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DVD Release: Oil City Confidential

 

It's the arrival of Oil City Confidential – Julien Temple’s stunning new documentary, a gritty paean to the oft-overlooked 1970s R&B proto-punkers - Dr Feelgood, their alcohol-steeped motherland, Canvey Island, Essex, and the relationship between the two.

This is Temple's last film in his trilogy on British music of the 1970s. It is a prequel to his landmark films about punk figureheads the Sex Pistols in The Filth & The Fury and Joe Strummer in The Future Is Unwritten.

Rather than being standard 'rockumentaries', Julien uses the music as a prism through which he examines the social and cultural conditions of the times. The films share his characteristic cinematic language - an irreverent and anarchic style of montage of archive and fictive footage, which he pioneered in The Great Rock & Roll Swindle.

Oil City Confidential is a film noir feature length documentary and about Dr Feelgood; it's the story of four men in cheap suits who crashed out of Canvey Island in the early '70s, sandpapered the face of rock’n’roll and left all that came before a burnt-out ruin, four estuarine John-the-Baptists to Johnny Rotten’s anti-Christ. Taking London by storm, they sped through Europe and conquered the UK with No 1 chart success, before imploding just as punk was born and America beckoned with open arms. Contributions from members of The Clash, Blondie and The Sex Pistols join Dr Feelgood with collaborators Jools Holland and Alison Moyet to tell the story of Canvey, 70's England and the greatest local band in the world.

 

For more information, check out this link:

http://www.oilcityconfidential.co.uk

 

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Q: You've read the spiel, watched the trailer and you want the DVD. Boom! So, in the trailer the voice over talks about a character who should have 'BLANK' nailed to his lips. What is 'BLANK'?

A: 1) Plectrums .2) Girls .3) Cigarettes .4) Whisky Bottles

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