King Rocker

King Rocker (2020)

A Film About Robert Lloyd and The Nightingales

  • Genre: Documentary, Music
  • Release Date: 2020-10-31
  • User Rating: 7.5/10 from 4 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 30min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Fire Films
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: Michael Cumming
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Summary

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.

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  • Robert Lloyd

    as Self
  • Stewart Lee

    as Self
  • Frank Skinner

    as Self
  • Marc Riley

    as Self
  • John Peel

    as Self
  • Robin Askwith

    as Self
  • Bridget Christie

    as Self
  • John Taylor

    as Self
  • Nish Kumar

    as Self
  • Nigel Slater

    as Self
  • Paul Morley

    as Self
  • Gina Birch

    as Self
  • Samira Ahmed

    as Self
  • Seann Walsh

    as Self
  • Andrew O'Neill

    as Self
  • Kevin Eldon

    as Self
  • Danny Fields

    as Self
  • Paul Putner

    as Self
  • Steve Beresford

    as Self
  • Alan Apperley

    as Self
  • Paul Apperley

    as Self
  • Helen Apperley

    as Self
  • Dave Twist

    as Self
  • Maria Hughes

    as Self
  • Peter Byrchmore

    as Self
  • Ted Chippington

    as Self
  • Maggie Dunne

    as Self - Magz from Fuzzbox
  • Vickie Perks

    as Self - Vix from Fuzzbox
  • Louis Lloyd

    as Self
  • James Brown

    as Self
  • Mark Jones

    as Self
  • Daren Garratt

    as Self
  • Felicity Kitson

    as Self
  • Andreas Schmid

    as Self
  • James Smith

    as Self
  • Julie Lloyd

    as Self
  • Simon Bazalgette

    as Self
  • John Walters

    as Self
  • Adrian Edmondson

    as Self (archive footage)
  • David 'Kid' Jensen

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Paul Coia

    as Self (archive footage)
Directing Michael Cumming Director
Production James Nicholls Producer
Writing Stewart Lee Writer
Writing Michael Cumming Writer

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