Press release from makers of Kickstarter funded THB Documentary: The Holy Bible: My Testament Next month sees the 20th anniversary tour and re-release of Manic Street Preachers seminal 1994 album - The Holy Bible. To mark the event fans of the Welsh rock legends are raising money for a short documentary devoted entirely to The Holy Bible. In The Holy Bible: My Testament, Cardiff Production Company Barefoot Rascals barefootrascals is aiming to film a series of exclusive interviews with some of the album’s biggest fans. Award winning music journalist and author of Everything, A Book About Manic Street Preachers Simon Price simonprice.dj will be interviewing 4 key ‘fans’ to assess the cultural significance of the album. Project organisers are keeping the full line up of interviewees under wraps as their Kickstarter campaign continues. So far they have announced only 2 of the final four. Award winning author Rhian E Jones rhianejones has been a Manics fan since the 90s and has written on the band for New Left Project, Planet Magazine, Wales Arts Review, and her blog Velvet Coalmine. Today Kevin Cummins kevincummins.co.uk, photographer and author, announces that he is joining the project. He will be discussing his photographs of the band from The Holy Bible era. These iconic images feature in his new book Assassinated Beauty and are on exhibition until 11th January at Proud Gallery Camden proudonline.co.uk/exhibitions With just a week to go, the Kickstarter campaign still needs to raise more funds to get the film made so it’s not too late for Manics fans to get involved. Simon Price: “What is it about the Manics in general, and the Holy Bible album in particular, that means so much to people? What makes Manics fan culture tick? This series of interviews aims to find the answers, and Im honoured to be involved. Rhian E Jones: “Manic Street Preachers remain one of the most interesting and significant bands of the past thirty years - the last artistic gasp of a certain kind of working-class identity - and The Holy Bible is generally acknowledged to be their most enduring and fascinating work..” Seb Cooke (who is co-ordinating the project with Barefoot Rascals): “The level of excitement and anticipation around the tour is huge and we want to capture some of that. This particular album means so much to so many for a whole variety of reasons.” Barefoot Rascals is a TV and Film production company that is based between Pembrokeshire in west Wales and Cardiff.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:32:11 +0000
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