OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL: DR FEELGOOD (2009)

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`Oil City` is the 1970s pub-rock proto-punk Dr Feelgood`s name for their home town of Canvey Island in the flat industrialised Thames estuary. Temple`s extraordinary documentary consists of a mixture of talking heads, particularly the engaging lead singer Wilko Johnson, now in his sixties, but also from those who followed in the band`s wake, The Clash, Sex Pistols etc, and live footage from Dr Feelgood`s early days, then later in London and the US, where they were present at the New York birth of punk, before imploding dramatically when on the cusp of stardom. This is a superb film, not just as a record of the band and the people, but also as a portrait of their Essex home town. A must watch, even if you don`t like the music.