Andy Serkis is Ian Dury in the new movie, 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll'

it's in UK cinemas today (Friday 8th Jan)

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watch the trailer, here:-

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Hi A-L,

I'm in,defo.

Also,for any Dr. Feelgood fans on here (or anywhere else I would say,hah-hah!),have a look at


Oil City Confidential by Julien Temple - Official trailer.

Great to finally hear some of those involved actually talk about those days,and that band.

Cheers,

Si.

hope to see the movie this weekend, Si...Serkis' portrayal looks stunning.

Got tickets for the 100 Club show at the end of April??

Hi Adrian,

I'm looking into the possiblity...big time!

Cheers,

Si.

hope to see you there for a pint,mate. I've got my ticket.

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The film looks fantastic. I have many happy memories seeing the great Mr Dury and the Blockheads back in the late 70s.

can't believe it's nearly 10 years since he died, saw him live on numerous occasions -he's much missed.
His band though, still put on a great show.

Am seeing this tomorrow and looking forward to it.

Sounds great, didnt hear about this.

Am seeing this tomorrow and looking forward to it.

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Am seeing this tomorrow and looking forward to it.

Could you report back ow it was?
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Am seeing this later today and looking forward to it ... up there with Beast and Manofwealthandtaste

..mini Mick is in this one too....

just got home having seen the movie this afternoon -
and yes it's truly 'magnificent'.

Serkis is a revelation - it's like Ian's back from the dead.
He deserves ever plaudit and award going. Breathtaking.

And yes, Mick's son is in it....he's billed as Jimmy Jagger in the credits.

Go see it.

I saw Dury at the Roxy in LA in the mid to late '70's. He opened for Jimmy Cliff. The Jimmy Cliff performance was wonderful. One of the best sounding shows I ever saw. Each song started slowly with that reggae rhythm and ended up sounding like a symphony. You looked at any instrument and you could hear it. Sitting the next table over for the Dury performance were Jo and Woody. He seemed to be having a good time. After the Dury performance they went upstairs presumably to visit with Dury and watch Cliff.

Hello,

I Saw The Film earlier today and was totally blown-away by Andy's unflinching performance.
Wow!It's all in there,isn't it?

Funny thing is,I heard Andy S. on the radio talking about the film while I was on the way to the cinema.He said that Ian's family thought that the portrait wasn't going to be harsh enough to be accurate!

Anyway,an outstanding piece of work from all involved...thank-you.

Cheers,

Si.

agreed Simon - i just hope Serkis' performance gets recognised for it's greatness when the awards season starts.

Agree, great Serkis performance. Like many films however, if you went to see it being unfamiliar with the subject matter, then a great deal of it would've been lost on you.

Superb performance by Serkis - he got Ian Dury right in every way. If you blink, you'll miss James Jagger's spots as the Blockhead guitarist. He's billed twice in the cast list - first as Jimmy Jagger and later on as James Jagger.


Interview: Andy Serkis on playing Ian Dury
Wednesday, 06 January 2010 15:00
Written by Jasper Rees


Reasons to be cheerful: Andy Serkis steps up to the microphone as Ian Dury
The career of Andy Serkis tends to point in one direction: darkness visible. Onstage, more recently on screen, he has inhabited a series of characters for whom violence is second nature. His Bill Sikes was utterly deranged, though a pussycat next to his Ian Brady in Longford (picture below), whose ghastly charisma he seemed intuitively to understand. Serkis’s performance-captured Gollum gave global audiences the creeps. And that was him somewhere under the computer-generated fur as the ultimate unreconstructed he-man Kong. Whence it is but a small step to Ian Dury. In sex&drugs&rock&roll, Serkis plays the polio punk with a lot of hit in his rhythm stick.

Serkis’s Dury is incubating enough latent anger to power the lighting rig at the gig where we first meet him. All those childhood years in an institution for the disabled, plus a tendency to violence fired by drink and drugs, laced with chronic frustration at professional failure both before and after his time in the spotlight – they are all ingredients for spontaneous combustion. This mockney urban poet could pick a fight in an empty room. Of course he has charm to spare, but equally he might revert to cruelty and rage as fast as you can say “das ist gut, c’est fantastique”. In a career full of them, this scintillating performance is Serkis’s most detailed portrait of a nutter yet.

With such a back catalogue, any interviewer would be entitled to a flicker of worry as they step into the room. Apart from the odd foray into the non-psychotic domain, Serkis has almost never not scared the living bejesus out of his audiences. The most half-normal person he’s played in recent years is the discoverer of the theory of relativity in Einstein and Eddington. It turns out that he’s an even better actor than the public evidence suggests because in person he is, needless to say, quite the honeybunch: all purring smiles and blokey openness. A semi-snatched chat in a hotel room as part of a promotional junket is hardly the psychiatrist’s couch, but the question needs asking: what on earth attracts an apparently stable actor to explore the dark side so relentlessly?

Link to rest of the article:

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thanks for the interview, Beast

The Blockheads have added an extra London date.

Tues 11th May - Camden Dingwalls