Bernard Butler

Acting

Bernard Butler

Born

1970-05-01 (56)

Place of birth

London, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

15 titles

Bernard Butler is an English musician and record producer. He is best known as the original guitarist for Suede, until his departure in 1994. Since then, he has released two solo albums, two albums with singer David McAlmont and in 2004 regrouped with Brett Anderson to form the Tears. Currently, he is part of the band Trans. His work as producer for (among others) the Libertines, the Veils and Duffy has won him much acclaim. 

Known for

Later... with Jools Holland poster
5.9

Later... with Jools Holland is a contemporary British music television show hosted by Jools Holland.

Later... with Jools Holland

1992

TFI Friday poster
7.1

TFI Friday was an entertainment show broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2000. The show was produced by Ginger Productions, written by Danny Baker and hosted by Chris Evans, for the first 5 series. The final series was hosted by a number of guest presenters. It was broadcast on Fridays at 6pm from 9 February 1996 to 22 December 2000, with a repeat later that night. The title officially stood for "Thank Four It's Friday", but was widely understood to mean "Thank Fuck It's Friday" and was a reference to the popular phrase "Thank God it's Friday". The show's theme tune was Ron Grainer's theme from Man in a Suitcase, in keeping with Evans's frequent use of 1960s television themes in his work.

TFI Friday

1996

The BRIT Awards poster
10.0

The biggest night in the British music calendar, the BRIT Awards celebrate the biggest successes in music & promote new talent.

The BRIT Awards

1977

Seven Ages of Rock poster
9.2

A definitive landmark series charting the emergence and re-emergence of rock music as a global force, told through the musicians who have shaped this most enduring of genres.

Seven Ages of Rock

2007

The Sparks Brothers poster
7.4

Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band.

The Sparks Brothers

2021

Klappe poster
NR

Shamelessly, Jürgen Brüning samples and remixes clips and scraps of material from his own work as a director and producer (among others for Bruce LaBruce & Shu Lea Cheang) with borrowed pop cultural references from around the world for this video essay on gay identity. His reflections are connected by songs that address miscellaneous news and social issues with egalitarian verve, sung by hot guys in a public toilet. A film full of meandering associations and unexplained references, it's at the same time a political musical and the taking stock of a romantic revolutionary. Anti-religious, anti-authoritarian and somehow also a bit anti-everything!

Klappe

2022

Film credits

2020s · 2 titles

2000s · 3 titles

Suede - Lost in TV poster
8.5

Lost In TV is a complete collection of Suede's music videos, arranged in chronological order. It reveals a band that has fallen repeatedly in and out of love with the video medium over the course of four albums. It begins with a low-budget performance clip for their first single, "The Drowners", in which all Suede's members are clearly, and rather endearingly, putting on poses they've been rehearsing and imagining for years. And it ends with "Can't Get Enough", which they couldn't rouse themselves to turn up for, instead allowing the song to soundtrack a short, though undeniably amusing, film about revenge. In between the quality varies with Suede's enthusiasm. Some of the videos here are every bit as awful as the band think, especially the altogether bewildering "Stay Together". Others they should give themselves more credit for "The Wild Ones", for example, retains a haunting quality that was worth any amount of plodding around a freezing Dartmoor.

Suede - Lost in TV

2001

Suede - Introducing The Band poster
NR

This DVD features over 2 hours of concert footage and tour films. "Introducing The Band" was filmed at Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Bradford, Glasgow, Middlesbrough and Paris. "Cards, Pliers and Videotape" is a short film about touring.

Suede - Introducing The Band

2002

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

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