Sunday, June 5, 2011

In Bed with Chris Needham


this is great - perfect for Sunday morning viewing.

from VICE:

Professing a love for thrash metal is de rigeur for any city-dwelling young professional with an alcohol dependency and a Tumblr these days, but spare a thought for those suburban kids who fell in love with the genre in their teens back in the early 90s.
Nothing has better captured what it was really like to be a British thrash metal fan in 1992 than the classic, barely seen documentary, In Bed With Chris Needham, which was part of the BBC’s pioneering “Video Nation” series.
I fully expect somebody will track down a clean copy of this and screen it at film nights at bars for young fashionable people up and down the country within the next year. I don’t know if they have those kinds of bars in Loughborough, where this film was shot, but if they do, soon Chris Needham won’t have to pay for a drink in any of them.
This doc is pretty good from the get-go but it only gets more amazing the more you watch it. Key scenes: the little brother cameos, the girlfriend, the grandmother, the emotional rants to the camera, and the end scene promo video.
After you’ve watched it, check out this recent-ish interview with Chris here.

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