M80 - The first ever NEWNONOW Wave Festival

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D. Chris Strouth & Rick Fuller 1979 USA 80 min.
In September of 1979, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis hosted the first ever "New-No-Now-Wave Festival", featuring music by The Fleshtones, The Monochrome Set, Tuxedomoon, The Suburbs, Dark Day, James Chance and the Contortions, Judy Nylon and a host of others - including rare footage of DEVO performing under the name ‘Dove’. This is a concert film of New Wave in it's infancy, before MTV. Stylish, yet raw, this captures the transition from No Wave to New Wave, the moment before it all exploded. The footage was lost in a morass of girlfriend's closets for 24 years, now lovingly restored to its vivid black and white glory.

Anyone see this yet, has it been released?

― , Thursday, 15 September 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

Google not much help...

― , Thursday, 15 September 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

Where'd you find the text?

― matt2 (matt2), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I'd like that very much.

There's Dove footage on the Devo DVD.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Where'd you find the text?

Here

― , Thursday, 15 September 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

It has screened twice here in Minneapolis as part of Sound Unseen, a film festival dedicated to music related movies. I've heard that a DVD is in the works, but that's about all I know. (I was at both the festival itself and the film premiere.)

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 15 September 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

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