Pylon Reenactment Society takes you back to early New Wave movement

While a student at the University of Georgia in Athens in the late ’70s and early ’80s, Vanessa Briscoe (now Vanessa Briscoe Hay) thought it would be fun to join a few fellow art students and form a band. She certainly didn’t know she was about to be part of history.

“It was exciting because it was such a brand new thing,” she said in a phone interview.

“We were all very young, but one night I was downtown and R.E.M. was playing upstairs in the original 40 Watt Club. There was nothing else going on outside, but there were these two girls standing on top of a big ol’ landboat convertible and one of them said, ‘We’re making history.’ I was thinking, ‘This is not a major city, so how could all this be happening?'”