King Rocker
King Rocker
How does a working class autodidact, with no visible means of support, maintain his role as the leader of a cult British underground band into its fifth decade? Comedian and writer Stewart Lee, director Michael Cumming and James Nicholls investigate the mysterious existence of Robert Lloyd, Britain’s ultimate post-punk survivor. Robert Lloyd’s Prefects played with The Clash on the White Riot tour in 1977, and their ongoing incarnation, as Birmingham’s Captain Beefheart suffused post-punk poets The Nightingales, recorded more John Peel sessions than any other band. Ever. But what were the social, cultural and economic circumstances that enabled and sustained such outsider artists in the punk and post-punk eras, and how has the world changed to the point where such figures are unlikely to flourish in the same way today? Lloyd’s own odyssey echoes how abstract notions of social mobility, of the value of culture and music, have changed in the last five decades.
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Cast
Stewart Lee
as Self
Frank Skinner
as Self
Marc Riley
as Self
John Peel
as Self
Robin Askwith
as Self
Bridget Christie
as Self
John Taylor
as Self
Nish Kumar
as Self
Nigel Slater
as Self
Paul Morley
as Self
Samira Ahmed
as Self
Seann Walsh
as Self
Andrew O'Neill
as Self
Kevin Eldon
as Self
Danny Fields
as Self
Paul Putner
as Self
James Brown
as Self
Adrian Edmondson
as Self (archive footage)
David 'Kid' Jensen
as Self (archive footage)
