Julien Temple is hands down one of the greatest “rockumentarists” working today. With his trademark cinematic style – a mixture of archival footage, reconstruction and interviews – Temple previously explored the impact of the Sex Pistols (The Filth & The Fury) and the legendary Clash front-man Joe Strummer (The Future Is Unwritten) on the British music industry. With Oil City Confidential, Temple completes the trilogy and goes back full circle to the very beginning turning his gaze on Dr. Feelgood, the largely forgotten R&B group who paved the way for punk.

Although Temple uses music as a prism through to explore the social and cultural conditions of the time, Oil City Confidential is also the story of four men in cheap suits who crashed out of Essex’ Canvey Island in the early ’70s, sandpapered the face of rock’n’roll and left all that came before a burnt-out ruin. Wilko Johnson – the charismatic guitarist whose departure in 1977 arguably led to the band’s demise – is interviewed alongside members of The Clash, Blondie and the Sex Pistols to paint a picture of 70s England and the greatest British band that nearly was.