Screening of the documentary 'Spiritland', a portrait of the 1960s band The Fugs, at the Barbican's Cinema 1 as part of the Doc'n Roll Film Festival.
Spiritland screens at Barbican Centre on Friday 23 October, a poetic portrait of The Fugs, the 1960s band that put the punk into folk and pushed rock 'n' roll into radical new territory. The screening is part of the Doc'n Roll Film Festival and falls under Spiritland: Live, the Barbican's series that goes deeper into music with a focus on deep electronica, classical, ambient, jazz and soul, and rounds out with regular talks, tastings and supper clubs.
The film looks at The Fugs, an overlooked yet hugely influential band of the sixties. Poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, alongside drummer Ken Weaver, became fearless champions of free speech, provoking radio bans and FBI surveillance with their anti-war songs and their infamous attempt to levitate the Pentagon. It gathers rare performance footage and interviews with Aline and R. Crumb, Bob Dylan, Lenny Kaye and Chris Stein to celebrate the band's anarchic humour, political defiance and enduring cry for freedom.
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It's a chance to see a band that operated on the edge of the sixties scene, and the film brings in some big names to talk about them. The screening is in Cinema 1 at the Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, starting at 18:20. Tickets are £17.50 standard, £12.80 for members, £6 for Young Barbican, £16.50 for students, the unwaged and over 65s, and £7.50 for under 18s, with a £1.50 booking fee per transaction.
