Teenage Head band memorabilia on display at Hamilton's Beckett Fine Art

Teenage Head's exhibit at Beckett Fine Art in Hamilton opens September 5th and runs through September 23rd 

As part of gallery owner Tom Beckett's Love Hamilton! celebration of the Steel City art and music,  Hamilton's Beckett Fine Art will be showing rarely seen Teenage Head photos, posters, art work and related memorabilia from the band's own private collection. Hopefully we'll finally get to see those platform shoes that Steve Mahon was making in wood shop while attending Westdale Secondary School. My original pencil sketch of Teenage Head frontman Frankie Venom for the cover of the University of Waterloo student newspaper Imprint from 1980 probably won't be part of the exhibition but you can see it below. Beckett Fine Art (196 Locke St. S, Hamilton) is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 am to 5 pm. The exhibit is free. For more information, check out the Beckett Fine Art site right here. 

It's been 43 years since Teenage Head rocked Heatwave back in 1980... get a copy of their performance on vinyl right here. 

That time Keith Whittaker sang "New York City" with Teenage Head

Back in 1993, Keith Whittaker sang his Demics classic "New York City" with Gordie Lewis and crew at The Horseshoe in T.O.

Before They Were Famous: Teenage Head's Frankie Venom

 

Here's a yearbook photo of Frankie Venom back when he was known as Frank Kerr at Hamilton's Westdale Secondary School. 

Happy Birthday Frankie Venom!

Remembering the late great Frankie Venom with Douglas Arrowsmith's film Picture My Face: The Story Of Teenage Head. 

Teenage Head's "Picture My Face" doc airs tonight on TVO

The 1980 performance of Hamilton's Teenage Head at Heatwave will be in TVO's Picture My Face doc November 3 at 9 pm.  

Here's the scoop from Teenage Head...

"We always knew there was a film crew shooting the Heatwave Festival, but what happened to the footage? Apparently the majority of the bands declined to be filmed, or never agreed to participate in a movie about the festival, so the film they did have sat in a warehouse collecting dust. Our good friend Mr. Zero from the Kings had acquired all those film canisters several years ago, as Teenage Head and The Kings were the only bands left on film. That film ended up in the hands of FELTFILM director Douglas Arrowsmith, who has just wrapped up production on our upcoming feature documentary appropriatley titled "Picture My Face". Along with Doug McClement's pristine audio capture, the results are stunning. In fact that's how the documentary starts, which will air later this fall on TVO's Original Series with tons of never before seen footage. It only took 40 years, but from what we've seen it was worth the wait." 

Watch the trailer for Picture My Face followed by an interview with Teenage Head bassist Steve Mahon on the Daily Derringer podcast and The New Music's coverage of Heatwave below. 

Watch J.D. Roberts' coverage of Heatwave for The New Music in 1980  

Teenage Head record release @ Hamilton's This Ain't Hollywood, Saturday

Here's a Teenage Head interview and performance from 1981 followed by two versions of "Picture My Face" from 1978 and 2019. 

Happy Birthday Frankie Venom

An early promo shot of Hamilton's Teenage Head after Steve Marshall replaced Steve Park in 1975.