The Band: Anvil
The Doc: Coming across as something like a real-life Spinal Tap, it's hard to laugh at the band's misfortunes when you see how much they've put on the line for their music. Despite coming tantalisingly close to the big time with 1982 album Metal on Metal (Slash, Lemmy from Motorhead and Metallica's Lars Ulrich all rated them), fame eluded the band while some of their contemporaries exploded.
The doc starts following the guys in 2005, and sees them take time out from their mundane jobs to go on one of the most poorly-organised tours ever scheduled. Frontman Steve 'Lips' Kudlow drives a van for a kiddies' catering firm, but never lets go of his dream of becoming a rock star.
There was a little justice though, as the band got to play some major festivals off the back of the film's release, and even got to jam on stage with Slash at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Musical Highlight: 'Metal on Metal' has one hell of a catchy hook.
Encore? These guys are so damn likeable you definitely want to spend more time with them.
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Hadouken76
Jul 1st 2010, 15:15
Flight 666, lets face it you wont see Bono pilotting the tour plane any time soon and I recently saw a 4 hour doc on Tom Petty, i didnt like Tom Petty but I do now!
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stomachpop
Jul 4th 2010, 15:33
The Flaming Lips doc 'The Fearless Freaks' is amazing! Put together with years worth of footage featuring some truly strange and interesting characters....or there is always the ace bio 'Hated' about GG Allen, frontman for the The Murder Jumkies, not only do we see him brawl with fans and roll around in his own faeces but the footage of his final concert where he runs naked from the cops and emerges from a window with a needle hanging from his arm is surely the spirit of rock and roll captured on film!
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