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PICTURE MY FACERalph Alfonso Punk Photo Show
Sunday Nov 1, 2-6pm
Biltmore Theatre - Mezzanine
39 King Street East, Oshawa
FREE ADMISSION
Celebrating 50 years of punk with classic images from the 1976-1979 punk explosion.
After a very successful June event, The Biltmore Theatre is proud to welcome the return of the punk photography exhibition by Ralph Alfonso, featuring his incredible documentation of the 1976-1979 punk explosion (and more). Free admission and all images are very affordably priced (from $20-$40).
In addition to managing The Diodes and the Crash'n'Burn Club (Canada's first punk club, built by and run by the bands); Ralph was an important writer/photographer; covering the nascent scenes in New York, Toronto and the UK, for publications like Cheap Thrills (Toronto), New York Rocker and BOMP! (USA), Shades (Toronto) and others.
His trove of photographs includes Iggy, Patti Smith, Diodes, Ramones, The Damned, The Runaways, Bif Naked, Talking Heads, Dead Boys, Richard Hell, Stranglers, Mo-Dettes, The Curse, Teenage Head, Wendy O. Williams, Diodes, Viletones, Barracudas, The Jam, Clash, B-Girls, The Nerves, Chelsea, and many more.
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"Old school 76-77 punk is having a moment. It was 50 years ago that Punk magazine serendipitously gave this music a moniker and The Ramones spread the gospel worldwide, as hundreds of bands formed after every one of their concerts.
Anyway, all this to say, I was actually there and I took some photos and wrote about it, ran a club (Crash'n'Burn), managed a band (The Diodes), pissed off a major label, and then it was all over and I disappeared into the music industry labyrinth, all my negatives sitting in a box for eons, only to be rediscovered a few years ago and I'm still finding amazing images I didn't realize I had.
I am super happy to be coming back to Oshawa at the legendary Biltmore Theatre where punk has always been part of their history now and beyond."
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Biltmore Theatre, 39 King St E,Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
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