OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL
10th Anniversary Special Edition
Cadiz Music is delighted to mark the 10th anniversary of Julien Temple’s remarkable film “Oil City Confidential”, the story of Essex’s Dr. Feelgood as told by original guitarist Wilko Johnson, by releasing it in a limited edition celebratory format on 11 October 2019. The DVD will come packed in an exclusive bespoke Oil City tin, with a brand new booklet, and will also feature a bonus DVD of ‘Wilko Johnson Live At Koko’
‘Oil City Confidential’ was winner of the Mojo Vision Award 2010, Best Documentary at the Kermode Awards 2011 and Best International Film 2009 (Cult Award, Turin Film Festival) and picked up the “DVD / Film Of The Year” gong at the Classic Rock Awards.
Julian 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 – and 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 the conditions for that cultural explosion. This is the story of four men in cheap suits who crashed out of Canvey Island in the early ’70s, sandpapered the face of rock’n’roll, leaving all that came before a burnt out ruin…
Members of The Clash, Blondie and The Sex Pistols join Dr Feelgood with collaborators Jools Holland and Alison Moyet to tell the story of Canvey, in ’70s England. Quite simply, ‘Oil City Confidential’ is the story of Canvey Island, 1970s England and the greatest local band in the world.
‘A rip-roaring account of one of the best bands Britain ever produced by a film-maker who looks increasingly like our very finest rockumentarian’ – Mark Kermode, The Observer.
‘Nothing less than a master-class in musical hagiography, beautifully photographed, superbly edited and utterly involving’ – ***** Time Out.
‘I don’t think Julien Temple has ever made a film as good, and as purely insightful as this’ – ***** The Guardian.
