{"id":28632,"date":"2026-06-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=28632"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:39:10","slug":"oil-city-confidential-get-expanded-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=28632","title":{"rendered":"Oil City Confidential get expanded release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cadiz Music<\/strong> is delighted to announce the reissue of the long-unavailable \u2018Oil City Confidential\u2019<\/strong>. Director Julien Temple<\/strong>\u2019s remarkable film features the story of Essex\u2019s Dr. Feelgood<\/strong> as told by original guitarist Wilko Johnson<\/strong>. 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\u2019s heyday, plus an essay by Mark Radcliffe.

A critical and commercial success, upon its orginal release, \u2018Oil City Confidential\u2019 <\/strong>was winner of the Mojo Vision Award<\/strong> 2010, Best Documentary at the Kermode Awards <\/strong>2011 and Best International Film<\/strong> 2009 (Cult Award, Turin Film Festival) and picked up the \u201cDVD \/ Film Of The Year\u201d <\/strong>gong at the Classic Rock Awards.The film even scooped a prize at the Turin Film Festival<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Julian Temple\u2019s \u2018Oil City Confidential\u2019 <\/strong>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 \u201cThe Filth & The Fury\u201d and Joe Strummer in \u201cThe Future Is Unwritten\u201d.  Rather than being standard \u2018rockumentaries\u2019, 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 \u2013 and irreverent and anarchic style of montage of archive and fictive footage which he pioneered in \u201cThe Great Rock & Roll Swindle\u201d.

The Sex Pistols\u2019 and Joe Strummer\u2019s roles are well known, but Dr. Feelgood, who are the subject of \u2018Oil City Confidential\u2019<\/strong>, 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\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of The Clash<\/strong>, Blondie <\/strong>and The Sex Pistols <\/strong>join Dr Feelgood<\/strong> with collaborators Jools Holland<\/strong> and Alison Moyet <\/strong>to provide a compelling narrative. Quite simply, \u2018Oil City Confidential\u2019<\/strong> is the story of Canvey Island, 1970s England and the greatest local band in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cadiz Music is delighted to announce the reissue of the long-unavailable \u2018Oil City Confidential\u2019. Director Julien Temple\u2019s remarkable film features the story of Essex\u2019s 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\u2019s heyday, plus an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28635,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28632\/revisions\/28635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}