Bristol Bands Newsreel 1980

The film was commissioned by South West Arts from the Bristol Film Workshop as a community collaboration between the filmmakers and some of the bands and venues active in Bristol, UK in 1980. It was screened as part of a rock film season at the Bristol Arts Centre*. This is the 27-min full version made on Super 8mm film with sync sound. (digitally restored in 2005).

Included is the music of the bands (not all are seen): Apartment, Art Objects, Black Roots, Blurt, Exploding Seagulls, Brian Damage, Glaxo Babies, Slow Twitch Fibres, Shoes for Industry, Stingrays, Talisman, TV Eyes, Untouchables, Various Artists.

A film by Mike Gifford and Mike Leggett.

*The Bristol Arts Centre (seen at the very end of the film, on the stage of which some fans perform), morphed into Watershed in 1982 and the building in King Square later became The Cube cinema.