Yea, so it was 33 years ago that The Garys presented The Last Pogo at Toronto’s venerable Horseshoe Tavern. Beauty first, safety last was the rule of the night as 800 sweating kids crammed into a bar with a capacity of 500.
A fat drunk detective waddled up from the bar around midnight to slur to Teenage Head as they took the stage that they could only play one song, and bingo — sweet fucking chaos!
The concert was captured in the eponymous short film, the riot not so much (film crew booted out) and bits of it are used in the new project. (GEEK ALERT: We’ve been getting High Definition transfers done of 16mm films and video footage, and its just awesome. You see stuff you couldn’t see in the original footage. Mind blown.)
We’ve still got some DVD’s of The Last Pogo in stock, so … y’know…nice cheap present for someone. Go to the Store page. Now! Twelve measly dollars! C’mon!
Engelbert Humperdink rocking his ‘stache; it was always Movember for him.
Fast, cheap and good: when you’re making a film you can’t have all three, which is why it’s taken us over five years to put our four epic together — but the end is in site. We are what you call “picture locked”, i.e. we’re done editing — and now its all about getting people to sign release forms so we’re legal and legit. Of course while we wait for people to mail us back the releases we continue to nip and tuck here and there and mull stuff over. And we’re still hearing about snippets of footage that we could use (including some never before seen stuff from the Crash ‘n’ Burn that we’re going to see in a few weeks. C’mon archival workers! Crank up that Super-8 projector for us!)