Film about seventies Essex music heroes Dr Feelgood hits the cinemas

By dwebber

Hot on the heels of Ian Dury movie Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and Blur documentary No Distance Left To Run, comes another film about an Essex band.

Oil City Confidential is the latest documentary from director Julien Temple and it chronicles the life and times of Canvey Island band Dr Feelgood.

The film has special screenings at cinemas tomorrow (Tuesday, February 2) evening while at Koko in Camden there's a red carpet event with Temple, Keith Allen and a gig by Dr Feelgood frontman Wilko Johnson after the film has shown.

This "film noir documentary" completes Temple's trilogy about British music of the 1970s; The Filth and The Fury concentrated on the Sex Pistols while The Future Is Unwritten was about Clash frontman Joe Strummer.

Oil City Confidential mixes archive footage of the band and Canvey in the 1970s with interviews to recreate the era in which Dr Feelgood were one of the top British bands around.

Explosive and uncompromising, the band's pub rock has been seen as a forerunner to punk and the film has been described by Uncut magazine as "Reservoir Dogs in Essex."

Oil City Confidential has screenings at the Odeons in Chelmsford and Southend, the Vue Cinemas in Romford and Thurrock and Starr cinema in Canvey tomorrow evening.