We’re not yet sure in what form The Last Pogo Jumps Again: A Biased And Incomplete History Of Toronto, Hamilton and London, Ontario Punk Rock And New Wave Music Circa September 24 1976 To December 1 1978, Parts One and Two will be released or when exactly. Most likely a premiere at a film festival preceeded by a cast and crew screening (epic!) and probably in the fall.
Things haven’t changed that much since we made The Last Pogo in 1978: broadcasters aren’t that keen — yet — but the Toronto Arts Council and the Canada Arts Council are willing to help us out. (For those of you unfamiliar with the arts councils here, it basically means that they give you some money to work on your project, and you have full creative control. Boners!)
We did one more interview last week with the Cardboard Brains‘ guitarist and co-founder Vince Carlucci. We’ve got just two more people on our wish list before we finally stop production and focus on post.
The film will be in two parts: The Last Pogo Jumps Again: A Biased And Incomplete History Of Toronto, Hamilton and London, Ontario Punk Rock And New Wave Music Circa September 24 1976 To December 1 1978, Parts One and Two. Big reward to the usher of any movie theatre that puts the whole title up.
We’ve currently got our cut of The Last Pogo Jumps Again down to around four-and-a-half hours. We think we can trim another half-hour or so without hurting it.
Yea, we know: John Cale doesn’t have much to do with our epic documentary The Last Pogo Jumps Again, except maybe for the fact that he played the New Yorker Theatre in the spring of ’77, but we just love this song, and now that we’re starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel so to speak, it’s appropriate.
Today’s blog title lifted from the blog of the same name at http://tsutpen.blogspot.com
Oscar Wilde’s crypt
Anais Nin and Henry Miller
Beatniks on stage
Hippies
Anonymous
