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UK 90s post-punk legends Country Teasers star in US screening premiere of documentary "THIS FILM SHOULD NOT EXIST" | Zebulon, (Los Angeles) Mon, Sep 19, 8:00 PM PDT
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A comprehensive portrait of the legendary art-punk outfit COUNTRY TEASERS from Edinburgh whose confrontational lyrical stylings, explosive creativity and commitment to deconstructionism have elicited comparisons with Pussy Galore, Joy Division, Butthole Surfers, The Fall and even satirist Jonathan Swift.
Led by eccentric frontman Ben Wallers - also known as ‘The Rebel’ - Country Teasers roared out of the 90s with a sound that has been described as ‘evil country’, a provocative, ironic noise unleashed in notoriously anarchic live shows that blur the line between drunken unprofessionalism and performance art. In an attempt to pin down their chaotic energy, This Film Should Not Exist blends old and new unreleased live footage with interviews with Wallers and former bass player and successful playwright Simon Stephens, plus an appearance from scene experts like Eric Friedl, Greg Cartwright and Jack Yarber from lo-fi garage trio the Oblivians, Tim Warren of garage-punk label Crypt Records, and Pat Morgan and the late, David R. Edwards of Datblygu, one the most influential bands in modern Welsh-language music and Wallers’ artistic heroes.
A documentary film by Nicolas Drolc, Gisella Albertini, Massimo Scocca
ITALY, FRANCE - 2020 Language: ENGLISH / 95 min
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2020
Calgary Underground Film Festival - Canada
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival - Australia
Fifigrot Festival International du Film Grolandais - Toulouse, France
Rock This Town Musical Film Fest - Pau, France
Doc’n Roll Film Festival - London, UK
Rising Sun International Film Festival - Kitakyushu, Japan
2021
F.A.M.E. Festival international de films sur la musique - Paris, France
Seeyousound International Music Film Festival - Torino, Italy
Filmfest Bremen - Bremen, Germany
MUSIC FESTIVALS + other screenings
Pop Mutations - Glasgow, UK
Gonerfest - Memphis, USA
Rencontres du cinéma documentaire - Bagnères de Bigorre, France
Locomotion Festival - Nancy, France
SOCIAL MEDIA
CONTACTS
Gisella Albertini Email bofidelity@gmail.com Mobile: + 39 340 4036261
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Topics
- Music
Categories
- country teasers
- in the red recordings
- this film should not exist
- datblygu
- the oblivians
- 1990s
- crypt records
- film screening
- documentary
Regions
- England
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