Good Evening Aberdeen!

Rating: Null/10 (16 September 2006)

BBC4 last night showed the legendary 1976 documentary, So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star, which is said to have been the inspiration behind Spinal Tap. At last I got to see it! If you missed it, make sure you're watching the next time the BBC repeats it (which doubtlessly it'll be doing for years). It takes up just over an hour of your time, and it is hilarious.
The group featured in the documentary, The Kursaal Flyers, are also second-rate, but far seedier than Spinal Tap. The documentary starts with Pocket Money, a song that contains a riff you'll quickly recognise from the film. The lyrics are stupid, the instrumental is bad, and the group have attitude. Their conversations are unbelievably plonking. And the documentary just goes on like this, swinging from bathos to bathos. The director must have known he had a classic.
In writing this, I don't mean to diminish Rob Reiner's film in any way at all, only to guide you to a wonderful documentary that will greatly add to your pleasure.