British rock act Yungblud is the latest musician to get the documentary treatment, as “YUNGBLUD. ARE YOU READY, BOY?” is set for a theatrical release in August.
The documentary will follow Yungblud (whose real name is Dominic Harrison) at the famed Hansa Studios in Berlin, the same studio where David Bowie recorded Heroes, Iggy Pop made Lust for Life and U2 record Achtung Baby!, and where the singer recorded live performances of his latest album Idols, which came out June 20.
“I wanted to make a film that truly documents where we are right now, at this moment, around the release of my most ambitious album to date,” Yungblud said in a statement. “Berlin has always radiated complete, unfiltered truth. Every time I’ve visited Hansa Studios, it’s just fucking iconic. You can feel the history in Hansa; it’s in the silence between takes, the ceiling looming over you. You’re standing in the shadows of all these legends and asking yourself ‘who the fuck am I? And what am I gonna leave behind?’”
ARE YOU READY, BOY? is the latest in a surge of music documentaries as studios double down on the content. The film will have screenings on Aug. 20 and Aug. 24, in partnership with Trafalgar Releasing. Tickets will go on sale July 17. The film was produced by Yungblud’s B.R.A.T. Productions, in association with Aldgate Pictures.
“We are so proud to share this portrait of an incredible artist by acclaimed director Paul Dugdale, and can’t wait for audiences worldwide to experience Yungblud’s life and music on the big screen,” Trafalgar CEO Marc Allenby said in a statement.
Paul Dugdale, who has previously directed the music docs including Adele: One Night Only, Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium, has been tapped to direct the new Yungblud documentary, with Dugdale saying they made the film “in that special twilight zone between the record being finished and people hearing it for the first time.”
Dugdale said, “I always think of that moment before a release as such a unique time for an artist and it’s an extraordinary period to document because we can enter into it without any external noise or pre-conception. It allowed us to make something unaffected by the outside world, and there’s a really pleasing purity about that. We got to live in a moment with Dom, free of any external opinion and start a relationship from a totally blank canvas.”
