It seems almost unreal to us that a feature length film telling the Renaldo & The Loaf story has been made and is just about to be released….but it certainly exists (all 83 minutes of it), is great and will be unleashed onto a largely unsuspecting public on 8th. March by MVD. It will be available both digitally, and as a Blu-Ray disc (with over 50mins of extras).
Filmed and directed by Alex Wroten and produced by Lindsay Wolfe-Wroten it recounts our journey from 1970 to almost the present day. We think it very skilfully balances an overall narrative with just enough ‘fan-centric’ detail to keep everybody happy.
We had to plunder the depths of our archive to discover things we’d almost forgotten about, images, anecdotes and some musical archaeology plus notably an 8mm backwards film study we made in about 1981 that we’d not seen for almost 40 years! There is also a section covering our one and only official live show in 2018.
Alex and Lindsay interviewed a host of our friends and associates, those at Ralph Records, international fans and our Portsmouth friends, some of whom were with us from the 70s onwards.
The BluRay is currently available for pre-order through MVD and also Amazon US –in due course, we anticipate it will be available through other outlets internationally. More info on the digital release will follow.
We won’t exclaim ‘Buy Or Die’ like our Residents friends do, how about ‘Acquire or Expire’ – sounds slightly more British!