PART TWO
“The best punk rock documentary I’ve seen to date.” Jon Wurster, Superchunk, Mountain Goats, Best Show
“The best punk roc doc I’ve seen.” Nardwuar the Human Serviette
“A masterfully crafted beast…one of the most comprehesive and inspiring documetaries on punk I’ve seen.” Sean Arenas, Razorcake
“…how a small group of people influenced art, society, a city and a country.” Bob Mersereau
“Documentaries don’t come more hard core than The Last Pogo Jumps Again.” Norm Wilner, Now Magazine.
The Last Pogo Jumps Again studies to evolution of Toronto from small town to big city and its 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 to the police shutting down Teenage Head and causing a riot at the Horseshoe Tavern’s infamous “The Last Pogo” concert in December 1978.
London had the Sex Pistols, New York had the Ramones, but Toronto had a punk movement all its own. In the end, the Toronto landscape by the late ’70s was forever changed with the infusion of the DIY/Punk/Alternative culture(s) movement. Six years in the making, The Last Pogo Jumps Again successfully explores the whys and wherefores of what was arguably one of the most exciting but misunderstood movements in Toronto’s history.
