Best punk band ever.
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 ...
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.”
Greg Trinier of The Mods; 1978 & 2008; photos Edie Steiner
As the DVD release of The Last Pogo (Toronto Punk 1978) continues to make its way to indie record stores across the globe, we’re on the last stretch of our feature documentary The Last Pogo Jumps Again.
Directors Colin Brunton, Kire Paputts and Aldo Erdic, with the help of a ton of people, not the least being Gary Topp, David Quinton, ...
All photos in today’s blog by Edie Steiner…
VInce Carlucci, Cardboard Brains
Sandy MacFadeyen, Cardboard Brains
Andy Meyers, The Scenics
Ken Badger, The Scenics
Mickey de Sadist, Forgotten Rebels
Greg Trinier, The Mods
The B-Girls
Alex Topp, Steven Leckie and The Solutions!
Steven Leckie, Steven Leckie and The Solutions!
Alex Topp, Steven Leckie and The Solutions! Aldo Erdic, The Last Pogo Jumps Again
Kire Paputts, The Last Pogo Jumps Again
Greg Dick, The Ugly
Steve Koch, The Ugly
Sam Ferrara, ...
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.
