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King Rocker

10/31/2020

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1hr 30min

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Documentary

,Music

A Film About Robert Lloyd and The Nightingales

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Robert Lloyd
  • Stewart Lee
  • Frank Skinner
  • Marc Riley
  • John Peel

    Director

  • Michael Cumming

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Fire Films

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Robert Lloyd

Self

Stewart Lee

Self

Frank Skinner

Self

Marc Riley

Self

John Peel

Self

Robin Askwith

Self

Bridget Christie

Self

John Taylor

Self

Nish Kumar

Self

Paul Morley

Self

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