many hours of footage he has, the goldmine being the pile of stuff he’s shot of Greg Dicks‘ interviews on CIUT-FM’s Equalizing Distort series: Viletones, Ugly, Mods, Zero4, Teenage Head, and a screwy let’s-bail-before it gets any worse debacle with The Scenics.
Co-director Brunton is focusing on getting the last interviews, and flogging The Last Pogo dvd (only three cartons left people! Hurry up and order already!) We’re also trying to get our hands on some pretty awesome footage holed up in the archives of the CBC and MuchMusic; stuff we’re sure you’ve seen on your Internet Machine — but that would be great to see, y’know, full screen and only second-generation. At a hundred bucks a second, it’s a little intimidating, but we’re doing our best dripping honey in The Man‘s ear, hoping to catch a break.
Make sure you hit The Ugly, The Mods, The Superstitions and DJ OPP tonight, and keep on keepin’ on.
Tags: Aldo Edric, CIUT-FM, colin brunton, DJ O.P.P., greg dick, kbd punk, Kire Paputts, old-school punk rock, scenics, Teenage Head, The Superstitions, the last pogo, the last pogo jumps again, the mods, the ugly, viletones, Zero4