The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead
From Lemmy filmmaker Wes Orshoski comes the story of the long-ignored pioneers of punk: The Damned, the first U.K. punks on wax and the first to cross the Atlantic. Interviewing a host of their contemporaries, the film was shot around the globe over three years, and charts the band’s complex history and infighting, as it celebrated its 35th anniversary and found its estranged former members striking out on their own anniversary tour, while still others battle cancer.
WELSH CONNECTIONS
Filming Location / Set in: Wales (partly)
Other Welsh connections: ‘The Damned’
PRODUCTION DETAILS
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Certificate: 18
Language: English
RELEASE
Date: 2015
“The U.K.’s oldest extant punk band gets a suitably entertaining, fractious documentary tribute.” VARIETY
Rights / Contact: Kaleidoscope (non-theatrical)