Julien Temple’s Oil City Confidential – The Dr Feelgood Story

New Rock-umentary to screen  on Tuesday 2^nd February, for ONE NIGHT ONLY in UK & Ireland cinemas.

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 JoeStrummer in The Future Is Unwritten.

The film will be played with a live gig beamed via satellites into cinemas from London’s Koko (sold out), starring Alison Moyet, Julien Temple and Wilko Johnson’s band.

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.

Oil City Confidential will be screened in 2K digital cinema, with 5.1 Surround Sound, via digital cinema projectors across the UK and Ireland from Tuesday 2nd February. The live red carpet and concert event will be delivered to cinemas via satellite. Digital cinema projection and satellite technology are providing cinema owners, distributors, and the entertainment industry at large with substantial benefits including: new programming opportunities – 3D films and alternative content (non-movie entertainment) such as live and recorded concerts, music-related documentaries, opera, ballet and sports events. Digital cinema is enabling cinemas to become vibrant entertainment centres, as well as movie houses.

Competition:
Visit the Official website: (includes a competition to win signed poster and CD soundtrack).

Oil City Confidential Credits:

Music by Dr Feelgood
Cinematographer Stephen Organ
Archive Producer Sam Dwyer
Associate Producer George Hencken
Editor Caroline Richards
Executive Producer Richard England
Producer Stephen Malit
Director Julien Temple

CAST

Lee Brilleaux – Lead singer: Sadly, he passed away. Lee was a life-long apostle for the Blues; he acted out GBH on stage over three decades until his untimely death in 1994. An Essex Jekyll and Hyde, he was always the gentleman, but with a look that could maim at 20 paces.

Wilko Johnson – Lead / Rhythm guitar: Professor of medieval English, he is an old Icelandic speaker and a fanatic of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. He is now an astronomy-obsessed recluse, and natural candidate to succeed Patrick Moore in “The Sky at Night”, travelling the universe on a giant computer screen. Occasionally, Wilko leaves the house at dusk to play to devoted fans around the world.

The Big Figure – Drummer: As solid and enigmatic a presence as his name implies. The only one of the Feelgoods to have left Canvey, he now lives the life of a gourmand in France.

Sparko – Bass guitar: The joker of the band. In the Feelgood’s heyday, he bestrode the stage in his Irish navy wedding suit and dodgy stack-heels. He now works 9 – 5 as a maintenance man on Canvey Island making sure the Feelgood property portfolio doesn’t spring any leaks.

Chris Fenwick – Manager: Boyhood friend, pantomime star and manager of Dr Feelgood from the beginning. He still lives on Canvey, owning Canvey’s only hotel. He is reviving his acting career started in his teens, and has finished a 6-week tour as Badger in a production of Wind in The Willows. He still manages Dr Feelgood.

Contributors include: Family, friends and foes plus Joe Strummer, Alison Moyet, Clem Burke, Andy Gill, Richard Hell, Nigel Kerr, Glen Matlock and Will Birch

For more please visit:www.oilcityconfidential.co.uk