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THE LAST POGO JUMPS Once again studies the progression of Toronto through small town to big city and its pop/counter culture lifestyle was developed and mid-70s. It centres around the first influx of Toronto punk rock and brand-new wave music, in the Ramones playing The New Yorker Theatre in ‘76 through the police shutting down Teenage Brain and causing a riot at the horseshoe  Tavern's infamous “The Very last Pogo” concert in December 1978.

London had the Sex Guns, New York had your Ramones, but Toronto were built with a punk movement all its own. In the end, the Toronto landscape from the late 70?s was forever transformed with the infusion of the Build it yourself / punk Per alternative culture(ersus) movement. Six a long time in the making, The Last Pogo Jumps Again efficiently explores the whys and also wherefores of what was debatably one of the most exciting however misunderstood movements in Toronto’s history.

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