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Today co-director Kire Paputts heads up for visit #4 with legendary promoter Gary Topp to shoot buttons and other memorabilia in Topper’s joint. Meanwhile, Cardboard Brains’ Vince Carlucci’s photo exhibit continues at Oz Studios at 134 Ossington Avenue. This Friday they’re gonna screen The Last Pogo Jumps Again‘s second-unit director Aldo Erdic’s half-hour doc Circa ’77: The Diodes along with The Last Pogo, and dvds ...
Courtesy of Aldo Erdic
Today The Last Pogo Jumps Again co-director Kire Paputts (with wing-man Richard Fiander handling second camera) hangs out in Grange Park with some of The Diodes, and An Awesome Friend Of The Project tries to get us a few moments with Godfather Iggy Fucking Pop on Friday, ’cause we need to hear his thoughts on all things punk, and find out what specific type of ...
Everyone’s getting busy with the Kwanza/Hannukuh/Christmas (pick-your-own-pagan-holiday) season getting started, so we won’t be posting very often over the next few weeks. But it’s not like we’re not doing anything. Far from it, dear blog readers. Far fucking from it.
Left Coast Second Unit Director (L.A. Division) Amy Bellings is on the case, getting ready to chat with graphic artist/photographer Rodney Bowes on the beach in Los Angeles, and find out ...
Photo by the amazing Rodney Bowes that warrants more than an italicized sub-title
Now, that’s what I call a fucking photograph: The Curse’s Mickey Skin sporting her lobotomy scar; Dr. Bourque cosying up to Sam Ferrara; Trixie Danger; Deborah “Blondie” Harry, The Diodes’ Paul Robinson; to the right of Blondie, Patsy Poison and The Diodes’/Secrets‘ John Hamilton.
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Today the Pogomobile loaded up co-directors Kire Paputts and Aldo Erdic and descended on a ...
Deal with the Devil; copyright Kim Northrop. Check out his art at kimnorthrop.com
A year after interviewing the Topp half of The Garys, we’ve now chatted with the other half, sexy man-beast Cormier. Gary had tons of interesting stuff to say on the partnership with Gary Topp and their years at the New Yorker and Horseshoe Tavern and The Edge and punk and rock and roll.
Coming up this week is ...
Kire Paputts and assistant editors on break
It’s hard to grasp how huge and — dare we say it? — important the whole Toronto/Southern Ontario punk scene circa 1976 – 1978 was until you’ve taken a couple of hundred hours of footage and tried to sum it all up in an hour and a half to two hours. Hey-o!
With The Last Pogo Jumps Again co-director/editor Kire Paputts in Toronto filling in ...
Last weekend we spent a few hours going over some of the hundreds of hours of footage we’ve compiled since starting to shoot The Last Pogo Jumps Again three years ago — and this not counting the equally humungous pile ‘o’ footage that co-director Aldo Erdic has, nor the batch of footage we’ve dug up from other filmmakers and broadcasters.
Compelling, hilarious, occasionally heart-breaking — and with lots of interesting chatter, ...
This handbill for the punk music and clothing store New Rose was sent to us by Margarita Passion, who owned it with original Viletone Freddy Pompeii. A favourite hang-out for all the young dudes. This poster was designed by Freddy himself. Both Margarita and Freddy are living in Phillie these days; we’ve got interviews of the both of them for the new film, but Freddy’s was done in an extremely ...
The Last Pogo Jumps Again co-director Kire Paputts sends us this note from Europe: “I decided to take on the Gladiators. Next stop, Greek philosophers.”
Handbill courtesy Imants Krumins
R.I.P. Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton. When Ron’s band Destroy All Monsters played the Horseshoe in ’78 with Suicide and Teenage Head, the bands took turns headlining the three night gig. After a packed audience rocked to Destroy All Monsters, then Teenage Head — they left, leaving a crowd of about 25 people to experience Suicide. Singer Alan Vega leaped off the stage and terrified a table to ...
The Last Pogo Jumps Again studies the evolution of Toronto from small town to big city and it’s pop/counter-culture lifestyle during the early and mid-70s. It centers around the first wave of Toronto punk rock and new-wave music, from the Ramones playing the New Yorker Theatre in ’76 through the police shutting down Teenage Head and causing a riot at the Horseshoe Tavern’s infamous “The Last Pogo” concert in December 1978.
