Blinded by
punk’s light

Bob Mackin

News Reporter
bmackin@nsnews.com

GASTOWN’S Blinding
Light!! Cinema is offer-
ing a primer on punk
and indie rock history
this month.

Marcus Rogers’ compila-
ton of focal punk rock
videos, Before the Year Zero:
Western Canadian Punk Rock
1980-2000, was screened last
night at the micro-theatre. It
features vintage punk and
new wave videos of Art
Bergmiann and the Young
Canadians, the Pointed
Sticks, Modernettes,
Subhumans, DOA and Slow.

_ Tonight and tomorrow’s
presentation would carry a
Restricted rating if it were in
a mainstream theatre. Hated:
G.G. Allin and the Murder
Junkies is director Todd
Phillips’ exploration of the
tumultuous life and death of
-G.G. Allin, the notorious,

’* self-abusing punk rocker with

- adeath wish. His deviant
behaviour, not his music,
grabbed headlines in the early

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1990s. His tours were usually
cut short by a trip to hospital
or jail. Allin vowed to com-
mit suicide onstage, but
instead died of a heroin over-
dose (“in typical rock star
fashion,” says Phillips) on
July 28, 1993 after a violent
New York gig. Allin was a
disturbed individual who
makes Marilyn Manson look
like a choirboy.

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label in Olympia, Wash. that
made it semi-big. Learn
about the vision and low-key

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The indie theme continucs
with Songs for Cassavetes on
July 20- 21. Isa snapshot of
post-grunge, post-alternative
underground music.

Remember Shaw Cable’s
Sound proof? It was among
many public access TV shows
aired around North America
during the dawn of the music
video age in the 1980s. One
such offering was the Scott
and Gary Show in New York
City. It gave carly TV expo-
sure to the Butthole Surfers
and the Beastie Boys.

See what you missed if
you weren't in the Big Apple
in Jeff Krulik’s Tribute To The
Scott and Gary Show (July 22-

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band refuses to make rock
videos. So, this is may be
your only chance to see
Fugazi’s sounds accompanied
by moving pictures.

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The slate of punk flicks
ends July 25 and 26 with
Fugazs’s Instrument.

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