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Lux Interior, R.I.P. The way he walked was just the way he walked.
It’s been a rotten few months in the world of old-skool punk. In October, Teenage Head singer Frankie Venom died from throat cancer; in January, Stooges’ guitarist Ron Asheton passed away from a...
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Remake/Remodel
The bulk of The Original 99 Cent Roxy at Greenwood and Danforth has been demolished. The front lobby remains, as does a stripped-to-the-girders marquee out front. They’re going to turn it into a...
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Hey ho ho ho
First two weeks of August 1978 at Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern. The Last Pogo Jumps Again: A Biased And Incomplete History Of Toronto Punk Rock And New Wave Music Circa September 24 1976 To December 1...
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Happy Anniversary, Last Pogo
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...
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What’s not in 1976
If you go see The Last Pogo Jumps Again, you’ll see a Toronto that is very different from the one you know today. There was lots of stuff that just didn’t exist in 1976. Like gun violence. It was...
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Edie Steiner Pix
We had a lot of support from the community putting together our film The Last Pogo Jumps Again. One of our pals, photographer Edie Steiner, gave us a bunch of shots she did at the original Last Pogo...
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Cinema and Punk
The opening shot of the title sequence for our film The Last Pogo Jumps Again is a photo of an empty movie theatre, The Allenby, opened in 1936. It would become The Original 99 Cent Roxy Theatre...
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Don’t trash The Trash Palace
The Trash Palace screening of a 16mm print of The Last Pogo (1978; 25 minutes) has been moved to Friday May 30th. Just like how the Last Pogo concert closed down the Horseshoe Tavern in a riotous...
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You’re going to need a bigger box of popcorn.
Toronto 1976 – 1978: Queen St West was a ghost-town; you weren’t allowed to put handbills up on telephone poles, and you could get arrested for wearing studded collars and yelled at if your hair was...
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Record Store Day and free DVDs
Saturday April 18 is International Record Store day, and to join in on the fun, we’re going to be giving away free copies of the 1978 short film The Last Pogo. The first ten customers who buy The...
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The Horseshoe Tavern 1978
The Horseshoe 1978. In May, 1978, after they left the New Yorker Theatre, partners Topp, Cormier and Silverman took over management of the Horseshoe Tavern, a dive bar that featured country and...
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Hey, ho — let’s Pogo!
Colin Brunton and Tommy Ramone. Kire Paputts snapped this photo after Tommy autographed the bumper sticker. After a month of down-time, we’re back with a slightly slicked up and slimmed down website...
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Free beer and meatballs
Joey Ramone and Colin Brunton, 1989. Photo by Tim Sebert. We hit the NXNE press conference/launch last night, and ran into Last Pogoers Gordie Lewis from Teenage Head and Vince Carlucci from the...
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Giving up the Ghost of ’78. Or not.
Freddy Pompeii with The Secrets at The Last Pogo, December 1st, 1978. Photo copyright Edie Stiener. Rock-steady crew member Ollie Brunton partied away his 16th birthday at Pogo H.Q., and the...
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Lux Interior, R.I.P. The way he walked was just the way he walked.
It’s been a rotten few months in the world of old-skool punk. In October, Teenage Head singer Frankie Venom died from throat cancer; in January, Stooges’ guitarist Ron Asheton passed away from a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Remake/Remodel
The bulk of The Original 99 Cent Roxy at Greenwood and Danforth has been demolished. The front lobby remains, as does a stripped-to-the-girders marquee out front. They’re going to turn it into a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Happy Anniversary, Last Pogo
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Edie Steiner Pix
We had a lot of support from the community putting together our film The Last Pogo Jumps Again. One of our pals, photographer Edie Steiner, gave us a bunch of shots she did at the original Last Pogo...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cinema and Punk
The opening shot of the title sequence for our film The Last Pogo Jumps Again is a photo of an empty movie theatre, The Allenby, opened in 1936. It would become The Original 99 Cent Roxy Theatre...
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