Last White Christmas

The Last White Christmas was a music festival held in Pisa, Italy on Dec. 4, 1983, the day of Saint Barbara.[2][3][4]

A must for the international collector.

— Tim Yohannan[1]

Last White Christmas

The festival, organized by the Gran Ducato Hard Core (GDHC),[5] was held in the deconsecrated church of San Zeno.[6] The church hosted the first GDHC initiatives until July 1894 when the circle Victor Charlie opened.[7] But the circle had a short life (about 7 months) and tumultuous between protests of the neighborhood, closing and consequent occupation.[8][9][10][11] After a few years GDHC occupied the Macchia Nera, historical Pisan self-managed social center active from 1988 to 1999.[12][13]

The recording of the concert (six hours), engineered by Alessandro Sportelli and Alessandro Paolucci via a cassette tape deck "wired directly to soundboard, no ambience mics ..." (Alessandro Sportelli interview), was later released by Bad Compilation Tapes / Borderless Countries Tapes of San Diego February 1984, in two volumes titled BCT #6 Last White Christmas I and BCT #7 Last White Christmas II as a co-release with Cessophonya Records of Jim Plumbago in Italy. About half the tracks were used. These two live albums were later reissued on CD in 2000 by BCT (Bad Compilation Tapes) in conjunction with Schizophrenic Records of Hamilton (Ontario, CA), Enterruption of San Francisco (California, U.S.), Ponk-111 of Walnut Creek (California, U.S.) and Human Stench of Pittsfield (Massachusetts, U.S.) with a few extra tracks. Limited edition: 500 pressed each.[14][15]

Ten tracks taken from the recording of the concert were published on the album Urla dal Granducato by Area Pirata Records in 2003.[16]

In one of the bands that performed at festival also played Fefo Forconi then with Toxic Reasons.[17]

In December 2018 the 35th anniversary of Last White Christmas was celebrated with the LWC35 concert in the historic Lumiere cinema of Pisa, the first cinema to be opened in Italy (1899). Among the guests of concert were polemica[18] of Hilary Blinder, ex drummer of Sabot.[19] In the cinema hall there was an exhibition of 35 posters made by Italian and international graphic designers and illustrators for the 35th anniversary of the concert. Among the artists who participated with their own work created for the 35th anniversary of the concert there were: Winston Smith, Craig Henning, John Yarbrough (designer of the cover of the first concert release on cassettes), Tuono Pettinato, Vittore Baroni, Giuseppe Palumbo and Prof.Bad Trip.[20][21] The official poster of the LWC35 festival was designed by Danijel Žeželj.

In June 2020, the Italian label Area Pirata re-released the Last White Christmas concert thanks to the granting of the reprint rights free of charge by Chris Chacon of BCT. [22][23]

Last White Christmas tracks

Some record productions made with recordings taken from Last White Christmas vol.I and vol.II:

  1. Raw Power (tape, BCT, USA, 1984)
  2. Senza Tregua (tape, Ribelli Uniti Records, ITA, 1984)
  3. Last White Christmas (cd, Bad Compilation Tapes, Schizophrenic Records and Human Stench, USA & Canada, 2000)[24]
  4. Last White Christmas II (cd, Bad Compilation Tapes, Schizophrenic Records and Human Stench, USA & Canada, 2000)
  5. Senza Tregua: Granducato Hardcore (LP, Enterruption, BC Tapes & Records, Schizophrenic Records and Ponk-111, USA, 2002)[25]
  6. Urla Dal Granducato Vol. 1 (LP, Area Pirata, ITA, 2003)[26]
  7. Urla Dal Granducato Vol. 2 (LP, Area Pirata, ITA, 2006)[27]
  8. Last White XMas (double CD, Area Pirata, ITA, 2020)

Bibliography
  • Polvani, Fabio (2003). Blow-up Magazine #60.
  • Philopat, Marco (2006). Lumi di punk. La scena italiana raccontata dai protagonisti. Agenzia X, Milano, Italia. ISBN 978-8895029085.
  • Calmbach, Marc (2007). More than Music: Einblicke in die Jugendkultur Hardcore. [transcript], Bielefeld, Germany. ISBN 978-3899427042.
  • Nozza, Diego (2011). Hard core. Introduzione al punk italiano degli anni Ottanta. CRAC Edizioni, Italia. ISBN 889-7389023.
  • Bestley, Russ; Ogg, Alex; Loren, Dennis (2012). The Art of Punk: The Illustrated History of Punk Rock Design. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Voyageur Press. ISBN 978-0760344101.
  • Bestley, Russ; Ogg, Alex; Loren, Dennis (2014). The Art of Punk: The Illustrated History of Punk Rock Design. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1783057368.
  • Cecchi, Antonio (2016). No more pain. Viaggio nell'anima. Ed. Area Pirata Records, Pisa, Italia. ISBN 889-4207609.
  • Greene Jr., James (2017). Brave Punk World: The International Rock Underground from Alerta Roja to Z-Off. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 1442269847.
  • Senesi, Giorgio (2019). Dritti contro un muro. L'hardcore punk italiano degli anni '80 raccontato da 140 protagonisti. Feltrinelli. ISBN 979-1220047739.

References
  1. "LWC review by". Tim Yohannan p.73 Maximum Rocknroll, No. 12 (March 1984)
  2. Hard core. Introduzione al punk italiano degli anni Ottanta - Pages 37, 49, 54 and 55 - Diego Nozza - 2011 - CRAC Edizioni, Italia. ISBN 889-7389023
  3. "Maximum Rocknroll, No. 14 (June 1984) - Page 52".
  4. No more pain. Viaggio nell'anima - Pages 70, 71 and 72 - Antonio Cecchi - 2017 - Ed. Area Pirata Records, Pisa, Italia. ISBN 889-4207609
  5. "GDHC Maximumrocknroll n°9".
  6. "GDHC fanzine".
  7. "Lumi di punk. La scena italiana raccontata dai protagonisti, pag.179" (PDF).
  8. "Victor Charlie and GDHC".
  9. "Victor Charlie".
  10. "Victor Charlie flyer" (PDF).
  11. "DIY".
  12. "Macchia Nera".
  13. "Macchia Nera".
  14. "Last White Christmas I on CD".
  15. "Last White Christmas II on CD".
  16. "Urla dal Granducato".
  17. "Toxic Reason band members".
  18. "polemica band".
  19. "Sabot".
  20. "Prof. Bad Trip, works published".
  21. "Prof. Bad Trip interview in: Cyberpunk: Videozine II, Milano, Shake Edizioni Underground, 1994, VHS".
  22. "Last White Christmas, storia del concerto che ha cambiato l'hardcore italiano".
  23. "BLOW UP #265 giugno 2020".
  24. "LWC I in top ten on Short Fast & Loud! #8, 2002".
  25. "Artwork by Winston Smith".
  26. "Urla Dal Granducato Vol. 1 on MRR".
  27. "Urla Dal Granducato Vol. 2 on MRR".
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