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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
    76.67%
  • Original title
    King Rocker
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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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  1. Robert Lloyd

    Himself

  2. Stewart Lee

    Himself

  3. Frank Skinner

    Himself

  4. Marc Riley

    Himself

  5. John Peel

    Himself

  6. Robin Askwith

    Himself

  7. Bridget Christie

    Herself

  8. John Taylor

    Himself

  9. Nish Kumar

    Himself

  10. Nigel Slater

    Himself

  11. Paul Morley

    Himself

  12. Gina Birch

    Herself

  13. Samira Ahmed

    Herself

  14. Seann Walsh

    Himself

  15. Andrew O'Neill

    Himself

  16. Kevin Eldon

    Himself

  17. Danny Fields

    Himself

  18. Paul Putner

    Himself

  19. Steve Beresford

    Himself

  20. Alan Apperley

    Himself

  21. Paul Apperley

    Himself

  22. Helen Apperley

    Herself

  23. Dave Twist

    Himself

  24. Maria Hughes

    Herself

  25. Peter Byrchmore

    Himself

  26. Ted Chippington

    Himself

  27. Maggie Dunne

    Herself (as Magz from Fuzzbox)

  28. Vickie Perks

    Herself (as Vix from Fuzzbox)

  29. Louis Lloyd

    Himself

  30. James Brown

    Himself

  31. Mark Jones

    Himself

  32. Daren Garratt

    Himself

  33. Felicity Kitson

    Herself

  34. Andreas Schmid

    Himself

  35. James Smith

    Himself

  36. Julie Lloyd

    Herself

  37. Simon Bazalgette

    Himself

  38. John Walters

    Himself

  39. Adrian Edmondson

    (archive footage)

  40. David 'Kid' Jensen

    Himself (archive footage)

  41. Paul Coia

    Himself (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 41 , Crews : 4

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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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