Cadiz Music is delighted to announce the reissue of the long-unavailable ‘Oil City Confidential’. Director Julien Temple’s remarkable film features the story of Essex’s Dr. Feelgood as told by original guitarist Wilko Johnson. This DVD releases will be made available on 18 September 2026. The expanded booklet includes a selection of rare and unseen pictures from the band’s heyday, plus an essay by Mark Radcliffe.

A critical and commercial success, upon its orginal release, ‘Oil City Confidential’ was winner of the Mojo Vision Award 2010, Best Documentary at the Kermode Awards 2011 and Best International Film 2009 (Cult Award, Turin Film Festival) and picked up the “DVD / Film Of The Year” gong at the Classic Rock Awards.The film even scooped a prize at the Turin Film Festival.

Julian Temple’s ‘Oil City Confidential’ is the last film in his trilogy on British music of the 1970s.  It is a prequel to his landmark films about punk figureheads the Sex Pistols in “The Filth & The Fury” and Joe Strummer in “The Future Is Unwritten”.  Rather than being standard ‘rockumentaries’, Julien uses the music as a prism through which he examines the social and cultural conditions of the times.  The films share his characteristic cinematic language – and irreverent and anarchic style of montage of archive and fictive footage which he pioneered in “The Great Rock & Roll Swindle”.

The Sex Pistols’ and Joe Strummer’s roles are well known, but Dr. Feelgood, who are the subject of ‘Oil City Confidential’, played a vital role in creating the conditions for that cultural explosion. This is the story of four men in cheap suits who crashed out of Canvey Island in the early ’70s, sandpapered the face of rock’n’roll, leaving all that came before a burnt out ruin…

Members of The Clash, Blondie and The Sex Pistols join Dr Feelgood with collaborators Jools Holland and Alison Moyet to provide a compelling narrative. Quite simply, ‘Oil City Confidential’ is the story of Canvey Island, 1970s England and the greatest local band in the world. 

Available to pre order Here