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 ...
Hey, big thanks to Henry Martinuk for digging up this torn and frayed Bollocks poster for us here at Pogo H.Q.
Bollocks was a short film made by The Last Pogo Jumps Again co-director Colin Brunton and Elizabeth Aikenhead, when they were taking a film course in 1977 at the now-demised Toronto Filmmakers’ Co-op. Good times!
Homemade pin courtesy of Deirdre Wear
A G-Man came to the door of Pogo H.Q. today and hand-delivered a package from the hinterlands (east coast) that contained a bunch of cool jpgs of photos ‘n’ stuff, so a big thanks to Deirdre Wear. If anyone out there reading this is in the mainland Maritimes, and you’ve got a nice video camera, etc., give us a buzz — Deirdre has shared some ...
Steve Koch with The Ugly at The Last Pogo 30th; photo Ross Taylor.
In the late seventies, being the only punk in Calgary (although he’d find out later there was this other guy called Warren Kinsella skulking around the south side) made Steve Koch feel as though people thought he was either (a) dangerous, (b) developmentally challenged, or, most likely (c) a little bit of both.
He sent a fan letter to ...
Okay, so buy it already. Twelve bucks. Canadian!
As we continue to shoot and edit The Last Pogo Jumps Again, we thought we’d make a pitch to you, dear reader, to buy a copy of The Last Pogo, the 1978 punk rock doc that has an amazing batting average of .1000 with critics and bloggers. 1000! That’s like Barry Bonds and Babe Ruth birthing a super-baby — with A-Rod acting ...
Half of September 1978 at The Garys’ Horseshoe Tavern.
One of the things we wanna do with The Last Pogo Jumps Again is point out the lasting and huge influence the original punk scene has had on everything from music to fashion to art to restaurants … to type fonts. Check out the lettering on The Dead Boys above; I’m sure you’ve got a similar font somewhere in the depths of ...
A couple of weeks at the The Garys’ Horseshoe Tavern in 1978.
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.
