Director Julian Temple and Wilko Johnson from Dr Feelgood will be present and participating in a Q & A session immediately following the screening.
Julien Temple's Oil City Confidential is the 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.
The Sex Pistols' and Joe Strummer's roles are well known, but Dr Feelgood, who are the subject of Oil City Confidential, played a vital role in creating those conditions for that cultural explosion and is a story that is as yet untold.
The Film Screening and Q&A with Julien Temple and Wilko Johnson will be held at FACT and will start at 6.30pm prompt. The night doesn’t end there; it’s straight over to the O2 Academy to see the Wilko Johnson Band play live immediately following the screening and Q & A. Tickets are £12.50 with support acts to be announced. Free entry to all wristband and delegate pass holders.
PLEASE NOTE THE ENTRANCE TO THE SCREENING OF 'OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL' AND Q & A IS CAPACITY PERMITTING
What the critics have said about Oil City Confidential:
“F***ing brilliant! Absolutely essential viewing for any music fan” Phill Jupitus
“Inspired and raucous” Sunday Times
“Great, and deeply moving, rock’n’roll history of one of Britain’s finest and unfairly overlooked bands” The Times London Film Festival
“Reservoir Dogs In Essex” Uncut Magazine
“Nothing less than a masterclass” - Time Out 4/5
“Julien Temple’s new rock doc is the dogs bollocks” Mojo magazine 5/5
