URGH! A Music War

[Louie4711]

Is anyone as excited about going to a screening of URGH! A Music War tomorrow at the Anthology Film Archives as I am? It's at 7PM and 10PM. If you don't know about this movie and you like Punk and New Wave then you should really check it out. It's one of my favorite movies.

From the Archives website:

Derek Burbrisge
URGH! A MUSIC WAR
1981, 96 min.
While merely competent in a cinematic sense, from a musical and historical sense, URGH! A MUSIC WAR is an amazing document of its time. The film boasts a staggering 34 bands, some legendary (The Police, UB40, Joan Jett), some infamous (Gang of Four, XTC, The Dead Kennedys, X), and some ultimately lost to the void (Skafish, Chelsea, Invisible Sex). This film found legs through late night cable in the mid 80s and periodically resurfaces to find new fans. This is a rare theatrical screening that is mandatory viewing for any fan of punk, post-punk or new-wave music.

Then this friday and saturday (I'm gonna try to hit up the sat one) The Onion is presenting a tribute concert to URGH at the Knitting Factory. !!! is going to play. They're VERY hip, like me.

yay URGH! A Music War! :up:

 

[goldfish boy]

I rented this so many times! I saw it on the big(-ish) screen at Syracuse University, probably before you were born, Louie. I hope it's on DVD.

 

[El Jefe]

I rented this so many times! I saw it on the big(-ish) screen at Syracuse University, probably before you were born, Louie. I hope it's on DVD.

What year was that, MJC? I saw it at SU, too. Though I first saw it on tape in high school, probably in '85 or '86. The first time I saw it, I'd never heard of XTC.

I miss the movies University Union used to show. I must have watched hundreds. Foreign films, underground classics, Hollywood golden-age treasures. They even had a porn night once...I wonder if they would still do that now.

I'll be missing this screening, but I'd love to see !!! play.

 

[goldfish boy]

That would have been sometime in 1983-84. Ah, the porn nights, yes. And they had an all-night marathon of The Avengers that was my first exposure to the show. Yum.

 

[Louie4711]

I rented this so many times! I saw it on the big(-ish) screen at Syracuse University, probably before you were born, Louie. I hope it's on DVD.

MJC,

If you saw it when it was first released then you probably did see it about a year before I was born. Sorry to confirm that sad fact.

URGH! Isn't on DVD, in fact there is a whole web page about this fact:

http://www.writhingelectra.com/urghmusic/

Hopefully that'll change it the future. It's a great document of what was going on at a certain scene in an exact ammount of time. And you can dance to it.

 

[seanisthegood]

Go see !!! @ Knitting Factory...I think they are only playing one of the nights. They are the band that turned me into such a danceaholic. And the movie sounds dope as well

Sean hart