Mark Gardener

Acting

Mark Gardener

Born 1969-12-06 · Oxford, England

Acting credits

Beautiful Noise poster
6.5

BEAUTIFUL NOISE is an in-depth exploration of a music movement in the late twentieth century, a fascinating period when some innovative musicians mixed guitar noise into conventional pop song structures while maintaining a philosophy of letting the music speak for itself. Although many of the people interviewed are notoriously press shy they have opened up about their music and experiences from over 20 years ago, how they defied the rules and became sonic innovators that have inspired so many.

Beautiful Noise

2014

Hultsfred Festival 1991 poster
NR

Documentary following the planning and execution of Sweden's biggest music festival. Interviews with festival staff are followed by interviews and performances by the bands. This year the festival had chartered their own plane from London to bring the coolest bands in Britain to Sweden, which prompted television personality Henrik Schyffert to quip "If this plane crashes the hottest band in England will be Marillion"

Hultsfred Festival 1991

1991

The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen' poster
NR

In August 1995 Blur and Oasis were engaged in a head-to-head chart battle which divided music fans and led to a wider argument about British pop music. John Harris, journalist and author of The Last Party - the definitive study of the entwinement of music and politics in the 1990s - presents a documentary charting the rise of Britpop, its brief romance with New Labour and the emergence of 'new lad' culture. Finally, as Britpop declines, he asks what legacy it has left. Including contributions from Blur's Graham Coxon, Elastica's Justine Frischmann, Sleeper's Louise Wener, former New Labour insider Darren Kalynuk, and the founder of Creation records, Alan McGee.

The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'

2005

Ride: Live at Brixton Academy poster
NR

Live concert by Ride, filmed on the 1992 tour which followed the release of their second album 'Going Blank Again'.

Ride: Live at Brixton Academy

1992

Upside Down: The Creation Records Story poster
6.9

Over a quarter of a century since it began and a decade after it folded, this is the definitive film about Creation Records, one of the world's most successful and colorful independent labels. This is the story of the rock n roll dream and its accompanying nightmares. Millions of sales on both sides of the Atlantic, near bankruptcy, pills, thrills, spats, prats, success, excess, pick me ups, breakdowns and of course some of THE defining music of the late 20th Century. This is the definitive and fully authorised story of the UK's most inspired and dissolute label, from the Jesus & Mary Chain at the Living Room to Oasis at Knebworth.

Upside Down: The Creation Records Story

2010

Ride ‎– Town And Country Club 07.03.91 poster
NR

The previously unseen Town and Country Club show from the Today Forever EP tour. The first of two nights at the venue was filmed by James Deegan who directed the four videos on the EP and was shot in a mixture of 16mm colour and super8mm b&w.

Ride ‎– Town And Country Club 07.03.91