tracks

Oil City Confidential
Wilko Johnson Outtakes
Lee Brilleaux Interview
Everybody's Carrying A Gun
Barbed Wire Blues
Dr. Dupree
Going Back Home
Roxette
Sneakin' Suspicion
Keep On Loving You
When I’m Gone
Paradise
Don't Let Your Daddy Know
Back In The Night
She Does It Right
I Don’t Mind
All Through The City
Johnny B Goode
Twenty Yards Behind
Interview
Busking In Essex

notes

Julien Temple's award-winning documentary Oil City Confidential, available as a 10th Anniversary special edition in exclusive limited Oil City deluxe tin with new artwork, booklet and postcard. Also features a free bonus DVD: Wilko Johnson - 'Live At Koko, Camden Town, London, March 2013'. 24 page booklet features reminiscences of Feelgood from Mark Radcliffe, ultra-rare photos and postcard of Canvey-centric map of the world as created by Lee Brilleaux and Phil Ashcroft.

Disc #1 -- Oil City Confidential: The Story of Dr Feelgood
Outside of the United Kingdom, only the most obsessive music fans were aware of what was known as "Pub Rock" during its brief heyday in the early to mid-1970s. But in England, Pub Rock was a important precursor to the punk and new wave scene; the Pub bands rejected the growing pretension of glam and progressive rock, and instead embraced a back-to-basics sound rooted in stripped down R&B and country rock. The toughest of the Pub Rock bands was Dr. Feelgood, a quartet whose revved-up, no-frills music was more tuneful and celebratory than punk but communicated much of the same swagger and sense of menace. Dr. Feelgood -- Lee Brilleaux on vocals and harmonica, Wilko Johnson on guitar, Sparko (aka John B. Sparkes) on bass and The Big Figure (aka John Martin) on drums -- never earned more than a tiny cult following in the United States, but for a spell they were a major draw in the UK, and their wild rags to riches to rags again story is brought to the screen in Oil City Confidential, a documentary by Julian Temple that features extensive interviews with the surviving members of the band (Brilleaux died in 1994) and live footage of the group in their prime. Oil City Confidential received its world premiere at the 2009 BFI London Film Festival.
Duration : 106 minutes
Extras : 60 minutes
Language : English
Subtiles : French, German, Italian, Spanish

Disc #2 -- Wilko Johnson Live At Koko
On the evening of 10 March 2013, Koko in London s Camden Town opened its doors to 1,500 music fans who knew they were about to witness an extraordinary event. The venue known as the Music Machine in the punk days and the Camden Palace in the 80s and 90s has down the years seen many legends play its stage, from Ellen Terry the Victorian actress, to The Goons who recorded some of their BBC shows there, to The Clash, Madonna, Prince and many more. But tonight the honour was reserved for a man with a special place in the hearts of lovers of raw, honest, exhilarating rock n roll music: Wilko Johnson.
The electricity around the show had acquired extra voltage due to a sad and poignant fact: just a few weeks before, the former Dr Feelgood guitarist and songwriter had announced he d been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and had only months left to live. The Koko gig the second of two was thus promoted as the very last show of a short Farewell tour, the final chance for fans to see Wilko perform live on stage. As it turned out, against the odds, the guitarist mercifully remained fit and healthy enough to gig sporadically throughout the rest of 2013, bringing pleasure to fans everywhere from his home town of Southend, Essex to the Fuji Rock festival in Japan. But on this crisp winter s evening in Camden Town, no one was to know that and even if they did, they would be glad to learn that Wilko s party wasn t quite over yet...
Wilko came onstage to a deafening roar and a standing ovation (not that there was anywhere to sit down). The next hour and 20 minutes rushed by, with Wilko, glaring, grinning, and manically bowling across the stage in customary style, as Norman Watt-Roy pulled funkily at his bass strings and Dylan Howe kept the rhythm tight ( he s the best drummer I ve ever worked with, says Wilko and he s worked with more than a few very good ones). The Feelgoods hits got the biggest cheer, and then a tear came to the collective eye when Johnson left the stage to an emotional rendering of Chuck Berry s Bye Bye Johnny, waving as he said goodbye - a profoundly moving experience, it must be said, whose atmosphere Live At Koko perfectly captures.
Concert Running Time : 83 minutes
Interview Running Time : 66 minutes
Extras : 27 minutes
Language : Essex English

Audio format : 5.1 Surround / 2.0 Stereo
Aspect Ratio : 16.9
Format : DVD9
NTSC : Region 0
Made in the UK

credits

Cinematographer – Steve Organ
Editor – Caroline Richards
Film Director – Julien Temple
Producer – Stephen Malit

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