Punk Rock Calendar Reviews

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http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=87268eaa-145d-4f02-b8e5-49a6df4b3ee0&k=19968

Punk calendar recalls the good ol' days
Classic shots of the heyday of Vancouver scene

John Mackie, Vancouver Sun

Published: Tuesday, August 22, 2006
People will put out calendars of most anything: dogs, cats, old cars.
Bev Davies has come up with one of the most unusual concepts: a calendar of vintage photos of punk rockers.

Today Davies is a welfare worker with the provincial government. But back in the heyday of Vancouver punk in the late 1970s and early '80s, she was one of a handful of photographers who documented the thriving local scene.

Many of her photos appeared in the Georgia Straight, others became album covers. With some financial help from her parents, she even put out two punk rock calendars of local bands in 1980 and 1981.

Those calendars are now as rare as vintage copies of the old punk magazine Snotrag. TV and radio personality Nardwuar the Human Serviette somehow tracked them down, and now, a quarter of a century later, he's convinced Davies to issue an all-new punk rock calendar.

It's called Nardwuar the Human Serviette vs. Bev Davies, A 2007 Punk Rock Calendar! Local legends such as DOA, the Subhumans and the Pointed Sticks are featured alongside shots of international acts such as the Clash, the Gang of Four and the Ramones.


There is an amazing shot of the Go-Go's back in their early, early punk phase where singer Belinda Carlisle looks about 12 years old. The Motorhead shot from 1981 is a classic, featuring a typical heavy metal rude gesture.

Davies was a wee bit older than most punk rockers -- she hung out with Neil Young in Toronto in the '60s, and was a last-minute dropout from Young's famous trip from Toronto to L.A. in a hearse that ended with him meeting Stephen Stills and forming Buffalo Springfield.

She discovered punk after coming across a DOA poster. She had just taken a photography course and was looking for inspiration, and found it, in spades.

"They put out this poster that said, 'We were banned in Vancouver, and you thought you got rid of us!' So, they played about two blocks inside Burnaby at some hall," she laughs.

"I went to that but I didn't take a camera. I thought, 'Hot damn!' And I went back to the next show that was happening and took a camera with me."

She is currently scanning her thousands of negatives with the goal of putting out a book.

Mint Records is sending the calendar around North America as a promotional item, but it will be for sale in September, after a release party Sept. 9 at 1 p.m. at the downtown library featuring Nardwuar's band The Evaporators.

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from

http://web.bcnewsgroup.com/portals-code/list.cgi?cat=44&paper=43&id=714528


By JENNIFER MALONEY Staff Reporter, North Shore Outlook
Aug 24 2006

Bev Davies thinks of her life as a dresser. Each section is a drawer — and the contents don’t necessarily overlap into the next.

It wasn’t until she recently received a scanner for her computer however, that the tracks of one drawer slid open the era she spent photographing electric guitars and ripped blue jeans.

“The scanning brought that whole thing back into my world,” says the former punk rock photographer in a telephone interview.

“Suddenly the pictures were right there in front of me again.”

It’s not as though the provincial government worker was trying to forget the days – or nights to be more accurate – she spent photographing bands like DOA in seedy punk venues and Vancouver party houses. But times had changed.

Long before photo passes were mandatory for rock-star access, Davies was running after the drummer of the Sex Pistols through the Commodore Ballroom and sashaying backstage at press conferences to capture a natural portrait of The Clash.

Her novel portfolio eventually landed her freelance gigs with publications like the Georgia Straight and Damaged Magazine, but it was the music and the art of photography that fuelled her career. As opportunities arose, the venues she shot at changed from Gary Taylor’s Rock Room – bands on the first floor, strippers in the basement – to the Coliseum. With bigger names and larger venues came more restrictions. The day she was told she couldn’t shoot AC/DC on the opening night of their North American tour because she wasn’t from the Vancouver Sun, she realized the roots of her craft were lost.

“It upset me for weeks,” she recalls.

“I thought, ‘Why does it matter?’ It shouldn’t matter if the Stones aren’t going to be waiting for me to come photograph them, but there’s still a part of you that thinks, it does matter.”

Davies eventually stopped shooting, but her archive of punk culture caught the attention of West Vancouver’s Nardwuar.

The Canadian TV personality is perhaps known best for crashing press conferences and posing questions like, “Are you the Hugh Hefner of LSD?” to celebrities like Timothy Leary.

But Nardwuar is also the founder of a small media empire and he has an honest interest in punk music that stems from his high school days, where, as student-council president, he organized bands for dances.

When he saw Davies’ work at a DOA “garage sale,” he became intrigued.

“She was sitting on the lawn selling all these photos of bands I’d interviewed. I asked her if I could use some to accompany articles I’d written and then I started interviewing her.”

Through their discussions, Nardwuar learned Davies created a punk-rock calendar in 1980. He proposed doing a revival of the calendar using the photos she’d pick “if someone walked in and asked her to grab her favourite punk shots from her house.”

While both Davies and Nardwuar are advocates of up- and-comers, they chose photos people would instantly identify with such as The Ramones holding a “GABBA, GABBA, HEY,” sign at UBC’s student union building and a 15-year-old Duff McKagan (of Guns and Roses fame) drumming for a band called the Fastbacks in Seattle, with Adam and the Ants scribbled on his jeans – Nardwuar’s personal favourite.

“What attracted me to Bev, was every photo had a cool, long story associated with it, whether it be Motorhead ripping their pants or almost getting beaten up by bikers to photograph the Dead Kennedy’s in England.”

The stories are documented each calendar month through an interview with Davies and Nardwuar. The pair are celebrating the release of the calendar Sept. 9 at the Vancouver Public Library at 1 p.m. rain or shine. Nardwuar’s band, The Evaporators, are giving a free concert.

For more info visit punkrockcalendar.com The calendar is officially released in stores Sept. 12.

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from:

http://www.geocities.com/punkbooks/bevdavies.html

Nardwuar the Human
Serviette vs. Bev Davies:
A 2007 Punk Rock Calendar! (2006)
$14.00

Now this is one of punk’s unique anomalies. A professionally
bound calender that comes in the shape of an A4 glossy book
which opens out into a double page spread for each month.
Including interesting mini dialogues with Toronto born
photographer Bev Davies, who took all the shots in this product.
It’s also a good introduction for those of us not yet familiar with
Bev’s work and her interrogator Vancouver punk journo and
Evaporators singer, Nardwuar The Human Serviette, who himself
is something of a British Columbian institution. Between them they
create an appealing look back at a time when punk wasn’t just a
uniform taste. And unlike the regular punk calendars, which
feature band shots, dates and nothing else. This lavishly put
together almanac is more like a magazine sporting rare black and
white shots with intriguing behind the scene accounts. Bev is one
those talented female photographers who doesn’t seem to have
gotten the respect or acknowledgement she so richly deserves.
She worked for Vancouver BC’s news and Entertainment weekly
’Georgia Straight’ and contributed to ‘Slash‘, ‘Damaged’ and
many more fanzines in her time. She’s now working in the slightly
less glamorous provincial government post as a welfare worker.
Which must pay well, but can’t be quite as much fun? However
from the photographic evidence on display here, she must be
sitting on a goldmine of snaps from punks primal past, which must
be screaming to be viewed and seen by a larger audience, than
the next garage sale no doubt.

The majority of the shots in this collection have or are linked
intrinsically to Vancouver, BC. Bev relocated there in the late 70’s
and literally shot everything that moved between then and ‘85. In
fact this whole Calender puts the city of Vancouver back on the
punk map alongside DOA‘s long running rowdy outbursts. The
images are either taken whilst bands toured the city or at various
foreign locations, including California and London. A long line of
influential acts are portrayed, including The Subhumans,
Motorhead, Avengers, Black Flag, Adam and the Ants in
San Francisco, D.O.A. , Johnny Thunders, The Clash in San
Bernardino, Pointed Sticks, Go-Go’s again in San Francisco,
Dead Kennedy’s in London, Gang of Four, Ramones, and Duff
McKagen/Fastbacks. From the candid dialogue we find out
Lemmy from Motorhead has customised black pants tailor made
for him in London. So if your looking for that slight black flair to
match your cuban heels in Hot Topic, don’t bother. Zippy Pinhead
from the Dils took a sneaky leak in Penelope Houston’s top
drawer tut tut; hope he didn’t spoil her copies of Ring magazine.
Ian McKaye’s laborious account of the meaning of hardcore was
something we all could’ve done without, but was overshadowed in
spectacular fashion by a brilliant live shot of DOA in action.
Actions speak louder than words on that subject! There’s an
unusual shot of Johnny Thunders draped in an Italian flag on
stage, which would’ve been fantastic in colour. Mr Thunders by
the way, slipped over the stringent Canadian border on the
strength of his New York library card and local promoters
borderline connections. There’s a funny story about the Anti
Nowhere League bullying DOA in London over who opens up a
support slot for the Dead Kennedy’s. The Tunbridge crew with a
small chapter of bikers got their way. However DOA had the last
laugh, when someone mysteriously spiked Animals drink during the
bands visit to Vancouver. There are even opinions on the smell
of Billy Idols leather pants. Plus a first-class shot of a teenage
Duff McKagan (G’N’R’s) playing drum in his first band the
Fastbacks. Wasn’t quite overawed at seeing Gang Of Four (who have gotta be the most bland looking band ever), failing to brighten up a dull November. However a larger 4 page interrogation focussing on Bev’s favourite shots from her career which includes a lots of DOA references, plus anecdotes on cult punk movie ‘Ladies And Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains’ which was also inevitably shot in Vancouver, will keep you entertained.

This is an impressive legacy to Bev’s work that concludes with a two page discography of Vancouver label Mint Records who put this slick package together and Nardwuar Records respectively. Printed in Canada sold to the rest of the world, lets hope this sets the trend for future punk calendars. * * * *
Available from www.nardwuar.com/calendar/

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from:

http://punkmusic.about.com/b/a/007341.htm

Nardwuar the Human Serviette vs. Bev Davies, A 2007 Punk Rock Calendar!


The names Nardwuar the Human Serviette and Bev Davies may not be household names for my readers in the states, but the two are legendary scenesters in Vancouver.

Nardwuar is a punk rock jack of all trades. He is a concert promoter, the frontman for the legendary Canadian garage band the Evaporators and the host of a radio show on 101.9 CITR, where he interviews tons of bands.

Bev Davies, now a welfare worker with the Canadian government, was a photographer who documented the Vancouver punk scene in the late '70s and early '80s. Many of her photos became album covers.

Nardwuar and Davies have teamed up to release Nardwuar the Human Serviette vs. Bev Davies, A 2007 Punk Rock Calendar! The calendar features timeless of photos of a ton of great bands including the Clash, Ramones and a very early shot of the Go-Gos.

Each month's photo is accompanied by an in-depth interview with photographer Bev Davies by Nardwuar, and there are eight pages of bonus photos as well. As a whole, this calendar is a great document of punk history, and I'm hoping for future collaborations. A book of Davies' photography and Nardwuar's interviews would be a great idea.

I just got my copy, and it rocks. It's definitely a calendar I'll keep long after 2007 is dead and buried.

Here are the bands featured on Nardwuar the Human Serviette vs. Bev Davies, A 2007 Punk Rock Calendar!

December 2006 - The Subhumans
January 2007 - Motorhead
February 2007 - Avengers
March 2007 - Black Flag
April 2007 - Adam and the Ants
May 2007 - D.O.A.
June 2007 - Johnny Thunders
July 2007 - The Clash
August 2007 - Pointed Sticks
September 2007 - Go-Gos
October 2007 - Dead Kennedys
November 2007 - Gang of Four
December 2007 - Ramones
2008 - Duff McKagen (Yes, that Duff McKagen, but this is from his early days with the Fastbacks)


Also, check out Nardwuar's site. In addition to news of everything he's been up to, there are downloads of his interviews with legendary (and not so legendary - Vanilla Ice is in there, for one) musicians that span back for years. He has also released Doot Doola Doot Doo... Doot Doo!, a DVD compilation of some of his best interviews. It's available here.

Cover courtesy of Mint Records

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from:

http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=20036

Music Notes
Punk's days are numbered
By john lucas
Publish Date: 31-Aug-2006


In 1980 and ’81, Vancouver photographer Bev Davies, with some financial help from her parents, published calendars featuring her images of local bands and music-scene hangers-on. That might have been the end of the story if Nardwuar the Human Serviette had not gotten involved. A long-time fan of Davies’s work, Nardwuar convinced the photographer that the time was right for another calendar featuring her shots, and the result is Nardwuar the Human Serviette vs. Bev Davies: A 2007 Punk Rock Calendar. Copublished by Nardwuar Records and Mint Records, the 13-month calendar features classic photos of local punk pioneers the Subhumans, D.O.A., and the Pointed Sticks, along with vintage pictures of Motörhead, the Avengers, Black Flag, Adam and the Ants, Johnny Thunders, the Clash, the Go-Go’s, Dead Kennedys, Gang of Four, and the Ramones. It also includes extensive interviews with Davies, conducted by the Human Serviette himself.

One of the best concert photographers North America has ever produced, Davies told the Georgia Straight that the process of selecting shots for the calendar had her rediscovering pictures she hadn’t seen in years. “By being able to scan them [the negatives] and pull them up to a reasonable size on the computer, I’ve found all this other stuff that I never even looked at before,” she said. “Because, I mean, you shoot four rolls of film and you want one picture. You don’t print 100-and-some pictures to get that one. You just pick it. Then I go back to that one again. It’s been pretty interesting to see some of the other stuff.”

Davies, who once worked for the Straight, said she would like to compile a book of her work. “I’m in the process of putting together a book proposal for a publisher,” she said. “I actually had a publisher before, but things kind of fell through at some point with it.” The calendar’s release will be celebrated with a free outdoor performance by Nardwuar’s band, the Evaporators, at Library Square (350 West Georgia Street) next Saturday (September 9) at 1 p.m. Nard and Davies will return to Library Square on September 24 to sign copies of the calendar during the Word on the Street book-and-magazine fair. For more info on the project, see http://www.punkrockcalendar.com

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from:

http://subvox.blogspot.com/2006/09/suburban-voice-blog-20.html

NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE VS. BEV DAVIES-A 2007 Punk Rock Calendar (Mint, calendar!)
Here’s a first—a calendar sent for review. Nardwuar, one of the more unique interviewers on the planet. His work appears in Razorcake ‘zine and on his own site http://www.nardwuar.com/). Here he reminisces with photographer Bev Davies, who contributes striking vintage photos of such bands as Gang Of Four, Pointed Sticks, Clash, Ramones, DOA (a photo that appeared on the back of “Hardcore ‘81” and others Even a picture of G’N’R’s Duff McKagan in his punk days, playing with the Fastbacks. Half of them are live, half are “photo shoot” type pictures, although they have a candid quality, such as Gang Of Four clowning around, which belies their assumed seriousness. They talk about the artists and the stories behind them. There’s also an extensive interview with more photos. So it’s more than just a calendar but also a document. I usually hang wall calendars in my bedroom/record room and office and that means I only have to get one more for next year. Good job. (PO Box 3613, Vancouver BC, CANADA V6B 3Y6, http://www.mintrecs.com/)

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from the globe:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060908.CALENDAR08V/EmailTPStory/TPEntertainment


GOING OUT: EVENT
Punk-faced pinups rock on
KEVIN CHONG
Special to The Globe and Mail
In the late seventies, a recent art-school grad named Bev Davies started bringing her camera to punk shows at Vancouver clubs like the late Smilin' Buddha on East Hastings. Her photographs, which appeared in publications such as The Georgia Straight, document a legendary era in the city's musical history. A selection of her shots -- featuring local groups such as the Subhumans as well as international acts such as the Clash and Gang of Four -- have been collected in Nardwuar the Human Serviette versus Bev Davies: A 2007 Punk Rock Calendar.

Nardwuar met Davies at D.O.A. singer Joey Shithead's annual garage sale in 1998. "She was selling her photos on his lawn," says Nardwuar, a local musician and media personality. In the calendar, he interviews Davies about each photo. His band, the Evaporators, will launch the calendar in a free outdoor show (tomorrow at 1 p.m.) on the steps of Vancouver's Central Library. Says Nardwuar: "Can't get more punk than playing a library!"

The Avengers
The San Francisco group played at the old Janus Theatre on Fourth Avenue in May, 1979. They performed with the Subhumans on a Saturday night, about a month before they disbanded. Davies remembers Avengers singer Penelope Houston as "a very energetic presence, though for Vancouver it wasn't very unusual for a woman to front a band. We had the Dishrags, which was all-female."

Black Flag
Davies shot the L.A. hardcore band outside a house on Victoria Drive in 1980. "The band wanted me to photograph them with cans of Black Flag, the insecticide, in a store," Davies remembers. "But there weren't any in Canada. They were really shocked." Instead, Davies and the band walked around East Vancouver taking photos. "This house belonged to friends of theirs. It's still there; it's just way nicer now."

D.O.A.
In 1981, she photographed the local punk legends at the Laundromat (now Richard's on Richards), on a bill with Black Flag, 7 Seconds from Reno and East Van Halen.
"Those two nights were amazing. The place was absolutely packed," Davies says. "I loved [D.O.A. bassist] Randy Rampage. He was -- and still is -- very
dynamic onstage. But since he's hurt his ankle, he hasn't been able to jump as much. In the photo, it's Dave Greg jumping. It was one or the other."

Adam and the Ants
Davies shot the London new-wave band at the California Hall in San Francisco. "I went down earlier, because they had a press conference," Davies says. "Adam Ant was tiny and at the press conference he was really quiet and had little pirate rings. Nardwuar calls it "the cheese photograph" because they're a bit cheesy, but I think [their album] Kings of the Wild Frontier stands up well."

The Ramones
"Joey Ramone didn't move around or grab the microphone," Davies recalls of her 1980 photo. "He had this stance where he stood with one foot in front of the other,
kind of braced, and he sung as though he were delivering poetry." Davies, who now works as a financial assistant but still takes photos, says bands like the Ramones inspired many young musicians. "People went to a show, would go home, get a guitar, get a band together and be onstage within two weeks."

The calendar costs $11.99.
It will be sold at tomorrow's
launch and at stores across
Canada starting Sept. 12.
It can also be purchased at http://www.punkrockcalendar.com.

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from 24hrs:

http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/Entertainment/2006/09/12/1828946-sun.html

A punk a month, every month
By JOHN PIGEON, 24 HOURS

Punk rockers of all ages made their way down to the Vancouver Public Library Saturday - and no, they weren't there to catch up on homework from the first week of school.

Punk rock photographer Bev Davies launched her 2007 punk rock calendar with a little help from Nardwuar the Human Serviette and The Evaporators, who played a set for the launch.

The calendar, entitled Nardwuar the Human Serviette Vs. Bev Davies, features Davies' photos of the Ramones, the Clash, Black Flag, D.O.A. and Motorhead, just to name a few.
The calendar is available at Zulu, Scratch and Red Cat Records.

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from:
http://www.seemagazine.com/Issues/2006/0914/mus6.htm

Also, some punk rock visual radness from a cool dude-doo-doot might brighten up your walls or make a pretty sweet Christmas present (aaaaah, already?). So get your hands on Nardwuar and legendary photog Bev Davies’ new 2007 calendar (from Mint Records). An absoultely essential nugget of punk history with superb B&W photography.

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http://www.acc.umu.se/~samhain/summerofhate/fanzinereviews15.html#fanzinereviews15

A 2007 PUNK ROCK CALENDAR (Mint Records)
I think the full titel of this is actually something like NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE VS. BEV DAVIES: A 2007 PUNK ROCK CALANDER. NARDWUAR is a nerdy radio host and punk rock historian type guy and BEV DAVIES is a fairly well known rock photographer. They're both Canadians.

This calendar has a 2-page spread for every month between December 2006 to December 2007, and an additional spread for 2008. Every month is one band photo by BEV DAVIES and an interview with her about the pic and the artist. The bands are SUBHUMANS, MOTORHEAD, AVENGERS, BLACK FLAG, ADAM & THE ANTS, D.O.A., JOHNNY THUNDERS, CLASH, POINTED STICKS, GO-GO'S, DEAD KENNEDYS, GANG OF FOUR, RAMONES and FASTBACKS (a young DUFF MCKAGAN playing drums wearing a D.O.A. t-shirt). The rest of the 40 pages are more pics and interviews including LOOTERS (from the film Ladies And Gentlemen; The Faboulous Stains), STIFF LITTLE FINGERS, RUDE NORTON, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART and WASP.

All the photos are really good and the interviews are well researched and interesting. Did I mentioned that the photos are all from the bands' early years? I don't know the price but whatever it is you should buy it.

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http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/current/music_perlichspicks.php

PERLICH'S PICKS
A WEEKLY DIG THROUGH THE CRATES FOR THE STUFF YOU REALLY NEED TO HEAR
By TIM PERLICH


Also available from Mint is Nardwuar's 2007 Punk Rock Calendar illustrated by Bev Davies's amazing on-the-scene photos of D.O.A., the Subhumans, Pointed Sticks, Black Flag, Johnny Thunders, the Clash and others in additon to her entertaining recollections prodded by the grand inquisitor himself. www.nardwuar.com.

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from

http://www.exclaim.ca/index.asp?layid=22&csid=798&csid1=5670

CALENDAR

The Monthlies

MuchMusic personality/guerrilla interviewer extraordinaire Nardwuar has teamed up with Vancouver-based photographer Bev Davies to create the most entertaining calendar ever (www.punkrockcalendar.com). Spice up 2007 with Davies’ excellent band photos, from the Subhumans to Motörhead, the Go-Gos to Adam and the Ants. And while Davies discovers the human side of her subjects, Nardwuar — as always — dishes the dirt in interviews with Davies on every page. Tons to absorb here, not the least of which is an amazing pre-Guns N’ Roses shot of Duff McKagan drumming for Seattle’s Fastbacks in 1981, and a stunning candid snap of the Clash’s Joe Strummer that will make you hope that it’s July 2007 forever.

Greg Pratt

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from:

http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=179257

Nardwuar vs Bev Davies - 2007 Punk Rock Calendar
Reviewed by Darren McLeod on 10-13-06

So, let’s say you have a crush on that boy or girl in your class, the one who wears a leather jacket and has a bright red Mohawk. Maybe you’re wondering how to win their heart this Christmas, but you know they already have every vinyl EP they could possibly dream of, and their jacket has no room for any more patches. What could you possibly give this person so that you two can be smashing the state together in 2007?

Well, thanks to everyone’s favorite guerilla interviewer, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, there’s a perfect option: the 2007 Punk Rock Calendar. Now, before you get excited about photos of Panic! At The Disco and Cute Is What We Aim For that could be adorning your wall, it should be noted that this is more of a history lesson than a current events calendar. The calendar’s photos are beautiful black and white shots done by Bev Davies throughout the late 70s and early 80s, and covers some of the biggest names of the period: D.O.A., Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, The Ramones, and The Clash, just to name a few. Each month also features an interview between Nardwuar and Bev, where she provides recollections of her interactions with these bands as she photographed them. She provides great insight into these legendary bands and often has some humorous stories to tell (like the time she was scheduled to interview Lemmy from Motorhead and he couldn’t come out because he had split his last pair of pants and had none to wear).

If you’re looking to show a little punk rock spirit all year round, then I can’t fathom a better way. The photos look spectacular, and the various interviews (including a very long bonus interview with a couple dozen more photos) will keep your interest until Christmas rolls around again in 2007. To learn more about it or to order one, head to PunkRockCalendar.com.

Month Listing
December 2006 – Subhumans
January – Motorhead
February – Avengers
March – Black Flag
April – Adam & The Ants
May – D.O.A.
June – Johnny Thunders
July – The Clash
August – Pointed Sticks
September – Go-Go’s
October – Dead Kennedys
November – Gang of Four
December – Ramones

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from: http://jonnychance.port5.com/content/0084cale.htm

Nardwuar the Human Serviette vs. Bev Davies:
A 2007 Punk Rock Calendar!
Mint Records
Nardwuar Records
Reviewed by Stephen Jersak

Nine short years ago my Grandma gave me an NHL calendar; I promptly cut out all the goalies. Since that glue-filled day, I have only been excited about one calendar, although I use the term loosely.
Keeping track of holidays, birthdays, and [hopefully not] surgeries has a diminished role as Nardwuar and Bev monopolize your afternoon, looking at pictures and talking about the heroes of punk, hardcore, and garage. The quality is uniformly baronial*, and being two-thirds as interested in music history as I am ensures the ongoing interview is engrossing.

The calendar isn't the point, but that's fine, because it means we get some allegedly special features. An extra eight pages of interviews and photos, some stickers, and a nice Mitch Clem illustration support the special claim, but complete Mint and Nardwuar discographies is stretching it. I don't have anything against the album listings, but calling these advertisements "Special features" is my one beef with this otherwise great punk rock history book.
*"fit for a baron"

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from:

http://itcameoutmagical.blogspot.com/2006/10/month-changes-numbers.html

I would've either picked this up myself or subtly hinted that it would make an awesome Christmas present, but Nardwuar was kind enough to send me a copy of the Punk Rock Calendar that he put out with Bev Davies and those fine folks at Mint. The calendar runs December '06 - December '07 and features monthly commentary from Nardwuar and Bev, as well as some of Bev's ridiculously awesome photos of such ridiculously awesome bands as Gang of Four, Motorhead, Black Flag, the DKs, and a little band called the Clash (whom some of you may recall as 'the only group that matters'). There's even a Ramones pic that was snapped in the SUB Ballroom, which might be worth noting if you're alma mater is also UBC. Oh, and there's also a photo of Duff McKagan drumming, not with G'n'R, but with the Fastbacks! Honestly, I don't know if I've ever been excited about a calendar before, but this thing is rad. Consider buying one if you're a lover of ze punk rock, or know someone who is. You can pick it up in all the finer music stores around town (and probably some of the finer bookstores as well - but for christ's sake, please don't patronize Chapter's if it's there). I spent the better part of an hour reading through all the stuff while listening to "Entertainment" on LP the day this arrived in the mail.