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Event Description

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

Calendar Release Celebration Gig
with The Evaporators
Saturday September 9, 2006
1:00pm - free!!!

Vancouver Public Library
Main Branch
South Plaza Steps

Join inquisitive punk rock journalist Nardwuar the Human Serviette as he digs through legendary photographer Bev Davies' photo vault and presents to you the best of her timeless unseen archival photos in this 2007 Punk Rock Calendar! Each month includes an interview with Bev about that particular month's photo! No photos were taken after 1982! Plus extras like a Mint Records discography and additional fun schnippets!

Artist by Month:
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
Jan-Dec 2008 - Duff McKagen/Fastbacks

Interesting Informational Tidbits:
*All photos by Bev Davies

*40 pages in total, 11x8.5 (11x17 folded in half and saddle-stitched), printed

*Calendar runs from December 2006 to December 2007 - and includes a 1-page 2008 calendar

*Each month contains an in-depth interview with Bev Davies by Nardwuar! Doot doola doot doo... doot doo!

*Eight bonus pages of rare photos and even more commentary/ interviews with Bev Davies

*Comes shrinkwrapped with a corrugated Mint Xmas card cardboard stiffener and 2 stickers!

*2007 also marks TWENTY years of the Nardwuar the Human Serviette Radio Show on CiTR fM 101.9!

*Also available on Mint: Doot Doola Doot Doo... Doot Doot! Nardwuar the Human Serviette's 2-disc DVD containing interviews galore with such folks as Snoop Dogg, Michael Moore, Mikhail Gorbachev, Gwar, nd many more! (#MRD-093) available in the USA through Alternative Tentacles.

About Bev Davies:

"The best photo taker in the whole world" - Stiff Little Fingers

There are few photographers in this wonderful world who have taken pictures of both '60s garage punk legends, The Barbarians and hardcore heroes, The Dead Kennedys.In fact, I challenge you to find one! And if you did, it would be Vancouver, BC Canada's Bev Davies.

I first met Bev at Joey Shithead of DOA's annual "garage sale" where she was selling some of her photos on his lawn.As I gawked at her pointed portraits of The Pointed Sticks, The Slits, Black Flag and The Rolling Stones, fascinating tales of the punk and the non-punk rawkin' variety soon emerged. From Bev's early years growing up in Toronto, Ontario, (I was astonished to find out that Bev almost went to California with Neil Young on his famous hearse ride to hell!) to her subse- quent relocation to Vancouver, BC, where she basically, from the late '70s to mid-'80s, shot everything that moved, the sto- ries she told were so cool! Whether joining DOA on many of their ground-breaking tours, flying to US Festival, or talking to John Lennon on the phone, this had to be documented! Not that it hadn't:Bev worked for a few years at Vancouver, BC's news and entertainment weekly, Georgia Straight, and was a contributor to Slash, Damaged, and tons of other fanzines. Nevertheless, I craved more.Hmmmm...Why not, with the help of Mint Records, create a "2007 Punk Punk Rock Calendar to help quell my photographic fantasies? Yeah!

Now, please view this calendar not as the final word on Bev's pics, but as the first step in the examination of one of the great chroniclers of our generation.Bev's photos help document the famous and unknown rock 'n' rollers of the 20th century, and without a doubt, combined with her amazing stories, provide a valuable resource for even the 'casual' musicologist.But Bev's photos ain't for museums, they're for you and your wall!