Vancouver punk insider, ex-Skitzoid fanzine editor, and drummer Scott Beadle never expected to be invited by the Vancouver Historical Society to do a presentation on the early history of punk rock in Vancouver. "One guy just contacted me out of the blue—his name is Scott Anderson," Beadle told the Straight. "He's kind of young, and I get the feeling he did his time with them volunteering, and they said, ”˜Okay, now you get to pick a topics'." After the invite, Beadle—who has a history degree from SFU—"went down there and met them, just to get the lay of the land".

"They're all pensioners, and they were very nervous that I should not play any music," he said bemusedly. "More than one person made sure of that." There might not be any tunes at The Early History of Punk Rock in Vancouver, a free event that takes place tonight (October 23) at 7:30 p.m. at the Vancouver Museum (1100 Chestnut Street), but there will be a PowerPoint presentation beginning in the late 1970s with the Furies, the Dishrags, and the Skulls, and continuing to roughly 1983. "It's not that it's the sole reason why things changed, but I'm going up to the arrest of the Squamish Five and the fallout from that," Beadle explained. Julie Belmas, one of the Five, had previously played alongside Beadle in the punk band No Exit and is one of the people Beadle has interviewed for a planned book on punk in Vancouver.