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Nightingales - King Rocker (Soundtrack)


CD+DVD: £22.99

Label: Fire

Release date: 18.03.2022

Format Info: Bookback DVD/CD includes the King Rocker Film + over 90 minutes of extras and the Soundtrack CD

Extras: Liner notes from Stewart Lee and Michael Cumming

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Following the huge success of ‘King Rocker’, spotlighting The Nightingales as one of the best bands in Britain, comes the soundtrack and DVD to one of 2021’s break-out films. The special ‘King Rocker’ bookback DVD/CD deluxe package includes the full length feature film with over 90 minutes of extras and unseen footage alongside the soundtrack. Comedian Stewart Lee and director Michael Cumming (Brass Eye, Toast Of London) investigate a missing piece of punk history. Robert Lloyd, best known for fronting cult Birmingham bands The Prefects and The Nightingales, has survived under the radar for over four decades. But how, if at all, does Robert want to be remembered? The anti-rockumentary ‘King Rocker’ weaves the story of Birmingham’s undervalued underdog autodidact into that of the city’s forgotten public sculpture of King Kong, eschewing the celebrity interview and archive-raid approach for a free-associating bricolage of Indian food, bewildered chefs, vegetable gardening, prescription medicines, pop stardom and pop art. All of the highlights from the film are here, along with rarities which won’t appear on any of the deluxe reissues of the Nightingales’ catalogue, among them 7″ versions of “Use Your Loaf”, the Bob Luman hit “Let’s Think About Living” and “Black Country”, a glam remix of crowd favourite “Thick And Thin” and a version of Christy & Emily’s “Ghost” which rivals the Nightingales’ take on TLC’s “Unpretty” for sheer beauty.

Track Listing


A1 Use Your Loaf (7” Version)

A2 Surplus And Scarcity (Live)

A3 What A Carry On

A4 Let's Think About Living (7” Version)

A5 Black Country (7” Version)

A6 Ghost

B1 Born Again In Birmingham

B2 Overreactor

B3 Thick And Thin (Glam Version)

B4 Chaff

B5 The Desperate Quartet

B6 Gales Doc

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