This Saturday Dec 1 there will be a rare big-screen showing of The Last Pogo Jumps Again at Toronto’s Revue Cinema.
Advance tickets on sale here, and tickets are going fast.
We’re installing an exhibit of a couple of hundred handbills from that era (1976 – 1978) in the lobby. See above for a rough idea, and thanks to everyone who sent us handbills when we were making ...
Lifted from Jenny Forest’s Facebook page.
There’s not much we can add to the stuff that Gary Pig Gold wrote in the above article, except that Imants was a great help to our project, tirelessly answering emails and digging up obscure handbills about obscure bands. He sadly passed away this summer. We managed to interview him as well, back in the early (read 2007) days of our project, but frankly, he was a little ...
Photo of Imants found on Tim Perlich’s website http://theperlichpost.blogspot.com
From an email by Simon Harvey forwarded to us by Woody Whelan:
“Imants Krumins has passed on after a lengthy battle with cancer. He’d spent the last while in palliative care, surrounded by friends and people who cared about him. Out of respect for Imants’ wishes, this had been kept discreet– he didn’t want a lot of fuss and drama, and ...
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 ...
Courtesy of Imants Krumins
Okay, we’re not exactly sure what the above review in Japan’s Doll Magazine says, but here’s hoping it spurs millions of people over there to order the DVD of The Last Pogo (it’s only $12.00!). Or thousands. Or even hundreds. If anyone wants to take a crack at translating this, we’re all ears.
Steven “Nazi Dog” Leckie of The Viletones points at food, circa ’78; photo by Rodney Bowes.
THE LAST POGO (1978) There’s a cool review of The Last Pogo in the current edition of the nifty webzine Tiny Mix Tapes. They peg it a “masterful disaster-piece” and give us a sort of back-handed compliment with: “…it’s the quick runtime that blocks The Last Pogo from reaching the pinnacle of the ...
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 ...
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.
