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Post by phantomrider on Mar 23, 2008 16:18:11 GMT
1981 Zetcrest Films, did the rounds with the Two Tone movie DANCE CRAZE. Produced by Peter Buckingham and Paul Webster, directed by Tim Rolt, stars Keith Allen as the Devil (read somewhere that the role was originaly Alexis Sayle's but he got famous and expensive before filming) who intends to take over the world using Keep Fit. Failing to capture the couch potatoe public's interest he creates a potion using the collective essences of Sebastian Coe which goes drastically wrong and instead of creating the ultimate keep fit group, he creates the M3T3ORS and Psychobilly is born! Sound track - Voodoo Rhythm, Maniac Rockers from Hell, My Daddy Is A Vampire, You Can't Keep A Good Man Down. Just about everybody, including the band, have disassociated themselves with the film but there are bits that have found their way onto YouTube if anyone is interested - this is classic British B Movie stuff, one of the last of the breed ;D www.nme.com/video/search/meteor |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Mar 26, 2008 17:34:31 GMT
Waited years to see this. Finally saw it as a (black and white) two parter on youtube. What a disappointment! Apart from The Meteors performance. (Did they do all four songs, Phantom?)
Did you see them on that Channel 4 programme in the 1980s where Fenech was interviewed in the tattoo parlour? Or their turn as 'The Bitch Boys' in some dodgy rom-com? I'd hired it for my Mrs as the bloke from ER she liked was in it - the joke is the two happy couples think they've got tickets for the Beach Boys - so get a nasty shock!
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Post by phantomrider on Mar 26, 2008 21:13:49 GMT
You and everyone else I think! Doing the rounds with Dance Craze was never the best idea and would have secured me a kicking at the time I think..... Must admit I'm having trouble detecting all four songs from the soundtrack in the actual movie - will have to get back to you on that.
Can remember them being on a program about the same time Wreckin' Crew came out, it also featured Attilla the stockbroker - was this the same one?
Hadn't heard about the Bitch Boys thing (Don't GoBreaking My Heart) so will have to track it down, thanks for the pointer. Stopped buying contemporary stuff in about 88 (it had all got a bit less B-Movie and a bit more satanic for my aging tastes) but went to see them a couple of weeks ago twenty years on - still a cracking live band!
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