We’ve launched a YouTube channel. The first video is just a test I did — a 30 second quickie, using some photos that have been uploaded to the Photos from Spokane Punk, New Wave, and Related Weirdos Scene in the 80′s pages and the soundtrack from a video of TFL playing at 123 Arts. It’s not going to be in the finished movie (it’s nowhere near good enough, and I can say that!) but by starting at the beginning of the 80′s and moving forward I tried to get some of the energy around the reunion into it. Maybe you’ll see faces you recognize, maybe not.
As we get more old pictures, video, music, stuff and paper, or whatever, we’ll be mixing it with the interviews we’re working on, current footage of Spokane, and whatever else makes sense to tell this story. They said it couldn’t be told, but we’re gonna tell it! (I have no idea who “they” is…)
We are looking for any old videos you may have of the Spokane scene. I know that there were not a lot of video cameras around, but there were a few…
Think back, is there a moldering VHS in a box in the basement from that last practice before the band broke up? Or that one show you videotaped for your production class at EWU?
Yes, you say… there was!
Go! Go now! Get up and leave the computer and dig through the attic! Any footage that we can use we will give you full credit- imagine your name up on the big screen, and the satisfaction of knowing that YOU, yes YOU, helped make this project happen!
Go to the Get Involved page to see how to let us know what you have. Or help out in some other way while you’re at it.
After spreading out the dragnet across the country, we are finally starting interviews! Our correspondent in New York is following the glamorous lives of ex-Spokanites in Gotham. Our Southwest Unit Director, (and he who conceived of this whole idea to begin with!) is far afield in the concrete canyons of Los Angeles, digging the dirt on the rise and fall of Punk Rock Stars from our humble Inland Empire. And the Northwest Unit are no slouches either; off to a roaring start with yarns spinning around artists and newspapermen. All in all a good week for production!
Also, the business end is getting all sorted out and we will be a bona-fide production company as soon as the Secretary of State gives us the go-ahead. Oh, if they only knew what they were signing off on…
If you know about The Rapture Punk Rock Reunion, you probably have some idea of what the inspiration for this movie is. If not, here’s a little background on why we’re making it.
This isn’t my story, but I’m going to start off with a part I played in it. Last December, I connected with a few old friends from Spokane on Facebook. I thought it might be fun to create group for them, so I made one that I called “Spokane Scene in the 80s” and invited eight of them to join. Within weeks the group had hundreds of members. I thought maybe some people weren’t quite sure what I’d meant by “Spokane Scene” so I clarified the name by changing it to “Spokane Punk, New Wave, and Related Weirdos Scene in the 80′s. A couple people left, but even more joined.
About the same time the Facebook group was starting to get scary big, a few folks in Spokane started getting serious about holding a reunion. That took off too. In a couple of weeks 160 some people are going to show up for three days of The Rapture Punk Rock Reunion in the Lilac City. Amazing, but true.
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