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King Rocker (2020)

ALL 10/31/2020 (en) Documentary, Music 90 Min
  • Release
    10/31/2020
  • Production
    Fire Films
  • Rotten tomato
    75%
  • Original title
    King Rocker
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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A Film About Robert Lloyd and The Nightingales

Overview

How does a working class autodidact, with no visible means of support, maintain his role as the leader of a cult British underground band into its fifth decade? Comedian and writer Stewart Lee, director Michael Cumming and James Nicholls investigate the mysterious existence of Robert Lloyd, Britain’s ultimate post-punk survivor. Robert Lloyd’s Prefects played with The Clash on the White Riot tour in 1977, and their ongoing incarnation, as Birmingham’s Captain Beefheart suffused post-punk poets The Nightingales, recorded more John Peel sessions than any other band. Ever. But what were the social, cultural and economic circumstances that enabled and sustained such outsider artists in the punk and post-punk eras, and how has the world changed to the point where such figures are unlikely to flourish in the same way today? Lloyd’s own odyssey echoes how abstract notions of social mobility, of the value of culture and music, have changed in the last five decades.

  1. Michael Cumming

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. James Nicholls

    Producer



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King Rocker (2020) 90 Min

ALL 10/31/2020 (en)
Documentary, Music
  • Release 10/31/2020
  • Production
    Fire Films
  • Original title King Rocker
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

A Film About Robert Lloyd and The Nightingales

Overview

How does a working class autodidact, with no visible means of support, maintain his role as the leader of a cult British underground band into its fifth decade? Comedian and writer Stewart Lee, director Michael Cumming and James Nicholls investigate the mysterious existence of Robert Lloyd, Britain’s ultimate post-punk survivor. Robert Lloyd’s Prefects played with The Clash on the White Riot tour in 1977, and their ongoing incarnation, as Birmingham’s Captain Beefheart suffused post-punk poets The Nightingales, recorded more John Peel sessions than any other band. Ever. But what were the social, cultural and economic circumstances that enabled and sustained such outsider artists in the punk and post-punk eras, and how has the world changed to the point where such figures are unlikely to flourish in the same way today? Lloyd’s own odyssey echoes how abstract notions of social mobility, of the value of culture and music, have changed in the last five decades.

  1. Michael Cumming

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. James Nicholls

    Producer



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