We liked that we could get a similar effect but by trying to build it from audio recordings and video archive from that specific time, and hopefully in doing so bring that time to life in a way that takes people back if they lived through it, or present them with a world that’s so different to the one that they’re living in now”.Ĭovering bands such as The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem and Interpol re-defining a generation all against the backdrop of terrorist attacks, a world full of sexism and an industry fuelled on drugs (cor, nice to see how things have changed, eh?), the recently-released film adaptation of the critically acclaimed book is bringing 00s rock’n’roll to our screens. In our indepth interview with Southern and Lovelace, Southern states, “the book, being an oral history, is a dialogue between everybody involved in the scene, which is brilliant and there’s a sort of Rashomon quality to it where people have different recollections – and the truth is probably somewhere in between. Inspired by the book, the new film is constructed entirely from audio interviews and raw, contemporaneous archive including the personal archives of the featured artists and their contemporaries, found footage, DV tapes unearthed from the shelves and storage units of New York music fans, cultural artefacts of a time and place on the cusp of seismic change.ĭirected by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace – who made LCD Soundsystem‘s Shut Up And Play The Hits documentary and concert movie – Meet Me In The Bathroom features interviews, live footage and never before seen interviews with those who were at the forefront of the scene.

It’s one of those ones you pick up as you go. Meet Me in the Bathroom is a book by Lizzy Goodman I’ve had on my coffee table for some time.

He replies, “Sounding good having a good time”.

“What’s more important? A good sound or a good time?” Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs asks bandmate Nick Zinner in the new Meet Me In The Bathroom movie. Capturing the last great romantic age of rock’n’roll through the lens of infamous New York musicians, Louder Than War was invited to the first screening of the highly anticipated film adaptation of Meet Me In The Bathroom.

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