Review by Jack Rabid in "The Big Takeover" issue #63:

"Wow! I’ve been hearing about this 25-minute movie for 29 years, and it’s amazing to

 view it now! What a window to a time that was rarely documented: the pre-hardcore,

 original punk era when it was astonishingly fresh, creative, rule-busting, and shot full

 of newborn energy/excitement. It’s Toronto,  December 3, 1978, a three-camera, 

good-sounding film (not video) of seven bands (one song each) playing at the farewell

 concert of premier punk club, The Horseshoe Tavern. The stars are Teenage Head and

 The Viletones, known from collectible singles—but not footage. Lesser known 

openers prove equally supercharged, fascinating, and varied. The Scenics open like a 

Canadian Velvet Underground; Cardboard Brains are more The Weirdos vein; The 

Secrets add a taste of R&B/Skulls/Vibrators/U.K. Subs groove; The Ugly ripsnort 

through a Dead Boys/Ramones dirty shockwave; and The Mods are Jam clones to a t 

(or a suit and skinny tie!), but they’re excellent, fierce, and tight; Nazi Dog’s Viletones 

make magically menacing three-chord rock, and, in the one song they were allowed 

before cops stopped the show and punters rioted, Teenage Head cooks a classic rock 

‘n’ roll infested chaos. Beyond that, is how vivid this film is, of a scene and 

underground moment it captures. It’s not just the dancing and pogoing creatively 

dressed, jazzed, skinny people—no idiot slam dancing and sneers—or the notorious

 sweaty buzz the crowd gets from seven wired, wiry bands, or the pleasant sight of 

punk’s front row ringed with women—led by impossibly cute punkette co-host 

Margarita Passion. It’s that this was an art-meets-music lightning flash the likes of 

which has never been replicated. Short but absolutely essential history comes alive!"

 

includes a special feature of The Scenics performing 7 songs live in a tiny cable tv studio in 1978!!!