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Urgh a Music War

Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnite)!

Director: Derek Burbidge Run Time: 96 min. Format: 35mm Rating: R Release Year: 1981

Take a trip back to early 1980s with this compilation of twenty-six powerful live performances by the eras best Punk, New Wave, and Post-Punk bands.

Pre-party for Urgh! in Nitehawk’s street level bar at 10pm on both nights…Nitehawk teams up with Network Awesome for a very special screening of WOMEN IN PUNK at 10pm on Friday and Saturday. FREE entry and FREE Mike’s Hard Lemonade (until supplies last).

No narration and no text, just full-on performance. Urgh! A Music War features artists: The Police, Wall of Voodoo, Toyah Willcox, John Cooper Clarke, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Chelsea, Oingo Boingo, Echo & the Bunnymen, Jools Holland, XTC, Klaus Nomi, Athletico Spizz 80, The Go-Go’s, Dead Kennedys, Steel Pulse, Gary Numan, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Magazine, Surf Punks, The Members, Au Pairs, The Cramps, Invisible Sex, Pere Ubu, Devo, The Alley Cats, John Otway, Gang of Four, 999, The Fleshtones, X, Skafish, Splodgenessabounds, UB40, and Klaus Nomi.

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