THE story of a record label which helped transform Britain’s music and youth culture in the late 1960s and early 1970s will open a festival of music documentaries in Glasgow.
The award-winning Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records will open Doc’n Roll Glasgow, following events in Edinburgh and Dundee.
Rudeboy director Nicolas Jack Davies will take part in a Q&A following the screening of the film, which features artists such as Lee “Scratch” Perry, Dandy Livingstone and Pauline Black looking back at how the love affair between Jamaican musicians and British youth unfolded in the UK’s predominantly working-class areas, and was fueled by the reggae, ska and dub released by Trojan Records.
It’s one of five directors Q&As to feature at the four-day festival, with events, screenings and performances taking place at GFT, CCA and citizenM, which hosts a free afternoon of shorts on June 30, including Hannah Currie’s acclaimed We Are All Here, about the late Glasgow rapper Lumo.
June 27 to June 30, Glasgow Film Theatre, Centre for Contemporary Art and citizenM, Glasgow, various times and prices. Tickets at:
docnrollfestival.com/Scotland
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