Tales From Tin Pan Alley – The Documentary
Tales From Tin Pan Alley – The Documentary
The return of the award winning documentary feature film Tales From Tin Pan Alley with special VIP guests. The film has another screening by popular demand. This 9 x Best Documentary Feature Film Documentary Award Winner is the 80 minute story of a street, London’s ‘Tin Pan Alley’ aka Denmark Street. A 110 year chronological history up until 2018.
This history of ‘London’s Street of Music’, Denmark Street, alludes to its Gin Lanes beginnings, its Queen Anne splendour, and starts in earnest with host Dan Cruickshank, leading us onto the following years from 1908 until 2018 when Denmark Street became known as ‘London’s Tin Pan Alley’. A thriving metropolitan street filled with all walks of London life.
We trace the street’s time as the birthplace of British Silent Cinema to London’s ‘Little Tokyo’, up until World War 2, moving on to The Music Publishing Years, The Big Band Era, The Jazz Age, The Rock n Roll Era, The 1960’s Beat Boom, The Mod Era, The Recording Studios, The Guitar Shops, and the ‘lost’ Music Venues These ‘Tales’ also trace hidden nuclear bunkers, IRA bomb attacks, underworld villainy, firebombing, and The Property Developments, leading us on to a transition. And you thought this film was just all about music?
Nevertheless, film features seven Music legends, appearing in their final on-screen interviews; namely Dame Vera Lynn, Jazz Singer Paul Ryan, Eric Hall (Agent), Bill Martin (Songwriter for Cliff Richard & Sandie Shaw), Barry Mason (Songwriter for Englebert & Tom Jones), Linda Lewis (Singer-Songwriter) and Herbie Flowers (Session Musician for David Bowie, Lou Reed, Tom Jones, Member of Blue Mink, and Sky). We also have 23 Denmark Street stars, including Sex Pistol Glen Matlock, Skiffler Chas McDevitt, The Small Faces’, Faces, and Who Drummer Kenney Jones, Author Will Self, Captain Sensible of the Damned, Steve Mason of The Beta Band, and The Bermondsey Joyriders; among many esteemed historians.
REVIEW
OnLondon.com Review by Dave Hill, August 2018 : “Henry Scott-Irvine is a romantic and a dauntless defender of those demimonde niches of London that produce so much light and sparkle. And even if you think him sentimental and the Denmark Street of pop legends to have long since had its day, his film is very good: rich in humour, anecdote and a history stretching from pre-war opium dens through the years when sheet music sales were crucial to the popular song industry, the advent of skiffle, the birth of rock ‘n’ roll, the Swinging Sixties, when future giants hung out in coffee bars and laid down tracks in tiny studios, and the influx of instruments makers and the now-disappearing guitar shops”. Dave Hill formerly of The Guardian
These ‘Tales’ trace hidden nuclear bunkers, IRA bomb attacks, underworld villainy, firebombing, and more. And you thought this was all just about music?
Play THE TRAILER here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YvZIBsz0CM&t=1s
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