The Last Pogo Jumps Again’s Fucked Up
Pink Eyes gives the one-finger salute to some band he doesn’t like. Photo Kire Paputts
Fucked Up‘s Damian “Pink Eyes” Abraham spent an hour being interviewed for The Last Pogo Jumps Again in one of his favourite hang-outs, used vinyl store Hit’s ‘n’ Misses. Waxing poetic about the influence of first-wave punk and raving about the Toronto bands that inspired him — The Viletones, The Diodes & more – he was a real gentleman, punk though he may be.
Meanwhile, the Filthy Lucre Division at Pogo H.Q. fretted about the budget needed to finish the film properly (any millionaires out there, please check in.)
Film lab Technicolor made our eyes go all watery and glazed explaining the byzantine steps required these days to transfer 16mm negative — a fresh and spanking clean dub of Elizabeth Aikenhead & Colin Brunton’s short film Bollocks coming soon — to digital. Bollocks was the film Liz and Colin made while taking a film course at the old Toronto Filmmakers’ Co-op, taken to school by teacher Patrick Lee (who a year later would co-direct and edit The Last Pogo) and shot at David’s on Hallowe’en 1977, featuring The Ugly and The Viletones (unbelievably, we couldn’t afford to bring a sound recordist with us, so no live music, but we’ve got a way of getting this into The Last Pogo Jumps Again.
While West Coast Director Tristan Orchard planned his interview with D.O.A.’s Joey Shithead, slated for next week, senior Pogo archivist Imants Krumins dug deep into his personal stash, and sent us PDFs of The Skulls (pre D.O.A., and for at least a few months in ’77 and ’78, Toronto-based) fanzine Drones.
Thanks to Imants for copy of Drones; and thanks to Joey Shithead and The Skulls
A long day ended at the shithole called The El Mocambo to watch The Scenics tear through an almost two hour set. The small crowd of Scenic loyalists were not disturbed by the arrival of several emergency vehicles, because one of them called them: The Scenics were on fire. Catch them in Ottawa, Montreal, London and/or Hamilton in the next week.
Tags: Bollocks, colin brunton, d.o.a., Damian Abraham, drones fanzine, Elizabeth Aikenhead, Fucked Up, Hit's 'n' Misses, Imants Krumins, joey shithead, Pink Eyes, The Diodes, the scenics, the skulls, the ugly, the viletones