The Daily Derringer Podcast - Tuesday November 3rd 2020
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On Tuesday, November 3, 2020, TVO Original Picture My Face: The Story of Teenage Head, will premiere on TVO. It will then be available to stream across Canada on tvo.org and TVO's YouTube Channel. It will also rebroadcast on TVO on Saturday, November 7 at 9 pm ET and Sunday, November 8 at 10:30 pm ET.
Picture My Face: The Story of Teenage Head, features appearances by Marky Ramone, Rob Baker (Tragically Hip), legendary punk writers Jon Savage, Nina Antonia (New York Dolls), never-before-seen 16mm colour transfers from Heatwave Festival (the “Canadian Woodstock”), access to the band’s extensive photo archive, and rare 16mm b/w footage from “The Crash ’n’ Burn”, 1977 show.. The story reveals the birth of the young artists in conversations at the back of English class which soon develop into basement jams and the beginnings of song-writing while riding their dirt-bikes, building forts, and playing baseball together. A rare alchemy achieved in their basements in Hamilton, soon launches them onto the world stage—with two gold albums and a chance to break widely into the United States—a series of setbacks changes their destiny. Held together by their early friendships and the music, itself, the film rests upon a powerful present-day story through lead guitarist, Gord Lewis, who struggles to overcome depression following the loss of their frontman Frankie “Venom” Kerr.
"These guys solved all the awkwardness of high school by forming a band and inventing an unmistakable sound and style and attitude. Picture My Face: The Story of Teenage Head really becomes a story about founding member and lead guitarist Gord Lewis whose struggle with depression was sparked by the loss of their frontman Frankie Venom. I didn't set out to make a 'biopic'; instead, I wanted to find a present-day story ignited by the potency of the band's past. The relationship artists have with melancholy and with its more incapacitating cousin, depression, is also an area I've written about," said director, Douglas Arrowsmith.
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