Church of Noise · ‘In Bed with Chris Needham’ documentary screening

The defining document of what it means to be young, bored, and metal in a small British town.

In 1992, Chris Needham was a bored 17-year-old thrash metal freak with a mullet, bumfluff moustache, and a bedroom in his parents’ house in Loughborough. He noticed an advert from the BBC in the TV Times asking for people to film video diaries of their lives. The result was this – ‘In Bed With Chris Needham’ – the defining document of what it means to be young, bored, and metal in a small British town. Hailed by Kerrang! as ‘the greatest documentary ever made’ IBWCN is part coming-of-age video diary, part reality-TV forebear; a sweet and unintentionally-hilarious 50-minute doc that everyone who grew up bored in a small town can connect with. As Chris says in the dying embers of his masterwork, “I’m sure you were all teenagers once… I’m sure we always will be… some of us.”