Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Punk and persistence

Stewart Lee's documentary King Rocker was intended to give its subject Robert Lloyd the attention and recognition Lee feels the idiosyncratic Nightingales frontman deserves - so it must have been a bit of a blow when coronavirus put the kibosh on nationwide cinema release. Thankfully, the story of Lloyd's curious career on the musical margins - one characterised by stubbornness and stoic self-belief - still seems to have found an audience via Sky Arts. Here's my report for Buzz.

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