With Spinal Faucet quickly to return to our screens, plug your self in for Uncut’s information to the 20 finest fictional bands within the motion pictures…
20: THE BANG BANG, Brothers Of The Head
Odd, Seventies-set mockumentary, from a novel by Brian Aldiss and directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe – who made Misplaced In La Mancha, about Terry Gilliam’s aborted try to movie Don Quixote. Brothers Harry and Luke Treadaway play conjoined twins who kind a punk rock band.
19: THE ONEDERS, That Factor You Do
Private challenge from Tom Hanks – his solely movie as author and director – a couple of one-hit surprise group it within the early Sixties. The band’s one hit – “That Factor You Do” – was written by Adam Schlesinger, bassist for Fountains Of Wayne.
18: THE KELLY AFFAIR/CARRIE NATIONS, Past The Valley Of The Dolls
First, they had been the Kelly Affair, then they modified their title to the Carrie Nations – after a grand outdated dame of the temperance motion – in Russ Meyer’s comedy. Their songs had been written by future composer of the Battlestar Galactica theme, Stu Phillips.
17: BLUESHAMMER, Ghost World
Steve Buscemi’s blues aficionado Seymour goes to see Fred Chatham, an 82-year-old blues veteran play a small bar. “If you happen to actually like genuine blues, you’ve bought to take a look at Blueshammer,” he’s instructed. However Blueshammer’s “genuine, way-down-in-the-delta blues” seems to be nearer to George Thorogood. Poor Seymour!
16: KIPPER, Confessions Of A Pop Performer
Voted “worst British movie of 1975” in Sight & Sound, this finds cheeky chappy Robin Askwith copping off with some saucy birds whereas additionally making an attempt to make it massive within the music scene together with his band, Kipper.
15: THE SNARKS, Smashing Time
Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave wreak havoc on Swinging London in George Melly scripted comedy. Michael York sports activities a terrific cravat. Psychedelic hipsters Tomorrow flip up because the Snarks: some comfort, maybe, after Antonioni selected the Yardbirds over them to look in Blowup.
14: STRANGE FRUIT, Nonetheless Loopy
Sensible, if largely for the bit the place Invoice Nighy – because the band’s singer – opens his father-of-the-bride speech at a fancy nation home with the deathless traces: “Good night, Wembley.” However value it, too, for Bruce Robinson’s touching cameo because the band’s reclusive guitarist. Clive Langer supplied the songs.
13: THE ULTIMATE LOSERS, Slacker
It’s 1991, and arguably no movie captured Gen X ennui higher than Richard Linklater’s debut. However even the band – seen enjoying art-rock to the dysfunctional youth of Austin, Texas – can barely muster up the vitality to get off the bed.
12: BREAKING GLASS, Breaking Glass
An uncommon convergence, this. So Hazel O’Connor’s backing band consists of future Invoice star Mark Wingett, former Ant Gary Tibbs alongside Jonathan Pryce and ITV drama stalwart, Peter Hugo-Daly, who was additionally in real-life band The Cross alongside Breaking Glass co-star Phil Daniels.
11: AUTOBAHN, The Huge Lebowski
That’ll be Kraftwerk, after all. Flea, Peter Stormare and Torsten Voges are the German nihilists/would-be kidnappers/digital pioneers. The Coen brothers even went so far as to get a sleeve designed for Autobahn’s sole album, Nagelbett (roughly translated as ‘mattress of nails’).
10: THE FABULOUS STAINS, Girls And Gents The Fabulous Stains
Diane Lane, Laura Dern and Marin Kanter are US punkers the Stains; connoisseurs of UK punk will little question get pleasure from Paul Cook dinner and Steve Jones teaming up with Paul Simonon because the Looters, fronted by Ray Winstone.
9: VENUS IN FURS, Velvet Goldmine
Principally, it’s the Spiders From Mars. However on report, it’s an intriguing collaboration between Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Bernard Butler and Andy Mackay. Value mentioning, Greenwood did one thing comparable, hooking up with Jarvis Cocker, Phil Selway, Steve Mackey, All Seeing I’s Jason Buckle and Add N To X’s Steven Claydon as Hogwarths favourites the Bizarre Sisters in Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fireplace.
8: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, Hedwig And The Indignant Inch
Vibrant, out-there frock opera a couple of transexual punk rock woman from East Berlin. The songs are by Stephen Trask – who latterly succeeded Randy Newman as composer on the … Fockers motion pictures.
7: WYLD STALLYNS, Invoice & Ted
The one band on our listing to characteristic of their ‘traditional’ line-up two medieval princesses, a pair of robots and – on bass – Demise himself.
6: CITIZEN DICK, Singles
From Cameron Crowe, that is grunge period shenanigans that includes assorted members of Pearl Jam as Matt Dillon’s group Citizen Dick, with lyrics written by Chris Cornell.
5: STRAY CATS, Stardust
That’s David Essex, Keith Moon, Dave Edmunds and Paul Nicholas to you and me. Within the sequel That’ll Be The Day, Essex’ British invasion rock star Jim MacLaine battles medicine, groupies, report firm execs and varied extra. Darkish.
4: THE LENINGRAD COWBOYS, varied
Ostensibly the creation of movie director Aki Kaurismäki and two members of Finnish rock band Sleepy Sleepers, the Leningrad Cowboys and their extraordinary hair have taken on a lifetime of their very own past the three movies directed by Kaurismäki. There are eight studio albums, no much less, and so they’ve grow to be one thing of a Finnish establishment.
3: SPINAL TAP, This Is Spinal Faucet
Arch improvisers Michael McKean, Christopher Visitor and Harry Shearer launched the British heavy metallic on a TV sketch in 1979, stretching out for this deathless 1984 movie and varied different tasks together with an 1992 album, Break Like The Wind, with sleeve notes by Steely Dan’s Walter Becker. A sequel to the unique movie arrives in 2025. McKean, Visitor and Shearer additionally carried out as The Folksmen, an American people revival trio, within the movie A Mighty Wind.
2: FLAME, Slade In Flame
They’re Slade, enjoying Flame.
1: STILLWATER, Virtually Well-known
Successfully a composite of plenty of bands Cameron Crowe interviewed for Rolling Stone within the early Seventies – Skynyrd, Allmans, possibly the Eagles. The songs performed by Stillwater within the movie had been co-writes between Crowe, his spouse Nancy Wilson and Peter Frampton. Jason Lee’s singing voice was supplied by Aerosmith collaborator, Marty Frederiksen, whereas Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready performed lead guitar. On display screen, Mark Kozelek performed Stillwater’s bassist, Larry Fellows.
