Ned's festival date to launch new film (From Stourbridge News)

Ned's festival date to launch new film

11:23am Thursday 31st May 2007 in Music By Martyn Smith

STOURBRIDGE rockers Ned's Atomic Dustbin are busy planning a massive festival show to launch a new DVD.

The boys from the Black Country will be performing on the Leftfield stage at the Glastonbury festival on Friday June 22, to celebrate the release of a new documentary about their return to the recording studio after more than a decade.

The DVD, called Don't Exist, is produced by 12.42 Films and will be on sale from Thursday June 14.

Director Carl Beebee said: "I felt that the landmark of the Ned's returning to the studio deserved a documentary, it was equally important to make a real documentary, we wanted to sugar coat nothing."

The film contains interviews, backstage footage and live tracks from gigs to promote the single Hibernation, a new song recorded 11 years after the band's last studio sessions.

Ned's singer, Jonn Penney, said: "We've hidden nothing from the cameras. We haven't overdubbed, corrected or embellished the sound or the live footage.

"The film demonstrates the acute contrast between the ordinary world and planet rock, we're lucky enough to live in both."

For more information or to pre-order a copy of Don't Exist visit www.twelve42.com.

The band are currently rehearsing for Glastonbury, preparations include a warm up gig in Stourbridge at The Rock Cafe 2000, Mill Race Lane on Saturday June 16.

Tickets for the Stourbridge show cost £16 and are available from Midland Box Office by calling 0870 320 7000.