East End Babylon

  • Documentary
11/8/2012
101

Football, Fighting and Rock 'n' Roll

The story of London's toughest and poorest part as told through the eyes of the iconic band Cockney Rejects.

Reviews

  • John Chard

    You're a Bad Man!

    The Cockney Rejects from the East End of London burst onto the scene during the second wave of British Punk. Their angry vocals and spitfire lyrics the perfect bedfellows for a disenchanted 1980s working class Britain. If they are worthy of a 90 minute plus feature length documentary is debatable, given that so many other movers and shakers of the time achieved much more and have equally squalid stories to tell.

    East End Babylon sadly has many flaws. To pad the doc out to its running time the first half hour is given to a sort of getting to know how rough and tough the East End of London was, a sort of precursor as to why the Rejects were what they were. This is very interesting, but given the lack of Rejects footage...

    November 13, 2014

Recommendations

Similar Movies