The Last Pogo last waltz with a different band, Toronto punk rock 1978
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DVD NTSC
Toronto 1978 Punk documentary film plus bonus SCENICS video and commentary
Original insert 2008
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unbridled mayhem.
On December 1, 1978, legendary Toronto concert promoters Gary Topp and Gary Cormier - better known as The Garys - presented The Last Pogo, a rollicking, riotous concert at the venerable Horseshoe Tavern. On the bill were seminal bands from Toronto's punk rock scene: The Scenics, The Cardboard Brains, The Secrets, The Mods, The Ugly, The Viletones and Teenage Head. During the concert, the frenetic energy of 800+ thrashing fans in the club boiled over and a near-riot ensued. Filmmaker Colin Brunton was there with a film crew to capture it all. from the irreverent punk musicians and the slam-dancing audience to the police who tried to stop the show and the firefighters called in to escort people from the premises.
Colin Brunton is an award-winning Canadian director/producer whose other film Credits include The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada, Rude, Cube, Hedwig & the Angry Inch and The Safety of Objects. He is currently working on The Last Pogo Jumps Again, scheduled for release in 2009.
THE LAST POGO, 1978, 26 minutes, 16mm color.
Directed/Produced by Colin Brunton. Co-directed and edited
Patrick Lee. Filmed at the Horseshoe Tavern.
December 1, 1978
featuring Teenage Head, The Viletones, The Ugly, the Mods, The Secrets, The Cardboard Brains
Shot in Toronto, at the Horseshoe Tavern, The Last Pogo concert on December 1 was billed as "the last punk rock concert" in Toronto—at least for that original wave of punkers circa 1977/1978. Named as ironic tribute to "The Last Waltz", the concert film of the final concert by The Band directed by Martin Scorsese. Featuring performances by The Scenics, The Cardboard Brains, The Secrets, The Mods, The Ugly, The Viletones and Teenage Head, the event also spawned a live recording called And Now Live From Toronto -- The Last Pogo.
Apart from the performances, the highlight of the film was probably the shots of the aftermath, because during the show, a bit of a riot occurred. Brunton's crew was ushered outside by police and firefighters, but the sound recordist stuck it out.
The film itself was available only in bootleg copies and occasional airings until its official release on DVD in 2008. The DVD was released as a tribute to Teenage Head frontman Frankie Venom.
Last Pogo
A punk, a cop and a detective walk into a bar...
11978 I took a film course at the Toronto
filmmakers' Co-op and made
a short movie about punk rock called
Bollocks. Good times! We (teacher Patrick Lee;
MOR
partner Liz Aikenhead) shot The Viletones at Club
photo: Danny Fields 2008
In 1978, there was no World Wide Web or YouTube, and when we made handbills, we "cut 'n' pasted"; that is, we actually cut with X-Acto knives and pasted with rubber cement. Forget video cameras, most people didn't even have tape recorders.
SCENICS-
CARDBOARD BRAINS-
SECRETS-
UGLY MODS-
VILETONES
TEENAGE HEAD